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

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 .

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!

Professional seminar of the eTwinning ambassadors for Bulgaria

On 7, 8 and 9.04.2010g. a Professional seminar of the eTwinning ambassadors for Bulgaria was held in Troyan, organized by the Human Resource Development Center. Antoaneta Sendova, one of the eight eTwinning ambassadors for Bulgaria participated in the workshop.Topics that were discussed refer to the educational environment that ensures eTwinning virtual space. Тhe planned management of online projects was discussed. The focus was on development of a new type of virtual communication and teaching an integrated curriculum. Another center of discussion was the work of eTwinning projects as a means and method to increase motivation in language learning. Daily difficulties encountered by Bulgarian ambassadors, multipliers and moderators were discussed. Ambassadors talked about the possibilities of overcoming obstacles. Again, particular attention was paid to the content, aims and opportunities for training of teachers through the program of the European Commission “Study visits”. Some new opportunities of the TwinSpace. (Working Area of the European electronic portal partnership between schools) were presented.

Mr. Stoyan Kyulev from the Human Resource Development Center, i.d Head “Support Activities”, National Coordinator of the eTwinning Programme attended the meeting.

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.

eTwinning day in Kardzhali

Within the traditional European weeks of e Twinning, on 29.10. 2009 in Kardzhali took place eTwinning day, together with HRDC. The event was hosted from our school. The seminar was conducted in the ODK children's center and it was attended by teachers and headmasters from Kardzhali and from the region. The event was opened by eng. Petko Kushlev , director of PGEE. eTwinning is part of the "Lifelong Learning" program in the European Commission and provides an opportunity to employees with education and training of children and youth, for collaboration with colleagues from Europe and the implementation of partnership projects through the Internet and ICT. Mr Nikolay Chebotarev is the assistant HRDC responsible for Portal eTwinning, demonstrated to the teachers and headmasters the possibilities of the program, and focused on successful practices in PGEE “Kapitan Petko voyvoda”. From our side, projects in our school were presented by eng. Antoaneta Sendova and eng. Boriana Andreeva. Georgi Dimov, Petko Manolov and Georgi Hristov from the10th grade, told the participants in the forum about their impressions from their work on the project "Electricity without borders", in which we had guests from France last year. The three boys presented themselves excellent and were applauded by all participants. In conclusion, Mr. Kushlev thanked the headmasters and teachers from the region who responded to the call for the workshop, wished them fruitful work and more zeal in seeking partners and implementation of projects - this is not complicated, as is shown by our experience. It is interesting to note that all three projects implemented in the eTwingning portal were awarded with the National Quality Label, the highest award at the national level. These are the projects: "Notification of Partnership" 2007,”ICT in electrical drawing…" 2007-2009, and " Electricity Without Borders” 2007-2009.

PGEE “Kapitan Petko voyvoda” again with The National Quality Label

Bulgarian - French project "Electricity without borders" - PGEE project partner

In the 2007/08 school year, the project "Electricity without borders" on the sectoral program Comenius, attendant activity eTwinning, was developed by students from the 12th grade speciality “Electrics of industry" in PGEE “Kapitan Petko voyvoda” and students from the Polytechnic liceum "Louis Armand", France. They exchanged knowledge about production, distribution and consumption of electricity in both of their countries. In 2008/09 at work on the project, there were included students from speciality “Computer technics and Technology”. They responded to questions from their French friends, related to consumption and saving electricity. Excellent knowledge of English, of students from the speciality “Computer technics and Technology,” helped for better communication between the young people  of both countries. They drew up reports and presentations about the use of wind and solar power for environmental protection , and also a technical dictionary for renewable sources energy in French, English and Bulgarian. The materials were uploaded on the project Twin space and published on the web. French students and their teachers arrived in Kardzhali to familiarize themselves with our school and our students. They visited leading companies in the city, had fun with their Bulgarian friends, and participated in sports competitions. Lifelong friendships were created. eTwinning is an Internet platform for cooperation between schools from different European countries. It helps school collaboration in Europe through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provides support, tools and services to facilitate schools in the formation of short-term and long-lasting partnerships in all areas and subjects. eTwinning is an attendant activity to program "Lifelong Learning" in the EU.

Project "ICT in electrical drawing...” with National Quality Label

Bulgarian-French project "ICT in electrical drawing...” - PGEE project partner

In 2007/08 school year the project "ICT in electrical drawing” in line with the sectoral program Comenius, attendant activity eTwinning, was developed by the students from the 12th grade speciality “Electrics of industry" in PGEE “Kapitan Petko voyvoda” and students from the Polytechnic liceum "Louis Armand, France.

The uniqality of this project was the fulfilled connection between students from both countries - like working in a virtual laboratory.

The students from the French vocational school submitted on shared space project a system for regulating temperature and pressure of the sugar syrup. This system is actually operating in the laboratory of the Lycee. It is often used in companies for the manufacture of sugar products not only in France but across Europe. They gave us the principal scheme of the device and its principle of action. Students from PGEE “Kapitan Petko Voyvoda” learned the principle of operation of the device and drew up a principal scheme of the system using specialized software Caddy electrical. With this program they learned to work in Technical drawing classes. They made presentations with the basic steps for drawing the scheme and they have been uploaded to the shared space of the project. It was a very interesting virtual class between two countries.

Our French partners have carried out a second project with students from our school – “Electricity Without Borders”. They managed to find a sponsor and bring the French students to Bulgaria. We were pleased to welcome them with us in April 2009 and to consolidate the friendship, started in eTwinning in real terms.

PGEE “Kapitan Petko voyvoda “- Kardzhali is the first vocational school in Bulgaria awarded by National quality label

PGEE “Kapitan Petko voyvoda “- Kardzhali is the first vocational school in Bulgaria awarded the National quality label, which distinguishes the most successful projects in eTwinning. The prestigious certificate signed by Ludmil Kovachev, Director of the Human Resource Development Center, was presented by Stoyan Kyulev, Head of the Sector eTwinning, at the Information Seminar on the "Lifelong Learning", organized by the Center for Human Resource Development in Veliko Tarnovo 27 - June 29, 2007