Where We Are Now

Hello Friends,

Some of you may be completing your application forms for your national agency. You might want to write something like this for sections E1 and E2 - but feel free to change this if you want to.

Although this is where we are now, we can change this at the meeting in January.

Section E1Start date: Sept 2010

Title: The Fair Trade Community Sports Olympics

Ten schools from eight countries involved - UK, Romania, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland

The project will pursue three themes which may develop into a major sports event, created and planned by the students combined with a Fair Trade market.

The three key themes are:
1) Cultural Diversity and Community Cohesion within the European Family of Nations
2) Local sports traditions
3) Fair Trade

Students will form international clusters generating curriculum projects in each of these areas. As we will also be exploring the theme of social enterprise, any profits generated will be diverted to a socially useful activity of the students' choosing.

The project will be integrated into other areas of the curriculum such as Business Studies, Sports Education, Mathematics and Humanities.

and for section E2, you might write something like this:

Representatives from all nine schools will attend the preliminary meeting, the main purpose of which will be to follow this agenda:

1) Aims & Objectives of the Project
2) Communications
3) Reporting procedures
4) Activities planning for the two years
5) Division of responsibilities and action plan for year one
6) Assessment procedures

It is intended, however, that the meeting should provide an opportunity to develop additional joint activities such as joint research projects between teachers, a sports tour and so on - in order to maximise the output from the investment into the trip.