Schools:

Gymnasium Burgkunstadt, Germany
Bahçeliever Anatolian High School in Ankara, Turkey
Erkko-lukio Upper Secondary School Orimattila, Finland
Zespół Szkół nr 1 Secondary School in Pszczyna, Poland

Hoşgeldiniz! Serdecznie witamy! Tervetuloa! Welcome! Willkommen!

The teacher and pedagogue Johann Amos Comenius (1592 – 1670) had like hardly anybody else at his time a European curriculum vitae to his name. Born in the present Czech Republic, he studied in Germany, moved to Poland, lived in England, the Netherlands and Sweden, also travelled to Hungary and Transylvania and finally died in Amsterdam.

Today, at the beginning of the 21^st century, people from about 45 countries live in Europe, 27 of these states have already sought for amalgamation in the EC. And: Young people from 4 schools experience and put into practise in their own way some form of European common ground. They do that in a traditional way by arranging personal meetings. Moreover, they do that by cooperating via modern multimedia communication making use of e-mails and the Internet.

A visible result of that is this international homepage, which came into existence as a consequence of many contacts, e-mails and conversations. The enthusiasm resulting from the mutual project made language barriers disappear. English was used as a common language at the meetings in Finland, Poland, Turkey and at our school in Germany. So, knowledge turns into acquaintance, communication into understanding. Both elements enrich the young people involved in the project as well as their teachers. Comenius would certainly have agreed to that.

May the project of our four Comenius partners and this homepage flourish and grow vividly to the benefit of the European idea.

Burgkunstadt, March 2007

Werner Fischer
Headmaster