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A.V.I.T.A.E

THE SCHOOL WITHOUT PAPER

BY BIANCA RASMUSSEN, DENMARK, WITH LEFTERIS TRAMBAS, GREECE, AND BIANCA VANNUCCI, ITALY

Bright lights. Glass walls. Flashes of Facebook on the Macbook screens. We're on the second floor of Ørestad Gymnasium in Copenhagen, attending math class with our host.

It's all still so new - the open spaces, the relaxed atmosphere, calling the teacher by her first name. Looking around the classroom, we notice that everybody is looking down at their screens. The teacher is explaining something in danish, which kind of sounds like a less brutal version of German, sprinkled with french. Apart from her voice, all that can be heard is the sound of about 300 fingers tapping on their respective keyboards, apparently listening and taking notes about linear functions.

During the break we go to the banister of the huge beautiful staircase. It really is magnifi-

cent - how you manage to drag yourself up and down those stairs every day is beyond us.

We seldom have more than two floors, since we are only about 300 students at our respective schools. Everybody gathers along the banister and conversation starts floating off into the open space above the canteen. The air is filled with the sound of funny non-rolling r’s that you somehow produce at the back of your throats.

One of the danish students tells us about Ørestad’s famous fire alarms as we watch the other classes slowly filing out of their class cages. We have come to learn that breaks are meant for your favorite hobby: people-gazing. “What is that guy doing?”, we ask our host, and point at a guy in one of the Fatboys. “I think he’s doing homework”, she says after a while. “Or sleeping, you know, whatever.” It is really amazing to us how free you are - both with all the open learning areas, but also when it comes to the choices you have and what is

expected from you at school.

It seems like Ørestad Gymnasium is like the synonym to freedom and modern teaching.

You guys have access to so many things - Laptops, media equipment, more than three bathrooms (!!) and a world full of information right at your fingertips. Even the subjects that you are bad at, you can choose at a lower level and focus on your favorite subjects instead.

Imagine that! It’s like taking a time machine into the future.

The teacher calls us back in and gives the class some math problems to solve. With the help of our host’s translations we solve most of them by the end of the lesson. Surprisingly the class is not given any homework. The rest of the students seem oddly relaxed, considering they have been working intently on solving math problems the past half hour. Or what? As perfect as Ørestad Gymnasium looks, it almost seems like your society

gives you... Too much freedom.

You guys have all the means to study, endless possibilities and wonderful, interested teachers, but somehow it seems like you don’t fully realise and appreciate how lucky you actually are.

Of course too much freedom is a luxury we wish we had. Ørestad Gymnasium is like a dream come true for us - it’s going to be hard to return back home.

Free WiFi really grows on you.

And that "flæskesteg" thing?

Delicious.

Hopefully we can learn from your ways of thinking, and you can learn a bit from ours as well.

Thank you for hosting us all it has been a wonderful experience. We think we have enough selfies to last us for some time now.

But hey, the whole “schoolwithout-paper”-thing?

Nice try. We saw it! You’re officially busted.

AVITAE – A LOT MORE THAN AN INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE BY: MEAVE BUCHIGNANI & SOFIE BRØBECH HEDAM HANSEN

Thanks to this AVITAE project we have gotten to know many different people from all over Europe and made enough me-

mories to last us a lifetime.

each other and the only thing we knew was more or less our names. On Monday though, Getting to know each otthanks to our Index group work her through group work. sessions, we have come to know not just each other, but someWhen we first got to the one from every country. In the airport we only knew about groups you needed to talk with

someone you have never met before and we had to find a way to get our heads together and fix the problems in front of us. At first it was hard. Everyone had their own opinion, their own idea, of how the problems should be fixed. But we found our way around it by discussing our different ideas, and at the end we found a solution everyone could agree with.

Thanks to the group work we have gotten more and more friends.

The very first evening we were out for dinner with the entire Italian group, both guests and hosts, but the next days we were all hanging out together. An example could be our little trip to McDonald’s on Wednesday night, after our dinner at Riz Raz. There we were people from Den-

mark, Italy, Spain, Finland and Greece, just enjoying each others company. We laughed a lot and took many great pictures.

Even on Thursday night, when there was an orientation night at school, where everyone could come and see if Ørestad Gymnasium was the school for them. All of us people from the AVITAE project stayed together and joined the fun, while all the hopeful Danes were going up and down the stairs getting the true Ørestad experience.

Learning through our new connections We do have to say though, that also getting to know each other we learned new things thanks to the Index groups. We really got to know how to solve problems and be innovative.

We also learned how to brand and how to promote ideas to our target groups. But what

we learned wasn't just school related. We learned about new cultures and countries, and off course some new words in all of the different languages.

The Italians learned danish, the Danes learned Greek and so on.

We tried learn each other some useful things to say, but they were not the things that we remembered the next day. Those were usually the swearing words and funny sentences.

Thanks to the Index sessions and all of our many new experiences from this week at Ørestad Gymnasium, everyone is now talking to everyone. The first day you wouldn't have seen a group with people from 7 different countries, but now you can easily spot a girl from Spain talking to a guy from Italy or a Slovakian sharing their food with a Dane.

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THIS IS A TIMELINE OF IMPORTANT DATES IN OUR PARTNER COUNTRIES. EACH COUNTRY CHOSE TWO DATES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THEM AND EVERY COUNTRY WROTE WHAT HAPPENED IN THEIR COUNTRY THAT YEAR. FOLLOW THE ARROWS AND YOU’LL GET THE DATES IN IN THE RIGHT ORDER. UNFORTUNATELY CYPROS WAS UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE.

241 BC

699 BC Denmark

Denmark In Denmark from around 1700 BC.-700 BC, we have bronze-age.

The raw material of bronze as well as gold and other objects found in Denmark testify to long-distance trade network especially with eastern Europe, Mediterranean and Southern Germany. This change in this period regarding agriculture, trade, religion, techniques for building boats and more, even though the metal bronze is too soft for making real tools.

After the bronze-age follows the iron-age (500 BC-800 A.C.). Iron is hard enough to be use for tools and weapons, and thus changed peoples everyday life. A number of innovations occurred during this age, one of the most interesting is the bog iron.

Finland Finland got cultural influence from Russia and Sweden.

Greece The defeat of the Spartans by the people of Argos in the battle of Ysia. Also Peisistratos becomes the archon of Athens.

Italy In the VII century B.C. the Etruscan civilization developed in the centre of Italy, spreading an innovative culture that was influenced by many contacts with other Mediterranean populations, like the Hellenics, Magna Grecians and Phoenicians.

Slovakia

Slovakia began to develop extraction of iron, gold and salt.

Phoenician traders settled For the first time there was in the mining areas of what appeared a potter’s wheel apis now Almería and Granada peared. (south of Spain).

1881 Around this time the Danes was producing milk but not anything further in that category. But then they started using new methods of how the processed the milk cultures.

This started Denmark early success in export. This success happened because now the Danes could export not just milk, but dairy product such as cheese and butter.

Spain Pablo Picasso, a very important painter and sculpturer, was born on 25 October in Malaga. His family was liberal people but very poor. They moved to France.

Italy The Gotthard tunnel is opened and new trade routes are established. The first installment of C.Collodi’s “Storia di un burattino”, the nucleus of future novel “ P i n o c c h i o ”, comes out. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (Pope John XXIII), and Alcide De Gasperi (Prime Minister in the aftermath of WWII and one of the founding fathers of the EU) were born.

Finland

Slovakia

Railway network grew and Finland started to be industrialized.

Slovak society Detvan in Prague was founded by Slovakian students.

The main activities were cultural and educational, later also political.

Greece Arta is liberated from the Turks. the river Aracthos forms the natural border between the free land and the part still under occupation. They had to wait until 1913 to be liberated too.

In this period of time (PreRoman iron age) in Denmark the people discovered bog iron, and they started to use the material to make stronger and better tools and weapons - thereby the name of the period. Around 500 BC, the first villages were founded in Denmark.

the First Punic War ended.

The Romans strategically defeated the Carthaginians.

Thanks to this victory they built their first fleet and started to travel and trade through the Mediterranean Sea. Slovakia

Spain

Spain

Denmark

Italy

Significant flow of Celts into Carpathian hollow

After Carthage’s defeat at the hands of Rome in the first of the Punic Wars, 265-241 BC. Carthagecompensated for its loss of Sicily by rebuilding a commercial empire in Hispania.

In Finland we learnt to make items from iron, for example weapons and

Greece Eumenides I, the ruler of Pergamum , in Asia Minor dies. He freed Pergamum and rebuilt it.

Parallelly, the 3rd Syrian war between the successors of Alexander the Great, Seleucids and Ptolemies ended.

833 AD Denmark Nothing specific happened this year, but it was the time of the Vikings in Denmark. We raided several cities in countries like Ireland, Great Britain and the Netherlands. The Vikings invented and built many different types of ships, that enabled them to travel to distant places, even as far as the USA. Spain

The Emirate of Córdoba, in Al- Andalus was ruled by Abd al-Rahman II. He was an erudite man. Between 833 and 834 he extended the Mosque of Cordoba, a masterpiece of art and splendour.

Finland

Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis is a yeast used to produce lager beer, and was discovered by the Dane Emil Christian Hansen during the time he worked at the brewery Carlsberg Bryggeri. This type of yeast was bottom-fermenting, which means that it sinks to the bottom of the beer when the fermentation is finished, and takes place at quite a low temperature, 5-15 C. Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis is now used at breweries all over the world.

Italy Lothair I, son of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious, is king of Italy. In northern Italy and Tuscany there is evidence of organized estates, where tenants also had to work without pay on the lord’s demesne, an area whose produce went entirely to the lord. They produced a sizable agricultural surplus, which the estates’ owners often sold in the cities.

Slovakia

Vikings traveled along coast Two big Principalities were of Finland to bring for examp- connected, Moravian principale weapons wealth to Finland. lity and Nitra principality and and after that go to Russia. the Great Moravia was created. It was the first major Slavic state at all.

in Muros, on the Cantabrian Sea. Spain governed by Charles I defeated the French and after that Spain got control of the Cantabrian Sea. 1881 Pablo Picasso, a very important painter and sculpturer, was born on 25 October in Malaga. His family was liberal people but very poor. They moved to France.

Nothing specific happened in 1543, but in 1546, Tycho Brahe was born. Brahe was an astronomer, who ended up changing our perception of the universe and his discoveries about the constellations are still used today. He built a lot of groundbreaking instruments and both Newton’s and Kepler’s work was heavily Finland influenced by Brahe’s discoThe first ABC­book was pubveries. lished by Mikael Agricola. The ability to read became very common. It was the first FinSpain nish book. Lutheranism also There was a Naval battle became popular.

Finland The meeting of estates, where they decided to tie ‘the Finnish markka’ (= the currency before the euro in Finland) to gold.

Greece The Hellenic Red Cross is being founded by Queen Olga.

Italy

Greece Continuous piratical raids against the Ionian Islands.

Italy Nicolas Copernicus published his treatise De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (The Revolution ) Slovakia Territory of Slovakia in Hungarian Kingdom was occupied by the Turks. The Turks took and occupied Esztergom and the archbishop of Esztergom moved to Bratislava.

1918

1877 AD Denmark

Greece The Byzantine emperor, Theophilos , a great Christian and fervent iconoclast, declared Ioannis Grammaticus as archbishop, who lead to the resolution of the issue.

1543 AD Denmark

Finland

Denmark In 1918 an electoral system was introduced in Denmark and also this year the first women in Denmark were elected for the Danish Government. Danish women had only gotten the right to vote a few years before, in 1915.

known as the Spanish flu.

Finland The previous year Finland became independent.Civil war in Finland. The reds and the whites (the Socialists and the Right­ wing) fought. The Right­wing won.

Spain The so-called “Coppino Law” (after the name of the proposing Minister) makes education

Spain compulsory for children aged The expansion of the telepho- from six to nine all over the Itane started in Spain (between lian kingdom.

1877 and 1924), after being late with the expansion of other Slovakia inventions like the railway and the telegraph.

It was time of national movement, one of most important poets and national revivalist Janko Matúka died

Italy the “Manifesto of the Italian Futurist Party” is published.

Trade Unions (FIOM) obtain the reduction of working hours to 8 for metalworkers. The ILVA Steel Company is founded. 375,000 Italians die of Spanish Fever.

Slovakia

Greece There was a very important epidemic, known as the Spanish flu. The number of dead people in Germany, Britain France… was minimised, so that the soldiers’ morale wouldn’t be affected.

As Spain wasn’t at war, the number of dead people was announced freely, that is why it is

A truce is being signed in salonica between the Allies (Triple Entente: the UK, France, Russia) and Bulgaria. The Bulgarians are obligated to withdraw their troops from the Greek and Serbian grounds.

The establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic. The Czechoslovak declaration of independence was proclaimed on October 28 in Prague. The establishment of the Constitution of 1920 installed a parliamentary system and representative democracy.

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1185 AD ronomer and philosopher from Andalusia died in 1185. He The year 1185 the Danes led was a scholar, philosopher, astby King Knud the 6th finally ronomer and physician. conquered the Venders led by duke Bugislav after 85 years Finland of war. We soon lost the area again, but the Danish kings Swedes made crusades to kept the title “De Venders Fyrs- Finland. Finland became part te”, in latin Rex Sclavorum until of Sweden and they brought 1972 where Queen Margareth the Roman Catholic Church to the 2nd was crowned. The title Finland. was only for kings, not queens!

Denmark

peror, also known as Frederick Barbarossa, once again moved into Italy, this time joining forces with the local rural nobility to reduce the power of the Tuscan cities. His supporters became known as Ghibellines (Ghibellini) and were often those whose wealth was based on agricultural estates, while the Guelphs supported the Pope and tended to come from wealthy mercantile families.

Greece

In the medieval periode, a lot of changes took place, innoThe second fall of Salonica by vations in agriculture and the structure of society changed the Normans. Alexios Vranas Komninos defeated them in Diradically from the Viking age. mitritzi, near Amphipoli.

Spain Abu Bakr Ibn Tufayl, an important Muslim doctor, ast-

Italy Frederick I, Holy Roman Em-

Slovakia Hungarian monarch is Béla III invaded the Byzantine Empire.

After Andronikos I fell in September, Béla signed a peace treaty with the new emperor, Isaac II Angelos. Isaac married Béla’s daughter, Margaret

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1204 AD was Jewish, he had to leave AlItaly Andalus. He died in Al-Fustat In the start of the year 1200 in 1204.

The sack of Constantinople a new important trading centmarks the end of the IV Crure starts being used – the Finland sade as well as the triumph of strait between Denmark and the Republic of Venice: from The Danes made a military now on nothing will prevent Sweden called Øresund. This trading centre gathered Tra- expedition to Estonia and Fin- Venice from dominating maridesmen from all of Northern land. The pope gave them a time trade in the MediterraEurope. This brought new permission. nean. product to Denmark and gave income to Danish King by sel- Greece Slovakia ling salted herrings and other The fall of Constantinople Ondrej II. became a king of Danish/Swedish products. by the Crusaders. Directly af- Kingdom of Hungary. He was terwards, Michael I Komnenos directly responsible for the Spain Doukas (a nobleman, relative beginning of the feudal anarMaimonides was also an im- of the emperor) founds a new chy which led to the extincportant doctor and philoso- state in the west with Arta as tion of the Árpád dynasty at pher in the Middle Age. He its capital. the end of the 13th century was born in Al-Andalus. As he

Denmark

1323

1496 AD re. The Canary Islands were and Thessaly by Konstantinos conquered by these Catholic Arianitis. The Greeks were slaughtered and the country In this period in Danish his- kings in 1496 too. was looted. tory, the first Danish university was established in Den- Finland mark, at first being run by the Italy “Viipurin pamaus” was a big church, but this was the start of educating scholars and cre- explosion, which scared Russian soldiers when they were Leonardo da Vinci unsucating innovations. trying to conquer the city of cessfully tries to make a flying Vyborg. machine work; in the same Spain year he starts his “Last Supper” The Arabs surrendered Greece Granada and handed the Alhambra to the Christians Slovakia An attempt of the Greeks Kings, Isabelle I and Ferdinand of Aragon. It was the last pos- to revolt against the Turks Jan Thurzo built copper smelsession of the Arabs in Spain, under the leadership of the ter factory for separation of and its conquest meant the Dyrrachion archbishop, An- copper from silver near Banska beginning of a great Empi- drea Palaiologo and in Epirus Stiavnica.

Denmark

Denmark Nothing specific happened in Denmark this year, but in 1340, Valdemar Atterdag was crowned king of Denmark. Valdemar is remembered for his great efforts in uniting Denmark again, as it had been split up by his father. He made some harsh but wise decisions, which in the end were very beneficial for Denmark, and his clever way of trading and selling off parts of the land ended up securing Denmark as a nation.

Spain

Greece

James II , “The Just” was The lighthouse of Alexanruling Aragón, Valencia dria, one of the seven wonand Barcelona, one of the ders of the ancient world, is powerful kingdoms at that being time. He conquered Sardinia in 1323.

Italy Finland

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and the The peace treaty of Päh- father of Medieval Scholastikinäsaari. The fighting bet- cism, is canonized by Pope ween Sweden and Novgo- John XXII rod ended 12/8/1323 and Sweden­Finland established Slovakia its borders. The border went through Pyhäjoki.

Fiscal and monetary reforms of King Charles I

1936 AD George’s II support, adjourns the Parliament and declares We didn’t really have any inno- Greece a state of emergency. vative things in 1936, but in the He held all power. It was a selfyear before, 1935, we finished coup. the bridge called, the Little Belt Bridge. Now people could tran- Italy sport themselves from Funen to Jutland.

Cinecittà (the Italian “HolIn 1970 a new Little Belt Bridge loywood”, in Rome), PUF (the was built. Today the Old Little Fascist Ministry of PropaganBelt Bridge is still used mostly da), the Rome-Berlin Axis and by light traffic, bikers and hi- the FIAT car “Topolino” were born. Mussolini proclaims the kers. birth of the Fascist Empire: King Vittorio Emanuele III beSpain comes Emperor of Ethiopia. Antisemitic campain starts off in 1936: Spain was a republic at the journal “Il regime fascista”. that time. A group of soldiers Mussolini sends troops to supdid a coup d’état and for this port Franco during the Spanish reason a Civil War began in Civil War (10,000 men). Nobel Spain. General Franco won and Prize for literature Luigi PirandSpain was under a dictatorship ello dies in Rome. and isolated from the rest of Europe for about 40 years.

Slovakia

Denmark

Finland There was an election of parliament. The Socialists and Agrarian Centre party succeeded well. Finland had co-operation between these blocks.

Greece Ioannis Metaxas, with king

The first congress of Slovak Writers expressed fidelity to the “struggle for freedom andgreat ideas of mankind”. Congress was the most serious and the most important event of Slovak writers, scientists and journalists, which had an impact not only on the Slovak literature and culture, but also supported the struggle against the growing menace of fascism.

1957 AD noon, everything deadened in Greece as a protest against the 1957, First time Denmark British about their policy in competes in the Eurovision Cyprus. song contest. Denmark was the first Scandinavian country Italy in the Eurovision. It has opened up for the cultural awareness of Scandinavia. By competing in On 25th March 1957 two trethe Eurovision song contest we aties were signed in Rome. The have made Denmark more kno- first gave birth to the European wn all over Europe.

Economic Community (EEC), also known as the ’Common Market ’; the second was an agSpain reement on the production of The last colonial war that nuclear energy for civil use. The Spain faced happened in that EEC changed the ways of trade year. The newly independent across Europe by allowing the Kingdom of Morocco wanted free circulation of goods among to control the northern part member States. of Western Sahara, which was a Spanish possession. Spain left Slovakia the area.

Antonin Novotny became a president. He was a hard-line Finland supporter of Stalinism. In the Jean Sibelius died. He was na- Czechoslovakia of Novotny, tional composer of Finland. He people continued to face strict composed the Finlandia. government regulations. A new fully Communist constitution was approved.

Greece

Denmark

1957: On 13th February, at

2003 facture of Nokia was successful. It brought wealth to Skype, created by the Finland.

Dane Janus Friis and the Greece Swede Niklas Zennström, is a telecommunication appli1st January Greece takes cation software, that enables users to make voice calls, over, for the fourth time, video chats and send instant the Presidency of the Euromessages, including pictures pean Union.(Government of and files, via the internet, Konstantinos Simitis) free of charge. It runs on Italy computers, tablets and mobile devices, and has helped Gianni Agnelli, FIAT’s main connecting the world a great deal, since it was the first shareholder, dies in Turin. software to offer video con- In Rome 3 mln people demonstrate against the war ference for free. in Iraq, but the Parliament authorizes military intervenSpain tion; so, 28 so diers are kilJosé María Aznar, the Spa- led in Nassiriya-Iraq by a car nish president supported bombing: it is the greatest the US invasion of Iraq, clai- attack to the Italian Army ming there was evidence of since the end of WWII. nuclear proliferation in Iraq.

Slovakia Most of the Spanish population were against this war.

Slovakia approves joining the European Union in a reFinland ferendum.

The mobile phone manuDenmark

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A PORTRAIT OF AN EXCHANGE STUDENT THE DANISH NATIONAL NAVAL ARCHIVE

BY MARCUS AND MICHAL AVITAEARTICLE30/1/15

Copenhagen is the city, whe-

re it all started; it is the capital of Denmark and the current host for the exchange-program Erasmus Avitae; a program made by a bunch of teachers to exchange young students from the countries of Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Finland and Cyprus to learn about other countries and their view on ancient entrepreneurship.

Michal was sitting on board of a plane to the Copenhagen Airport on the afternoon of the 25. January. Sitting there, he noticed things to every detail. That is to say that Michal is a blogger; he writes and takes pictures on the subjects of travel, gastronomy and architecture. Every time Michal goes to a new country, he creates ideas on how to enjoy the city as much as possible. Therefore Michal hopes for a city filled with astonishing buildings and delicious food – and of course a stable Internet access.

One hour later he landed on Danish ground and already met difficulties in the form of a cash-exchanging machine.

The currency of Denmark is not euro, although Denmark is a member of the European Union. But he managed it as best as he could. Then he was ready to enter Denmark.

As soon as he saw his host, he knew he was not going to be homeless for the week. Michal had to stay at this unknown host for 6 nights on a flat mattress. At first, it seemed to be very uncomfortable, but then it turned out to be a real adventure. In the daytime, he was out exploring Copenhagen, taking pictures as rabidly as a true tourist. With the school, he went to places that he had never seen; like Christianshavn, Roskilde or ‘The Blue Planet’: an aquarium of scale. Most of the touring were done outdoors in the January cold: “The weather is smacking my face all the time, because it’s so windy,” he said after walking in Roskilde for several hours. But even though the weather made the trips difficult to enjoy, Michael felt compelled to the beauty of the old and historic architecture of the capital. He made many posts on his blog, capturing a lot of the modern buildings, the food and (of course) the Disney Shop.

It was the teachers from Italy, who first came up with the idea for AVITAE, but after including teachers from other countries it involved into something much bigger than what the Italian teachers expected.

The project is therefore always evolving, making every plan always changing. Every day was

like a surprise to the students, because they never knew how much the scheme would change. It was stressful and chaotic, but also a sign of how many ideas, that emerged from all being together.

So when not exploring Copenhagen, Michal had a great time at school. He was amazed of the style of the school and the special kind of educating.

The program contained the main themes of innovation and entrepreneurship.

The students from all the countries had to collaborate in workshops, preparing prototypes of an innovative product.

The teamwork went through multiple stages: creating the idea, making personas and even the branding of it. Michal made a telescope with his group; the idea was to show exchangestudents an innovative product from the Renaissance. At last the product was presented to all the other classmates and teachers.

Tuesday the 27th, everyoOne of the things the student ne from the AVITAE program saw, was this remarkable half went to Christianshavn. finished ship. The Danes are good at building ships, which The students took the you can see from this model. metro from Ørestad Gym- Even Though the ship is only nasium at 2pm. They stood half finished, it’s still a great off at Christianshavn, whe- example for the Danish shipre they needed to wait for building some people, who did not get into the metro, at ØreAnother thing the student stad. Klaus then told them saw was an old map of Copenabout Christianshavn and hagen, before it was as big, as how it was a man made is- it is today. As you can see it land, by the Christian the has this big wall around it, like 4th, or rather he made the a big fortress. The walls were command to make the is- necessary back then, because land. The Students were they protected the city from taken to see two churches, the invaders. befor going to the Danish national naval archive.

There was also this really impressive map of europe, that Then the students went caught the students attention. to the Danish national na- It ’s done with val archive, where they only remarkable accuhad 30 min to look through racy, especially the museum. The students considering the walked in groups, host with time it was done. their guests. The museum It was used to held models of ships, old travel through euship parts, and other things rope back in the that had to do with the day. The map was navy, from historical time, a long process to to the present. do, because they needed to travel

The week went by quickly.

Michal went home with a baggage full of new experience and social connections. He had learned a great deal of new information on subjects such as Danish history, architecture and culture. Now he is looking forward to repeating it with the small difference of being host himself, when the AVITAE goes Even though Greece and Dento Slovakia. mark are placed on the same continent and both are members of the EU, they are two completely different countries.

The two countries, including others, met in Denmark for the Avitae project. In the following article there will be an interview with a Greek guy and his experience with the Danish school ‘Ørestad Gymnasium’.

along every coast to note how it was going.

Along the Museum there was an old cannon, which was the weapon they used for the ship, to attack other ships along the way. But this is a very old cannon, so it was only used on the wood ships, so it was long before the industrial revolution.

The museum was very interesting, and it showed Denmark in prime time, when we ruled the seas, and when we had one of the strongest naval armies in the world. How the Danish people build the ships, and how they used them, how their harbors worked, and everything they did with their ships, past and present.

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The first thing that popped in Stauros’ mind was “Am I in the right building? This is like a hotel!”. When he arrived at the gymnasium for the first time, he noticed the special design of the school and how the big stair combined the four floors.

He was really surprised by the many different facilities, the school is offering their stu-

dents. The cafeteria, the open classrooms and the modern way of learning with iPads and computers.

Stauros was impressed by the the school cafeterias’ capacity and its size. When the lunch bell rang, it was only in a matter of second before the cafeteria became full. Students who didn’t get a seat, had to find another place, to eat their food they bought in the cafeteria.

The cafeteria was big, but it couldn’t hold all 1200 students and teachers.

Later on, when Stauros was being shown around at the school, he saw a different way of teaching. He saw how the teaching environment was designed to improve the students' concentration and group working skills. ”Oh crap” that was the first thing that flew out of

Stauros’ mouth when he saw the how the architects used glass instead of bricks to make walls. The open classrooms allow the students to work in groups and create something special and innovative,which haven’t been seen in Greece before.All the students sat with their computers and ipads,instead of the traditional book and paper. In Greece,the main way of learning is by listening to the teacher,but in Denmark the new,innovative way of learning has taken its place and the students have to learn by doing. The Avitae project gives foreign young people the opportunity to explore a different way of living, learning and of course meeting new people, from all over Europe.

Made by Elias Hirvikoski and Jeremia Toppari from Finland.