Invitation to Germany

Dear Comenius participants,

Our topic for the days from the 25th/26th to the 30th of October 2014 is “Environment and Sustainability”.

We’ll visit the “Ruhrgebiet”, the Ruhr area, to see German power stations and big companies and from there we’ll also go on a short trip to the centre of Cologne. Furthermore we’ll visit the German energy provider “RWE”.

Of course we’ll also do some work at school and for our final discussion on Wednesday we’ve invited a very special guest.

On the last evening (Wednesday) there will be a European evening: everybody of you is invited to cook or bring something that is typical for your country. So if you want you can bring something for that evening, but perhaps you can also ask your host family to buy something in a supermarket.

Here in Germany it is most of the time really rainy and a little bit cold at the end of October, so it would be better not to forget water-proof clothes. But sometimes it can also be still sunny and nice. We’ll see!

We Germans are really pleased to welcome you here in Rees!

Many greetings from Germany and we are looking forward to seeing you soon!

Norwegian articles

Collection of newspaper articles about Democracy and Freedom from Norwegian students:

•  Kirken vil fortsatt ikke vie homofile (source)
•  Kina tilfreds med norsk nei til Dalai Lama (source)
•  Dette er verdens mest demokratiske land (source)
•  Ytringsfrihet og demokrati er Norges viktigste verdier (source)

Polish articles

Collection of newspaper articles about Democracy and Freedom from Polish students:

•  A point of view: Is democracy overrated? (source)
•  Europe is slowly strangling the life out of national democracy
  (source)
•  Poland's boring election should be a lesson for Europe
  (source)
•  Capitalism vs democracy
  (source)
•  Marking 30 years of Solidarity, Poland Revives push for democracy (source)

Spanish articles

Collection of newspaper articles about Democracy and Freedom from Spanish students:

• Ukraine implicates ex-president and Russia in protesters' deaths (source)
• In a first for Spain, a woman is convicted of inciting terror over Twitter. (source)
• Should it be legal for politicians to lie? (source): Just until the end of the fourth paragraph (iniative)
• Global security policy will "roll back freedom", says report (source)
• Turkey Lifts Twitter Ban After Court Calls It Illegal (source)
• Authorities 'ready to ensure free, fair elections' (source)
• Russia: New Attack on Freedom of Assembly (source): Just until "imprisonment" in the second paragraph.
• El referéndum de independencia de Escocia se celebrará el 18 de septiembre (The Scottish independence referendum will take place on 18 September) (source): Just the first paragraph.
• ¿Democracia europea? (European Democracy??)(source) (English source)
• What happened to Sterling was morally wrong (source)
 

 

German articles

Collection of newspaper articles about Democracy and Freedom from German students:

• 400.000.000 Europäer haben die Wahl (400.000.000 European have got the choice)  (source)
• Europa braucht eine echte Opposition (Europe needs a real opposition) (source)
• "Die Diskriminierung ist teilweise dramatisch" ("The discrimination is partially dramatic") (source)
• Ein Hoch auf die Freiheit (Cheers for the freedom) (source)
• Hat die Diplomatie schon verloren? (Has diplomacy already shed?) (source)
• Türkei: Chef des Verfassungsgerichts rügt Erdogan. (Turkey: Boss of the constitutional court admonishes Erdogan) (source)
• What’s gone wrong with democracy? (source)
• It’s Time For Social-Democracy To Exit The Twentieth Century (source)  
• Homosexualität: Für die meisten ist die Schulzeit die Hölle (Homosexuality: For the most school time is the hell) (source)
• Europa und die Demokratie (Europe and democracy) (source) 
• TÜRKEI: MEINUNGSFREIHEIT STARK EINGESCHRÄNKT! (TURKEY: LIMITED FREEDOM OF OPINION) (source) 
• Gegner an allen Fronten (Opponents at all fronts) (source)

Dutch articles

Collection of newspaper articles about Democracy and Freedom from Dutch students:

• Asscher's contract should be two-way street (source)
• Geert Wilders to take legal action against rapper over video (source)
• New York bans Dutch girls on bicycles wearing skirts (source)
• An abuse of freedom? (source)
• Dutch Xenophobe Geert Wilders Echoes Goebbels’ Infamous 1943 Speech (source)
• Satisfaction with democracy remains high in the Netherlands (source)
• Personal Freedom and Personal Responsability (source)
• True Freedom (source)
• The Common Ground of Peace and Democracy (source)
• Democracy: A Social Power Analysis (source)

Oslo meeting

Dear Comenius friends
 
We have the honor to invite you to the 3rd meeting in Comenius LiVE at Nesodden, a peninsula in the Oslo fjord. The topic for the meeting is democracy and freedom.

Dates: 6th to 10th of May

Activities: Comenius activities, excursions, picnic, museums, a walk in the Norwegian forest, swimming for the brave (10 degrees C).

Please remember to bring:

• Comfortable shoes
• Comfortable (and warm) clothes. The weather is unpredictable. No formal clothing needed.
• Hopefully, you will need some sunscreen protection

We look forward to seeing you!

Task for Oslo

Use Facebook to fill in the following information:

Find out	Answer
How the country is governed (republic/monarchy)
Political party/parties that is/are in charge
Voter turnout in the last general election
At what age you are allowed to vote
In which year both men and women were allowed to vote
To what extent is freedom of speech limited

Pattern:

• The Netherlands researching Germany
• Germany researching Poland
• Poland researching Spain
• Spain researching Norway
• Norway researching the Netherlands

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Live!

Invitation

This is to invite all partner schools to the 2nd meeting of LIVE, the 1st meeting in Alicante for the Comenius Multilateral Project. It will be held at IES María Blasco, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain.


These are some data to be taken into account:

• Dates: March 24th to 26th
• Activities planned: school reception, Comenius activities, field trips and excursions, international dinner and University and Company visit.

You shouldn't forget:

• Comfortable clothes.
• Sunscreen protection.
• A typical dish from your country for the international dinner (we will have no kitchen).

During the meeting the partners will work on Youth Market and unemployment of the project agenda.

We are very excited to meet you.
We can't wait. Bring your enthusiasm and  we will have a great time.
Love.