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The Blue Planet Project

This blog has been created to disseminate the information we collect during the activities of the Comenius project: "The Blue Planet: WATER, resource and symbol of the past, the present and the future". This project is funded by the European Community and its duration is 3 years (2003-2006).

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Friday, March 31, 2006

Program of the Project meeting in Ioannina


COMENIUS PROJECT “The Blue Planet”

Program of the project meeting in Ioannina, Greece (March 27 to 29, 2006)


Sunday March 26th

Attendees’ arrival. Accommodation to the hotel.
21.00 Dinner at a tavern.

Monday March 27th

8.15 Welcome ceremony at school
9.00 Presentation of the student’s work on water.
10.15 Coffee Break
10. 30 Information about the chemical methods of water quality measurement by the teacher Stergios Nastopoulos. -Recording of an interview of the attendees for the local radio in the school studio.
11.30 app. Departure to the lake coast and practice on water quality chemical methods. Visit to the old Turkish Mosque “Aslan Pasha”, where there is the Municipal Museum of the Turkish Period of the town.
14.00 Lunch at a tavern by the lake
15.30 app. Cruise on the lake. Guided tour of the worth seeings of the lake.
18.00 Return to the hotel
20.30 Musical presentation by the students with modern and traditional dances
10.00 Dinner at school

Tuesday March 28th

8.15 Departure from the hotel to school
8.30 Departure to Kalamas River and the unique physical bridge “Theogefyro” (God’s Bridge). Visit to the village of Zitsa. Information about the local history and the important wine tradition of the area. Visit to a local wine factory. Visit to the Prophet Elias’ Monastery, historical site, where Lord Byron had stayed for a while and here had inspired and started the poem “Child Harold” (1809). Lunch at a tavern.
13.30 Departure to Ioannina.
15.00 Free afternoon for shopping, tour around or visit to the lake island.
20.30 Project meeting session
21.30 Dinner at a tavern.

Wednesday March 29th
8.15 Departure from the hotel to school
8.30 Departure to Lefkada Island
10.30 app. Arrival at the island.
Guided tour and information about the wetlands there by the specialist Mr. Angelos Papadopoulos. Visit to the Archeological Collection of the island, important for the findings of the famous Arcaeologist Dornfeld, who have concluded that the home island of Ulysses was there.Visit to Nydri, a famous sea resort, opposite to Aristotle Onassis island, Scorpios, where there is his tomb. Cruise around Scorpios island.
13.00-14.00 Lunch at Nydri
17.00 Departure to Ioannina, arrival and return to the hotel
21.00 Farewell dinner at a local tavern.

Thursday March 30th

Departure of the attendees

Friday, March 10, 2006

New Project Meeting

A view of Ioannina, the lake and the castle

Our project is running the third year now and we are preparing for the next project meeting in Ioannina for March 27-29, 2006. All we are anxious and wait this project meeting to arrange the final products details, to talk about the goals achieved so far, and for some colleagues to visit for the first time local sites concerning our study subject. And most of all to strengthen our friendship built during these 3 years.