Eurolib - European Children’S Travelling Language Library

The New School year just started and we warmly suggest you visit the website of The Stronger Children project. You will find useful resouces to promote Harmonious relationship in your classroom and prevent bullying. Please visit https://strongerchildren.eu/

“Stronger Children -Less Violence 2” is a project funded by the European Commission to create a training on violence prevention and de-escalation in pre- and primary schools by developing social and civic competencies in children. The need for the project stems from the fact that usual violence prevention training starts much later in life – if at all – usually in secondary school. There is a huge market for children’s books tackling the problem of “outsiders” attacking the ...children. It is up to the parents to raise the issue, but it should be also the task of teachers/educators as violence occurs more often in the immediate surroundings of children. Peer attacks are seen as natural to a certain extent. Although there is a certain degree of natural aggressiveness among (small) children – they still have to learn how to handle it. In real life not only parents but also educators and teachers are often not sure how to deal with such behaviour, do not know what can be considered to be “normal” behaviour yet, what needs special consideration and how to detect bullying. In addition, the development of social competences is a process and cannot be learned in a short course. The project pursues a much wider concept of “violence prevention” than commonly used. It aims to strengthen social competences especially children’s self-protective competences as it is known that showing strength and self-confidence can indeed put off potential attackers or offenders. The project aims to advance the “Collection of Exercises" developed in the previous project “Stronger children – less violence” and test it in new countries also for pre-schools. The final products are: • Collection of Activities to be used for the work with children • Teacher’s Handbook with the description of the methodology of implementing the exercises in the classroom • Train the Trainer concept for partners to be able to provide training courses for teachers. The project website: www.strongerchildren.eu
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EuroLib is in the ARTES Community of Practice platform. ARTES “Art as a vehicle for Education and Social inclusion” is a project co-funded by the European Commission to answer the need to create a trans-sectoral platform for the exchange of training methodologies/approaches that use the arts for education and social inclusion, developed in previous projects. The exchange leads towards the multiplication and mainstreaming of the validated results and products of the projects.... ARTES users are mainly from communities, schools, social centres, associations, artistic and academic circles and will include art operators, artists, trainers, teachers, educators, social workers, students and all those with an interest in using the arts for education and social inclusion. Artists are very much involved in the discussion... In the last decades, partly due to revealing scientific research, the role of the arts widened towards new applications far beyond their entertainment function. The artists’ role is expanding likewise into new, fascinating territories and is increasingly linked to social work. On ARTES you can find methodologies and practices used in European Union funded projects, news, ideas, tips, techniques, insights and visions of art practitioners, artists, social operators and educators from across Europe and beyond. If you wish to visit ARTES: www.artescommunity.eu
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Video for ALL Live! Language conference
The EU funded Video for ALL project is holding a Video for ALL Live! Language conference, online on Tuesday 13th October. Speakers include, Russell Stannard (Moderator), Carmen Herrero, Jamie Keddie, Teresa McKinnon, Joe Dale. Places are limited, please register here. http://goo.gl/forms/xEky9zLoj9
Video for ALL is a European Union funded project that is bringing together as many ideas as possible on how video can be used as a basic tool of language learning. Website at: http://videoforall.eu/

The EU project vidusign (Creative video for the deaf) is holding a forum event on Friday 23 Oct 2015 at the Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin. You can find out more and register for this free event at http://www.vidusign.net/team/vidusignberl in/
Vidusign is a European project on how to use creative video for teaching, learning and communications for the European deaf communities. http://vidusign.net/ and https://www.facebook.com/Vidusign

Is the PopuLLar project the best language project EVER for secondary students?
So whats so good about EU PopuLLar project? Well it’s a project that is 'Owned' by the students who work autonomously and collaboratively; teachers are facilitators and guides to the project process ONLY. It uses the students own love of music as the motivator and we know teenagers love their music.
The project asks students to write their own lyrics to songs of their choice. Write their song in t...he target language they are learning. Record song (audio or video) and share it with other students all over Europe.
Amazing first results PopuLLar-Piloting in Brno, Czech Republic http://www.youtube.com/v/TwyQ5SHEI6k
PopuLLar - Buongiorno Principessa - Piloting in Spain English http://www.youtube.com/v/UHOLu03-wEE
All schools can now use the project and gain the great results: http://www.popullar.eu/resources.html
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Possibly the final post for now, the wonderful Oscar winning short animation on books: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adzywe9xeI U

Have you already seen the EuroLib piloting presentation? Not yet? You have a chance, now.
http://www.slideshare.net/…/eurolib-eur opean-childrens-trav…

The Eurolib libraries and the pedagogic resources are now complete and ready for schools across Europe to use. You can download the documents about using the libraries at: http://www.eulib.eu/teacher_manual.html and book a visit of the library (you will need to pay for transport).
We look forward to your involvement in EuroLib.

‘ArtinEd - A new approach to education using the arts’, is a significant European Union funded education project that is designing innovative methodologies to add creativity in to schools through the arts, as a key component of every school subject. Join our group on Facebook for regular news http://tinyurl.com/bq839ta
The arts play a fundamental role to support a student’s creative abilities, self-expression and learning abilities. They are a necessary tool especially when not thought as separate subjects but integrated throughout the curriculum. For example, sculpture in mathematics, drawing in history, music in languages etc.

A final set of photos from Sastamala ( at least from me).

Piloting Eurolib in Italy in a primary school.

Rehearsing the Kirjaset opening show, the Eurolib pirates delivering the treasure chest of books to the Finnish children.

The Kirjaset starts today, the project partners will be joining in activities with Special needs children this morning and launching the pirate ship were the Treasure chest will be found, full of wonderful children's books (in 6 languages).

The project partners are preparing for the final EU project meeting of EuroLib http://www.eulib.eu/ in the far North, Sastamala, Finland ( were Santa Claus comes from). We will be completing events for the Children's book fair of Finland http://www.kirjaset.fi/kirjaset/