Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 8 Visibility of eTwinning Projects Newsletter 8 | Page 63

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ eTwinning and OSOS project - a good experience! by Mariapia Borghesan Last year I was involved in a new project : OSOS. Osos is the acronym for Open Schools for Open Societies. We did several activities involving the school, the municipality, companies and associations. Even if I was working with several students and stakeholders I felt I was missing something: I was missing a collaboration with other schools. So I posted on facebook a question: “Is someone involved in OSOS project ?” I was very lucky because one of my eTwinning partners, Athanasia Zafeiropoulou, was involved too! We took a look at our projects and we found a common topic: the bees and their problems with pollution and climate changes. So we decided to create an eTwinning project about the bees : “BEES(Y)” https://live.etwinning.net/projects/project/166599. What is an open school? An open school is a more engaging environment for learning and makes a vital contribution to the community: student projects meet real needs in the community outside school and draw upon local expertise and experience. And finally: learning in and together with the real world creates more meaning and more motivation for learners and teachers. Schools will be supported to make vital contributions to their communities, student projects will meet real needs, they will be presented publicly, and draw upon local expertise and experience. The school environment will foster collaboration, mentoring, and will provide opportunities for learners to understand and interrogate their place in the world (for more information : https://www.openschools.eu/). I decided to make a project about our environment and how to reduce pollution in order to enhance the situation in my village. The title of the projectis “Let’s cultivate the future” (http://portal.opendiscoveryspace.eu/it/osos- project/lets-cultivate-future-849664) 63