Europos legendos, sakmės ir padavimai -
Sagenhaft und legendär: wir machen aus Sagen viel mehr

Wissen über Sagen geht bei jungen Menschen quasi verloren.Sagen beeinflußten historische Entwicklung, Sagen spiegeln den Charakter eines Landes wider,zeigen das auf, was das Land ausmacht.Wir möchten Jugendliche darauf aufmerksam,wie sie dem kleinsten Ort eine zusätzliche identitätsstiftende Dimension geben. Partner entdecken,was bei Sagen ähnlich in den verschiedenen europäischen Ländern ist. Sagen bilden oft die Grundlage von Filmen Büchern und Videogames. In der Vergangenheit wurden sie mündlich überliefert,Menschen wurden dadurch angesprochen. Jugendliche durch Beschäftigung mit dieser Problematik darauf aufmerksam machen und darüber nachdenken, warum es wichtig ist, dass wir das Kulturgut Sage erhalten.Wir lernen nämlich daraus etwas über die Menschen, ihr Leben und ihre Gedankenwelt.Auseinanderstezung mit Sagen: eigenes Urteilsvermögen fördern und Schüler dazu anregen,darüber nachzudenken,was sie daraus für ihre eigene Lebenswelt ableiten können.

WE SUPPORTED THE INITIATIVE OF THE NATIONAL AGENCY CALLED “I AM STRONG WITH “ERASMUS +” AND SHARED OUR WORK EXPERIENCE ON THE PROJECT REMOTELY

SAGEN UND LEGENDEN IN EUROPA EUROPEAN MYTHS AND LEGENDS EUROPOS LEGENDOS IR SAKMĖS 

DIE LEGENDEN DER KURISCHEN NEHRUNG 

Meeting in Klaipeda

In October 2021, a meeting of all partners took place in Klaipeda as part of the international project “Myths and Legends  in Europe”. Our partners in this project are schools from Hungary, Italy, Greece and Germany. This meeting was very important because it was the first and a very long awaited meeting. The fertile theme of the project encourages creativity because for each meeting the partners prepare a stage performance of one of their country's legends. Everyone has full freedom of choice. One can draw, sing, dance to represent the idea of a legend or a myth. In Klaipeda we worked on the theme of the project, invented new legends and introduced guests to our beautiful city and its surroundings. Visiting the Hill of Witches in Juodkrante cannot be called a pleasure trip, but this mystical place fits our project perfectly. We also showed the guests Nida and Palanga. We are glad that the mayor of our city, Vytautas Grubliauskas, met with the project participants and showed respect for the idea of international cooperation between young people. The next meeting will be in Greece very soon. We're excited!

October 2021

Meeting in Greece

In mid-November 2021 we returned from a trip to the island of Crete (Greece), where the second meeting on the Project “Myths and Legends in Europe” had already taken place. In this country, on this island, everything breathes myth and legend. Artemij Morozov IVd, Bogdan Bronevskij IIId, Kiril Veseljev IIId, Ksenija Koniševa IVd, Kristina Koniševa Ivd, Darija Jegorova IVb, Jade Harumi Sabin Tipiani IIa, Anastasija Galčenkova IIa together with the teachers (Diana Mineikienė, Natalija Domnenko) and the principal (Irina Fiodorova) took part in this trip.

We have managed to see the Palace of Knossos (1700 BC) sung about in the legends, the 3000-year-old olive tree, which is widely recognized by the international scientific community. This olive tree still bears fruit today and Plato, Aristotle or Hippocrates could probably be sitting under this tree. It was a journey through time.

And we all danced Sirtaki together. The dance, which has become the visiting card of Greece, has the power of uniting people. This is not difficult to understand when you watch the dancing project participants!

We also enjoyed participating in all activities following the program of the project meeting.

Meeting in Italy 2022

International cooperation

In February 2022 the team of "Aitvaro" Gymnasium (principal Irina Fiodorova, geography teacher Aistė Raubienė and students of the 1st-4th grades: Roza Ariničeva, Ana Borcova, Katsiaryna Rak, Kaj Borisov, Dainius Gelžinis, Sofija Jugaj, Aurelija Kaupaitė, Maksim Bukatyj) participated in the international meeting of partner institutions (Germany, Italy, Hungary and Lithuania) in Italy (Carpi) as a part of Erasmus+ project "Legends and myths in Europe"

On the first day, the participants visited the Parmesan (cheese) factory. It is a hard granulated cow's milk cheese from Italy. According to the national law, only cheeses produced in these regions can be called Parmigiano-Reggiano. Afterwards, the participants prepared and presented one of the legends of the country they came from. Our team of students presented one of the most popular legends about the founding of Vilnius written in the 16th century. In the legend of the founding of the city of Vilnius, the wolf is sometimes associated with the Capitoline wolf, which fed the founders of Rome, Remus and Romulus, one of the Gediminas' ancestors is called the Wolf in the annals.

On the same day, there was a meeting with the mayor of Carpi, who wished everyone a busy and creative week.

On Tuesday, a trip to Verona, which commemorates 300 years before Christ, was planned. This is the city that Shakespeare fell in love with, because the action of the tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" takes place in Verona.

On Wednesday, the participants went on an excursion to Bologna, where the oldest university in Europe is located, it is one of the richest cities in Italy. In the main or Archiginnasio palace, which currently houses the old city library, noble students from Italy and other countries immortalized themselves by leaving their family coat of arms here on the wall. Yes, you can also find the coats of arms of LDK nobles here! The jewel of the main university building is the authentic Anatomy Theatre. The entire hall is decorated with wood sculptures depicting allegorical creatures, ancient gods, famous doctors of ancient times such as Hippocrates and others. In 2021 the architectural porticos of Bologna have been recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

On Thursday, the participants were introduced to the celebrities of the city of Carpi, and then, inspired by the experience, they created new legends and presented them. And Tortellini was also made - pasta originating from the Emilia region of Italy. Traditionally, they are stuffed with a mixture of meat, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, egg and nutmeg. They are usually sold fresh or homemade in their area of origin. And then - a farewell evening!

And the journey home! We thank all participants for their creativity, ability to communicate and collaborate.

Meeting in Germany 2022

The meeting in Betzdorf.

The last meeting of the partner schools as part of the Erasmus+ project "Legends and myths in Europe" took place. Our team (teachers Natalija Domnenko and Aistė Raubienė, students of the 2nd-4th grades Aleksandr Tokorev, Yekaterina Bogdanova, Karina Zinčenko, Amelija Permenova, Dainius Gelžinis, Sofija Jugaj, Aurelija Kaupaitė, Aleksandra Litvinenko) visited Betzdorf, (Germany / Rhineland- Palatinate. ), where the partners gathered not only from Lithuania, but also from Greece, Italy and Hungary.

The start of this project was very difficult due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but during the school year 2021-2022 we managed the seemingly impossible: 4 partnership meetings were organized, each country presented 4 legends in its own way (dance, composition, performance, video etc.), the book of legends (bilingual German-English) was published, acquaintance with partner countries was made. In such projects it is particularly important to communicate and cooperate with peers and colleagues.

Visiting German cities like Cologne, Bonn and Koblenz was unforgettable for the participants.

We think that we have managed to prepare for this meeting a very interesting interpretation of the legend about the cheese that once saved our city's castle called Memelburg from the Swedes. This great video was remembered by many viewers. The participants were all students who traveled to Germany. Lithuanian teacher Diana Mineikienė and Ekaterina Bogdanova (IIa) coordinated the process of creating the video. Aleksandr Tokorev (IVc) masterfully transformed all the material into a short film that we dedicated to the 770th anniversary of Klaipėda. He did it so well and tastefully as no one was indifferent after watching this masterpiece. ☺

Even that the project is almost over, the warm memories will remain in our hearts for a long time. We are sure of it.

Project results

eBook

The first Transnational Project Meeting in France (La Garde)
Representatives from all partner schools gathered for a meeting to develop the general approach in achievement of the goals of the project, to discuss and to choose dates of project meetings, to discuss the final product and a contribution of each partner in its creation.
All participants of this meeting were greeted by the mayor of La Garde to emphasize the importance of the international projects in the modern world. The meeting with initiative group of pupils and teachers of the coordinating school also took place. They expressed the opinion how to achieve the goals of the project and monitoring of the project. The meeting was necessary and useful.

 Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils - meeting in France
Objectives: to create sounds, to exploit the instruments already made since the beginning of the project, to record the first sounds, the first musical pieces to create the sound bank. Activities: alternating workshops in electronic music, a workshop making instruments from bamboo, workshop creation and 3D printing of musical instruments led by professors of high school. Cultural activities: discovery of traditional and local music, meeting with a Japanese artist who produces sounds from bamboos; the visit of the Museum in Marseille (traditional music department). The sounds produced during this week were recorded in the auditorium of the Guard, thus constituting the base of the sound bank. e-Twinning was written: the pieces of music related to this 1st experience of working in common were written, the photos were posted, the created music was stored.

Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils - meeting in Lithuania
Activities: a game by Kahoot „Languages sounds“; work on the project in four groups: 2 workshops (video „Sounds of the city“ voice over; Russian, Lithuanian, French, German, Austrian songs); a sightseeing trip to Nida and Juodkrante; a debate on the topic „Can music be created out of anything?“ and demonstration debates (the Winner’s choice); Folklore Ensemble performance (folk music sounds); a game in old town with elements of the acquaintance with the city „Sounds of the city”; an excursion to the Curonian Spit (the Sea Museum and Dolphin Show: sea life sounds); presentation of workshops’ results; evaluation of the project on the eTwinning platform: a questionnaire.

Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils - meeting in Germany

Objective: to make music freely and creatively. We set up small musical groups that would work from different themes. The voice: discovering the voice, testing your own voice. Body expression: producing sounds with your body, your voice. These sounds complemented those already recorded in the Lycée du Coudon - electronic sounds; and in Klaipeda - sounds of the dailies, sounds of the port. Improvisation: in groups, solo. Interaction between the participants. Expected results: production of small songs and sounds that will complete the bank. Other activities: visiting the experimental music recording studio in Freiburg, visiting the museum of mechanical musical instruments in Baden Baden. Concert in Freiburg according to the programme of the moment, organization of a concert with a musical ensemble in high school for the final evening. Group life: two days in a mountain chalet; the students had to organize the life in the chalet during these two days (meals, maintenance, activities). 

 

The second Transnational Project Meeting in Austria (St. Johann im Pongau)

 

This meeting was organized to discuss the interim results of the project, the contribution of each participant to already organized activities, to exchange experience of the organization of project meetings, to coordinate dates of the last meetings, to discuss the preparation by second year of the project. At this meeting all points of the interim report had been discussed. During the meeting its participants got acquainted with the director of the Austrian school where the final meeting on the project would take place and discussed details of future meeting. It was the important conversation as at this meeting will be presented the final product of the project. The meeting was very helpful and constructive.

 

 

The third Transnational Project Meeting in France (La Garde)

The final meeting was organized in order to take the stock of the project, to assess the final product, to discuss the final report and the opportunities for further cooperation. The meeting was attended by the directors from all partner schools who discussed the integration of curricula with international projects.
The project coordinator prepared an interesting event which involved teachers of the coordinating school and all students of the French school who participated in the project. During this event the film was shown which reflected all stages of the project, the fragments of the final concert and the interviews with the participants. This meeting was an important final moment of the project and provided the opportunity for all partners to evaluate their contribution to the project and to discuss the ideas of possible future projects.

 

 

 Action "DAROM"

Gymnasium “Aitvaro” (Klaipeda) joined the action "DAROM" on the occasion of the „World Cleanup Day“. On September 20th, at 12 p.m. the participants took hands in a live chain. With their appearance, clothes, posters, balloons, they expressed concerns related to the environmental problems, preservation of our land, oceans, air, wildlife... The participants then demonstrated their flashmob.

Lithuania took the initiative to become the world leader in this action and in 2020 is intending to organize such a flashmob in more than 150 countries.

This means that this year the Lithuanian schoolchildren will try to do it for the first time, and next year students in tens of thousands of schools around the world will follow this action.

https://youtu.be/Hf7MhgEDEzU

MEETING IN ESTONIA

From 9th to 14th September, 2019 there was a meeting on the project “Inter-nation encounter to raise pollution and global warming awareness around the Baltic Sea” in Tallinn (Estonia).

During this meeting the participants studied the ecological situation in the region of each partner, got acquainted with the wealth of nature in the Museum of Nature Tallinn and in mixed groups took part in an interactive game-quest on the territory of the park adjacent to the museum, which helped them to further immerse themselves in the environmental situation of Estonia as one of the Baltic regions.

The project participants visited Lahemaa National Park. It is the perfect place to observe nature.

Lahemaa is one of Europe's most important forest reserves, home to many large mammals. It is a habitat of elks, boars, brown bears, lynxes, foxes and other wild animals.

The visit to Lahemaa National Park, located on the northern coast of Estonia, left a great impression.

During one creative workshop the participants of the project composed fairy tails reflecting the problems of the Baltic Sea, and drew posters on the content of the composed fairy tails, and also, working with a computer, created infographics related to the topic of the project.

On the other day, the project participants visited Tallinn's treatment facilities and learned a lot of important information about how much it is necessary to work to prevent the Baltic Sea from polluting human waste.

Throughout the week the project participants also worked on stage presentation of the idea of a comic book which will become the final product of the project. On the last day of the meeting, the participants of the project presented the results of their work. At the end of this presentation there were very sincere words addressed to the viewer asking to preserve the Baltic Sea.

The meeting was warm and useful and remembered by the participants of the project.

Еducational program "For Animal Safety in Smiltinе"

October 16, 2019 became memorable for the participants of the project and pupils of the 1b class. On this day they took part in the educational program "For Animal Safety in Smiltinе" - four cured seals were released in the Baltic Sea.

This spring, the Lithuanian Maritime Museum sheltered 16 weakened and wounded seals that were in a very difficult condition. The animals weighed no more than 13 kg and were effectively doomed to death. The released seals have special devices on them to monitor their movements.

Baltic grey seals are a rare endangered species listed in the red books of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Russia. These seals already live in the Baltic Sea for 10 000 years.

The Visiting AB “Klaipėdos vanduo” Dumpiai waste water treatment facility

The project participants visited AB “Klaipėdos vanduo” Dumpiai waste water treatment facility. They learned a lot of facts about the wastewater treatment plant.

This facility plays an important role in ensuring environmental protection of water bodies.

Living on the Baltic Sea coast, we care about its purity and try to learn as much as possible about how to protect it from the harmful effects of human activity.

 National Visitor center of Preserved areas of Lithuania

The final event for the project participants and other students of the gymnasium was a visit to the „National Visitor center of Preserved areas of Lithuania“ in the capital of our country Vilnius.

The purpose of the center is to interest visitors in the national and regional parks, protected species of plants and animals, features of the landscape, to encourage independent travel and to discover the natural wealth of our country.

The exposition is not only interesting in terms of content, but also surprising in terms of visual solutions. The visitor feels as if he is surrounded by nature: meadows, birds, grasshoppers around. You can imagine being on a meadow or in a forest.

Each guest can get acquainted with the system of protected areas. Not everyone knows that Lithuania has 5 national, 30 regional parks, 3 state natural and 2 cultural reserves, about 300 reserves, more than 500 state protected natural heritage sites.

Any visitor of the exhibition can become an active participant who can touch, listen and feel.

The knowledge of the nature of its homeland, its problems and ways of salvation is the responsibility of the young generation. And this is a great advantage of the international projects which give an opportunity to get acquainted with such an important topic and to learn a lot of new and useful things.

 Transnational Project Meeting

The final meeting on the project, which was attended only by teachers, took place in Berlin in early March 2020.

At this meeting, were summed up the results of the project, was started work on the preparation of the final report and were also discussed plans for the future. The results of the projects pleased all participants - pupils and teachers therefore he project participants decided to participate in the organization of the new project. This idea was made by the coordinators of the current project (Berlin).

The meeting was productive, warm and memorable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItjFVbCiJ74

Startuoja naujas projektas!

2016-2017 m.m. mūsų gimnazija vėl bus tarptautinės bendruomenės dalis, nes startuoja naujas NORDPLUS JUNIOR projektas „NORDIC DREAMS“. Šis projektas romantišku pavadinimu sujungė tris šalis, gyvenančias prie Baltijos jūros: Lietuvą, Latviją ir Daniją. „Aitvaro“ gimnazija – koordinuojanti institucija, mūsų partneriai: Riga Secondary School 71  (Latvia, Riga), Bjergsnaes Efterskolе (Denmark, Viborg).

Meilė Baltijos jūrai ir rūpestis ja, žmonių, gyvenančių prie Baltijos jūros, papročiai, tradicijos ir svajonės, ateities vizija – tokios temos bus gvildenamos per įvairias projektines veiklas.

Mes kviečiame prisijungti tuos, kurie nebijo darbo ir yra žingeidūs, mėgsta keliauti ir susitikti su naujais žmonėmis, nėra abejingi mus supančiai aplinkai ir gali dalintis savo nuomonėmis įvairiais klausimais, geba pristatyti savo šalį, miestą, gimnaziją partnerinėms institucijoms, turi galimybę priimti svečią savo namuose ir būti aktyvūs projekto metu.

Mes įsitikinę, kad mūsų laukia įdomios veiklos! Tad kviečiame Jus, gailėtis neteks

Projekto koordinatoriai mūsų gimnazijoje: Natalija Domnenko (002 kab.),
Diana Mineikienė (306 kab.)

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