La mobilità in Italia si ispira ai principi di Slow Food, l’organizzazione internazionale che si pone come obiettivo la
promozione del diritto a vivere il pasto innanzitutto come un piacere e che, pertanto, si impegna per la difesa della
biodiversità e per il contrasto al dilagare del fast food, del cibo spazzatura e delle abitudini frenetiche, non solo alimentari,
della vita moderna. (…)
Flash mob at the 9th High School of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki-Greece
An unforgettable experience!
In collaboration with all students of the 9th High School of Kalamaria without any preparation, just spontaneous!
One ordinary morning in October 2018 at school….. We wrote with our bags…
“SLOW DOWN”
Flash mob at the 9th High School of Kalamaria, October 2018, Thessaloniki-Greece
The “Slowing Down” Erasmus+ team of the 9th High School of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece, is organizing a Christmas Bazaar for a good cause!
In November 2019, teachers and students of the Erasmus+ team, participants in the Erasmus+ 2018-2020 project, under the name “Slowing down –a new face of European education”, came to the decision to organize a Christmas Bazaar for a good cause. The permission from the School Direction, followed by a lot of praise, was granted. And a time race began…
The whole team went into labour. What was the result? A very long bench, full with plenty of hand-made Christmas decorations and items, home-made cookies, second-hand books, CDs, DVDs and other things, at very low prices.
Schools and institutions from the region were invited to visit this Charity Bazaar. The students of our school spent the time of their breaks trying to decide which item to buy first, counting their money, asking to keep the item they liked for the next day. The magic spirit of Christmas was everywhere during the last week before Christmas Holidays! Almost everything was sold! The amount of money collected was fairly large.
The decision which organization or institute or association this sum of money to be given to was easy, as we had in mind the long-lived cooperation of our school with the Association of Parents and Friends of severely disabled and blind children, called “Syzoi”. A telephone call let the Board of Directors of “Syzoi” know about our wish to donate the collected sum to them. We fixed January 17th 2020 as the day of our meeting.
That day came! The students impatiently waited to enter the beautiful building that schools boys and girls of the same age. They were anxious to experience the tour and some activities the Board of Directors of “Syzoi” had promised by telephone. The sum of two-hundred and thirty (230) Euros was handed in, so that the “Syzoi” Direction is able to correspond to some of the numerous needs of their special school. Then, teachers and students of both schools made the tour, did the pre-fixed activities and shared deep and shaky feelings.
Once everything was completed, it was decided that another joint action among the students of both schools would be a beautiful experience for everyone. So, all teachers and students pledged to take a joint action in future.
A letter of thanks was officially sent to the 9th High School of Kalamaria for this action later on.
Erasmus + Slowing Down “Motivation plus, stress minus”
From 8 to 14 March 2020, the Agrupamento de Escolas Emídio Navarro (Portugal), host the ERASMUS+ SLOW DOWN training with the theme “Motivation plus, stress minus”.
During these days, the teachers had reflect and hold several workshops to try to find motivations and techniques that will allow us to face the times ahead with more optimism.