Project Meetings
First Project Meeting in Jakobstad, Finland (online)
As so many planned activities and long-awaited encounters, our first meeting in Jakobstad, Finland, had to be a virtual one as a result of the Corona pandemic. Apart from some technical difficulties it went better than expected and definitely enhanced our future literacy when it comes to digitilization, but we all agreed that meeting in person could not be replaced by meeting online.
However, we were very productive and in addition to dealing with organization and planning the details of our project work we had a lot of fun trying to work on the planned acitivities ourselves.
One of the activities we enjoyed very much was the Zero Waste Challenge. To do so we opened a parcel every school had received from the Finnish team, full of “waste“ or, to be more precise, a mix of objects no longer needed (from Christmas decorations to old glasses and so on…). We explained the meaning and usage of our “new“ objects (upcycling if you want!) and sorted out how to do this with students.
We also played the Game “Young European Entrepreneurs“ with the Finnish colleagues as our team leaders. This meant to find a suitable idea for starting a business, based on the principles of sustainability!
Second project meeting (online)
Also the second meeting planned to be held in Lippstadt had to be held online. Each school had chosen up to six students to take part in the meeting. After introducing the participants we shared short films introducing the different schools (as we could not see this in real life!).
As already tested by the teachers the first task was to be the Zero Waste Challenge! The students formed national teams and had about an hour to design a new object from the parts the teachers had given to them!
And the winner was…
In the second part of the meeting we further worked on our future literacy and shared some thoughts about schools in the future! In mixed groups we talked about important questions like the role of sustainability, media and artificial intelligence in schools of the future.
School of the future
Third project meeting in Lippstadt 11/2022
After such a long corona time of social distancing we finally met in Lippstadt!
Visiting the Heinz Nixdorf Museumsforum in Paderborn
A great museum to find out about future trends (but also about the history of computers, mobile phones and communication in general!). It was great to have a guided tour and to work on our future skills – by joining the robotics workshop and programming our own robots!
It was great fun to build our own robots and have them do what we programmed them to do!
Uppsala 2/2023
What a great meeting in Uppsala with a very interesting insight into Sweden‘s steps towards sustainability and also planning the final conference!
Sustainability in Sweden!
Uden 5/2023
All FLOWERS met for the final meeting!
The Uden‘s Model
It was great to learn about the Uden‘s Model, which is a special support system of the school to especially encourage the individual learning process of the students including a great amount of lessons for counselling and coaching, strengthening talents instead of naming deficits. The Udens Model may serve as an example for all of us to further integrate individual learning and counselling in our daily work!
How to fight food waste!
What an outing – we not only learned about how to fight food waste on large scale but also had the chance to have a delicious lunch at the restaurant of the „Verspillings Fabriek“, a company producing great products like soups and sauces from surplus vegetables for example.
