EYEstartup

This is the place where students and teachers from Col·legi Sant Miquel dels Sants (Vic) who are taking part in the Erasmus+ project called EYEstartup share their pics and thoughts. 1st mobility: The Netherlands (25 Nov - 2 Dec 2017). 2nd mobility: Portugal (7-14 April 2018) 3rd mobility: Spain (29 Sep - 6 Oct 2018). 4th mobility: Italy (23 Feb - 2 Mar 2019). 5th mobility: Slovakia (19-23rd May 2019)

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Some more pics of our visit to Hotelovà Akadémia L’Udovita Wintera Pieštany

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Tim, the project coordinator, gave a great speech to conclude the project. He talked about the connection between all the countries and how good it has been to work together.

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This is finishing...

Yesterday was the last activity day of the 5th and last mobility. In the morning students had time to discuss and think about 21st century soft skills and how this project had helped them to improve some learning, literacy and social skills.

They also had time to have a lesson on Slovak, which is a beautiful but difficult language for us, and another on traditional cooking.

In the evening we were honoured with a delicious dinner and a warm farewell. It’s really been a fantastic experience!

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More pics of our visit to Bratislava!

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We’ve spent all day in Bratislava, the beautiful capital of Slovakia. This city is the only capital in the world located on the border of three sovereign states, Slovakia, Austria and Hungary.

We started a guided tour at Bratislava Castle and walked down the centre, while the guide explained a lot of details and anecdotes to us. We learnt about the history and saw some of the main landmarks the city has to offer. After lunch and some free time we took the bus to Devin Castle and enjoyed the beautiful views of the Danube and into Austria. We finished the day having a typical Slovak dinner in a traditional tavern. It was a great day that everybody enjoyed. It was fascinating to see more of Slovakia and the students from different countries mixing and getting to know each other better.

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Here we’re sharing some pics and a video of our yummy visit to the Lyra chocolate factory in Nitra (SK), where we left our school’s mark 😊

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Today we have been given a word of welcome by the director of the Hotelova Akademia Ludovita Wintera school in Piestany, Slovakia. We spent the morning working in international teams on the project. Then after a good lunch at the school we visited the Lyra chocolate company in Nitra where we were shown the process of making the chocolate and learnt about their business. Back in Piestany we did a fun activity on Spa Island. A great day!

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Off we go to Vienna, our plane lands there and then we’ll be driven to Piestany, where we will complete our two-year ErasmusPlus project.

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Farewell time is always the saddest part! Anyway, our journey back home has started very well, the meeting point to say goodbye to our families is a beautiful spot in Sciacca facing the sea. After thanking the Italian families and teachers, we set off to Catania Airport, we had the chance to see Agrigento Temples on the way and the sea on our right. Flying back home we saw the Etna volcano underneath!!!

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Sicilia is a place where you always get a warm welcome. We saw it first-hand yesterday at the social evening, where we were all very well treated! We ate traditional food from the area, wonderful ‘arancine’ and pizza ‘a tutti pleni’, of course.

We were also very lucky, as Sciacca’s famous carnival was was on. We could see the parades and magnificent floats!

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This is getting to an end, so students have one more task before we finish this mobility, now it’s time to interview their startup target audience so they can avaluate if their ideas could become true one day. In order to find out more information about what to start a business means, they’ve had the chance of meeting a local entrepreneur and have been able to exchange ideas and a few words about their proposed startups.

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It’s Carnival time in Sciacca, which is one of the most important Carnival events in Sicily. So this morning we paid a visit to the Museum of Carnevale of Sciacca, which was open in 2010. Later we went back to school and some student showed us their fancy dresses and danced some cheerful music.

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In the afternoon we visited the archeological site at Agrigento, which was inserted on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997. We saw the remains from the Hellenic city, and additionally from the successive Punic-Roman era, the imposing Doric temples, the agora, the pagan and Christian necropolis. This site represents an exceptional historic testimony to Magna Grecia’s presence in this area. As you can appreciate from the photos, the place is magnificent!

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On Thursday we went on our second trip in Sicily. The first stop was the ‘Enchanted Castle’, a peculiar place in Sciacca. It’s a garden with an infinity of mysterious faces carved into the rock and in the trunks of Saracen olive trees, made by Filipino Bentivegna, a man who showed unusual creativity and personality. As the French and sculptor Dubuffet stated, ‘Real art is where nobody expects it, where no one thinks or speaks its name. Art is about vision, an vision often has nothing to do with intelligence, or with logic ideas’.

We were also very lucky to listen to traditional Sicilian songs and music performed by two local artists.

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On Wednesday, we kept working on our project. First thing in the morning we had a lesson on promoting products.

Nino Sabella, an Italian filmmaker expert on documentaries, short films and videos for the web and TV revised the assignment each team had brought for this mobility and gave us some useful advice on how to improve our ads. He spoke of the importance image language has nowadays and how to attract the audience’s attention.

After that Hans and Tim, the Dutch teachers, explained the following task, which was finding out the different national systems to start a new company and decide in groups which country was the most convenient. Finally, after some research, each team proposed a country and justified their answer.

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Here are some pics we took in Palermo. We spent a very nice time there. Guided tour in the morning, where we visited outstanding buildings and sites, such as the church is San Giovanni degli Eremiti, Villa Bonanno, Palazzo dei Normanni, as well as The Cathedral. In the afternoon we saw a performance of the Opera feo Pupi (marionettes).

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In Palermo, where we went on Tuesday, we had the pleasure to have Mario, one of the Italian teachers, as our guide to the beautiful town. We want to share part of his speech, as it is a good definition of what the ErasmusPlus programme means: ‘L’Erasmus is not a thing of today, it is our history from long time ago. In Palermo there was a time when people spoke 3 languages simultaneously: Greek, Latin and Arabian. Time when all were considered siblings’.