European awareness

IES Pedro de Tolosa is getting more and more involved in international projects every year. Particularly, 2023-2024 has been a very busy school year as regards our Erasmus+ programs.

We have been taking part in VET Erasmus programs for a long time now and we are currently part of Erasmus+ consortiums programs as well as the DC_VET program involving Balkan countries. 

Our school is one of the European School Ambassadors. Different actions involving this project have been put into practice along the year. For instance, this week our students will be taking part in the Madrid sessions for MEU (Model of the European Parliament) simulating to be MEPs (Members of the European Parliament), representing their countries, taking decisions and creating alliances with other countries

From October 14/11/2023 to 19/11/2023 we celebrated Erasmus+ Days in our school. Several  activities were carried out: meetings where we could share our Erasmus+ projects with the whole of the School Community, by sharing our Erasmus+ experiences on the school televisions, posters in the foyer, through meetings with parents, etc.

We had different celebrations regarding Europe as well: 26/09/2023 we celebrated the Day of European Languages and on 09/05/2024 we celebrated Europe Day respectively.

Plenty of activities took place in our school during those days: In the classes we worked on the typical music and customs from each country and our students created presentations about this.

Students set up European Fairs with stands representing the different countries to make everyone at the school know about the culture, customs and traditions from every country. They created nice stalls with flags, leaflets with information to give in their corresponding stalls as well as making typical food from each country that we were so lucky to taste. 

We are actually located in a small country town, but we are slowly making our little local community fully aware of the European customs and traditions. We like to think we are contributing to open minds, wide horizons and change our town somehow in such a positive way endowing it with the best and most enriching European values.