Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2025 Newsletter
Nature’ s Storytellers – Giving Voice to Inclusion through Creativity and Collaboration by Angeliki Gerouki and Marina Triantafyllou
The eTwinning project Nature’ s Storytellers( 2024 – 2025) brought together students and educators from four countries – Italy, Portugal, Türkiye, and Greece – in a cross-curricular, crossborder exploration of some of the most urgent issues facing our planet. The partner schools were Istituto Comprensivo Statale“ Ampolo-Springer” Surbo( IT), Agrupamento de Escolas de Vale do Tamel( PT), Private Yıldız Secondary School( TR), and E. E. E. EK. Achaias( GR), a special
vocational school that brought valuable inclusive perspectives into the collaboration.
Built on a Project-Based Learning framework, the project encouraged students to explore the question:“ How can we inspire others to protect their natural treasures?” The activities were structured around four key environmental themes – biodiversity, water, soil, and protected areas – which guided the learning process and inspired a range of creative outputs. These included a collaborative digital map, an interactive puzzle, posters, short videos, and shared reflections. Students also engaged in multilingual forums, exchanged local insights, and co-created content using familiar and accessible digital tools that promoted active and inclusive participation.
Students from E. E. E. EK. Achaias engaged fully in every phase of the project: designing logos, co-writing a netiquette code, exchanging seasonal traditions, and joining international discussions. The project’ s flexible and creative structure allowed them to participate with confidence and purpose, contributing meaningfully to the collaborative tasks at the core of the experience.
All this work led to a particularly memorable highlight: a collaborative puppet show, co-created by all participating schools. Puppets were designed from recycled materials, stories were developed collaboratively, and transitions stitched each act into a single, unified performance. The puppet show
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