This document provides summaries of activities related to the AVITAE project from October 2014 to January 2015 across several partner countries. It discusses announcing the project to teachers and students, selecting participants, initial project coordination meetings in Finland, launching logo and mascot competitions, preparing student presentations and tasks for upcoming meetings, and disseminating information about the project locally. The summaries highlight setting up ERASMUS+ clubs, establishing social media pages and project corners in schools, and students beginning their research on ancient entrepreneurs in their countries.

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A Virtual Intertextual Tour across Ancient Entrepeneurship
Reports about activities October 2014 – January 2015
AVITAE (A Virtual Intertextual Tour across Ancient Entrepreneurship) aims to blend the study
of the classical world with the analysis of examples of ancient entrepreneurship: students
are going to follow the footsteps of the first entrepreneurs, study the evolution of
entrepreneurship through time and finally apply what they have learnt in theory into their
own entrepreneurial ventures; Classical world, entrepreneurship, digitalization: this is the
ambitious trilogy AVITAE relies on.
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_en.html
www.etwinning.net
For more information visit our Twinspace:
http://twinspace.etwinning.net/2441/welcome
and webpage
www.avitae.org

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Cyprus
By Project Coordinator Olympia Orphanidou
The announcement of the beginning of this new EU project, the first year of ERASMUS+
projects (2014-2020) was made at a full staff meeting in September by Olympia Orphanidou
the co-ordinator for the Cypriot school. Many teachers expressed an interest in this new
venture which would cross Europe from the north, Finland and Denmark to the west Spain
(Canary Islands) central Europe with Slovakia, the east with Greece and south east
Cyprus.The project was also announced to the students during break time meetings, ICT and
foreign language lessons.
After the first visit of the teachers to Finland in November we all started to prepare the
dissemination of information about partners and the activities that would be innovative,
creative and inspiring for our students.
On the 3rd December the National Agency IDEP for European Programmes Awards Annual
Event took place in the Filoxenia Conference Centre in Nicosia, where members of the EU
Erasmus+ club attended. The opening of the event was given by the Flute ensemble of our
Music School “MariosTokas”, part of the Laniteio Lyceum.

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The Erasmus+ AVITAE Club was set up for students and teachers who would be the main
student group to take part in the activities and mobility meetings of the project.
As with all EU projects the first meeting with students in Copenhagen was a real stimulus
and the five students who took part really expressed their enthusiasm when they returned.
It was the first time they had presented their country to other European students and
teachers.
Our team in Denmark

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On their return the five students presented their experiences and activities to the EU
Erasmus+ club members on the 18.2.2015and shared the material they had produced. They
also did a tour of the twinspace, the website and FaceBook to show how the project was
progressing.
The competition for the logo and mascot was open to all the students and the winners of the
international competition were shown. We were very pleased that the mascot designed by a
Cypriot student was chosen. It will appear with the logo produced by Denmark in areas and
products of interest.
Mascotby Cyprus Logo by Denmark

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Italy
By Project Coordinator Delia Tocchini
In October the AVITAE PROJECT was announced to our AVITAE target-class (Class IB): what a
surprise, what an excitement for these lucky, privileged students!
Then, in November, following the Project Meeting in Finland, the AVITAE team presented
the visit outcomes to the Headteacher and to the school staff. Agreements were made for
the setup of the AVITAE corner both in the school and on the school website; decisions as
regards local stakeholders to contact were taken and an agenda of urgent things to do was
fixed (advertising AVITAE on local newspapers and TV, describing the project in local
assemblies etc).
In the same month class work started on the first activity (A03, “Our ancient
entrepreneurs”….)
Students began the planning, mapping and task distribution. They talked with their history
teacher and set about working on texts and pictures to find out about our ancient
entrepreneurs. They even went to the
Mint Museum in Lucca to ask for advice to the Director!

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Lots of discussions, doubts followed but also satisfaction. Camilla became a journalist of the
school newspaper to interview the AVITAE European Coordinator (and her teacher of
English) Delia Tocchini
In the December issue of the school magazine, AVITAE was announced to all the students
and the interview was released. The AVITAE Logo and Mascot Contest was launched too.
Here are the pics of one logo and mascot prototype and of the interview:
At the beginning of January we found the wall to create our AVITAE corner but work is still in
progress. No worries, though: we’ll be ready for the AVITAE Day to be held in May!
A few days before departure to Denmark, the students worked hard to finalize their
executive summary to take to Copenhagen; they even rehearsed on board the flight! At the
start, it was difficult for them to learn to be pregnant and laconic at the same time but then
they managed and off they went! In the end, all tasks were accomplished, the bags packed,
the euros changed into Danish crowns , the ID popped in the wallet, the notes….The
travelling adventure was about to start for the students too.

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Greece
By Project Coordinator Ourania Karantzeni
As soon as we got the results for being granted our Erasmus project (early October), we
started working for its materialization. First of all we informed the school Headteacher and
the staff giving details on the topic, the countries involved, the philosophy behind it and
what had already been done by preparing the application and being in contact with the
partner schools. The school staff signed the minutes of our meeting in which they assigned
to me (Ourania Karantzeni, teacher of English) and to Apostolos Terzoglou (ICT teacher) the
implementation of the project.
Then we passed the word on to our students trying to explain what a European project
means for the school and them. We wanted them to realize the new dimensions that are
created for a school when it takes part in a multi lateral European programme, the benefits
it would bring to them individually and to the school community.
Parallelly, we started contacting the national agency (IKY) to get prepared with the
paperwork for the project. The workload was immense as we had to take care of many
things including taking out a school bank account, which proved not to be an easy task and it
took a lot of time and energy. On 15th Oct I attended a meeting in Athens, organized by the
N.A., where they gave us instructions of how to proceed with the project, what it is expected
from us and some details on financial matters.
At the same time, given the fact that the results were delayed for more than a month, we
had to get ready for the first Transnational Project Meeting in Pyhäjoen Lukio, Finland. This
meant that we had to prepare our presentations for this meeting. Namely, being Education
Managers we had to find texts that referred to entrepreneurship in the very early years of
European history, make suggestions for activities; propose topics for study and research. In
order to get my material and get ready for this I contacted some stakeholders, disseminating
this way AVITAE. So, while in Athens, I contacted the National Library, the Cultural
Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, The Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
In Arta we visited the Municipal Library, searched the net and bought books and we
borrowed books and articles from a colleague’s private collection as well as the school
library. All the bibliography used was included in the presentations we showed in Finland.
These also were comprised of a presentation of our school, a rough budget for the future
meeting in Arta and suggested places to visit during it. I have to add that, in Greece,
preparing for trips abroad means a lot of paper work which had to be prepared on time to
get permission to leave.

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Volume on the 90 years of the Greek Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Immediately when we got back, we informed the staff and students of the outcomes of the
Finland meeting. Next, we selected the 5 students who would travel to Denmark for the first
educational meeting in Ørestad Gymnasium. We formed the whole group of the AVITAE
students and started working on the projects we had arranged for this meeting. Students
were given study material, and were assigned tasks to prepare. To facilitate our
communication we created a facebook page for the Greek AVITAE teachers/students.
Avitae Logo and mascot competition contest
We also launched the AVITAE Logo and Avitus mascot competition which was announced in
the morning assembly and advertised by posters. We started creating our AVITAE corner by
placing there the first memorabilia and leaflets related to the project and we elaborated the
school website by adding a description of the project in it. In the meanwhile, the Agreement
for the project was sent by the N.A. and we had to sign after we had read the sections and
appendixes. We have to mention at this point that the Finland trip was made on our own
(teachers’) resources but for the Denmark trip the first part of the budget had been
deposited so we were remunerated and financed for the next trip.

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Avitae Corner
Greek students started communicating with the Danish students through a new facebook
page, filled in matching forms and worked on the interviews they had to give and take for
the first AVITAE newspaper. They also finished their project on the History of
entrepreneurship in Greece and prepared a 10 min presentation of it. They also worked on a
presentation of their school, made from their own point of view. In the meantime, they
answered a quiz on entrepreneurship but unfortunately not in the twinspace environment
so the answers were not possible to be assessed.
The teachers also answered an evaluation questionnaire about the Finland meeting. We
also send to Spain all the dissemination actions we had made and we added to the ones
already mentioned above, a meeting with the Mayor and an impromptu presentation I
made addressing primary and secondary school teachers attending another N.A. meeting in
Ioannina ( the biggest town of our prefecture).
Before we left for the Denmark trip we met with the students’ parents to give them factual
information and answer their questions concerning our expedition.

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Spain
By Project Coordinator Mª Dolores Rodríguez
September
We had started our classes at the school and we didn't know yet if the project had
been accepted.
October
Then, we knew it. It was a big surprise because we had almost lost our hopes.
Suddenly, we had a lot of things to do:
 talk to the headmaster and the rest of the staff.
 present the project to the students.
 decide how to select the students that were going to participate in the
project.
 hurry up to prepare our first meeting in Finland.
November
Three teachers of our school went to Finland. It was the first time that teachers from
all the school involved in the project met. There we had to:
 talk about the budget and the reports we had to prepare.
 take general decisions about the development of the project.
 decide the tasks for next meeting.
 explain the rest the responsibilities that each country had in the project.
 decide the dates for the next two meetings (Denmark and Greece).
 decide the social networks we were going to use (facebook, web page,
etwinning...)
When we came back home we announced the logo and mascot design competition
to all the school and students started to prepare the presentations of our school and of
our history for Denmark.
December
Our students continued working in the tasks for Denmark.
We chose our logo and mascot design winners and they received their prizes at the
Christmas party.

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Finally, all the students that wanted to participate in the project showed us the works they
had done and the best ones were selected to travel to Denmark and Greece. It was a very
difficult task for us, the teachers, because we knew that all the students had worked hard
for this.
January
Students finished their works and got feedback, then they practiced their
presentations several times before leaving Tenerife (they practiced even in the plane!) We
made the final preparations for the trip, and...
Denmark, there we go.

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Denmark
By Project Coordinator Charlotte Straby Tranberg
October
AVITAE project was discussed with the management of the school and participating teachers
were found.
The Meeting in Finland was prepared: 1) presentation of the didactic idea behind Ørestad
Gymnasium 2) presentation of “Design to Improve Life” – our method of working with
innovation 3) a draft of the program of the meeting in Copenhagen in January.
November:
November 2 – 7: Claus Witfelt and Charlotte Straby Tranberg participated in the first
teachers’ meeting in Pyhäjoki, Finland. During the meeting the three presentations from
above were presented and Claus Witfelt had a workshop on ICT –
Students: The Avitae-project was presented to students during meetings and a information
letter – the group of students participating was found.
The competition of logo and mascot was announced and worked on during our Monday
meetings with the group of participating students.
The program of the visit to Copenhagen was prepared and uploaded to the six partners
December
December 3: The students were interviewed online by Finish students for the article about
each school, which was to be published in Issue 1.
December 4: The group of students had a day workshop in the method “Design to Improve
Life” where they were introduced to some of the techniques and where they had to work
with the techniques themselves.
Greek students were interviewed by some of the Danish students using Facebook and
“shared documents” from google. For the article on each school for issue 1.
The students were involved in planning the visit in Copenhagen at our Monday meetings
January
January 5: The Avitae project and the upcoming meeting in Copenhagen jan. 25 – 31 was
presented for all staff during a meeting

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January 7: Work shop for students in “Design to Improve Life” – new techniques were
presented and the students had to work with various historic periods in Denmark for the
meeting in Copenhagen.
January 14: An excursion to “National Museum of Denmark” in order to create video
presentations of the various historic periods in Denmark and for preparing guided tours
around the museum during the visit to Copenhagen
Monday meetings were used by teachers and students to prepare the visit in Copenhagen
January 25 – 31 the visit in Copenhagen took place. We had a wonderful week with a lot of
work. Focus was on “Design to Improve Life”, first step in Branding, to explore the Vikings,
FabLabs, Copenhagen. Didactic: How to teach digitally, visible teaching, innovation, and to
spend time with other young people around Europe.

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Finland
By Project Coordinator Hanne Saarikoski
October
 We presented the project to the students and the staff
 We did all the preparations for the teachers' meeting at our school
November
We hosted teachers from all the schools participating in the project. We talked about the
general goals of the project, decided the tasks for next meeting, decided the dates for the
next two meetings, decided we would have a logo and mascot competition and also decided
what kind of articles would be in the first newspaper. We also started planning the 3D
models for Greece.
December
We worked hard on the tasks for Denmark and the first newspapers contents. We
used an application in English to choose five students to go to Copenhagen. The students
chose were Eve Leppälä, Iida Korpela. Elias Hirvikoski, Saku Jalonen and Matias Koskela. Iida
Korpela won the logo competition of our school with the logo below.
January
Students in Finland finished the work on history they had to prepare and the first
newspaper was published with articles about the participating schools. The we went to
Copenhagen and learned a lot about branding and innovation.

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Slovakia
By Project Coordinator Kornelia Lohynova
October
AVITAE project was presented during the meeting of all school staff. Teachers were invited
to take part in activities of the project.
AVITAE project was presented also to the students.
November:
Preparing for the Project Meeting in Finland. Team of teachers for AVITAE was set.
After project meeting in Finland the team of teachers presented the outcomes to the
Headmaster and to the school staff during the regular meeting.
Logo and mascot competition was announced and students began to design a logo of the
project and a mascot.
AVITAE wall was created to inform students and teachers about the activities of the project.
December
All students of the school had a chance to vote for the best logo and mascot. The winners of
logo and mascot competitions were announced and rewarded. Here are 3 winning logos and
one mascot.

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We presented AVITAE project during “School Open Day” to the visitors, students,
municipality and guests.
An AVITAE team of the students was set and began to work on the first activity „Our ancient
entrepreneurs“. Important was to divide tasks and form teams of the students. They worked
together on the shared documents.
January
We presented AVITAE project for public during a big event in a large shopping centre where
all schools in Bratislava region presented themselves
Teams of the students finished their work on the first project activity and presented time-
line with the executive summary to other students to get feedback. One team of the
students prepared video about our school that was supposed to be presented in
Copenhagen too.
5 students going to Denmark prepared their presentations, communicated with host families
and got ready for Copenhagen.