The document summarizes a short-term student exchange project between schools in Turkey, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Poland, and Croatia. Over a 5 day period, 12 teachers and 23 students participated in activities focused on sport, health, and happiness. Activities included classes, workshops, visits to local attractions, and cultural presentations. The exchange aimed to strengthen partnerships, discuss project progress and budgets, and plan future exchanges in Spain and Turkey. Challenges with the situation in Turkey required discussing alternative plans with the National Agency. Overall, the exchange provided opportunities for intercultural learning between the partner schools.

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Report
on the first Short term students exchange
“Get addicted to happiness” project
Pusca, Croatia
4 – 8.04.2016
Participating teachers:
Partner no 1 - Turkey:
1. Joanna Soltysiak Gurpinar
2. Mujgan Ozsoy
Partner no 2 - Spain:
1. Carlos Lazaro
2. María José Esteso
Partner no 3 - Italy:
1. Rita D'Aquino
2. Auletta Ornella
3. Leone Anna Maria
4. Pastore Anna
Partner no 4 - Portugal:
1. Telmo Costa
2. Helena Baeta Leninha
Partner no 5 - Poland:
1. Beata Cechowska – Atay
2. Ewa Cholewińska
Partner no 6 - Croatia:
1. Arsen Sarunic and the teachers from Croatian Erasmus Club

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12 teachers and 23 students (+ the whole school community from Croatia)
have participated in the short term students exchange in Croatia.
The objectives of the 1st
short-term students exchange, Erasmus Plus project
“Get addicted to happiness”
- to strengthen the commitment of all partner schools;
- to rearrange some of the activities in the timetable and dates of short-
term student exchanges due to the difficult situation in Turkey and NA
warnings in some of the partner countries;
- to discuss realization of Erasmus project in partner schools;
- to discuss the evaluation and dissemination of key activities;
- to arrange the details concerning the budget and monitoring;
- to monitor the progress: measurement and analysis of finished or in
progress activities, in order to insure their quality;
- to upload materials on completed project activities on the eTwinning
platform;
- to participate in the activities (planned in the Application Form) related
to sport and healthy lifestyle;
Preparations
Preparations for the First Short-Term Student Exchange in Pusca (Croatia) took
place in March and April 2016. The coordinator from Croatian partner school –
Arsen Sarunic made practical arrangements, such as booking the hotel,
preparing the program, providing information on how to arrive to the school
etc. Participants made travel arrangements: booking flights, buying insurance,
prepared all the necessary information and materials for the meeting.
Organization:
The meeting took place over five days.
Mobility Activities:
During the mobility, there were many separate activities for teachers and
students. It was very beneficial for the students to have self-confidence and
also make new friends and improve their English. When it was needed, their
own teachers guided them.

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Day one, Monday 4 April 2016
7.55 – 9.30 – Participation in classes
10.00 – 12.00 – Welcome and opening ceremony (headmaster`s
welcome speech, introduction of all project`s countries and
schools, the performance of Croatian students and teachers
related to the project`s topic – Sport & Health and also
Croatian history and geography), interviews for the local
media;
12.00 – 13.30 – Lunch (project`s working discussion about the difficulties
in the implementation of the planned project tasks);
13.30 – 14.45 - Visiting the school facilities;
15.00 – 17.00 – Visit to Zagreb
17.30 – 19.30 – Fun Sport Day
Day two, Tuesday 5 April 2016:
7.45 – 8.55 - Participation in classes in District school Pavao Štoos;
10.00 – 12.15 – Workshops at District school Pavao Štoos (sports
competitions run by the local group of firefighters, archery
workshop, culinary workshop on healthy eating –
preparation of fruit salad and vitamin shakes)
12.15 – 13.15 - Lunch at DS Pavao Štoos
13.30 – 14.00 – Visit to Zaprešić town hall and meeting the Mayor;
14.15 – 16.15 - Visit to Zaprešić Bowling club (an international game in
bowling)
19.00 – 22.00 – Dinner for teachers (combined with project`s
discussions)

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Day three, Wednesday 6 April 2016
8.00 – 19.00 – Visit to Plitvice Lakes National Park. The aim of the trip
to was to show the importance of an active lifestyle as well as
relaxation in natural surroundings in the proper functioning of our
body. Team building activities during the walk were to create a
stronger team and to improve the quality of the work done in this
partnership;
Day four, Thursday 7 April 2016:
7.55 – 8.40 – Participating in classes at Pušća Elementary School;
9.00 – 10.00 – Presenting national sports in partner countries;
10.00 – 11.30 - Erasmus Olympics;
12.00 – 13.00 - Lunch at Pušća Elementary School;
13.00 – 15.00 – Coordinators meeting;
 The speech of the host school coordinator
The host of the short-term students exchange - Croatian school coordinator
Mr. Arsen Sarunic referring to the previous meeting in Portugal reminded everyone
of a serious approach to each project`s action and about regular contact and
answering all coordinators e-mails. He asked all the partners to keep deadlines and
follow the list of activities and deadlines sent regularly by the coordinator of the
project. Mr. Arsen Sarunic suggested that the project`s emails sent by Mrs Beata
Cechowska - Atay should be shorter and sent more frequently.
 Project website
The country responsible for the website is Portugal. As it was agreed in Madeira, Ana
Hribar from Croatia is the second editor of the website. The coordinator of the
project thanked Mrs. Ana Hribar for her great commitment to the posting of project
materials and photos on the website.
The coordinator of the project delivered each school the list of missing materials (in
the attachment). Turkish materials were sent on time to the Portuguese school, but
had not been uploaded due to health problems of of Mr. Telmo Costa (responsible
for the website).

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 Facebook groups
Facebook groups: “Happiness hunters” and “Get addicted to happiness” are still a
direct communication platforms for students and teachers, and the space to present
carried out activities, on a regular bases;
 Oxford Happiness Questionnaire
Questionnaires were carried out in 5 schools according to plan (partner school from
Italy is supposed to complete the questionnaire in 2 weeks time). By the 22 of April
2016, the final result of each school is to be sent to Joanna Sołtysiak, in order to
prepare a graphical of final results and compare them;
 Project`s dissemination
Project coordinator reminded all the participants about the need of spreading the
project`s results at local, regional, national and international levels (it can be done by
the Internet, publications, seminars, conferences, workshops, multi-media, networks,
exhibitions etc.).
 Project activities
The activities written in the Application Form from April 2016 till June 2016 were
revised.
- all schools have to organize meetings with dieticians “How to lead a healthy
balanced life?” and the exhibition of posters “Healthy life rules” (April 2016);
- recording to the project`s plan, schools from Poland and Turkey are supposed
to prepare and publish a short film about healthy dishes. Project`s coordinator
encouraged all schools to record and present films about making healthy
dishes;
- it was agreed that every school can add more activities concerning the
project`s topics;
- schools from Spain and Poland have the task to organize competition on
happiness demotivators and publish them on the website and Facebook (May
2016);
- the booklet for the teachers “Three minutes to a happier YOU” with activities
related to happiness and well-being is supposed to be completed in May 2016.
Each school will prepare 2 relaxing exercises and describe them using Tricider
(the link will be published by Joanna Sołtysiak on Facebook and sent by e-mails
to school coordinators). Joanna will be the person responsible for collecting all
the results;

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- each partner school is obliged to present the results of each mobility to the
school and local community;
- schools from Poland and Turkey are supposed to organize in May 2016 a
recitation contests “Happiness is everywhere”;
- in June 2016 each partner school is obliged to prepare evaluation of the first
year of the project (results and conclusion on the website and Twinspace) and
design the second edition of e-magazine and send it to the local authorities,
organizations, parents and media + website, Facebook);
 Erasmus Corners, Happy Talks, Happy Wall
It was reminded that each partner school is responsible for updating the Erasmus
Corner. In addition, students and teachers are required to use the applications
designed by Joanna Sołtysiak (Happy Talk, Happy Wall) in order to communicate
and to exchange information on current topics.
 Communication
It was decided that students who participate in mobilities are obliged to constant
contact with other participants of the project through TwinSpace and project`s
groups on Facebook;
 Short term students exchange in Spain
Our next meeting will be held in Spain, at 9-13 May 2016 (arrival date is 8 May,
departure day is 14 May, 2016).
The main tasks of the schedule according to our Erasmus Plus plan will be:
- creating “A little book of happiness” with 15 words referring to “happiness”
translated in 6 national languages of project`s partner (a book);
- preparing and performing the play and making a film presented on school TV;
- interviews with students and teachers from partner schools about happiness
factors;
- workshop “Creating Happy Stories” (stories published on website and
presented on Erasmus Corners);
Spanish school is responsible for conducting and implementing the above mentioned
tasks.
The final program will be prepared by the host school and send to all the partners
(Poland and Turkey need it one months before the visit due to the obligation of
delivering it to the Board of Education and Municipality Office).

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 Meeting in Turkey
Coordinators and teachers from partner schools started the discussion about the
meeting in Turkey. School from Italy informed that in connection with the tense
situation in Turkey, they got the permission from their National Agency to take two
additional students on a visit to Croatia and Spain instead of Turkey.
This decision was not consulted with the project coordinator. In this regard, the visit
to Turkey requires a final decision of the Polish National Agency (Polish school is the
coordinator of the whole project). Due to concern about the difficult situation in
Turkey, all partners agreed that the project`s coordinator will ask the NA if it is
possible to change the type of our visit from short-term students exchange to
transnational meeting. The teachers meeting in Turkey (June 2017) would be the
opportunity to summarise and evaluate the project and prepare the Final Report.
19.00 – 21.30 - Ethno meeting and international dinner (presentation of
traditional dishes of the partner countries, the performance of
traditional Croatian folk band, disco for students and teachers)
Day five, Friday 8 April 2016
7.55 – 8.40 – Participating in classes at Pušća Elementary School;
9.00 – 10.30 – E-twinning workshop (uploading project materials on
Twinspace)
11.00 – 12.00 – An art exhibition “Sport and health”
13.15 – 14.30 – Lunch (combined with project discussion);
17.30 – 21.00 - Orienteering walk and farewell dinner at Mont Antonio
(teachers did the tasks related to all partners countries,
during the farewell dinner all the partners were given the
certificates and gifts made by teachers and students from
Croatian school);
17.00 – 19.00 – Dance and closing ceremony for students;
Although, it has been decided that all cost and expenses for project meetings`
participants, like local transportation, museum tickets, entry fares must be covered
by each school out of their own project budget, the Croatian school has found many
sponsors to cover lots of expenses, which was very nice.

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I would like to thank Arsen Sarunic, Alexandra Vlacic , Ana Hribar Beluhan
and the entire Erasmus Team from Croatia for the perfect organization of
our meeting, your smile and a huge amount of work. Thank You very
much.
Beata Cechowska - Atay