Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 15
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------eTwinning Anniversary Workshop – 10 years
of school partnerships in Europe
by Cristina Nicolăiţă and Carmen Nicolăiţă
Project "Healthy & Happy" - Cristina Nicolaita "Gh.
Magheru" School Caracal
On April 25, 2015, an eTwinning workshop was held
in School "Michael the Brave ", Targoviste. On May
7th, 2015, we all celebrated 10 years of eTwinning
implemented at European level. In our country,
Romania, eTwinning is implemented starting
October 2007.
The purpose of the event was to promote examples
of successful projects and exchange of ideas,
practice and experience among teachers .The
workshop was an associated event to the
Symposium " Key competences , the foundation of
personal development ", organized by the
Secondary School " Michael the Brave " Targoviste,
Dambovita Teacher Training House and School
Inspectorate Dambovita County.
The presenters of the workshop were:
8 years of eTwinning in Romania
Alexandra Bunica, Institute of Education Sciences National Centre eTwinning Romania
Presentations of best practices eTwinning
- Project "Healthy & Happy" - Cristina Nicolaita,
"Gh. Magheru" School, Caracal
- Project "Tweaster" - Carmen Nicolaita, National
College "Ionita Asan", Caracal
- Project "MAVEN" - Mariana Radulescu, "Liviu
Rebreanu" School, Mioveni
The project is about healthy food habits, healthy
lifestyles and physical activities in childhood. We'd
like to improve the awareness of healthy life habits
in childhood, prevent immediate and long –term
effects of overweight in the future and research the
effects of hormones food.
The expected results were: *to be aware of the
differences and the similarities between the partner
schools’ traditional and local meals. *to increase
the awareness of our students, colleagues and
families including them into the Project activities
*to learn and to share healthy lifestyle habits in
partner countries *to grow organic food with
students *to have the opportunity to change
school’s and the families’ point of view on healthy
eating habits *to create a website to share the
activities, works and meetings carried out by the
partners in their own schools. *to prevent the
immediate and long-term health effects of obesity
in childhood *to improve the aware