INDIVIDUAL PUPIL MOBILITY

A European learning experience for secondary school pupils

SPAIN-SWEDEN 10 August 2010 – 10 November 2010

Learning mobility, i.e. transnational mobility for the purpose of acquiring new skills is one of the fundamental ways in which individuals, particularly young people, can strengthen their future employability as well as their personal development. Studies confirm that learning mobility adds to human capital, as students access new knowledge and develop new linguistic skills and intercultural competences. Furthermore, employers recognise and value these benefits. Europeans who are mobile as young learners are more likely to be mobile as workers later in life. Learning mobility has played an important role in making education and training systems and institutions more open, more European and international, more accessible and efficient.

EU Green Paper on Promoting the Learning Mobility of Young People (Brussels, 2009)

OAPEE – Jornada Informativa para la Movilidad del Alumnado

Madrid. 28 June, 2010

In preparation of an individual pupil mobility scheme under the Lifelong Learning Programme (Comenius Sub-programme), the Spanish National Agency OAPEE organized an informative session for teachers and students in Madrid on 28 June, 2010.

The new programme will enable secondary school pupils to spend up to a year studying in a school abroad with a grant from the European Union. Our students will spend three months in TIBBLE FRISTÅENDE GYMNASIUM, in Täby (Sweden).

Please, find attached the Madrid programme below.

Täby -COMENIUS IPM- GREEN CITIES PROJECT

10 August – 10 November 2010

Click here to access the Wikispace.

Stockholm. European Green Capital 2010. Click here.

Stockholm – OUR NEW HOME

August 2010

Kristina Westerberg, Anna Brinck, Katarina Fjelkner and the Swedish students organized some perfect days for us in Stockholm. The weather was balmy and the city was brimming with life and beauty. We visited the Vasa Museum, Skansen, Gamla Stan, the Stadhuset (City Hall) and enjoyed a guided visit of the school at Täby. The students also started their Swedish lessons. Tack tack

Vasa

Skansen

Stadhuset

 

You’re young, you’re smart and you’re beautiful, so be happy!

 

The whole group a few days later. Welcome Antía! – Photos below: Kristina Westerberg

LIFE AT TIBBLE F. GYMNASIUM – SWEDISH FAMILIES

Our hosts in Sweden – teachers, students and families – are always willing to pamper us. That’s why we’re always looking forward to coming back. Look at the delicious smörgåsbord – a type of Scandinavian meal served buffet-style with multiple dishes of various foods – prepared for us.

I would like to send my warmest TACK TACK to the Swedish families, who make our exchanges and mobility programmes such a success.

GREEN CITIES PROJECT

Photos below: Kristina Westerberg

 

Jérémy and Nazaret at the Institutet för Vatten och Luft (Miljöinstitutet) with expert Jenny Gode. A heart-felt thank you, Ms Gode for your help.

Our COMENIUS students with Mr Mikael Jensen, from Täby Kommun, who lectured them on the subject. Thank you very much, Mr Jensen.

HAMMARBY SJÖSTAD

In HAMMARBY SJÖSTAD, the street dimensions, block lengths, building heights, density and usage mix were designed to take advantage of water views, parks and sunlight. Restricted building depths, set backs, balconies and terraces, large glazed areas, and green roofs are just a few features required to meet Hammarby Sjöstad’s environment programme with the aim of focusing on renewable energy, waste reduction, ecological building materials, and alternative transportation options at the planning and implementation phases.

 

COMENIUS – SWEDISH NATIONAL AGENCY – STOCKHOLM

Our students at the Swedish National Agency (Left). The whole Spanish group and with other Italian COMENIUS students (Right).

TIBBLE F. GYMNASIUM – COMENIUS IPM

Information about the COMENIUS IPM programme at Tibble. The students and Spanish teacher Faustino Martín (Left). Swedish teacher Katarina Fjelkner and the Swedish journalist (Right).

TIBBLE F. GYMNASIUM -CENTRUM FÖR INTERNATIONELL UTBYTE

At Tibble F. Gymnasium with members of CIU (Centrum för Internationell Utbyte), an NGO focused on international exchanges for young people. Our students introduced themselves in Swedish to a roar of applause from the audience.

ROTARY CLUB

Antía, Nazaret and Jérémy with Rotary Club president Maria Olausson and mentor Kristina Westerberg at Täby Park Hotel.

SNOW IN SWEDEN

Photographs below: Victoria Fernández Bettinelli

October, 2010

The first snow in Stockholm. Winter is approaching. It’s time for the birds to fly south!

OUR STUDENTS ON THE WEBSITE OF THE SWEDISH NATIONAL AGENCY

October, 2010

Our students are playing a pioneering role in opening EU mobility programmes to other young Europeans. Foreground (right to left): Amanda, Jérémy and Carla. Background (right to left): Victoria, Lisette, Alba and Tanni. For further information (in Swedish), click here

AN APPLE FOR THE TEACHER …

Photograph below: Kristina Westerberg

Well, not exactly an apple, but a flower and a gift for Swedish mentor Kristina Westerberg. Aren’t they the nicest students in the European Union?

BACK HOME: AT BARCELONA AIRPORT

10 November, 2010

A sunny day at El Prat Airport, Barcelona. Spanish food at last! Nazaret’s famous boarding pass. Smile, please!

BACK HOME: LUGO AND OUR SCHOOL – PARENTS AND FRIENDS

Photographs below: Pilar Fernández Illán

10 November, 2010 – 05:00 p.m.

Our students arrive in Lugo, at our school. Their parents and friends were there, looking forward to hugging them. Life’s wonderful when you have parents and friends like this. Are you really aware of how lucky you are? It’s been a long time abroad. They will never be the same again: they will be even better!

OAPEE

Madrid. 20-21 December, 2010

Hacia la Cohesión Social a través del Aprendizaje Permanente

We are very proud to announce that our COMENIUS IPM project has won the first Quality Award granted by the Spanish National Agency for European Educational Programmes (OAPEE) as an example of good practice. The awards ceremony was held in Madrid on 20-21 December and promoters Juan Carlos García Lorenzo and Faustino Martín González, as well as student Antía García Fernández on behalf of our six CIPM students, were invited to attend the ceremony. We were also invited to take part in the workshop on the dissemination of good practice, which is one of the key objectives of the OAPEE to promote the exploitation of the results obtained in European projects. Quoting the OAPEE Annual Report, “the winners of these prizes, with their effort, time and disinterested work, are the real creators of a Europe that is being conceived day by day in the difficulties of daily life in the centres, in the desire to grow as teachers.” We feel very happy to have been selected as an example of good practice in Spain and will consider this award as another milestone to undertake new and even more challenging enterprises.

Please, find attached the Madrid programme below.

YOUR NEW HOME – VÄLKOMMEN TILL LUGO

Lugo, Spain – 10 January, 2011

A very warm welcome from your Spanish mentor, Juan Carlos García Lorenzo.

What is a mentor? Well, I’m here specifically to guide you through your time at IES “Nosa Señora dos Ollos Grandes.” Whether that’s keeping you on track with your studies, helping you with family and accomodation issues or even just to bounce ideas off and have someone here to listen when you need to voice frustrations aloud, your mentor is the person you should go for advice and support, your first port of call whenever you’re having difficulties with anything.

I’m here to offer help when you need it most and, normally, the quicker you ask for help the faster I can help resolve your problems! Of course, you’ll thoroughly enjoy your time here and I don’t expect any problems to arise but … just in case!

OAPEE

MADRID. 24-25 JANUARY,  2011

On-arrival training for incoming pupils and mentors from host schools organized by the Spanish National Agency. Our school is once more invited to take part in a workshop on the dissemination of good practice

The Spanish National Agency for European Educational Programmes (OAPEE) organized a two-day on-arrival training meeting for incoming pupils and mentors from host schools. We were once more invited to take part in a workshop on the dissemination of good practice, and mentor Juan Carlos García Lorenzo and studentCarla Serrano López on behalf of our six CIPM students had the opportunity to explain our project.

Carla Serrano López did a wonderful job, explaining her experience in Sweden and raising awareness of the project’s activities and outputs.

Our Swedish students also had the opportunity to visit Madrid. Take a look at the photographs below.

Please, find attached the Madrid programme below.

USEFUL LINKS

STOCKHOLM 

OAPEE (Organismo Autónomo de Programas Educativos Europeos). Spanish.

OAPEE > COMENIUS > Movilidad Alumnado (Spanish).

OAPEE > COMENIUS > Movilidad Alumnado > Convocatoria 2011 / Guía 2011 / Formulario 2011 / Guía Países / Ficha Acción / Folleto (Spanish).

AFS. Intercultura España

AFS. Intercultural Programs USA

Sweden.

Insurance (AXA) (English – French)

SWEDEN / SVERIGE

International Programme Office for Education and Training

Box 220 07

S-104 22 Stockholm

◦ Tel: +46 8 453.72.00

◦ Fax: +46 8 453.72.01

◦ E-mail: info@programkontoret.se

◦ http://www.programkontoret.se

SPANISH EMBASSY (STOCKHOLM)

P.O. Box 10295,100 55 Stockholm – Djurgårdsvägen, 21 -115 21 Stockholm.

Tel: +46 8 52 280 800
Fax: +46 8 66 03034

Email: Emb.Estocolmo@maec.es

Learning mobility, i.e. transnational mobility for the purpose of acquiring new skills is one of the fundamental ways in which individuals, particularly young people, can strengthen their future employability as well as their personal development. Studies confirm that learning mobility adds to human capital, as students access new knowledge and develop new linguistic skills and intercultural competences. Furthermore, employers recognise and value these benefits. Europeans who are mobile as young learners are more likely to be mobile as workers later in life. Learning mobility has played an important role in making education and training systems and institutions more open, more European and international, more accessible and efficient.

EU Green Paper on Promoting the Learning Mobility of Young People (Brussels, 2009)