The meetings

[gerli]

One most crucial thing for every project is a good agreement about meetings. We plan to have 3 meetings, as you know.
FIRST MEETING
???Quite in the beginning of the schoolyear 2012/2013 we should have our first teachers' meeting. To agree on details of our agenda, the repertoire for our concerts and to meet each other in person.
This should be quite a short meeting to keep the budget low. 2-3 teachers from each school and the duration 5 days (including 2 days for travel).
GERMANY has offered to organize this meeting now and the organizer should propose the exact dates.

[gerli]

THE SECOND MEETING
should take place sometime in spring 2013, in May?

SPAIN has been so kind and offered to organize this one. This meeting should last 8 days (2 days of travel and 6 days of work/fun!)

The essence of this meeting is to organize a joint concert. Every school can come with approx 2 teachers and 10 pupils. Every school prepares 1-2 music pieces to perform on their own and some pieces commonly agreed in 1. meeting.

As the groups are big, normally the host school will not organize home accommodation. Teachers stay in a hotel and pupils in a hostel or dormitory.

[gerli]

;)AND THE FINAL MEETING

Is planned to take place in ESTONIA
The time of this meeting will be exceptional as the idea is to participate in big song festival in Tallinn and this festival takes place first week of JULY 2014.

Otherwise the organization is about the same as the second meeting. The repertoire will partially depend on the repertoire of the song festival. Read about our song festival: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Song_Festival

[gerli]

So, in general we have the plan. Not all responded to my question about organizing one meeting. But your should have in mind, that while participating in the project you must be ready to organize. If one of the 3 schools now volunteering will not be supported - we must be able to reorganize.

Now! Feel free to comment / suggest anything about meetings! Germany and Spain - think about the dates and tell us!

[giovanni]

We are also ready to host the first meeting. I am sure we could host some students too, in families. But I have to check first.
In any case, I suggest meeting around mid-late september. School in Italy starts around the 10th. The days before (1-10 sept ) we are generally busy with students' exams

[puri]

Hello from Spain!
We've got the letter, thank you!
Name of the project: EUROPA CANTAT, we like it. We suggest: THE SOUNDS OF EUROPE". The sounds of the voices and the sounds of the other instruments.
As we said, we could organise the musical week. We suggest: if it's possible not May.
!rst opption: April from 10 to 30, when you want
2nd opption: 20 March to 27( be careful the day before and the day after we have not classes)
One suggestion from my collegue, art's teacher: The students of each country could make a logo in their art's lessons and in the first meeting we choose one of them to represent all of us.
Think about!
Adéu(Valencian language), Adiós(Spanish)

[giovanni]

great, I like the idea ok the logo to be decided on the first meeting
giovanni

[gerli]

Thanks for your offer to host the meeting, Giovanni! We'll think about it;) Just a remark - first meeting does not include any pupils.

[zso4legnica]

Hi Gerli,
All the best for everybody in New Year.
Sorry for not having taken part in the discussion so far. Our students feel excited about the idea of the new project. As I wrote in the application form we have a choir and a music group.
At the moment we are finishing our current project where we have 24 student mobilities and the number of teachers is not limited. We have already had 5 meetings in partner countries and are going to have 2 more. It is always an opportunity to get to know each other better, to make friends all over Europe. The budget is big enough to fly to every country. It is important for us because all the countries from our new project are quite far from Poland, except for Germany, where we can go by coach, of course. The journey to other countries will take us about 2 days by coach. It is not a huge problem, just inconvenience, but I would like to know the concept. Could you tell me where I can read some details about the project. May be I missed some information.
Irina from Poland

[gerli]

Hello, Poland!
Nice to hear of you again! You can (and must) find the pre-filled application (2 pdf files) under the topic APPLICATION. We are happy to hear that your pupils are excited to begin this project! One thing we wrote already in the first introduction of the project is that we are going to have 3 meetings during this project. Travelling to all the schools with smaller groups is not an option for us - we prefer to concentrate on 2 really great concert-meetings with lots of participants. Let me know, if you cannot find or cannot open the application files! It is very important that everybody reads and comments them in January.