1. Teachers from 6 European countries - Turkey, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Poland, and Portugal - met in Funchal, Portugal for the first Transnational Erasmus Plus project meeting titled "Get addicted to happiness". 2. The objectives of the meeting were to strengthen commitments, rearrange delayed activities, discuss project realization, and set criteria for student exchanges. 3. Participants engaged in discussions, training, cultural activities, and site visits during the 4-day meeting to coordinate implementation and monitoring of the "Get addicted to happiness" project.

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Report
on the first Transnational Erasmus Plus Meeting
“Get addicted to happiness” project
Funchal, Portugal
9 – 13.11.2015
Participating teachers:
Partner no 1 - Turkey:
1. JoannaSoltysiak Gurpinar
2. Zeinep Caliskan
Partner no 2 - Spain:
1. EvaMaría Nally
2. AlexandraHammerton Domínguez
Partner no 3 - Italy:
1. Rita D'Aquino
2. Auletta Ornella
Partner no 4 - Croatia:
1. Ana Hribar Beluhan
2. AleksandraVlačić
3. Arsen Šarunić
Partner no 5 - Poland:
1. Beata Cechowska – Atay
2. EwaCholewińska
Partner no 6 - Portugal:
1. Telmo Costa and teachers from the European Club

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The objectives ofthe 1st Transnational Meeting, Erasmus Plus project
“Get addicted to happiness”
- to strengthen the commitment of all partner schools;
- to rearrange someof the activities in the timetable, that weredelayed
dueto contractual issues;
- to discuss realization of Erasmus projectin partner schools;
- to set-up criteria of choosing studentsfor project realization and
students’exchange;
- to share experiences, challenges and technical knowledgeon how to
better addressthe planned activities, consideringthe need to discuss
practical arrangements;
- to discuss futureagreementsregardingshort-term students
exchanges;
- to discuss the evaluation and dissemination of key activities;
- to arrange the details concerningthe budget and monitoring;
- to monitor the progress: measurementand analysisof finished or in
progressactivities, in order to insuretheir quality;
- training on: Cloud computingand eTwinning.
Preparations
Preparationsfor the First TransnationalErasmusPlusMeeting in Funchal
(Portugal) took place in September and October 2015. Thecoordinator
from Portuguesepartner school – Telmo Costa made practical
arrangements, such as booking the hotel, preparingthe programme,
providinginformation on how to arriveto the school etc. Participants made
travel arrangements: booking flights, buyinginsurance, prepared allthe
necessary information and materials for the meeting.

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Organization:
The meeting took place over four days.
Day one, Monday 9 November 2015
9.10 – Meetingpointat the hotel and departureto school;
9.30 – Arrivalat HBG school, welcome by the principal, coordinator of
the European Cluband schoolcommunity in frontof the
building, singing the project“Happiness” song on the staircase
of the North gate;
10.15 – Visiting the school facilities: laboratories, classrooms,
Photography Club, library, studentsbar, bio vegetable garden,
playground and teachersroom;
11.10 – coffeebreak with the presenceof the school principalas well
as other membersof the school board, other club coordinators,
partnersintroduction;
11.30 – presentation of traditionalMadeiran Christmas crib, meeting
students, teachers and local media;
12.00 – workingsession:
 Dates ofshort-term learning/training/teaching activities:
Dueto late announcementof results, variousstart dates of the school year
and changes of coordinatorsin some of the partner schools the timetable of
the project needed to be modified.
Wedecided on the followingtimetable for the next meetings:
- 1st Short-term learning/training/teaching activities (studentsexchange)
will be organized in Turkey, from 4thto 8th April2016.
- 2nd Short-term learning/training/teaching activities (studentsexchange)
will be organized in Spain, between 9th to 16th May 2016.
- 3rd Short - term learning/training/teaching activities (studentsexchange)
will be organized in Croatia, from 3rd to 7th October 2016.
- dates for the 4th and 5th short-term learning/training/teaching activities
(studentsexchange) will be decided duringthe meeting in Turkey.

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 Project`s song
All the partner schools presented proposalsof the project`s song. The
voting will take place duringthe last week of November.
 Project`s logo
Each partner school presented the winningproject`slogo. All the teachers
voted for the best logo. The winner is the logo proposed by the Portuguese
partner. It will be printed on T-shirts and used from now on all documents,
productsetc.
 Project website
The country responsiblefor the website is Portugal, which has already
madean initial design. The website will contain differentinformation about
the project, project documents, resultsof the projectwill be presented
there, photo gallery, links to school websites, Facebook accounts, etc. But
most importantly, it will offer a clear and easy access to all the key activities
of the project. We have agreed that AnaHribar from Croatia will be the
second editor of the project`s website.
 International photo competition“This is happiness”
All partner schools presented the winningphotos“This is happiness”. Ana
Hribar – Beluhan from Croatia will create the finalphoto-composition,
which will be printed by all schools and delivered to local authorities and
institutions;
 Budget
It has been decided that all cost and expensesfor participantslike local
transportation, museum tickets, entry fares mustbe covered by each school
out of their own project budget.
13.00 – Lunchat the school canteen
14.30 – Trainingby Telmo Costa “Cloud computing”.
17.30 – Freetime

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Day two, Tuesday 10 November 2015:
8.30 – Trip: visiting Cabo Girao. Visit to the caves of Sao Vicente and
its town which offered teachers from all partner schools an
increased experience of European CulturalDiversity;
12.00 – 13.00– Workingsession:
Participants of the meeting presented activities carried outso far within the
project in each partner school. Together they discussed how to overcome
the difficulties and to avoid them in the future. Teachers from partner
schools evaluated the quality of the work accomplished. They also
discussed how to implementactions in the upcomingmonths.
13.00 – Lunchat Sao Vicente;
15.30 – Visiting the FunchalCity Council – meeting the representative
of the council;
16.30 – Funchalsightseeing. Teachers had a chance to get to know
the history and cultureof Funchal;
18.30 – Freetime;
Day three, Wednesday 11 November 2015
8.30 – “LevadaWalk”. The aim of the team buildingactivities during
the “LevadaWalk” were to create a stronger team and to
improvethe quality of the work donein this partnership;
13.30 – Lunchat school canteen;
13.30 – 14.45– Workingsession
 Dissemination
Dissemination of the project has been discussed with all partners'
agreement to use variousdissemination methods. Amongstmany the
most popular oneswillbe: writingarticles, placing photos and short
texts in the project website, Twinspace, Facebook and school
websites, writing pressreleases to the local massmedia , newspapers,

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radio, webpages (hosting country), informingthelocal authorities
and school authorities about the project and its progress (hosting
country). Allpartnershave agreed to equally contribute to the
project website and keep the projectparticipants up-to-datewith
tasks and activities.
 Constantcontact of all partners
Project coordinator encouraged all partner schools to maintain
regular contact on Facebook and TwinSpace.
All partnersagreed to the proposal of organizingweb conferences for
studentsand teachers. They will last 40 minutesand will have the
followingtopics:
1. Introduction of students (their hobbies and interests)
2. Introduction partner schools (studentsschool day, subjects,
clubs etc.);
3. Games
4. Traditional items
The scheduleof web conferences:
23.11.2015 – 27.11.2015 Portugal – Spain
30.11.2015 – 4.12.2015 Croatia – Italy
7.12.2015– 11.12.2015 Poland - Turkey
15.00 – Trainingby JoannaSołtysiak – “e-Twinning”
Day four, Thursday 12 November 2015:
9.30 – 11.15 – Closingceremony
- “What we most wantis to be happy” song;
- Welcome speeches
- “Photograph” song;
- Presentations of partner schools;
- “My school” – video
- Experiencingan Erasmusmobility (students and parents
speeches)
- “Because I`m happy” – video
- “Happiness” song

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11.30- 13.00 – Workingsession
 Evaluatingresults
Wehave discussed waysof evaluatingresults of the project. This will
be done: with the help of self-assessment questionnairesfor students
and teachers participating in the project. These documentswillhelp
usassess our work, and will provideuswith usefulinformation
concerningour project’s aims and objectives.
 E-magazine
Accordingto the project`s plan, at the end of January, each partner
school is supposed to prepare the first edition of e-magazine, with
descriptions and photos of completed activities and actions. E-
magazineis to be written in the nationallanguage of each school and
sent to local authorities, institutions, parents, etc.
13.00 – Lunch
13.30 – 14.30– Workingsession
In the last part of the meeting the role and tasks of each partner
institution of the project wasreminded. Allpartners were asked to
maintain constant contact with the project coordinator and other
partners, and to reportemerging issues or problems that could affect
the quality of the project.
15.00 – 18.30– Boattrip;
18.30 – 19.30– Freetime;
20.00 – Farewelldinner;
Day five, Friday 13 November 2015
Departures