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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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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)
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