COMMON GOODS AND PEACE MEETING HUNGARY 27.03.2011- 01.04.2011

Dear friends and partners,

I hope you are all fine and doing well in your family and at school.
I also do hope you selected your pupils and colleagues to form the delegation to visit Törökbàlint in Hugary next March, 2011. Have you booked your flight and informed our Hungarian colleagues? Please, contact Kata as well as Mihael.

Kata sent me a first draft of the list of hosts and hotel rooms , Mihael prepared a list of programme issues and some questions to be solved in the presentations by the delegations on the topic of Food!

Indeed, this meeting's topic in FOOD as a COMMON GOOD! It all looks very challenging and interesting . I hope we'll learn more about the problem of FOOD as a COMMON through the presentations your pupils will bring. If you have special demands, ideas or problems , please, do not hesitate to contact Mihael, kata or myself.

We are all looking forward to meeting you , your colleagues and pupils again in the fascinating and - to me at least - always a bit mysterious Hungarian city of budapest, Törökbàlint and - who knows- the Hungarian poesta! Don't forget to excercise for a passionate Czardas ...

Lots of warm greetings from HHS,

Bernadette De Cat
Mobile 00 32 477 78 80 11

Dear friends,

in January the PAD as the department of the Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany invited some coordinators of COMENIUS projects to a meeting in Hamburg.

The main topic was "Learning social responsibility and values education".

During the meeting we had some presentations of running projects and a very good lecture of Prof. Dr. Hermann Josef Abs with the subject "How can the transnational partnership make firm for social learning?".

The 38 participants came from whole Germany but "COOMON GOODS AND PEACE" was the only project coming from Saxony.

Ferenc

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dear friends and partners in COMMON GOODS AND PEACE,

I hope you have all enjoyed beautiful, icecold and snowwhite but, especially, relaxing and heartwarming Christmas Holidays! Are you ready to start school for the 2nd semester of Schoolyear 2010-2011? I wish you luck...

I send you all, your beloved ones, your students and colleagues, my kindest wishes for a HAPPY,PEACEFUL and HEALTHY NEW YEAR! May you be insipred by love and peace in everything you do in 2011!

I am really looking forward to meeting you again in TOROKBALINT, HUNGARY next March! So are my 4 students and my colleague. It will be an honour to work with you again. Please, stay in touch and contact me whenever you need me!

Lots of warm greetings and loads of love,

Bernadette De Cat
HHS , Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium
00 32 477 78 80 11

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY

SAVERIA

Report Brandbu 2010

COMENIUS – “COMMON GOODS AND PEACE”
MEETING BRANDBU NORWAY
07.11.2010- 12.11.2010
REPORT COORDINATORS’ MEETING .
1.Welcome:
Arnfinn Nilsen , coördinator and pedagogical leader of Hadeland secondary school welcomes the delegations from Italy, Hungary, Germany and Belgium. He hopes for a quality meeting offering lots of opportunities to deepen the knowledge concerning COMMON GOODS AND PEACE and , of course, to make new friends and experience the warm Norwegian hospitality. He still regrets the date for the meeting – november- but we assure him that, because of the low temperatures and the beginning snowfall , we get a perfect idea of what Norway can be like in Winter! Cold but so beautiful!!!

2. Blog:
Ferenc Naacke from Dresden introduces the blog he’s installed for the Common Goods and Peace project. The ideal way to communicate , for coördinators as well as for pupils (via their teacher / coördinator).
Suggestions:this BLOG can be used for sharing information, photos of meetings, videos , texts, reports, mails,…

3.Reference to welcome by Lord Mayor:
On Monday 08.11.2010 all delegations spent part of the morning at Gran Municipality where they were welcomed by the Lord Mayor, introducing Brandbu, Gran and Hadeland .
A specialist in energy refers to the theme of the project , stating that norway is a country rich in Common Goods. These are being provided on 3 levels , the state , the county and the municipality. In the 1830’s Norwegian municipalities were established. 200 years later the situation is the same but the tasks are different. Having to take care of education, welfare, mass media… brings in different terms , solutions and principles ( ex. climate change, local solutions for general world wide problems!).
Scandinavian countries reach a high level of COMMON GOODS Thinking of the oil and the Scandinavian model of high level of welfare 2 solutions come up: education in democracy (for all!) and the trust between people and government .
A clear example is given in the greenhouse gases (caused by climate change) leading to new challenges for each municipality. They try to reach 3 main goals: reducing CO2 greenhouse gas, more efficient use of energy and change from fossile energy sources to renewable energy sources (problem: cars, heating of houses!)
The solution is summarized in key words such as: solar energy, recycling, turndown heating, public transport, biomass energy…
Concluding this lecture the question is put: what is your opportunity to change something, to have an impact? Basic answer is in “young people”! They can make the difference!!! (local council,Young politicians… )
This visit to the town hall and this interesting lectur really put the focus correctly on the topic of this COMENIUS project: Common Goods and Peace!


4.Topics meetings and programmes COMMON GOODS AND PEACE:
In the programme for the 1st project meeting NORWAY has fully focused on ENERGY (local energy, renewable energy, and energy challenges in each partner country), DEMOCRACY, HISTORY(teaching) and NATURE (use !).
HUNGARY will focus on FOOD , ISCHIA will focus on WATER( health care thermal water , sea water… ) and BELGIUM will organize the FINALE “GREEN WEEK FOR PEACE” in focusing on Common Goods and PEACE!

5.PLANNING:
HUNGARY, TÔRÖKBALINT:
-Date: 27.03.2011- 01.04.2011
Arrival : Sunday
Departure :Friday
-Topic: FOOD!
Suggestions-:-Prepare typical dish
-Organize/ visit food market
- Promote “Slow Food”
-Write and illustrate a booklet with recipes , promote
ingredients (cfr. Astrid Donadini’s “Sapore d’Italia)
-Watch Film: Dalla Finestra Italy, We feed the
World
Austria, Pranzo di Babette – Denmark) …
- Calculate “food miles”= food foot print
-Discuss North – South problems concerning food
(offer a “poor” meal!)
-Put up theatre, show, publicity spot … on food

- Participants: 4 pupils + 2 teachers (if necessary Belgian delegation is willing to go to a hotel!)
- Hungarian coordinators inform in time by communicating programme, taks to do, presentations to prepare, material to bring…

GERMANY ,BERLIN / DRESDEN: Coordinators’ Meeting

-Date: 27, 28, 29 .05.2011
Regina and Ferenc’ schools will organize together
Arrival in Berlin
1 day and 1 night spent in Dresden

-Participants: 1 coordinator /teacher per school

ITALY, ISCHIA : students’ exchange meeting

-Date: 25.09.2011- 30.09.201
-Participants: students + teachers

ITALY, NOVI LIGURE:coordinators’ meeting

-Date: 25.01.2012 – 29.01.2012
-Participants: 1 coordinator /teacher per school


BELGIUM, HEIST-OP-DEN-BERG : FINAL MEETING

-Date: 11.03.2012- 19.03.2012
- Participants: students +teachers

6. CONCLUSION:

Coordinator Bernadette De Cat welcomes all partner schools , thanks Arnfinn Nilsen and his staff for the great atmosphere, the warm hospitality, the interesting approach of the topic, the variation in opportunities dealing with Common Goods… for the new friendships and the unique communication .
She congratulates all schools with the approval of the application and hopes for a successful , unique project with new opportunities to meet great friends. Good luck!

THANK YOU! TAKK! TUSEN TAKK!

Bernadette De Cat
Coordination Comenius
“Common Goods and Peace”
08.12.2010

I miss you all

some pictures of us