1St Training of Students and Teachers – Erasmus+ Program – Geoparks of Europe

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Saint John’s High School (Lykeio Agiou Ioanni) Limassol, CYPRUS ERASMUS PLUS PROGRAM: GEOPARKS - NATURAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE THAT JOINS EUROPEAN STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, 2018-1-PL01-KA229-050575 C1: TRAINING FOR STUDENTS IN CYPRUS (Short Term Exchange of groups of pupils) Contents Final report of the training according to Daily Program ...... 2 4th of November – 8th of November 2018 ...... 2 Monday Morning first day of Seminar in Cyprus ...... 3 Monday Evening 5th of December 2018 – Cyprus Night ...... 13 Tuesday 6th of November 2018 (Troodos Geopark and Caledonia Trail in Troodos) ...... 18 Troodos Geopark Visitors Center ...... 18 Caledonia Waterfall Nature Trail ...... 20 Tuesday Evening – International night...... 23 Wednesday 7th of November last day of the training...... 28 Students Program ...... 28 Teachers program ...... 30 Closing Ceremony students and teachers in Library – Wednesday 7th of November 2018 – Library Lyceum of Agios Ioannis...... 33 Giving the prices to the winners of the photo contest ...... 34 Giving the certificates to the participants from all countries from our director. Group photos ...... 35 Polish team of students and teachers ...... 35 Farewell Party in a traditional tavern in Limassol (Wednesday night, last night of our meeting) ...... 39 Thanks ...... 42 Appendix 1: Catalogue of teacher and students in Cyprus team of Erasmus Plus Program. In the catalogue you can find emails phones of teachers, students and legal guardian of the students...... 43 Appendix 2: Catalogue of participants teachers from partners countries of first seminar of Erasmus Plus Program. In the catalogue you can find emails schools and signs of the participants teachers...... 44 Appendix 3: Catalogue of participants students from partners countries of first seminar of Erasmus Plus Program. In the catalogue you can find emails schools and signs of the participants students...... 45 Appendix 4: Analytical program of the seminar that been in Cyprus from 4 till 8 of November 2018...... 46

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Final report of the training according to Daily Program 4th of November – 8th of November 2018

From the 4th of November 2018 until the 8th of the same month, the first seminar of the Erasmus Plus “Geoparks – Natural and Cultural Heritage that Joins European Students and Teachers”, took place in Limassol and was organised by a group of teachers and students from Saint John High School (In appendix 1 you will find all the teachers and students of Cyprus team that participated in the seminar and they are also participating in the whole program for the next 2 years). In the first seminar of the program 10 teachers took part (In appendix 2 you will find all the teachers of the program that they participated in the seminar with their signatures) from partners countries of the program and 15 students (In appendix 2 you will find all the teachers of the program that they participated in the seminar with their signatures). In the program participated the following teachers and students according to their country: From Poland: Mrs Magdalena Szewczyk and Mr Grzegorz Oleś and the students Agata Lech, Teresa Solecka, Dominika Szwabowicz From Bulgaria: Mrs Iva Paneva and Viliana Mladenova and the students Desislava Veselinova Vasileva, Radostina Nikolaeva Markova, Murtaza Sali Yashar From Spain: Mr Diego Gea Pérez and Mrs Cristina Lizarán Campos and the students María López González, Antonio Giner Reina, Paula López Ayén. From France (Guadalupe island in Caribbean Sea): Mr Olivier Broutin and Mrs Ludmilla Ellapin and the students Anne Laure Firmiez, Solane Desplan, Anaïs Cailloux From Hungary: Mrs Marianna Lieb and Mrs Katalin Erzsébet Böröndi and the students Bálint Frányó, Rebeka Ráhel Nagy, László András Pallós.

Also, from each country the participating schools were: 1. Salezjanskie Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace (Wroclaw, Poland), 2. Lykeio Agiou Ioanni (Limassol, Cyprus), 3. Private Trade School "Konto Trade" Ltd (Varna, Bulgaria), 4. Instituto De Ensenanza Secundaria Jose Marin (Velez Rubio, Spain), 5. Kaposvári Munkácsy Mihály Gimnázium (Kaposvar, Hungury), 6. Lycée Polyvalent de Pointe Noire (Pointe Noire, Guadalupe, France).

Our partners arrived at Cyprus on Sunday 4th of November 2018, and families of the students from Cyprus were expecting them to be hosted. We must mention at this point, that all students from partner

1ST TRAINING OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS – ERASMUS+ PROGRAM – GEOPARKS OF EUROPE – NOVEMBER 2018 countries were hosted to families of the students from Cyprus team, so as to be able to learn more about the culture and the way of life of Cypriot students. The purpose of the hosting by Cypriot families aimed to give the chance to the partner participants to know more about other cultures and experience the daily habits and way of living of the Cypriot students.

The actual training program began the next day on Monday 5th of November 2019 and continued till Wednesday 7th of November. From now on the report will be presented day by day in order to have all the information of the seminar gathered together. The program of each day will be distinguished by the different activities of students and discussion for the teachers. In Appendix 4 you can find the whole program of the meeting day by day.

Monday Morning first day of Seminar in Cyprus The students from partners countries arrived at Agios Ioannis Lyceum at 7.30 in the morning with their hosting students and they had their first activity. It was an ice breaking acquittance game in order to know each other names and also to learn few things about participant country. The activity was performed with the aid of a ball, as it is described in the photo, with a small variance, allowing the students to say their name and their country, and if the ball was passing to them for a second time, to say some more information about themselves or anything that the the other participants wanted to learn. After this ice breaking activity, we randomly formed our teams, giving them precise instructions of what was anticipated from them in order for them to know what they had to do in the following days of the seminar. 8 teams of students were created with approximately 4 students in each team and 2 teams with 3 students (all students that they were taking part in the seminar were 30 so 2 teams had 3 students). In each team one theme was given (as it was written in the program) which they had present in our last meeting of the seminar. The themes given to each team was: 1. Troodos Unesco Global Geopark 2. Geopark Troodos: A historical review of Cyprus 3. Vein and volcano stones in Troodos

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4. Geology in Cyprus Geopark of Troodos 5. Fauna and Flora in Troodos 6. Our experience in Geopark of Troodos 7. Erasmus Plus Program – meeting in Cyprus – Our experience 8. Culture in Cyprus what we like and what we didn’t like

After the first ice breaking activity, the formation of the teams, the instructions regarding their presenting theme , the analysation of the photo contest regulations and the rock designing activity, the general presentation of the seminars schedule was introduced and explained to all the students. Then the students went to see experiments in Chemistry and Physics laboratories that were connected with Geochemistry and chemical reaction. In Chemistry the experiments introduced the students to earth and ground reactions and in Physics they saw and participated in experiments regarding the circular momentum and spinning of a body, physical phenomena that we have in earth due to circular motion of the earth every 24 hours.

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The partner Teachers arrived at school, where Cypriot students and teachers of our school welcomed them with traditional uniforms, drinks and sweets from our country. Host school organized a welcoming to the teachers, offering them coumandaria (traditional sweet liqueur of wine), zivania (strong drink from distillation of grapes), chiromeri (Cyprus traditional smoked pork), soutziouko and loukoumi(traditional Cyprus sweets) and almond nuts, showing by this way our hospitality to our guests.

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After the welcoming they had a brief meeting with the students as they were in the physics laboratory classroom and then a tour in the school, where they saw all students participating in the program performing their activities. After that there was meeting with the director of our school. In the meeting they discussed about the program and our educational system in Cyprus and of course about the other educational systems of their countries.

At 09.30 we had the Initial Project Meeting for students and teachers in the Library of Agios Ioannis Lyceum. In the first meeting a ceremony was organized with welcoming speeches from Mr. Nikolas Nikolaou, coordinator of Cyprus team and organizing committee of the Seminar, where he introduced all the participants from the partners countries and all Cyprus team to all participants, Mrs Sylvia Oikonomidou, the Director of the school, where she

1ST TRAINING OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS – ERASMUS+ PROGRAM – GEOPARKS OF EUROPE – NOVEMBER 2018 emphasized the willing of the school to participate in such Erasmus plus and other scientific programs, from Nikolas Toumbas, the president of our students Association, where he emphasized the fact that students who are participating in Erasmus Plus programs are getting experiences that they will remember for their whole life, except from the education abilities that they will obtain from their participation. Also welcoming speeches were given from Mr. Kyriakos Nikiforou, the President of the Parent’s Association of Agios Ioannis Lyceum and also the president of the association of all parents associations of whole Cyprus. Mr Nikiforou emphasized in the fact that all parents association are next to the teachers and students that they are participating in these project. Also a welcoming speech was given by Mr. Ioannis Efthimiou, General Inspector of all schools in Limassol who emphasized in educational values that students and teachers are getting from their participation in Erasmus plus programs and last but not least, Mrs Magdalena Szewczyk, General Coordinator of the Geoparks Erasmus Plus Program, addressed the opening ceremony of the program, where she explained the main aims of the program and the expected educational values that students and teacher will have after the ending of our Erasmus Plus program.

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After the welcoming speeches participating schools represented their schools and their town in small films and Power Point presentations. Participating students of the partners countries prepared and showed us presentations their schools and their countries.

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After the presentations we had a half an hour coffee break with some sweets and snacks and after the break Dr Efthimios Tsiolakis made a presentation about the Geopark of Troodos giving us one first view of the whole science that is involved in a geopark. Generally, we learned about Troodos Geological Treasure from photos and explanations of the representation.

Troodos Geological Treasure (http://www.troodos-geo.org/cgibin/hweb?-A=177&-V=troodos) The Troodos mountain range is an ophiolite, a term used to describe a group of igneous rocks which make up the oceanic crust. Troodos is part of a very ancient section of oceanic crust which was uplifted to its present position due to the collision of the African and Eurasian Tectonic Plates and the subduction of the former beneath the latter. It is considered the most complete and best-studied ophiolite in the world. On Troodos one finds all the groups of ophiolite rocks, consisting of the following stratigraphic units, in ascending order: (a) Mantle sequence and cumulates (b) Plutonic rocks (c) Intrusives (d) Volcanics and pillow lava flows (e) Chemical sediments such as umber The Troodos ophiolite is oval-shaped, its longer axis having a NW-SE orientation. The mountain range is dome-shaped with Mount Olympus as its highest point (1,952m). Although stratigraphically, the ultramafic plutonic rocks are the lowest, topographically they are found at the highest point of the mountain range with progressive outcroppings by the overlying layers, forming an annular shape, the result of the intense erosion that followed the uplifting of Troodos above sea level, with Mount Olympus at its epicentre. A magnet to researchers from all over the world Due to its global uniqueness, Troodos acts as an incomparable magnet for the many foreign universities that visit it regularly for the purposes of scientific research and education. Throughout the entire area of the Geopark there are superb examples of all the ophiolite rocks where researchers and students can examine, study and observe all the geological processes that have occurred and are still occurring in the depths of the oceans and are directly linked to the movement of the tectonic plates.

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After the initial opening ceremony, students had a laboratory lesson in pottery, to understand how we can make pots and generally solids, from soil and water in the Laboratory of Arts of our school. After the last activity in arts, the students went to the hosting homes till our night activity which was Cyprus night at school.

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Teachers from partners countries and Cyprus had a meeting, where they decided about the dates of our next meetings and seminars and the others activities of the program. The teachers decided the following dates for the following trainings: C2 Training for students and teachers: The training will be in Velez Rubio, Spain from 8 to 12 of April 2019 and it will be organised from Instituto De Ensenanza Secundaria Jose Marin. C3 Training for students and teachers: The training will be in Varna Bulgaria 3 to 7 of June 2019 and it will be organised from Private Trade School "Konto Trade" Ltd C4 Training for students and teachers: The training will be in Kaposvar, Hungary from 30 of September till 4 of October 2019 and it will be organised from Kaposvári Munkácsy Mihály Gimnázium C6 Training for students and teachers: The training will be in Pointe Noire, Guadalupe, 20 to 25 of January 2020 and it will be organised from Lycée Polyvalent de Pointe Noire C5 Training for staff: The training will be in Velez Rubio, Spain from 13 to 17 of April 2020 and it will be organised from Instituto De Ensenanza Secundaria Jose Marin C7 Training for students and teachers: The training will be in Wroclaw, Poland from 1 to 5 of June 2020 and it will be organised from Salezjanskie Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace All the decisions where taken on the last Wednesday meeting in our morning session, due to the fact that our partners from Guadalupe were not present from the beginning of the program due to a problem in their flights. So, final dates for the seminars are the dates that were given here, after the final discussion that we had with all partners. After our last meeting of the day we finished our morning session with a lunch in Lyceum from Agios Ioannis and teachers went to the hotel to rest.

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Monday Evening 5th of December 2018 – Cyprus Night Teachers of the Cyprus Team with the help of parents of the students of Cyprus team, prepared a special Cyprus Menu for the welcoming dinner and our Cyprus night for our partners. The menu had a lot of traditional dishes as are described in this report for our Cyprus night. Menu of the night 1. Souvla with pork meat “Souvla” is one of the most popular dishes in Cyprus. The preparation and cooking of souvla is usually a man’s job, women have to set the table and prepare the salad. Similar in look to souvlaki but different in taste is souvla, comprising large chunks of meat slow-cooked on a large skewer over a charcoal barbeque, called foukou in Greek. The meat is neck and shoulder of either pork, lamb, or chicken. This food is seen as the king of meat dishes in Cypriot cuisine, as it’s very common that a group of friends gather to cook souvla, while drinking beer, snacking and chatting as it takes a good hour or two. It’s a popular meal eaten on Easter Sunday to celebrate the end of fasting and can be accompanied with a range of other dishes, usually potatoes and salads.

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2. Halloumi Halloumi is probably Cyprus’ most famous product, with its popularity extending to many countries throughout Europe and the Middle East. Distinguishable by its mild salty flavour and rubbery texture, the delicacy has become a favourite for chefs across the globe, appearing in dishes as diverse as lamb roast and halloumi fries. The cheese is produced by combining a mixture of goats and sheep milk, before being set with rennet. This is an unusual practice due to the absence of acid- producing bacteria in any part of the process, a standard for most dairy products. Halloumi’s high melting point means it can be easily fried or grilled or served cold alongside freshly sliced watermelon; the perfect summer dinner.

3. Koupepia (stuffed vine leaves) and gemista The Cypriot variety of the dolma uses minced meat, rice, onions, tomatoes and a mixture of herbs. This filling is then carefully wrapped in fresh vine leaves. A village favourite, this dish can be found commonly throughout Greece, Turkey and the Middle East. Koupepia are usually made in large batches and can be frozen to be enjoyed at a later time – the dish is in every Cypriot grandmother’s menu. The stuffing of vegetables, called gemista, is a Cypriot tradition which extends beyond vine leaves, with peppers, tomatoes, onions, courgettes and even courgette flowers often being cooked in this manner.

4. Makaronia tou fournou Popularly known in Greece as pastitsio, the Cypriot version differs for its use of cheese, which is no other than halloumi, sprinkled with dry mint. Large pasta tubes, béchamel sauce and a tomato-y minced pork are the main ingredients used. Thin curls of cheese are often sprinkled on the top to give it a crispy crunch. The dish is usually prepared in a large oven pan. When served as a main dish, this Cypriot delicacy usually comes with a side of salad.

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5. Cypriot keftedes, Patates tou Fournou and Salad Meatballs are traditional in almost all cuisines around the world. I have to apologise to everyone though as Cypriot meatballs - keftedes- are the best haha! I mean come on! To those that have tried them you know what I am talking about and to those that haven’t then this is a great opportunity to understand what I mean. It’s an easy recipe and the ingredients are quite basic but the taste and texture are out of this world. The only downfall is the time they take to be fried but hey the taste makes up for that.

6. Sweets “Daktyla” aka Ladies Fingers and Pourekia The name of this dessert is a bit weird. It’s not a Halloween recipe, but it sure sounds it. “Daktila” is a type of Cypriot dessert. Imagine baklava fried in pastry dough and then drenched with syrup, and that’s basically what you have with this dessert. People can choose to make the syrup different ways, with orange blossom water, and with rose water. This recipe though is a very classic syrup, using cinnamon and orange rind, and uses a decent amount of cinnamon in the nut mixture to add some flavor. So, it is very “baklava” in taste. The dessert is typically enjoyed as a sweet with Greek coffee. They are quite addictive, and usually end up eating about 5 in one go. They are very sweet, and biting into one and tasting the syrup, which means these are usually good soon after they are made before the pastry becomes dry.

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Traditional dances and music On our traditional night festivity our partners had the chance to see Cypriot students performing traditional dances and music from Cyprus as you can see in the following photos. All partners, students and teachers danced in Cypriot rhythms and music. Our school band played live music and also we had all students that they were hosting partners students to dance traditional dances.

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Tuesday 6th of November 2018 (Troodos Geopark and Caledonia Trail in Troodos) Our scheduled program for Tuesday included a visit in Geopark of Troodos with guided tour in Geopark Visitors Center.

Troodos Geopark Visitors Center The Troodos Geopark (an area of 1.147 km2) Visitor Centre is located in the old Asbestos mine (Amiantos mine), an area with enormous historical value which now hosts an extraordinary botanical garden with information about the flora of the area, a seed bank of endemic species and also a plethora of evidence for the past mining activity and the community which once flourished there. The Geopark Visitor Centre is situated in the newly restored elementary school of the abandoned asbestos mine. The building is an impressive listed structure and an example of fine architecture with historic characteristics and features such as its fireplaces, one in every room, and a beautiful internal yard.

At the entrance of the Geopark Visitor Centre the visitors are welcomed by an amazing geological garden consisting of all the rock types encountered in the area, in stratigraphic order, representing the Troodos ophiolite sequence. An outdoor classroom is operated in the garden of the centre, where interactive lessons and demonstrations are delivered to visiting students and the general public. Impressive rocks and minerals, a moquette of the geology of the area, depicting sites of geological importance and interest (faults, mines, geo-trails, etc.), informational panels and a conference room where the visitor can watch documentaries, of the significance of the geology of the Troodos mountain range are only some of the exhibits in the visitor centre.

The Geopark Visitor Centre also hosts exhibits of the abandoned Asbestos and Chromite mines, representations of an ancient pyro-metallurgical furnace for the production of copper and a gallery of the last century for the exploitation of sulphate deposits.

Finally, on the way out, a shop gives the opportunity to the visitor to buy handcrafted art products and other geo-products, made by raw materials encountered in the Troodos area, as well as an eco-tourism guide and the Troodos documentary movie.

We are confident, that a visit at the Geopark Visitor Centre will be an interesting educational journey for the visitor providing an inside to the geological uniqueness of the Troodos area, the most complete piece of oceanic crust on earth. Troodos has been and still is the scientific inspiration of geoscientists from all over the

1ST TRAINING OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS – ERASMUS+ PROGRAM – GEOPARKS OF EUROPE – NOVEMBER 2018 world enlightening them of the geological processes that are taking place in the depths of the recent oceans and the formation of new oceanic crust. In the Visitors Centre we had arranged a 2-hour activity program. Students and teachers had the chance to do activities such as: • Learning about the Geopark and the land that formed 93 million years ago at the bottom of the Ocean. • Learning about Troodos Geoparks minerals, Troodos Ophiolite and mines • Learning activity with magnifying glasses and Geological tools • Being a geologist for one day. All activities were done with the aid of the Geologist expert Mrs Konstantina Theofylaktou (Visitor Centre of Geopark)

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Caledonia Waterfall Nature Trail After our visit in Visitors Centre, our program included a sightseeing walk in the Caledonia Waterfalls Trail in Troodos mountain. Departure for Caledonia nature trail, walking to the path from Starting point to the end (approximately 1,5 hour). There, we executed the Photo Contest among all Students from the project with the theme: “Water and Nature Life (Biodiversity) in Cyprus, a different view of Cyprus !!!”, the winners of the contest will receive presents from Cyprus Team (3 winners with the best photos, each participant must pick only 2 photos of all photos that will represent them in the contest, that will take place Wednesday morning in ICT classroom with all students and teachers of the program). All the students had to took photos for our photo contest in Wednesday activities and also to pick their own small rock so to be designed next day in our art activity.

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After the walking in Nature trail and the taking of the pictures for the Photo Contest, we had an enjoyable lunch in a traditional restaurant in Pelendri village a few kilometres from the Nature trail.After lunch we departed to Limassol and arrived approximately at 5 o clock in the evening and after 2-3 hour of resting we had our evening activity which it was our international night in the Lyceum of Agios Ioannis.

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Tuesday Evening – International night During our International night our partners from Poland, Hungary, Guadalupe, Bulgaria and Spain prepared for all partners a nice evening with traditional foods, sweets, drinks and they showed us their traditional music and dances. All partners dance in rhythms of Poland, Bulgarian, France (Guadalupe), Spain and Hungary as you can see in the following photos.

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Wednesday 7th of November last day of the training. On the third day of our seminar there was a separation of activities for students and teachers. Everybody had to do a lot of work about the seminar and the teachers had to decide the form of the activities which will follow after the first seminar in Cyprus. The aim was for all partners to be prepared for the following seminars as hosts and to prepare activities in their schools for students according to the aims of the program. Students Program Students arrived early in the morning at 07:30 with hosting students from Cyprus because they had 3 activities to do. The first activity was to distinguish their 2 best photos taken the previous day so as to be able to take part in the photo contest. Students went in an ICT classroom and they used computers so as to have better view of their photos, process them in their way and to decide which they wanted to compete with. Then the teachers group received 50 photos from all participants students to vote for the winners. The photos were anonymous to the teachers. The voting results from the photo contest were announced to the students they were placed in winning order. The winning photos in the photo contest of Caledonia nature trail received a small present from the organised committee of the seminar. Photos and results of the photo contest 1st place (Anaïs Cailloux, Guadelupe) 2nd place (Stephani Ioannou, Cyprus) 6th place (Rodoula Theoti, Cyprus)

4th place (Rafaelia Koumoudiou, Cyprus) 5th place (Rafaelia Koumoudiou, Cyprus) 3rd place (László András Pallós, Hungary)

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All photos were good and when the director of Lyceum Agios Ioannis saw the winning photos asked from the coordinator of Erasmus program to organise a photo exhibition in our school with all photos of the contest. So, at the end a Photo Exhibition will be done in Lyceum in Cyprus including all the photos that took part in photo competition of the students. In the photos you can see the winning photos of our contest with the names of the students that they got first prices.

After their first activity students went to art classroom for their second activity which was to design their own rocks that they pick from Troodos mountain so as to have memories of our seminar and also to be creative and to show their artistic talent. The theme of the designing was of course the Troodos mountain and things that gave them inspiration about the whole training during the program. In the photos that are followed you can see some of the rocks that students designed in this activity.

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Students after they finish with their second activity, they went to ICT classroom for another one and half hour to prepare their presentation in team work as the teams were created in the first day of our seminar. Each group of students had to prepare a different presentation in themes that were given. Students had to prepare 5 minutes presentations. Teachers program Same time on Wednesday that students were making the above activities, teachers had to decide a lot of themes about the whole project. Teachers had a meeting in the library of the school for more than 3 hours and through this meeting, a presentation of the webpage of the program was done from general coordinator of the program, Mrs Magdalena Szewczyk (the link of the webpage of the program http://www.geoparks.erasmusproject.eu/). Also, in this meeting we voted for the photo competition that we had among the students who participated in the seminar. Teachers had to choose amongst 50 wonderful photos (in our school we will publish a diary with this photos for next year and also we will do a photo exhibition from all the photos of the contest) a work that it was difficult and hard due to the fact that at the end we had 4 voting’s due to same number of votes. In the following table you can see the voting of the 10 participant teachers from partners countries (teachers from Cyprus didn’t vote due to the fact that they prepared the competition and they knew about the owners of the photos)

Table 1: Voting from 10 participants students from partners countries about the photo contest of the participants students. Each teacher in first voting had to choose 3 photos and on the other voting’s only one. Photos 1st Voting 2nd Voting 3rd voting 4th voting Final 6 111111 (6) 1st place from 1st voting 20 11111 (5) 2nd place from 1st voting 47 1111 (4) 3rd place from 1st voting 5 11 (2) 11 (2) 111 (3) 111 (3) 43 11 (2) 4 11 (2) 1 (1) 29 11 (2) 42 11 (2) 11 (2) 1111 (4) 5th place from 3rd voting 41 11 (2) 111 (3) 4th place from 2nd voting 43 1 (1) 11 (2) 111 (3) 1111111 6th place from 4th voting 25 1 (1) 8 1 (1) Total 30 votes 10 votes 10 votes 10 votes

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Also, in this final meeting of the participant teachers we mentioned and decided the following aspects about our following work of the program: • An evaluation Survey will be given to all participants after each meeting so as to have the results of the evaluation of each meeting in the webpage of the program. The evaluation survey must be completed from all participant students and teachers in each meeting and it will be prepared by the general coordinator of the program Mrs Magdalena Szewczyk from Poland. • Mrs Magdalena Szewczyk also mentioned that we must have good communication and respond to emails in order to have a fluent communication between us. • A report after each meeting with all activities and photos must be done from each partner that organises the activity, so as to be able to have all the reports in our webpage and each one of us to know and to remember all things that were discussed during that meeting. These tasks have to be done from all of us foe each meeting as well as to present all the activities that we will have to do in our schools. A report with the program and the activities and what is been done and how this reflected in students and teachers that were participating in the seminar, will also be included. • All coordinators must ensure that we will have good dissemination of the results of the project and the results of each meeting so as to be able to have good general dissemination of our program. We will have all the articles to be published online (if they are printed, to scan them and send them to general coordinator to put them in the webpage writing in the file the author of the article, the date that it was published and the link if it was online publishing of the article) • Also all partners must give information’s to the other partners about all the activities that are organised for the program and also include relative photos of the activities and short description of them and how this has impact in the aims of the program. • Also, in each meeting the organising school of the meeting, must prepare a video with photos of the meeting and then to be published in YouTube so all the links to be shown in our webpage • All partners schools must organise in their schools the followings till December of 2018: o An Erasmus Corner were the activities of the program will be shown and can be reached from all students and teachers of the school

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o A logo competition among the students of each partner school which each school to pick 2 logos (digital or painted and scanned) till 15 of December 2018. The 2 logos from each country will take part in our international competition were all partners school must vote logos that they want from other countries (a total of 15 votes from each partner must be send to the coordinator of the program till 20 of December so to have the results before Christmas). Votes from partners countries must be in logos of other countries and not on the logos of them. o A national competition about Geoparks that will be organised from the school and students from all the country will be able to take part, so our project to be known in all countries that are participating in the program. On 2019 organised visits in Geoparks must be made, so that students have the chance to learn about Geoparks and they must be prepared about geology of the Geoparks and rocks that can be found in each area of the participants schools. In the meeting in Spain students must make a presentation about Geology in Geoparks and especially the rocks that can be found in Geoparks of their areas. Furthermore in this meeting the partners decided on the subjects that will be presented in the meetings in Bulgaria in June (students must represent about Fauna and Flora in the Geoparks of their area) and in our next meeting in Hungary students will have to represent about Geojobs and Agrotourism that are connected with the Geopark. Also, all partners must do an open day in their schools on April – May so to show to local people (students, parents, local authorities) about the program and the results of their first experiences for the first year of the program. All activities and seminars will be shown in the open day that will be organised in each partner school.

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Closing Ceremony students and teachers in Library – Wednesday 7th of November 2018 – Library Lyceum of Agios Ioannis. In the final ceremony all participants students presented their work that was done in groups for the themes that they receive from their first day of the training as you can see in the following photos. The themes that students made presentations about were: 1. Troodos Unesco Global Geopark 2. Geopark Troodos: A historical review of Cyprus 3. Vein and volcano stones in Troodos 4. Geology in Cyprus Geopark of Troodos 5. Fauna and Flora in Troodos 6. Our experience in Geopark of Troodos 7. Erasmus Plus Program – meeting in Cyprus – Our experience 8. Culture in Cyprus what we like and what we didn’t like Presentations of the students can be found in final products of our webpage of the program.

Each group of students made a 5 minute presentation and at the end all students gain a lot of abilities with this activity and a lot of knowledge about the geopark of Troodos. When the students finished with their presentations it was time to give the prices to the winners of our photo contest. Prices were given to the first 6 photos after the voting of the teachers. The selection was difficult because all photos were wonderful, and all photos and presentations will be sent to all partners. As mentioned before, in our school a photo exhibition of all photos will be organised, with the names of their photographer and school and countries of the photographers. Also, our school will publish a diary with the best photos for next year 2019. All publications will be ready till December and will be uploaded to our webpage. Finally, the certificates were given to all groups from our Director Mrs Sylvia Oikonomidou. Our Director supported the team of our Erasmus program

1ST TRAINING OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS – ERASMUS+ PROGRAM – GEOPARKS OF EUROPE – NOVEMBER 2018 a lot and we would like to thank her also from this report for her effort and tries about the dissemination of all the results of the program. Giving the prices to the winners of the photo contest 1st price 2nd price

3rd price 4th price

5th price 6th price

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Giving the certificates to the participants from all countries from our director. Group photos Polish team of students and teachers

Spanish team of students and teachers

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Hungarian team of Students and teachers

Bulgarian team of students and teachers

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French (Guadalupe) Team of students and teachers

Cyprus team of students

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Cyprus team of teachers (part of them)

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Farewell Party in a traditional tavern in Limassol (Wednesday night, last night of our meeting) Moments of happiness, joy, hugs and cries for saying goodbye and we will meet again

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At the end hugs and cries between the students show the new friendships that begun in our first meeting

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Our report was extended because we wanted from all of you when you are reading and seeing the report to have memories for all good time that we had together. Thanks With the end of the first training in Cyprus from 4 till 8 of November 2018 I would like to thank all of you for your participation and specifically: • Many Thanks to all my colleagues in Cyprus Team for their help in organising such a project in so short time • Many thanks to all Cypriot students for their willingness and their excellent hospitality in all partners students from other countries • Many thanks to all parents of the students for their help and their participation in whatever we asked them • Many thanks to our photographers for the thousands of pictures that we have from the meeting and we can be so detailed in photos for all activities • Many thanks to all external colleagues that they helped us in all ways about the GEOPARK OF TROODOS (Mrs Konstantina Theofylaktou and Dr Efthimios Tsiolakis) • Many thanks to our Director Mrs Sylvia Oikonomidou for her help and her willingness to be all perfect for the first meeting in Agios Ioannis Lyceum in Cyprus • Many thanks to all teachers that they made activities during our first meeting in Cyprus (Rodolfos Karaiskakis, Chrysoula Stylianou, Manolis Papas, Spyros Onisilou) • Many thanks to Petros Eleftheriou for his all effort about organising all the activities that they had to do with food, drinks, sweets, our catering master  • Many thanks to our colleague Maria Hajimichail Pouliaou for her willingness and her hard work so to prepare and correct all papers, posters and anything that we had in our meeting in printing material (and a lot of them in electronic form) • Many thanks also to Mr George Parisinos for his effort and willingness to arrange all gifts that we had for all of our partners in the meeting. • Many thanks to Mrs Eleftheria Theodorou and Mr Rodolfos Karaiskakis and to the whole team of Global Education Program of Lyceum of Agios Ioannis for their help in anything that we asked from them • Many thanks to our General Coordinator of the project Mrs Magdalena for this wonderful program • Many thanks to all partners from POLAND, BULGARIA, HUNGARY, SPAIN, AND GUADALUPE who participate in this training and who were always positive in mind IN ALL ACTIVITIES AND ACTIONS THAT WE HAD IN OUR MEETING • Many thanks to all of you that you came with open hearts and you found open hugs • Many thanks to anyone that may forget because if I forget anyone I didn’t made it in purpose Hope you enjoy our first training of students and teachers in Cyprus TO NEW FRIEDSHIPS THAT ARE BEGUN IN FIRST MEETING WITH OUR NEW PARTNERS Nikolas Nikolaou on behalf of Cyprus team of teachers

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Appendix 1: Catalogue of teacher and students in Cyprus team of Erasmus Plus Program. In the catalogue you can find emails phones of teachers, students and legal guardian of the students.

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Appendix 2: Catalogue of participants teachers from partners countries of first seminar of Erasmus Plus Program. In the catalogue you can find emails schools and signs of the participants teachers.

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Appendix 3: Catalogue of participants students from partners countries of first seminar of Erasmus Plus Program. In the catalogue you can find emails schools and signs of the participants students.

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Appendix 4: Analytical program of the seminar that been in Cyprus from 4 till 8 of November 2018. Date Analytical Program of Each day Sunday 1st Our Erasmus Plus partners (teachers and students) arrive in Larnaca or Paphos airport (Cyprus, as soon day as I have your flights I will arrange the program and tell you the cost for everything). Transfer to the 04/11/2018 hotel in Limassol. Host families will wait for the students at 20.00 in the hotel. Students Program Teachers program 07.30 Arrival at school with host students. 08.30: Arrival at the school from the hotel with 07.30 – 08.00: Ice breaking activities between the the minibus students in school. Learning people through a Tour of school & Meeting the teachers and game. students Morning 08.00 – 09.00: Experimental Lesson in Physics 09.00 – 09.30: Meeting with the headmaster and (Gravity and gravitational acceleration in discussion about the program. Geophysics) and Chemistry (Chemical Elements in Geochemistry) 09.00 – 09.30: Break with the students 09.30 – 11.00: Library, Project Meeting for students and teachers in the Library, Introduction of Monday 2nd participants - presentation of the partner schools and countries using PPT, video, etc. (school activities). day Presentation will be made by students who are participating in the program. 05/11/2018 09.30 – 10.00: Welcoming speeches from: 1st day of our • Nikolas Nikolaou (Coordinator of Cyprus team and organizing committee of the training Seminar) • Nikolas Toumbas (President of our students Association) • Sylvia Oikonomidou (Director of Saint John’s High School) • Mrs Magdalena Szewczyk (General Coordinator of the Geoparks Erasmus Plus Program) • Kyriakos Nikiforou (President of Parent’s Association) • Mr Ioannis Efthimiou (General Inspector of High Schools in Limassol) 10.00 – 10.10: Cyprus presentation of the school and Limassol, Cyprus Afternoon 10.10 – 10.20: Poland presentation of the school and Wroclaw, Poland 10.20 – 10.30: Bulgaria presentation of the school and Varna, Bulgaria Evening 10.30 – 10.40: Spanish presentation of the school and Velez Rubio, Spain 10.40 – 10.50: Hungarian presentation of the school and Kaposvar, Hungury 10.50 – 11.00: France Guadalupe presentation of the school and Pointe Noire, Guadalupe, France 11.00 – 11.30: Break (coffee and snacks) 11.30 – 12.15: Presentation of the Geopark of Troodos Dr Efthimios Tsiolakis, Head of the Seismology Section, Geological Survey Department Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment

12.15 – 14.00: Art Classroom, Students will be 12.15 – 14.00: Discussion of the teachers about all Night doing a laboratory lesson in pottery to understand trainings and meetings. At the end we must have how we can make pots and generally solids from final dates exactly about the meetings and the soil and water (Classroom and Laboratory of Arts). trainings. All coordinators of the schools to be Their potteries (creation of the students) will be in prepared about their work so to find the dates that an oven and students will take them on Wednesday we will do each meeting. so to create on them with their imagination. 14.00: Teachers will have lunch at school that will 14.00: Students will go to host families for lunch be offered by Cyprus team of the program (no and free time till the evening. cost) 15.00: Return to the hotel and free time till the evening. 20.00: Cyprus Night at the school. Teachers of GEOPARK team, Students and Parents Association will prepare a night with food, sweets, drinks, dances and music from Cyprus (prepared to dance and have fun, no cost). Participating students will come with host families and teacher with minibus from the hotel.

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Day spent at Troodos. (Common Program for students and teachers for whole day) 08:00: Departure for the teacher from the hotel with the bus which will pass from the school to receive students and Cypriot teachers of Cyprus team. 08:30: Departure from the school so to go to Troodos Morning 10.00: Quidded tour to Troodos Visitor Centre Geopark (http://www.troodos-geo.org/cgibin/hweb?- V=index&_FAA=1&-dindex.html&_VLANGUAGE=en)

Arranged program with activities for 3 hours. • Learning about Geopark and the land that formed 93 million years ago at the bottom of the Ocean. • Learning about Troodos Geoparks minerals, Troodos Ophiolite and mines • Learning activity with magnifying glasses and Geological tools rd Tuesday 3 • Being a geologist for one day. day All activities will be done by the expert Geologist Konstantina Theofylaktou (Visitor Centre of 06/11/2018 Geopark) nd 2 day of our training Students must pick up small rocks from the mountain for their Art lesson next day about the creation of Cyprus island (knowledge that they will get all day)

13.00: Lunch in a local restaurant for all (Pelendri traditional village, tavern Simposio). 15.00: Departure for Caledonia nature trail, Walking to the path from Starting point to the end (approximately 1,5 hour). Photo Contest among all Students from the project with theme: Water and Afternoon Nature Life (Biodiversity) in Cyprus, a different view of Cyprus !!!, the winners of the contest will take presents from Cyprus (3 winners with the best photos, each participant must pick only 2 photos of all photos that will represent them in the contest, that will take place Wednesday morning in ICT classroom with all students and teachers of the program). 18.00: Departure from Troodos to Limassol 19.00 – 21.00: Free evening, dinner for all (hotel or hosting homes) Evening 21.00: International night in the school (all participant schools will prepare short presentation with dance or music or anything else they want showing and learning to all participants from all countries Night their culture, foods, drinks, music and dances). Dear partners and students bring with you food or snack or drinks or sweets from your country and be prepared to show your culture to participants from Cyprus students teachers and maybe some parents that they want to join us. Students Program Teachers program 7.30 Arrival at school with host students. 08.30: Arrival at the school from the hotel with 7.30 – 9.00: ICT class with computers so to do the minibus their photo contest. Each student must provide 2 Tour of school & Meeting the teachers and photos, and all together will vote for the best photo students in 3 categories (flora and fauna photos, geology 09.00 – 12.50: Meeting with all teachers of all photos, and water photos). Winners of the participants countries so to discuss all the Morning competition will have presents from our Cyprus followings: team. 1. Timetable of the program for all 24 09.00 – 09.15: Break with all the other students of months of the project. the school. 2. Products that we will have in each 9.15 – 10.45: Art classroom, students will have an meeting and training that we will do and art lesson and they will design their rocks having a especially in our next meetings special theme for their design. They will be able to 3. Rules of our program cooperation Wednesday take their own rocks with them at the end of the 4. Whatwe have to represent in each training 4th day lesson so to have memory designed rock from for next year 07/11/2018 Cyprus either in their homes either in their schools. 5. What activities must students do month by 3rd day of 10.45 – 09.15: Break with all the other students of month our training the school. 6. Different activities and themes about the project

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11.10 – 12.40: ICT classroom, Groups of students that will be created from ice breaking activity on Each theme will be discussed after a short Monday will try to represent the following themes presentation from the coordinator of the program (each group will have till 4 students, 3 or 4 Mrs Magdalena Szewczyk. I will keep all the students from different countries). Students will try decission and informations in computer and I will to make 5 minutes presentation in power point for prepare at the end a final report for our discussion one of the following themes: so to be able all of us to make similar things and 9. Troodos Unesco Global Geopark what we need for our programs with our students 10. Geopark Troodos: A historical review of that will take part in the project. Cyprus 11. Vein and volcano stones in Troodos 12. Geology in Cyprus Geopark of Troodos Afternoon 13. Fauna and Flora in Troodos 14. Our experience in Geopark of Troodos 15. Erasmus Plus Program – meeting in Cyprus – Our experience 16. Culture in Cyprus what we like and what we didn’t like 12.40 – 12.50: Break with all the other students of the school. 12.50 – 14.00: Library, 5 minutes presentation from each group of students about their whole work that they have done. Presentation will be made at the library of the school so to be able students and teachers to watch them and to discuss about our project and our experience all together. Evening 14.00: Students will go to host families for lunch 14.00: Teachers will have lunch at Marina and free time with the host families till the night. Limassol with our teachers of the team and then free time till the night Night 21.00: Farewell party: The party will be done in a local tavern with traditional mezedes, live music and alcohol for all teachers (students may drink whatever they want but no alcohol, they don’t need alcohol to dance). Prepare to dance in live Greek music as Cypriots know to dance . Departure day of all participants. If you arrange your departure day to be late in night, we can arrange also a sightseeing day in Nicosia so to be able to show you our history.

Sightseeing day – history of Cyprus (not included in the official training program, optional) 8:00/8.30: Breakfast at the hotel 9.30: Departure from Limassol (Hotel) to go to Nicosia 11:00: Arrival to Nicosia, visit Tumulus Makedonitissas and Imprisoned graves Thursday 5th (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisoned_Graves) day 12:30: Visit the Cyprus Museum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_Museum) , and Cyprus 08./11/2018 Parliament Departure 13:30: Visit to the Leventio Museum (http://www.nicosia.org.cy/en-GB/discover/museums/leventis- day municipal-museum/) 14:30: Free time to the old city (maybe café or restaurant or fast food from old city). Walk to the old city of Nicosia – Buffer Zone, Shacolas Tower Museum & Observatory and Eleftherias square or free time for walking and shopping. 16:00: Departure from old town and driving with the bus we will see Medieval Walls, Roman Aqueduct, Statue of Liberty and Famagusta gate or Archbishop’s Palace 16.00: Departure from Nicosia 17.00: Arrival to Limassol Departure of all participants according to their flights (I’ m waiting fror all partners to send me their participants and arrivals, departure flights)