Report on the project meeting in Ioannina

The Blue Planet Comenius team at "Theogefyro" (God's Bridge)- Ioannina- Greece

Report on the project meeting in Ioannina (March 27-29, 2006) of “The Blue Planet Project” team

In this project meeting participated the following:
From Istituto Di Istruzione Superiore "Ugo Mursia"-Italy:
1. Guido Gambino, School Principal
2. Anna Taddeo,teacher
3. Giovanna Di Lemma, teacher
And two students
From Grupul Scolar Forestier-Rucar, Romania:
1. Ana Vorovenci, School Principal
2. Maria Vlaicu, teacher
3. Domnica Pestritu, teacher
4. Nicolae Popescu, teacher

And the Greek Comenius team.

The project meeting in Ioannina is a crucial one for the project as it had to be reorganized and new scopes to be put in the project, after the drop out of Swedish team from the project. In brief the program of the project meeting had a double aim to implement. As for the first scope we developed activities that continue the axis that already had put in the previous project meetings. So the Greek Comenius team worked on issues we had already implemented, but in their own point of view and sight.
We emphasized the involvement of new students, who, based on the work already done, developed their own tasks. This work was presented during the project meeting to the partners. An important part among these was the questionnaire about the domestic use of water on which we had a first approach of the results we had taken after a survey in the A’ Class of our school. We also exchanged results from the other schools that will be compared with ours in order to find similarities and differences.
We also presented the problem of the eutrophication in our lake that was accompanied with practical experimentation and use of chemicals measured it in specific time. We also included a tour on our lake in order to show the connection of our town history and legends with water (Ali- Pasha and Kyra Frossini legend).
We visited sites of natural interest as the unique natural river bridge “Theogefyro” of the Kalamas River and the wetlands of Lefkada. During our visit to Lefkada the importance of the sea and the naval tradition of our people, was emphasized with a visit to the famous Aristotelis Onassis’ island, Scorpios, where there is his tomb, and the sea resort of Nydri.
Important parameters of the project meeting was to show the tradition of Epirus, giving presentation of local dances to our guests, and trying to make our guest to know our area better as the visit to Zitsa village with the famous wine history.
In our project meeting the local authorities were present in our presentation as the Prefect of Ioannina and the local educational administration. We also cooperated with the Municipality of Zitsa and the Monastic Committee of Prophet Elias’ Monastery of Zitsa. The Municipality of Lefkada helped us by giving information on the wetlands of the island and their exploitation.
In our project meeting session we exchanged ideas about the next steps of our project. The Italian partners informed us partners about their work on the alimentary value of water and their work on this issue. The Romanian ones informed us about their plan to organize an exhibition of paintings. Also they proposed to work on water legislation. A common decision is to compare the different systems of bill payment in our countries in comparison with the legislation and rules of the EU. The Italians also intend to implement the sub-project “Itineraries of water” that will be presented in the next project meeting.
We also talked about the final product. As the Greek team announced, the most part of the web site is already finished and it has to be completed with the new material that has been collected this year. The site is hosted in the 8th Unified Lyceum of Ioannina web space in the address: 8lyk-ioann.ioa.sch.gr/bpp . We also continue to update our project blog and web magazine in the addresses: theblueplanetproject.blogspot.com and www.webzinemaker.com/blueplanet. A CDROM including the whole site was given to the partners in order to host in a convenient space of their schools.
We decided to make a CDROM with all the most important material collected that it will be the final product of our project.
In all phases of the project meeting the students participated actively, either implementing experimentation and giving and accepting information, or hosting foreign students.
In conclusion we could say that in this project meeting we renewed our partnership and, reaching to the end of a three year’s effort we think that most of our scopes posed at the beginning of the project were achieved, even if our project had many difficulties to overcome.
The next project meeting will be held on the 8th of May, 2006 in Italy.





The Greek Comenius team