EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS

Leonardo da Vinci has always attracted the students' fantasy: his studyings and his inventions have proved, through the centuries, the genius ability to carefully observe the natural phenomena and the important solutions he proposed to overcome the difficulties his contemporaries found impossible to face. His genius wandered from poetry to painting, to engineering and building startegies. His flyi...

Laura Pausini is a really famous singer and her powerful voice has enchanted people all around the world. Her career started really early but she has been able to travel the world and take part in extremely interesting shows. Two girls have tried to penetrate her secrets and to share them with us all

Two boys have worked around a very famous influencer who had to revise her targets during last year: Ms Chiara Ferragni. Plenty of youngsters are infuelced by these characters and they are convinced that life can give you all the best with a relly small effort, money comes from everywhere and no effort is asked to reach one's own targets.... This is not true and the Ferragni late events in life ar...

Two girls are dealing with Enzo Ferrari and his ideas about racing cars, producing them and organizing international competitions. His life was dedicated to his Scuderia and plenty of people admired his cars. He was successful but his life was filled by different difficult moments. He had to evercome  personal tragedies as well as the loss of some important colleagues who had helped the growth of...

Interviewing a genius living in the past might be challenging... but Angela was able to give him a good voice and answered all the questions her Spanish friend asked. They awakened our students' curiosity and studying the past became easier than before.

Some of the students were really interested in education and began to  reflect on Maria Montessori, the Italian pedagogist, first doctor in Italy, who upset the education methods and placed the child at the centre of the experience, the teacher was only a director, preparing a stimulating environment which would give the child a strong sense of awareness and self-confidence.

The Italian students in Istituto Comprensivo Sacconi and their friends from Santa Maria de Huerva in SPAIN, have cooperated to produce some impossible interviews. They start  dealing with Bebe Vio, a fantastic champion who loves fencing but also running and dancing. She is a super-girl who has changed many people's lives with her good disposition, her  humor and her strength. Plenty of disabled ch...

Going to school might be a very tiring duty. The students are curious to know how their new friends' school day is organized, if their lessons are more varied or better distributed and if the rules to follow in their school are lighter or less imposing. Each one discovers that no school is free of rules. Some of the students feel the rules light while others consider the same extremely heavy and c...

Food is always a good topic to deal with, some students are really eager to know more about the eating habits of their new friends... being far from home implies the necessity to adapt and discover new flavors, dishes and smells. Sometimes these changes might be challenging. Some teenagers find it difficult to adapt and taste new specialities while others are looking for new experiences... let's e...

Talking about personal lives is always the simplest way to find a connection: students have a limited number of common experiences, they try to find the common fields and build their relationship from there... It is quite cklear listening to their conversations! Enjoy!

Becoming friends needs to open up and define your habits and the ones in the place you leave. Some girls want to know more about the new friend's town, school and free time... Their conversations can be listened to, it seems that similar desires and needs  are emerging! 

Some Polish and Italian girls reflect on the differences between their cultures, they have met for few days but their opinions are quite clear.... Enjoy our teenagers conversations!

School rules in class 1E... the younger students are happy to stay in a new school and they feel grown up: they want to define the new rules to follow in class. They are sharing them with the listeners!

School and sports are deeply linked. One of the most loved subjects at school is sport and two students ask each other more about their chances to practice sport at each other's school.... 

Visiting the Holdecker Middleschule, one of the comparison every student makes is linked to each schoolday, its rhythms, the series of lessons and the break times. How long is each teaching period? Which subjects are studied and how long for? These were common questions, the answers can be heard in the following podcast.

The Italian students in Bergrheinfeld were curious to know which their new friends' eating habits were so they kept asking questions....

Some of the students visiting the Holdecker Mittelschule in Bergrheinfeld took care of the way their German colleagues paid attention to the environment and its preservation. They talked about the habits and the initiatives they took part in.

Some students from I.C. Sacconi - Tarquinia, could visit the Holdecker Mittelschule in Bergrheinfeld -Germany thanks to the NewgenerationEU  PNRR ERASMUS+ funding. Their experience has been recorded and shared in the following podcasts

Knowing Prague, its history and its landmarks,was a deeply touching experience. The students enjoyed discovering the town with their new friends and tasted some of the delicatessen of the place. Most of them will keep really deep memories of this experience and are grateful for the attentions they received. Opening their minds to different cultures, habits and organizations will help the students...

Thestudents from class 1 in Middle school inside IC Sacconi have experienced a mobility to Spain and during that interesting activity they interviewed and recorded their talks ... now they share their  talks with us all!  Enjoy

For the sudents coming from IC SACCONI who went to visit Czech Republic, the mobility was an enjoyable experience and they keep amazing memories of it. The students had previously met the Czech ones during their visit to Tarquinia, so their  meeting again and staying together was more relaxed and fruitful.  The families and the teachers report a positive and fruitful experience which contributed t...

During the Erasmus+ projects activities performed for the 2024-1-IT02-KA121-SCH-000221174, a group of students and teachers visited Lithuania and were hosted by  the families of students from the Vytauto Didziojo universiteto klasikinio ugdymo Mokykla in KAUNAS. They spent a very interesting and amazing time there with their new friends.  Their staying together  meant to open their minds and heart...

Peace is necessary, some students in class 3B have worked on it remembering Sadako Sasaki and Anne Frank during the Arts lessons... they hve ideated a  dialogue to honour their memory....

Czech, Italian, Greek and Lithuanian stdents exchange impressions and curiosities ....