PGEE "Kaptain Petko Voyvoda" participated in an international conference in Antalya, Turkey

 

The Eighth Thematic Conference of the European Comenius network Ecomedia Europe held from 26 to 30 May 2013 in the city of Antalya, Turkey. The partner network was created by Socrates program in 2005 with financial support from the European Commission. Later it passed and develop to a network of Comenius. Strategic development of information and communication technologies in education, and promotion of training institutions to use ICT to support their work on European projects are the main subject matter of Ecomedia Europe.

Representatives of 18 countries participated in the work sessions of the Eighth Thematic Conference of the network.  Dipl.eng. Antoineta Sendova, senior teacher in PGEE "Kaptain Petko Voyvoda" was the only representative of Bulgaria.

PGEE has been an active member of the network since November 2011. Membership in the network is the result of the close cooperation between dipl. eng. Petko Kushlev, director of the vocational school, and Mr. Herbert Eile coordinator of Ecomedia Europe from Wolfsberg, Austria. This cooperation allows  sharing of educational resources and supporting development  of new educational models.

Great interest among the participants of the conference provoked “The international e-Learning Landscape” presented by Prof. Dr. Johann Gunther Danube University Krems, Austria. He spoke about development of e-learning in different countries and perspectives outlined for upgrading. Free educational software was presented during the conference and to the network partners was offered assistance to master the basic tools for e-learning.

Participation in the Eight Thematic Ecomedia Europe conference will lead to strengthening partnership relations between PGEE and the other partners for further cooperation in the successful implementation of common projects.

Participation in the conference has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This publication  reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

More information about the conference on the conference website:

http://ecomediaantalya.org/en/

Media coverage:

http://ardanews.info/?p=48413

Regional Festival Live long learning - Kardzhali, Bulgaria, October 2012

    Regional Festival Live Long Learning was held in Kardzhali on 27.10.2012.

The festival is part of the project NELLII – Network for Effective Lifelong Learning Initiatives and Information of the Ministry of Education and Science.

      For all ages - kids and parents, students and teachers, employers were organized: seminars, open doors, workshops, demonstration lessons in information and communication technologies, scientific demonstrations, lectures and workshops for career development, environmental activities, sports events, games, dance, exhibitions.

    Within the festival a seminar for Lifelong Learning was held. PGEE "Kapitan Petko Voyvoda" was represented by the eng.  Antoaneta Sendova with the report - "How to turn strategy into practice and learning into pleasure" and by IRA Mihaylova with the report “Let’s Learn to live healthy". Best practices and years of work experience in European projects were shared. The opportunities of programs Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius and eTwinning for supporting schools also were provided.

Program of the festival:

http://www.nellii.bg/docs/programa_Kurdjali_27102012.pdf

eng. Antoaneta Sendova

Ira Mihaylova

PGEE"Kapitan Petko vpyvoda" with new international Comenius project

A new significant Comenius project, part of the Lifelong Learning Program  aimed at all levels of school education, started in PGEE "Kaptain Petko Voyvoda", Kardzhali, Bulgaria.

The project entitled "Learning to Live Healthy" is a part of the activity "International Partnerships" and is funded by Comenius at a value of 20,000 Euros for a period of two years. The partners of PGEE "Kaptain Petko Voyvoda" are schools from 8 countries: Austria, Germany, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Turkey. The working language is German.

The project objective is to seek another opportunity for the school environment to be perceived by students as their desired territory. Through engaging in local activities and activities with their peers from other partner countries, they will reach the main products that are provided: The project Logo is Green Class 2012 and Comenius school.

The topics covering the project activities are provoking the students to think in interesting ways about how to combine work with pleasure: health and sports, health and healthy nutrition, health and culture, violence prevention, students’ rights and obligations in the state, health and nature, health and family habits, healthy activities in work and leisure, health and the Internet.

What are the benefits to the students of this project? They are significant because they provide many opportunities for youth to learn about their peers from different countries, their lifestyle and habits while communicating among themselves in German or English. Familiarization with the regional culture of the partners with healthy living through various areas (sports, nutrition, leisure, work, prevention, addictions) will enrich young people. In the implementation of activities purely human contacts will be created and the students will be able to spend their free time active, will learning about fair-play.

Teachers, who will work with students, will be able to achieve a new kind of experience, be familiar with specific methods and systems to solve problems with their students, and also increase the level of their language competence.

All this will benefit the school, making it attractive on the existing education market.

There are also benefits for the city and our region, because the expected tourist flow in May 2012, when all eight partner schools will visit Kardzhali and will be guests of PGEE, will make the best advertisement for our country, city and region for all of us.

First meeting - Lithuania, October 2011

Days of program Comenius

The traditional Days of programs Comenius and  eTwinning in Bulgaria were held from December 6th to 8th . The workshop took place in Sofia under the form of a forum.The latest issues in education and the suitable solutions to these problems  were also discussed.
      During the event the assistants within the program Comenius  (4of them in Bulgaria, including our colleague Marcus Ulbricht) had the opportunity to share information about their assistantships at the host institutions. The projects and partnerships in Comenius 2009, awarded to the overall quality realization, were also presented.   European CNC-Network and the project of our friends from PTG “Dr. N. Vasiliadi”, Gabrovo - "Train for Europe ", were among them .

MARCUS ULBRICHT – THE NEW GERMAN ASSISTANT

LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME - COMENIUS ASSISTANTSHIPS

Selection 2009

Mr. Markus Ulbricht, teaching assistant of German language, arrived in PGEE at the end of September 2010. Mr Ulbricht’s residence in Kardzhali is within the Sector Programme Comenius assistantship. The purpose of the programme is to motivate students to learn German and to improve their language skills. Mr. Ulbricht will also participate in extra curricular activities for the pupils of our vocational school.

In their interaction with the assistant, the teachers from PGEE gain valuable knowledge about the German education system and exchange ideas on different teaching methods and innovative techniques.

      Marcus comes from the beautiful town of Jena, a large university town in Thuringia, Germany. He is studying History and Latin at Leipzig University to become a qualified teacher. His position with PGEE Kardzhali, Bulgaria, is working within the Comenius Programme which is a good opportunity for him to get accustomed to a different type of system used for teacher training as well as to gain experience within the profession.

25th anniversary

Тhe holiday of PGEE was celebrated with a gala concert at the House of Culture on the 28th april. The governor of the District of Kardzhali, chief of the Rio MOMN, representative of the Economic Chamber, directors of schools in the Kardzhali region, former teachers in PGEE, students and parents respected us. We celebrated our 25th anniversary with songs, dances, birthday cake and fireworks.

We have received many congratulatory letters from our friends. We give heartfelt thanks to all of our partners who became part of our holiday with their kind words and congratulations. They were put on prominent display and all visitors could read about our fruitful cooperation. We hope that it will continue in the future.

Asociación Amigos de Europa Leonardo da Vinci , Spain, a partner in Program Leonardo da Vinci

Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Schule, Fritzlar, Germany - a partner in Program Leonardo da Vinci

Opera-Socialis, Berlin, Germany - a partner in Program Leonardo da Vinci

Ogre Vocational School, Ogre, Latvia -a partner in Programs Leonardo da Vinci and  eTwinning

Lycée des Métiers Louis Armand, Nogent sur Marne, France - a partner in Program eTwinning

Thanks again to everyone who celebrated with us!

Valorization conference of the "Lifelong Learning Program"

10 YEARS OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT CENTER

For the 10 year anniversary celebrating the creation of the Human Resource Development Center, on the 18th of December, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel, Sofia, the first valorization conference of the European "Lifelong Learning program" was held. Sectoral programs were presented in the programs: Comenius for school education, Erasmus for higher education, Leonardo da Vinci for vocational education and training and Grundtvig - adult education.  Teachers and principals of schools with winning projects were invited to the conference. Eng. P. Kouchlev, director of PGEE and eng. A. Sendova, head of one of the winning projects, attended from our school.

During the conference,  high quality completed projects under the European sectoral program Leonardo da Vinci, supporting vocational education and training in Bulgaria, were recognized. Excellent projects from the sectoral European program Comenius and Bulgarian ambassadors to the European community of teachers eTwinning were presented as well. They are eight in number: Rosica Dimova, Regional Inspectorate of Education - city Sofia, Christina Baeva, Regional Inspectorate of Education - Shoumen, Elena Lazarova from the National Institute for Training Directors, Bankya, Antoaneta Sendova from PGEE “Kapitan Petko Voyvoda”, Kardzhali, Gorica Lazarova from the school "Brothers Peter and Ivan Kanazirevi”, Razlog, Eugenia Tzvetanova from Kindergarten 25" Brothers Grimm ", Shoumen, Svetlana Varbanova of FBS”Vasil Levski”, Dobrich, Theodora Valova, High School Foreign Languages, Pleven.

In the event students and teachers presented their talents and skills acquired and developed through their participation in European educational programs.

Thanks to the activities of Bulgarian eTwinning ambassadors, more schools in the country are turning to the use of the system not only as a platform for communication, but also as a basis for starting the projects funded under the “Lifelong Learning Program".

Our Vocational School was awarded for the project "ICT in Electrical drawing ..." led by eng.Antoaneta Sendova. The award was presented by Deputy Minister of Education Mrs. Lomeva and Director of the HRDC Mrs. Gabova.

PGEE PARTICIPATED IN A PRESTIGIOUS FORUM

On 8-10 December in Bourgas the "Days of Comenius in Bulgaria" was held. The event was organized by the Human Resource Development Center. Our vocational school received a special invitation. In order to present our successful practice in this program,  Mr. Petko Kushlev, director of PGEE Kapitan Petko voyvoda, and Mrs. Margarita Stamova, deputy director and coordinator of the project traveled to this seaside town. In his presentation entitled: Activity Assistantship , Mr. Kushlev explained about Assistant Anita Laube, a teacher from Germany, who was teaching German in PGEE during last school year.

Directors of schools from Sofia, Stara Zagora, Blagoevgrad, Bourgas, Dobrich, Veliko Tarnovo, Varna, Vratsa, took part in this prestigious event. There they exchanged ideas and experience useful for future cooperation.

                    

LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME

COMENIUS ASSISTANTSHIPS 2008

For the period October 2008 - June 2009 PGEE received an Assistant teacher of German language in line with the Sectoral program Comenius. Anita Laube worked in our school as an assistant teacher of German. She conducted formal and informal meetings with students and teachers, allowing them to get a feel for German to learn about the German education system, method and manner of teaching through direct contact with a representative of the country. Moreover, Ms. Laube was involved in the translation of documents and cooperated in the development and implementation of projects under EU programs.

During her stay she took lessons in Bulgarian, and in cooperation with a volunteer from the Peace Corps, working in PGEE, improved her language skills in English.

As a result of active work of assistants in the German language classes and organized extracurricular time courses in German, the level of language competence and motivation of students increased considerably.
During her stay all previously placed aims were achieved.