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A.V.I.T.A.E
Take a walk with me By Bianca Michelle Rasmussen, Ørestad Gymnasium, Copenhagen Thursday, the second day of the AVITAE project’s visit to Tenerife, both students and teachers are invited outside to take a stroll through the historical La Laguna. The weather is wonderful - especially to someone from the north, like myself – so spirits are high both among the visitors and our guides. With the city bathed in warm sunlight filtering through the leaves of palm trees along the cobblestone roads, it is easy to understand why San Cristobal de La Laguna was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites in 1999. The layout of the city is the main reason behind this. Not only are the streets lined with colorful mansions, well preserved from colonial times – the layout of the streets is significant as well. La Laguna was one of the first cities in the world to have the streets laid out in a grid-system, which travelers found interesting and brought with them to America, where a great part of the cities are modeled after La Laguna’s layout. Our charming guides take us through the old city to visit many of the historical sites. Among these is the famous church Iglesia de la Concepcion, with it’s beautiful bell tower, and the Catedral de La Laguna with its neoclassical façade and spectacular interior. Kasper Rejnhold Baun, a Danish AVITAE student and aspiring architect, can hardly contain his admiration for the place: “I love the Spanish architecture here in La Laguna, it is simply stunning! Just like the women. But mostly
the architecture.” There is time for questions and group photos as well. I find out that not only are people from the AVITAE project good at working innovatively – we also know how to strike a pose for photos. Although La Laguna may not seem big, it has a large amount of historical sites – almost too many to visit. We walk past the dark and splendid façade of Palacio de Nava and revisit the town hall where we had the pleasure of meeting La Laguna’s mayor the previous day. While we walk to our next sight the sound of our chatter fills the air and mingles with other sounds from the cozy, narrow streets. Many tourists are visiting this area too, and the city is preparing for an upcoming school fair and also the traditional Romaria festival. In connection to the traditional festival, we end the tour by visiting the Casa Lercaro, a yellow 16th century building containing an exhibition of the entire history of Tenerife. Here we are introduced to some of Tenerife’s traditional clothing, which is also worn during the Romaria. Experts within the field guide us through the clothing items piece by piece with able students from the audience. At the end of the presentation, one female student displays the original traditional headdress, whilst another showcases the
modern version of the traditional wear. All in all the guided trip opened up our eyes to many of the hidden treasures of La Laguna. The variety in architectural styles and historical events connected to the sites truly makes La Laguna special. We visitors are very pleased to be able to say that we have been guided through the city streets by local young citizens of the UNESCO world heritage site.
sivu 6 May
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2016
Tenerife Meeting
By: Antoniou Renia, Dimitriou Nantia, Karydi Ioanna and Mpageorga Vasiliki The IES Canarias Cabrera Pinto , La Laguna Meeting our Spanish partners in April gave us the opportunity to see a really interesting school very different from the ones we are used to, here, in Greece. The Canarias Cabrera Pinto school is housed in two different buildings: a modern one, which is quite an ordinary school building and an old one which dates back to the Renaissance. Generally, it’s the oldest educational institution in the region being a place for learning for 170 years. We were really impressed by the old building and its surroundings. It used to be a monastery. There is a very old cloister there enclosing a garden with plants and trees from the region. We were told that many monks and important people were buried there. On the first day, we were received in their official assembly hall, a very formal room with huge paintings on the walls belonging to the Prado Museum. Really impressive! So was another part of the old building, a really
old tower of the 16th century looking on another garden where there are the busts of the two men that the school was named after: D. Adolfo Cabrera Pinto, a student and later headmaster of the school and D. Blas Cabrera Felipe, also a student of the school that became a renowned physicist. There are also three museum show rooms. One of them is dedicated to Cabrera Felipe displaying various scientific equipments. Another room displays stuffed animals. Some of them looked cute but others were fearful…. The third room had some archaeological stuff found in excavations and even contained a female mummy!!!! The new building, which was across the street, had big, well equipped classrooms, each one being used for a specific subject. We had our sessions in the science lab where we were shown some robots they had constructed. We didn’t like the fact that the school gates were locked during the day and we didn’t like much, either, a huge
paper mobile hanging from the hall ceiling. Too dangerous for your eyes☺ . It is very interesting that young people, studying to become teachers, can come to the school and work next to the experienced ones, profiting from the innovational methods that the school is trying to promote. All in all, we really appreciated the respect that the students show to their cultural heritage. They care deeply for their school, keep it clean and try with their teachers to live up to their heavy legacy.
The Slovakian Market Project By: Antoniou Renia, Dimitriou Nantia , Karydi Ioanna and Mpageorga Vasiliki The IES Canarias Cabrera Pinto , La Laguna
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The Slovakian project on the past, present and future market was put up in images that were digitally presented. They said that they decided to show their work through a computer because they wanted to do something interesting and innovational and because they didn’t have the time to prepare something else. They added that they wanted to show their various kinds of markets as, since ancient times, there are always street markets in their country depending on the time of year. Their presentation simulated a picture gallery and through digital means you were transferred from place to place. This trick got the audience interested. The students also gave a short description of their work, trying to convey the importance that street markets have in their culture. They explained that their economy has always been based on trading. They started their project presen-
tation with the big migration wave in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Then the Slavs came to their area and settled there as it was an important trading crossroads. From then on they expanded their commercial interactions to the end of the known world of the time. In the 10th century the king ordered people to build a church and the area all around it was used as a market place. Nowadays there are still street markets in cities and villages. In the future, though, they believe that people will prefer digital ways to do their shopping and afterwards a drone will make the deliveries right to your place.
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Economy of Tenerife
sivu 7 May 2016
By Henna Möttönen, Inka Pisilä, Santeri Puhakka, Jarkko Karsikko, Veera Röyttä Pyhäjoen lukio, Finland Tenerife has very long traditions in economy. The biggest sector is the service sector and especially tourism, which is the most important factor in Tenerife’s economy. Every year millions of tourists go there. Southern Tenerife is more popular than the north, because it is warmer and drier there. Most of the tourists come from the Nordic countries. So, what makes people go to Tenerife? Of course the climate, but also well developed resorts and nature: the famous volcano Teide is the highest place in the whole of Spain. There are also many conservation areas and unusual forests, which are very interesting for many people from all around world.
flights to destinations make the taste better than other countclimate change stronger. ries’. That is because they have their own banana variety. This Wine cultivation is also very variety is smaller than others. important for the island. It It grows slower and that makes goes back to the Middle Ages. it more sweet and tasty. The The wine of Tenerife has always bananas are also no so dry. been exported around world, Even if you do not like bananas especially to Europe. That is normally, you may like bananas probably because Tenerife is from Tenerife because they are on the trade route to Ameri- so much better. ca. The prestige of this wine has been and is very high. Even Nowadays tomatoes, flowers Shakespeare mentioned wines and other plants are also imof Tenerife in his plays and ot- portant. So, in a nutshell, touher writings. rism and agriculture are keeping Tenerife alive. There are still more than seventy vineyards in Tenerife. They do their best to make perfect wine with love and tradition. The wine of Tenerife has won many prizes and competitions over the years and not without reason. If you want so, you can buy wine straight from the vineyards. There are also museums in Tenerife where you can see how they made wine earlier. In the museums they sell wine to visitors.
On the other hand, Tenerife’s tourism has also big problems. There is not so much water for local people to use, and tourism takes a big part of it. The lack of water might become everyday life. For example hotels and swimming pools use much more water than they can Other agriculture is also very afford. Also the environmen- important. Tenerife is known tal problems are real. Resorts for its bananas. According to may be hard to keep clean and studies, Tenerife’s bananas
Trade off - the Italy’s market place By Henna Möttönen, Inka Pisilä, Santeri Puhakka, Jarkko Karsikko, Veera Röyttä Pyhäjoen lukio, Finland Ultimately, the best of all the called TRADE OFF. universal marketplaces was Italy’s one. It wasn't an ordinaAll of the other works were ry work, because it was a game more concrete than Italy’s one.
“At first the whole idea felt a little bit weird, because our work wasn’t a concrete marketplace. We wondered that
maybe we shouldn’t do that, because it didn’t follow the assignment. But after all we ended up making the game”, Jacopo Ghilardi and Beatrice Biondi say. Other group members were Giulia Paladini, Stefano Sesta and Sara Cecchi. In addition the game, they also made a Prezi-presentation. All in all, the whole project began in March and took about one month.
represent all seven AVITAEcountries. At first everyone chooses a character and gets 300 euros and 2 cards of their own product.
The rules were made after the first playtime. “It was hard to make rules which would be simple enough to understand”, mentioned Beatrice. “After that it was nice to play the game and The aim is to be the first we were really happy because reaching the last box. When it worked out so well and our you reach the box with the Avi- work won the competition.” tae-sign, you must pick a card. The cards give you or deprive you of money/products. Each product card is worth 100€. On your turn you can roll a dice The Italians got their idea and/or invest your product to from their schoolmates who move forward. took part in Avitae-trip to Greece. “Claus, the Danish teEvery country must use only acher, was there and our friend one specific product to move Ilda Tabaku got the idea from forward, but other products him. Bianca Vauvca, Chiara Bar- can be sold to other players toli and Camilla Angelotti were who need them to make money. also there”, clarified Jacopo and These products are blue vases Beatrice. The whole class took (Slovakia), cheese (Cyprus), silk part in making the game. (Italy), tar (Finland), oranges (Spain) and ships (Denmark). Shortly, the main idea of the game is to trade with other You can’t invest your product players and earn as much as to move forward after you have you can. During the game the taken a card, you have to wait players will also meet unex- until your next turn. If a card pected events that can change deprives you of your money the game - in a the good or bad and products, you can choose way. The Equipment is a board, what to lose. card, a dice and pieces that
sivu 8 May
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2016
HOSTING AVITAE MEETING HAS TAUGHT US MANY THINGS
“A challenging experience we will always treasure in our hearts”. By Carlos Acosta, Dámaris Álvarez, Ana Fernández, Carlos González, Oriana González, Déborah Hernández, Aixa Melián, Frida Salazar, Alejandra Sánchez, Elena Simó, Sabina Simó, Yolimar Siverio, Pablo Rodríguez, Pilar Rodríguez, Daniel Suárez. Being a host means learning to share your day to day life with someone for a week. It is not easy, especially if he or she is from a different country, and speaks another language. Hosting a student from another part of Europe, from the North like Finland or Denmark, Center Europe, like Slovakia, or countries from the South such as Italy, Greece, or Cyprus, means a great challenge as you are supposed to explain different aspects of your culture to that person and at the same time you want to learn about his or her own. Receiving a person in our houses has meant both a new experience and a big responsibility. Getting everything ready so that your host feels like home: “tidying up and having all the stuff prepared”. Indeed, hosting someone opens up your mind. Culture, food and especially habits and timetables, are different in every country. However, it was easy to connect with every single person, regardless the country they came from. As we see it, the best part of the international meeting is hosting. This way we can all learn
about other countries through a local person. Of course, it is very demanding because you want them to remember their time here as one of the best experiences in their lives, so you become a perfectionist and you may end up feeling stressed, or making your host feel exhausted after doing so many activities in a few days! Actually, the limited time we had was a handicap. We wish we had had more time to spend all together and show our friends more things. Despite that, we feel our guests were impressed by what they saw on our island: the sunny beach, the moon like landscape at the Teide, the water cloud forest, and the incredible changes in the weather, sunshine, and sea of clouds… This visit has made us more aware of the diversity of cultures, languages, and ways at schools. Experiencing this, will allow us to have better opportunities in our future.It has also taught us the importance of learning foreign languages. AVITAE has prompted us to improve our level of English, and also get an interest in other languages. Nobody wanted to say good-
bye to nice bunch of new friends, but we are keeping in touch through different social networks. Here are some of the comments about the AVITAE meeting: "Hosting someone is something incredible, it is the best way to know what a person is like or what he or she usually does" ''I guess words aren’t enough for expressing what this opportunity has meant for us, and how it actually can make you change your point of view, not only concerning country stereotypes, but also about different aspects of our ordinary lives.” “I can only say this kind of experience helps you to grow as a student, and, more important, as a person, and I’m definitely sure this meeting in Tenerife isn’t the end of this adventure, we will see each other soon.'' “An unforgettable experience”. "If I had the opportunity to do it again I would not think it twice. "
SPAIN REPORTING ON THE FINNISH MARKET MODEL
By Dámaris Álvarez, Yaiza Castro, Iván Correa, Carla Rodríguez, Daniel LLombet, Pablo Oliva, Carla R. Zerpa, Carolina Torres, Damián Trujillo. An “Agora Market Exhibition” model. All of them were great! took place during the internaFinland elaborated a motional meeting held in Tenerife. del which couldn’t easily be Each country presented their brought to Tenerife. They had
a long trip ahead, more than 3,000 km, flying south over the Atlantic Ocean. Besides, some of the materials used were fra-
gile, and they were worried it would be damaged on the way, so they solved this problem by recording a film of their market! It was very convenient as they have free access to iPads at school. They wanted to show us what Finnish markets looked like in the past, how they are nowadays and how they imagine them in the future.
cloth, sand, cardboard...). Of course, they also used typical materials like glue or wire, and they painted cardboard so that it reflected the color of Finnish nature; blue for water and the sky, and green for the forests.
kings and foreign traders sold their products there, mainly fish, bread, furs and salt. Nowadays, markets are places where people gather in summer to enjoy, eat sausages and meet with friends. For example, to celebrate the victory of the Finnish Today’s market, shows a pho- ice hockey team! to with people celebrating, the food and objects in it, were Finally, they explained that made up of clay. in the future, transport will be accessible to anybody, public We asked them which had UFOs for example, and there been the most challenging will also be a mobile applicatipart. They said the futuristic on to travel to markets easily. one. Representing what mar- Some technological devices will kets used to be in the past was be sold there, for example speeasy after doing some research, cial glasses or UFO cleaners. however, imagining what they will look like in the future needs to be more creative.
There are always many things going on both at school and at AVITAE, so the team didn’t have much time to build their models, just about a week. This surprised us, they made it so fast. This could be done by working as a team. Once they had designed the model, they decided to use both recycled In the past the markets were and natural materials (like important meeting places. Vi-
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sivu 9 May 2016
Universal Market Spain - Arches and 3D-printers By Bianca Michelle Rasmussen Copenhagen, Denmark
The two clever minds behind the Spanish contribution to the exhibition are the lovely ladies Carolina María Torres Rodríguez and Carla Rodríguez Zerpa. A special twist to their model includes 3D-printed buildings and inspiration from ancient markets in Morocco. After the interesting exhibit in La Laguna showcasing the different universal market models made by the seven AVITAE countries, we Danes snatched the Spanish nominees away for a private interview concerning their ideas. As shown in the pictures, Carolina and Carla’s universal market model has been split into two separate models – one showcasing an ancient market next to a model of what Carolina and Carla imagine the future will look like. The build of the houses looks very futuristic, as they stand there upon what looks like sandstone tiles. A bit of questioning reveals that the fanciful shapes have come to life with the help of a local 3D-printer. “We thought this would make our model stand out more, since we were certain nobody else would think of using a 3D-printer.”, explains Carolina and grins at Carla. And the girls certainly were right – no other countries presented 3D-printed models at the exhibition. But what inspired Carolina and Carla to design the structure of the buildings?
Carla explains: “We came up with the idea because we thought that in the future, domes and circular structures would be the dominant ones.” Carolina confirms with a nod, and Carla continues: “We also thought that in the future, we would not have petroleum or these kind of sources, so we would bet on renewable energy – like sun-energy and such things.” A little airplane dominates the right hand corner of the futuristic model, representing transport in the future. “It also represents communication to the rest of the world. So there is going to be an airport to transport the products all around the world, to stay connected.”, Carla says. Whereas the futuristic model required an idea hatched from scratch, the ancient market needed a bit less out-of-thebox creativity from the designers. Carolina and Carla did most of their research online for this part of the project. “We were looking at some ideas for the ancient market on the internet and we saw the old Arabian ones.” Carolina says, “We like the Arabian models a lot, especially because of the architecture. We loved the arches in the Arabian architecture when we saw them, so we used arches in our own model too.” Both representatives are happy with their project and feel it
turned out just as they had imagined. “If we could do anything differently, we probably would have put more technology into our future model,” Carla says, “because we believe technology will be a very big part of our future.”
sivu 10 2016 May
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The Greek marketplace that was presented during the 5th AVITAE meeting in La Laguna struck everybody from the first moment because of its being a suggestive encounter between past, present and future. The title of the project suggests this pivotal idea using the rhetorical figure of the oxymoron: "Back to the future". But how did the concept come up? To find out about this and other issues, we talked directly to the minds who developed the work. It went (more or less) like this: How did you come up with this idea? - It just came up, because we know about our history, so we thought it would have been nice to show you how the agora worked in ancient times, and, through this, how past and present are connected, since many of the things we sell have been the same for centuries. The only thing that may have changed is the display, the disposition of the stock. - Talking about the products you were selling, they were truly good. You must be proud of them! Of course yes, we don't depend on any supplies from other
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Innovation with Erasmus+ On the first day we were divided into groups. Mr. Claus Witfeld asked us if anyone knew something about environmental struggles of the country in which we resided. Everyone started shouting the first ideas that came on their mind, whether it was water or immigration crises. We started consulting those issues and it evolved into hot discussion. After final debates we split into the groups. In each group at least one person must had been from each of seven countries that were involved. The countries were Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Greece, Cyprus, Denmark, and Finland. Each crew had to solve one question. The most common problem was water. We found out that Spain has no clean water what is a big problem. They import all of the drinking water. Mr. Claus admitted that we had lots of great ideas, sometimes really fantastic and creative ones. After presenting of our thoughts, we got a paper and were asked to describe a person or a group of people that we wished to help. Description was about unreal imaginary character, with random name and sex and imaginary city in which he or she lived. Our first day ended as soon as
we submitted our papers. On the second day we sat into school-desks and the teacher gave us five papers. After that one by one he asked us five questions and we had to write down each answer on one single paper. After that we sorted the same answers together. We had to divide into same groups as the day before. We received a task to create something that would help with the environmental difficulties. Teachers had given us markers, cardboards, paints, scissors, everything to create our own safe house or machine to filter the water. After we had been done with our ideas, we presented and talked about our creations. Our mentors liked every single idea that we produced. It took us so long to create them and it was even more fulfilling to know that everyone was satisfied with us. After the end of the presentations, Mr. Claus jumped on the table and said he was very happy that we accomplished what we did. These activities helped us to get to know each other but mainly to make the first step. Everyone liked the activities but we even more liked the strategy of how
our Mr Claus talked to us about the problems and the form of the teaching he used. THANK you for this experience and for a chance to move forward.
Cyprus in the past
On the territory of the island there are few traces of the Stone Age. Bronze Age is characterized by well-developed civilization. People quickly learned to work in the rich copper mines. Island newcomers brought with them their own language, advanced technology and new artistic expression. Greek influence in the culture and language has remained on the island since 1220 BC, despite many impacts resulting from successive shocks. Over time, Cyprus become a source of timber for the Greek fleet. At the time of the Persian Empire, Cyprus was an area from which flowed taxes and fees to finance the Persian ships and royalty. In the years 58-57 BC, Cyprus territory was annexed by the Roman Empire. The most important event during the period of Roman Cyprus was the visit of the Apostles Paul and
Barnabas who accompanied Saint Mark, who came to the island at the beginning of his first mission in 45 AD. After arriving on the island they continued east towards Paphos, where they managed convert the Roman governor Sergius Paulus.
Present: We have already looked at some ancient societies, what they used to eat and what the markets used to have. In the present, as we know, we have got Coca-Cola at the markets, but the Cypriots do not believe junk food will take over. They still believe in healthy food. One thing is, that we see companies like Coca-Cola monopolizing, that is the way they promote Coca-Cola in the present, and in the future. Another thing is, when you go from the past
to present you see some connections. They have national products. It is halloum cheese, something made by the Cypriots. Some kind of traditional bread, sweets…
Future The Cypriots believe that they will not have junk food; they would like to eat healthier. They believe that they will have healthy and unhealthy food. The Cypriots believe that they will have homemade meals. In the future, they want to replace the markets with drones. They think that you will order your fresh vegetables or fruit from the market and it will be delivered directly to your home by your drone. It could be a very good thing. You can stay at home and you can use your free time, because the drone is on the way with your food.
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Our trip to the “Observatorio del Teide” By Beatrice Biondi, Jacopo Ghilardi Liceo Classico N. Machiavelli During the mobility in Tenerife, one of the most exciting things in our program was the visit to Teide Observatory, which is operated by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. After its opening in 1964, it has become one of the major international observatories across the globe, which gathers telescopes from different countries worldwide because of the good astronomical seeing conditions of the site. It is considered one of the world's major observatories together with the ones in Hawaii and Chile. When we arrived we were received by a young French Astrophysicist that showed us (in a playful way) the basis of astronomical observation by displaying some pictures of celestial objects (such as stars, galaxy, planets, moons, comets and nebulae). To catch our attention and to give us some teach-
ing about the principles of astronomical observation, he started to film us with a termographic camera (also called Infrared Cam) so that we could see our body …. through our clothes! That was to explain to us that Infrared Rays can let you look through the dusty clouds peopling the outer space, so that you can see the stars even inside nebulae! After that, we were escorted into a real and functional telescope which had been recycled from materials from WW2 (tanks). It was originally a prototype but it worked well, so the scientists at Teide have been using it up to nowadays. The guide also gave us some curious information: for instance, the fact that telescopes are tall because during the day the soil heats up and this causes turbulences that might disturb the rendition of the photos; so
the more distant from the ground the lenses are, the better. He also told us that microwave telescopes might someday catch the first rays of light still coming from the Big Bang! In the area around the telescopes there were some very interesting panels that represented the Solar System; they were positioned at a distance from the model of the Sun that is proportional to the real distance existing between each planet and our star. In this way, we could imagine how big our universe is, just looking at one of its tiny particles (the Solar System). At the end of the tour, our guide even gave us the chance to watch a small sunspot through a solar telescope; the task was not so easy for us because we had to adjust our sight to the lens in order to focus on the spot. And this was not easy at all!
Made by Elias Hirvikoski and Jeremia Toppari from Finland.