This document summarizes an E-Twinning program between schools in Greece and Italy called "Active Citizenship". It describes exchanges where students and teachers from each country visited the other. During the Greek visit to Italy, they were warmly welcomed and visited the Italian school as well as Altamura and Matera, learning about the local culture and history. The program aimed to promote active citizenship through collaboration between the schools on European projects.

1. ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP
A review of E-twinning program

2. The two teams
6th elementary school of Patras
Greece
• Marianna Bartzakli, headmistress
• Niki Lampropoulou, teacher
• Reginna Sofou, teacher
• Panagiota Spanou, teacher
• Andrianni Stathopoulou, teacher
ICS "S.G.Bosco-T.Fiore" di Altamura
- Plesso Secondaria di I Grado
• Maria Elena Volpe, teacher
administrator
• Giacinto Moramarco, profesor

3. The first part of the program
• On the 21st of March 14 Italian pupils with 2 teachers
visited our school due to the e-twinning program “Active
Citizenship”.
• They stayed until 24th of March and met the Greek culture
and hospitality.
• They visited the Acropolis's museum in Athens and the
Ancient Olympia, as well as Archimedes' museum of
ancient technology.
• Also we guided them in the town of Patras and
afterwards, using their trip experiences, we had some
activities in our school about active citizenship, connected
to e-twinning and Erasmus+ we are Europe projects.

4. The second part of the program
• At 18th of April our trip
to Italy has began. It
lasted five days and
we returned back on
the 23rd of April. We
stayed in Altamura
three wonderful days.

5. A warm welcome
• The Italian team has
prepared a very warm
welcome.

6. We visited their school and we made a presentation
of our school, as well as of the Eramus+ program
“We Are Europe” about active citizenship, that we are
running the last year. We informed them about the e-
game that we are working on citizenship and we
invited them to try it when it will be ready.

7. Our meeting with the Mayor of Altamura

8. Altamura and Matera
The students and the teachers
guided us in the historical center
of Altamura.
Our visit to Matera, the European
Cultural Capital of 2019

9. A sample of our work