From 24th to 28th April, students from the five countries participacing in the ERASMUS+ Project "Reporters without frontiers" have met in Reikiavik (Iceland), in the school Fjölbrautaskólinn í Breiðholti, to work on the topics and the interviews about:
- Health and food quality.
- Environment and tourism.
- Energy and Environment.
- Capitalism and austerity
- Refugees
This is the PROGRAMME for the visit.
And a brief account of what we have done during our visit:
Sunday, 23rd April:
Guided Tour in Reikiavik (Town Hall, Viking museum, Market, Harbour, Harpa Concert Hall and Conference centre, Old town).
Monday, 24th April:
Working at Icelandic school: School presentations, Travel books´presentations and groups organisation in order to prepare the interviews on the topics that they will carry on next Wednesday and Thursday.
The school is the only one in Reikiavik that provides academic and vocational training, among the different vocations, Photography and Art (Drawing, Sculpture, Textile).
To finish, we were guided through the school and classrooms and visited the Fab Lab of Reikiavikwhich is inside the school and that allows students to practise computer design and to print their designs in 3D.
Islands of Vestmann: Visit Heimaey and volcano Eldfell
Wednesday, 26 April
Students have worked in groups preparing the different interviews for several people and institutions related to the five topics in our Erasmus+ project:
- Health and food quality.
- Environment and tourism.
- Energy and Environment.
- Capitalism and austerity.
- Refugees.
Tomorrow students will make and record (sound and video) the interviews they have already prepared following the scheduled PROGRAMME.
Teachers had a work meeting in the afternoon in order to agree on certain tasks to carry on as well as on some details on future visits.
Thursday, 28 April
Today students in Erasmus+ have finished doing all the interviews that were arranged in this visit.
Teachers in each group have accompanied students to make their interviews to people and institutions related to the topics they have been working on.
Students in the group working on Refugees have visited the Red Cross association in Reikiavik and have had an interview with the its president and other responsible people for social, legal and medical issues.
Afterwards we have spoken to Sema Eldar Serdar, president and founder at SOLARIS - a relief organisation for refugees and asylum seekers in Iceland.
Friday, 29 April
In the last day of this Erasmus+ visit, students in the five different groups finished editing their videos and audios from the diverse interview recordings and elaborate a presentation with all the information they managed to get. They also added a conclusion to their work during this week and presented all together in the final academic event before the farewell ceremony.
The presentations on their analysis of the interviews, the comparison of different points of view and the final reflections provoke in students the feeling of task fulfillment and in their teachers that of satisfaction.
Presentations by students:
- Refugees
- Environment and energy.
- Environment and tourism.
- Food quality.
In the farewell ceremony students were given their participation diplomas. Keep up the good work, Alba, Paula, Álvaro and Manuel!!
