FINAL INITIATIVE COMPLETION REPORT
EUROPE TODAY AND TOMORROW
We have reached to the end of
our project: `Europe today and
tomorrow´. We started with the illusion of joining a competition and we have finished with the satisfaction of having worked on something more than a contest
,since we are now more identified with the fact that we are European citizens
and Europe offers a lot of things that we didn’t know so far. However
many others can be done in the future to improve this new born Community.
When the
teacher told us about participating in Euroscola, we were all very pleased with
the idea, but a bit lost. So we first watched Euroscola comics and had a
starting point. Then we decided to begin by learning the essential information
about the European community: the countries. So we prepared power points about
all the country members and obviously we learnt important facts about our
neighbour countries. Next step was spreading this information which even though
appears to be basic most students don’t know. So we did posters with this
information to exhibit in the school.
And
encourage our school mates to see it.
Now that we
knew more about our neighbours, we thought about looking into what other people
knew and if they were aware of being European citizens. So we conducted a survey
in the streets of Murcia and
eventually concluded that some aspects of Europe
aren’t well known yet, but the current facts were comprehended. The conclusion
we reached was that we have to go on working on mentally preparing people about
our identity as European.
Eventually,
as we love music we think music is an effective way of communicating ideas and
feelings .So we composed a song which reflected what we have learned and how we
feel now .We intend to sing it on the 9 May in the school when we celebrate
this day with different activities and in the stand which Europe Direct is
going to have in the centre of Murcia.
Another important step has been the visit to
the Europe Direct offices in Murcia.
We met the General Director of the
European Union and the Information manager of Europe Direct in
Murcia, who gave us a lecture about the origins of Europe, some essential data about the institutions and most
important, what Europe does and offers. We could see how involved they were and
they transmitted us this feeling. They also gave us interesting information
about where to find on the Internet any issue of Europe.
To sum
up we
can conclude that this has been a really positive experience, learning
facts working together, improving our skills with
technology and our English ,but above all being aware that we belong to large
community with no borders to move as citizens. Yet we still have a lot to discover.
