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The 11th EPMeeting

Thessaloniki 11th - 16th April 2008

There have been three years in the Comenius Program: Discover your own way to
enjoy science at school, where the four schools have been cooperated successfully.
The 11th EPMeeting took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, home of Experimental
High School of Macedonia University. The contributing schools were M. Ozkan
Αnatolian High School (2 teachers and 5 pupils), Βunyan Anatolian High School (8
teachers and 6 pupils) and Liceo Boggio Lera (1 teacher and 5 pupils).
This was the last meeting of this program, since it officially ends in 31 August 2008. A
representative of the Brussels European School, Mr. Erik Van Haegenbergh, also
participated in the meeting. This school, from Belgium, has applied with the Italian and the
Greek school for a new Comenius program.

The opening ceremony started with a welcome speech of the Headmistress of the school
Ms. Eleni Mouzoura and included a shadow theatre, performance of pieces of classical
music, songs and folk dances. It is worthy to mention that the whole school participated
singing the songs and it was
a unique and a very
emotional moment, when
the whole audience sang J.
Lennon’s Imagine.

Then, the prize EPM

Award ceremony took
place for the 2006 best
article competition. The
coordinator of the program
Ali Kalem handed a
certificate to the two
winners, the Greek pupils A.
Deligiorgi and S. Discou.
The prize included a trip to
the place where the next
meeting will be held,
THE WINNERS OF THE PRIZE EPM AWARD 2006 probably in Bucharest.
The first day of the
official program was devoted to presentations about the origin and the history of
EPMagazine.

During the other working days there was a workshop on Publisher program, guided
by the Italian group, since this software is used for printing the Magazine. In addition,
every partner school presented its work and informed the other partners about the

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fulfillment of its tasks.
There were interesting
presentations about:
• the mirror sites,
• the self-evaluation of each
partner,
• new proposed layouts,
• the creation of a blog,
• the renovation of the
Magazine.
A lot of discussion was spent
about the role of editors, referees
and supervising teachers, and the
dissemination of the Magazine.
DURING A PRESENTATION The official program ended with
sharing of works to be done till
next meeting.

In the parallel activities there was an excursion to Halkidiki, where all the participants
had a guided tour in Ancient Olynthos. Later they had lunch in Kallithea. In addition they
visited the Mayor of Neapoli Mr. N. Ladopouolos, where they had an interesting
discussion. They also visited University of Macedonia, where the supervisor of the host
school guided them to the library and to a computers lab. Finally they visited the folklore

IN ANCIENT OLYNTHOS SHADOW THEATRE

museum. The farewell dinner took place in a restaurant in the seaside.

All partners enjoyed very much their stay in
Thessaloniki. Especially the students found this
Nikos Georgolios
meeting as a unique chance to know them Experimental High School of
better, to make new friends, to discuss and to University of Macedonia
exchange ideas, and finally to learn a lot about
the culture and the habits of other people. Thessaloniki, Greece
Perhaps, this was one of the better lessons
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