Visit in Targu-Jiu (Romania)

"Alexandru Stefulescu" School

The first visit of Comenius Multilateral school partnerships “Our amazing treasure nature” was held in Romania “Alexandru Stefulescu” School, the coordinating country in 31 th October – 4th November . Portugual, Spain. France, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Slovakia, Turkey and Poland came to Targu Jiu. During this visit all countries prepared their school presentation – film, and gave information about their school, pupils, environment, activities, city, etc. A cultural program was organized, too. We were informed about Romanian educational system via class visits. It was very interesting seeing the differences in school and everyday life of the host country.

A classroom in the school

Pleasure trip to a monastery, parks, mountains, botanical garden, sculptural complex and caves gave opportunities to get know Romanian traditions, history, culture and magnificent beauty of nature. We all had a chance to meet new people, make a lot of friends and have an splendid time. We learnt about the culture. We also revised further activities, planned the next visits, did workshop about project activities, had a language lesson.

The Gate of the Kiss (C. Brancusi)

We are thankful to director of the host school Mr. Aurel Popescu, contact person Mrs. Adela Scheau and the rest of comenius team for their fantastic work.

Some teacher who participated in the meeting 

Summary of the project:

The main focus of our project is to take attention to nature consciousness and endemic species under the risk of extinction. We will try to share knowledge about plants and species of plants with our partners in order to create a library of plants by saving different species from other European countries. So our students will be aware of differences of plants, life styles and cultures through this project. They will also gain much more information about nature consciousness and they will be aware of the importance of global warming. So they will try to much more careful at their world.

This project is a study of plants collecting, drying and labeling under the researches to be sufficient to some scientific studies and to make use of plants, supply their endurance. Through our proposed activities we’d like to improve knowledge and motivations among pupils to protect nature and its values.

Through this partnership we are going to raise awareness and responsibility among pupils regarding environment. Also our project develops the initiative spirit, the communication; the good practices exchange regarding environmental theme and provide a quality education according with actual issues. Each school involved in this partnership will provide activities of tree plantation and greening, will organize trips with the purpose to identify the areas that have been destroyed by human ignorance. There will be organized different exhibitions and contests based on environment protection, which will be also a mean of non-formal learning. Each school will offer as an example a clean and a healthy environment.

This partnership brings together teachers and pupils from 9 different European countries for the purpose of accomplishing some activities on environmental education.

Comenius team in Romanescu Park (Craiova)

Text: Melike O.
Photos: Francisco M.