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Soros International House has joined new partnership in the international Lifelong Learning programme project "Primalingua-Wir sprechen Europäisch". German partners coordinate the project. The idea. The idea of the project Primalingua is, to establish a school network all over Europe for pupils at the age between 8 and 12, to communicate with each other by using the common foreign language. It was English, French, Spanish, that are mostly taught at school. The project partners will develop an internet-platform, where the network schools can communicate. Innovation. Primalingua is a project to teach children how to deal with modern mediums and at the same time to get in touch with foreign languages and cultures. Project-Tasks a.Coordinators for the schools. Four project partners will coordinate the following regions: Southern Europe with Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece, Western Europe with Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Great Britain and Ireland, Northern Europe with Scandinavia and Iceland and Eastern Europe with the new European countries Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. These coordinators will be responsible to find the network-school partners in as most different regions as possible. Soros International House will coordinate Eastern Europe region. There will be 6 schools involved from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: ENGLISH LANGUAGE: -
PRIVATE SCHOOL INNOVA (Riga, Latvia) -
IH Tallinn (Tallinn, Estonia) -
Švėkšna "Saulės" secondary school (Šilutė district, Lithuania) -
Širvintos "Atžalyno" basic school (Širvintos, Lithuania) FRENCH LANGUAGE: GERMAN LANGUAGE: b.Building an Internetplatform/manual for teachers. Other four project partners will be experts in media education. It will be up to them, to develop the internet platform with several tasks for the pupils based on photography, film, audio, graphic/design. The tasks will very schematized, so they will be easy to handle for teachers and pupils. The instructions will be given in German, English, French and Spain, the languages that are mostly learned by pupils at this age. That way, Greece pupils for example can learn something about Finish pupils, by using their common first foreign language English. c.The partner schools create the multimedia profiles With the given tasks the primalingua-schools create their profiles and put them on the platform. There, they can communicate with other schools-in a common foreign language, or in a language, which is foreign language for one school, but mother tongue for the other.
The final Project Partners Meeting in Taormina, 2009 October On October 14 - 17th the final Lifelong Learning program project "Primalingua-Wir sprechen Europäisch“partner meeting took place in Taormina (Italy). The subject of the meeting was the evaluation of the whole project period (two years) activities and the future of the designed project platform. Soros International was represented by director Daiva Malinauskiene. She introduced the Baltic States schools that took part in the project, their feedback on project activities. The presentations prepared by all the partners showed that children across Europe (57 schools from different European countries were involved in the project) are open to other cultures and understand that the knowledge of a foreign language is an important communication tool. As well their reports showed that children understand how important it is to introduce their culture, daily life habits and customs to others, to find differences and similarities with their peers in other countries, keeping to their identity on the one hand, and realising the fact that they belong to one large community (called the European Union) on the other hand. The responses of the main target groups, namely children, were in line with the project objectives.
Achievements of project activity, 2008 December
The teachers and their schoolchilden from the schools that are participating in the project got actively involved in its activities. With the given tasks they have already created the profiles of their schools as well as their personal profiles, described Christmas traditions in their country and included the recipes of the Christmas cookies typical for their region. They not only communicate virtually in a common foreign language, but draw postcards, prepare Christmas presents and send them to their virtual friends in different European countries. As teacher Rita from Sirvintai school said the children who are involved in the project show proudly to their classmates the countries on the Primalingua map where they have already obtained new friends.
Project Partners Meeting in Vienna, 2008 September On the 19-21st of September, a project partners meeting was organised in Vienna, Austria. During the meeting the launch of the main activity on the project platform was discussed. Kids at the age of 8-12 and their teachers from all parts of Europe will present school, daily life, holidays and traditions from their country, in English, German an French languages and will communicate on the specially prepared project platform. The activities will start at the beginning of October. There are 58 schools that are involved in the project, of which 37 will be communicating in English, 15-in German and 7 schools will be communicating in French. We coordinate and represent 4 schools, communicating in English (two from Lithuania, one from Latvia and Estonia), 1 school, communicating in German and one school - in French. These two schools are from Lithuania. We wish you all success! 
Achievements of project activity, 2008 July In May and June two other partners joined the project - private language school "International House Tallinn"in Tallin, Estonia and private school "Innova" in Riga, Latvia. The latter partner is the organization department of Pedagogical Centre "Experiment" which has been working in Latvia for 20 years. They are the only school in Latvia that works by the system of the developmental education (the system of D.B. El`konin - V.V. Dovydov). While all our partners are on vacation, Sveksnos "Saule" Secondary School successfully is participating in piloting project activities. Recently the school has made a presentation in the portal and provided it with a photo gallery http://www.lietuvos.net/galerija/collections/0115_sveksna/ The following meeting of the project partners and coordinators will be held in September 19-20, 2008.
Project Partners Meeting in Barcelona, 2008 April At the beginning of April, 2008, a meeting of project partners was held in Barcelona, Spain, during this meeting a prepared portal was introduced. Children and their teachers from all parts of Europe will present in the portal the following: school, daily life, holidays and traditions from their country, in English, German an French languages.
Partners from Germany and the UK took part in the meeting. All their engagements were discussed and it was agreed to find and involve fiftyschools.
In Lithuania at the current time there are two partners - Sveksna "Saules" Secondary, Sveksna and Sirvintos "Atzalyno" Basic School, Sirvintos.
Our obligation is to bring in two more Lithuanian schools into the project andone school from Latvia, Estonia and Sweden. Also we have to try to get in touch with some schools from the Netherlands.
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