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Mid Term Report 2 February 2013

*(prepared by the Coordinator of the Project (Greece))

CONTENTS1 Lisboa/Vialonga Meeting, Decisions made2 Publicity of the Project3 Expected Meetings, Results and Outcomes according to the Submitted

Proposal (Contractual obligations)4 Table of Tasks accomplished so far January 2013, by country5 The roles and distributed tasks’ according to the SUBMITTED PROPOSAL

and suggestions for improvements.6 An overall concluding remark.

Description:This is a mid term Project Report and also a post meeting (Portugal) report which summarises in a quick way what was accomplished so far and also what was discussed and decided in the last Meeting in Lisboa/Vialonga. In Addition, this is a reminder of the tasks that must be accomplished by the end of the first year, with the Istanbul and Leipzig meetings. In this report, there is a reminder of tasks , duties and roles, according to the submitted proposal (which actually forms our contractual obligations) and few suggestions. Please read also the final ‘overal concluding remark’ at the end of this document.

1. Lisboa/Vialonga Meeting.

● LOGO CONTEST : The logo proposed by the CZECH team was elected and adopted by the program. The Czech team -as expressed also by their coordinator- ‘can be creative’! The team promised to incorporate the word ‘COMENIUS’ within the logo (not only to identify the project but also to differentiate from the European School Radio station Logo).

● QUESTIONNAIRES : Questionnaires for the Web Radio conducted by the Italian team’ they presented also the results in a very sophisticated way with ‘graphs and pies’, which were very interesting. All results can be found on TWISPACE.

● Assigned tasks :

○ Etiquette for using the Web Radio : assigned to Turkey and Bulgaria in collaboration, finished by-and presented at, Istanbul Meeting , 9-12 April 2013

○ WIKIA (wikipedia for Web Radio for European School Radio): suggested by NORWAY and assigned to Belgium and Norway (in collaboration), ready and presented at Germany meeting 2-5 June 2013

○ Turkey , to organise the Next Meeting

○ German team to organise again Twinspace and present/teach us a new/better way to use it.

○ ‘Lisboa Interviews Audio Show’: Portugal finalises the audio file of the interviews conducted by students in Lisboa and send to be played on the station on the ‘Comenius Eurozone Show-time’.

○ Mid - Evaluation of the Project (Questionnaires). Any country to help to put the questionnaire online? (Preferably one country that has not been assigned an extra task so far).

○ ‘RADIO COMENIUS EUROZONE’ implementation: Greece on esradio.mysch.gr program/schedule. Makes sure that every listener will be aware of the modified program/schedule, publising and posting of the events, receive and upload the broadcast by each country and put in place.

○ Comenius Radio Shows and other Publications on ESRadio: Greece with the help of Turkey will create a special place on esradio.mysch.gr for Comenius shows on Demand(podacast) and other publications on a special link/area on the web radio site.

● COMMUNICATION MEDIUM - Official documents, photo on TWINSPACE (TW) and some basic communication among teachers/coordinators. We keep communicating with EMAIL (google group and plain emails) each other for quick communication and for detailed ways. Possibly, discover the possibilites of Google+. We also may communicate via SKYPE if necessary. We are still keeping TW for pupils to develop friendship and communication, but we do not discourage other unofficial ways of communications

among them, if they want and are allowed to use, such as social networking (eg. Facebook).

● RADIO COMENIUS EUROZONE SHOW-TIME at European School Radio (http:esradio.mysch.gr/) : Daily at 18:00 German, Italy, Czech, Belgium, Italy (19:00 Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, 20:00 Portugal). Each country presents 60 min montly (either as one broadcast or 10 min x 6) to be put in the specific zone. Keep in midn that the submitted proposal suggested to creat shows for individual subjects also (history, local history , languages, etc). DEADLINE for first show 11 February 2013 subject LOVE and Saint Valentine! But, please feel free to send anything else YOU want (eg Belgium for the great world festival).

2. PUBLICITY :Dear Partners, according to our Comenius Project duties, we must have publicity and public

awareness of our project to the society by Newspapers, other press (eg. magazines), RADIO/TV media and organised Events. You can write a small article in press with a picture or

give an interview to a local radio/tv station.So, please , do publications or events and keep a history/proof of your work (a copy of the

newspaper/magazine, photos, posters of events, etc).

3. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES until April 2013 (contractual obligations):

According to the SUBMITTED PROPOSAL(that we all signed), we are expected to produce the

following Meetings and RESULTS AND OUTCOMES Sep/2012 - April/2013 (contractual obligations):

2012-2013 Meetings

● 1st Meeting in Greece - DONE

● 2nd Meeting in Czech Republic November 2012--> replaced with Portugal Meeting in January 2013 - DONE

● 3rd Meeting, Istanbul 9-13 April 2013

● 4th Meeting, Leipzig 2-6 June 2013

2012-2013 Results and Outcome

● Brochure with rules for school radio usage and etiquette; Assigned to Bulgaria + Turkey for April meeting.

● Website/blog of the school radio; Project logo to be printed on project products like T-shirts, mugs, pens, flags and etc.); DONE, we can print on material whenever possible. We decide.

● Workshop on defining website; Creation of manual; Website/blog setting up for the project and radio; Music zones; Radio spots; DONE, needs some more work in Istanbul

● Short radio spots (in the form of podcast or audio on demand); DONE

● manual on how to create broadcasts for pupils (by using ICT and Multimedia Technologies); DONE

● First evaluation (reports, comments, etc.); Mid - Project Evaluation (Questionnaires). Greece with the help of Hristo from Bulgaria will prepare the evaluation forms/questionnaires. It will be send to all countries in the second half of February (15 Feb 2013). We will try to do it online, eitherwise we will send a copy and will be distributed to be filled in among the radio teams in each country, collect the results and do a quick summarisation of the results.All results must be put on TW. **Any country wants to help to put it online?

● Educational radio programs/broadcasts for various school subjects (geography, history, music, IT lessons); (60 minutes montly by each country) in the COMENIUS EUROZONE

● Turkey meeting → Web Radio up and running; SKYPE teleconference;.Update manuals/brochures; Discuss improvements on the web radio operation, website and broadcasts on;

● Exhibition and / or conference at school or local community facility; Exchange of views on the project work with school / local community; Evaluation (questionnaire and discussion) of first year of the project (all partners together);

● Germany meeting → Presentation of the results of the project development; Interviews and a questionnaire; To monitor and evaluate the first project's year;→ Common evaluation of the first project year (questionnaire and discussion)

● 1st Year Project Report by each country submitted in June-July 2013 to the NA of our countries.

4. Table of Tasks accomplished so far from Sept 2012 - January 2013, by country

The following table will give us a picture of what we have accomplished so far by country, in order to have a fair and balanced picture of the contributions. Countries that had less tasks can contribute more in the future.

Greece:

● Organised/hosted first meeting in Thessaloniki/Kilkis (October 2013)

● Operating the Web Radio Station (esradio.mysch.gr),

● Prepared Main Presentation of the whole project

● Guides and FAQ for web radio use, developing and editing audio files, specifics of a broadcast, how to present promote broadcasts.

● Prepared Questionnaires about web radio use in English

● Participated in Logo Contest, and Questionnaires

● Organised and conducted two live shows especially for/with Comenius group

● Prepared audio spots for Comenius and one 60min X-mas show

● Organised the broadcasting of all X-mas shows.

● Worked on organising the Twinspace in the appropriate categories.

● Prepared the Mid term Report - a post Meeting (Portugal) Report

Norway

● Organised, conducted and presented the LOGO CONTEST.

● Radio spot of their school in November

● X-mas one hour Show in December

● Participated in Logo contest

● Participated in Questionnaires

Italy

● Organised, conducted and presented the QUESTIONNAIRES.





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Germany

● Organised and promotes Twinspace





● Organising German Meeting in June

Czech Republic




● X-mas Show in December

Portugal

● Organised/hosted the second meeting in Lisboa-Vialonga (19-24 January 2013)

● working on the ‘Lisboa Interviews Broadcast’



Bulgaria



● helping in mid term evaluation forms/questionnaire.

Turkey





Belgium


● X-mas Show in December



5. ‘The roles and distributed tasks’, and suggestions

“ The role of the coordinating school in general (Greece):

• Reminds deadlines and appointments for regular and extra online meetings.• Informs and reminds about work/activities to be done and other accomplishments;• Keeps records, analyzes and distributes results, meetings minutes, conclusion and partnership evaluation;• Ensures active and equal involvement;• Hosts for representatives of the partner institution;• Provides the know-how to develop and run the web Radio station

• Provides the infrastructures and hosts the web radio server and the streaming.”

ALL PARTNERS:- The distribution of tasks in the proposal was done at the beginning by random choice but already some countries have followed it. We can be strict but also flexible enough to help each other. Please, contribute to tasks according to what you like and you can do but also according to what is needed so that al required tasks/results according to the contractual agreement are met.

Remarks/suggestions by the coordinator: The previous meetings offered us valuable lessons

that we can utilize in the future in order to work in a more efficient way.

● Participating in all means of communication (emails, google groups, twinspace,skype) and reporting any problems you might experience and/or any issues you might have concerning both the actual work and cooperation among us, is of the utmost importance!

● Maybe it’s a good idea that the agenda, the activities and the work meetings of every visit are decided by the host country in cooperation with the project coordinators/participants input and suggestions by all countries. For example, we think that one official work meeting per visit is not enough. Experience showed that we definitely need an extra meeting of the coordinators (overall two) to discuss and hopefully resolve any issues that might arise during our visit. Having very well organised meetings with specific goals and acticities, the hosting country can lead the meetings, in the way they lead the whole visiting program anyway. The role of the project coordinator is to ensure that all the issues are discussed and the contractual obligations are met.

6. Overall concluding remark

Dear Partners,This project has fulfilled all of its contractual obligations and most of its tasks so far. The ones not fulfilled already has been planned and assigned to specific groups. We had an alteration to the planned schedule and we replaced the Czech meeting in November 2012 with the Portugal Meeting in January 2013, since the school from Prague suffered serious constructional issues with their school and needed to postpone the meeting for late October 2013. Next meetings are already organised in details.

After this initial conlcusion, we would like to comment on the project overall. This multilateral project consists of nine different countries, nine different attitudes, nine different ways to work, to organise a project and also nine different experiences (or no experience) of COMENIUS projects. Consider also that each individual person has it’s own personality and style of communication. On the top of that, English is not our mother tongue and communication can be problematic sometimes. Therefore, we believe that it is more than normal to have differences and sometimes , disputes. In fact, in our case, we strongly believe that we have cases of ‘differences’, but few ‘misunderstandings’. But, are we going to let few misunderstandings and some negative feelings to drive us? Rather, we will be motivated to work on our similarities, our enthousiasm to participate in an international project, our will to create a european school radio with our shows, our personal motivation to meet more and interesting people, places and feed our brains and enrich our souls. All the above mainly concentrate on students/pupils hapiness and to make students become better persons, should we not forget

this! We still remember the great time our students had in Portugal! Some became friends, they overcame prejudices and had a really great time....In our eyes, the goal has achieved.

So, we suggest, that either being a ‘strong’ or a ‘weak’ personality, we are adults and educators with experience and we all start with a GOOD WILL and kind attitude towards the others, with tollerence and open friendly communication. This project is not a professional body, is not an antagonistic environment, and we have nothing to share, except hapiness and friendship, harmonious relationships and a place where our kids will have fun and educate themselves. We are all teachers, we do not need ‘public relations’ to be ‘good’ to each other, we only need open eyes and hearts to see others always in a positive way, not being prejudiced at all. If we all agree and participate openly, eager to contribute to the project in any way we can, we are more than confident that we will surpass any small misunderstandings. Let us concentrate on hapiness, friendship, harmonious relationship, good will , good organisation and fruitful work, either between meetings or at the meetings themselves.

Consider us in Greee*, your friends and you can visit us anytime you want to have great time with wonderful people, places and food!

*(GREECE =a “guinea pig” of the IMF, which already confessed that their strategy was completely wrong(!). In Greece a 26% official unemployment kills hapiness and the future of young people....... Portugal, be strong and fight back......they know they are doing wrong but still want more countries to be ...slaves! )

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