From November 1st to November 5th, 2021, Agrupamento de Escolas Venda do Pinheiro, in Portugal, hosted the initial meeting of the Erasmus project – “Sustainability: learn, change, live – one future for all”, in which teachers from the schools involved, coming from Poland, Italy, Greece, Spain and Turkey, took part in various training activities. With Sustainability as a backdrop, training and actions were developed within the scope of School Libraries, the Educar para a Geração Azul Project, as well as coding on mobile phones and 3D Printing.
In addition to the opportunity to discover a little of the ecological and cultural heritage of the Municipality of Mafra, participants were able to visit some of the Agrupamento de Escolas Venda do Pinheiro’s schools, sharing our experience in the classroom. It is these moments of sharing, discussion and learning that make us all richer.
Here, you can some images documenting this week’s activities:
Discovering Lisbon’s Oceanário. 
Natural and cultural heritage: a sunset at Ericeira. 
Our polish colleagues, singing to us. 
Portuguese and Polish teams, at the final dinner. 
Portuguese and Italian teams, at the final dinner. 
Portuguese and Greek teams, at the final dinner. 
Learning about the EGA project at Oceanário. 
Portuguese team and AEVP headmistress, at the final dinner. 
Our first group photo, at the very beggining of the week. 
Reception with Mafra’s mayor. 
Heritage: visiting Mafra’s Convent and Basilica. 
Greek representative, presenting to AEVP’s schoolmistress. 
Musical moment from the polish team. 
Workshop: Learning about the importance of School Libraries and librarians. 
Group photo, while visiting AEVP’s primary schools. 
Workshop: warmup activity, 
AEVP’s robotics club presenting robots and drones, dancing to the EU hymn. 
Italian coordinators sketchinh the project’s roadmap. 
Workshop: learning 3D modeling on mobile devices, 
Visiting AEVP’s traditional tiling club. 
Discovering EGA at Oceanário. 
All teams at AEVP’s ICT classroom, ready for workshops. 
Workshop: coding on mobile devices, 
Heritage: seeing a ceramist at José Franco’s workshop. 
Icebreaking and warmup.
Here begins a transversal exchange course, which aims to broaden everyone’s horizons and will take our students to know other realities, other students and other learning experiences in other countries. It was a great pleasure to organize and host this first event.
