Day 1
The first meeting of all the participants of the EARTH project began with an appropriate program and welcome greetings from the principal of the host school in Montalbano and the mayor. After the competition for the project logo, there was a visit to the picturesque Croco farm and a walk in Montalbano.
Day 2
The project team is spending day at the research center ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development at lectures and workshops on sustainable development, renewable energy sources and recycling. This was followed by a visit and a walk along the most famous sandy beach in Nova Siri.
Day 3
The Erasmus teams spent today exclusively working in the host school. In mixed groups, the participants created a marketing and financial distribution plan for the selected business model to be implemented in the Montalbano region.
Day 4
The participants of the first Erasmus+ mobility in Italy presented the finished works to the expert committee and their colleagues. The teachers listened to a lecture on starting a new business and also completed the task that the students did. The day ended with a big ceremony for the whole local community where the partners presented a song or dance of their country.
Day 5
Matera is a city in the region of Basilicata, under UNESCO protection since 1993. We were lucky enough to spend a day in this exceptional city where the famous films James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies and Mel Gibson's Passion were filmed. The city is also known as Little Jerusalem. On the way back, we visited the remains of the temple of the goddess Athena from the 6th century. B.C.
This was the first mobility carried out within this project and included partners from Italy, Portugal, Iceland, Greece, Spain and Croatia.
Several activities were developed during this week: a logo competition, study visits to the farm and the center for research and technological innovation ENEA, a cultural visit to the city of Matera, lectures on entrepreneurship, the circular economy and the Business Model Canvas.
International working groups were defined and each group developed and presented to the jury a business model to be implemented in the Montalbano region.
One of the most outstanding moments of this mobility was a gala event for the entire local community where the project participants presented a song or dance of their country.
They were days of work, but also of strengthening ties between all partners in this project, students, teachers and host families.