The Second Transnational Project Meeting took place at TURAN ERDOĞAN YILMAZ FEN LİSESİ, in Kalkan (Antalya) from September 28th to September 30th. All Ecothings partners from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (AO – Spain), Colegio Santiago Apóstol (P1 – Spain), STANDO LTD (P2 – Cyprus), Wyliodrin (P3 – Romania) and TURAN ERDOĞAN YILMAZ FEN LİSESİ (P4 – Turkey) participated.
The first day started with a school tour and then lunch with the local teachers.
After lunch P1 presented a report on the project development. From the report emerged that PR1 and PR2 need further development and the schools involved in the project (P1 and P4) need more support from the technological partners (AO and P3). Therefore AO committed to provide further assistance to P1 starting from October 2023 and P3 committed to do the same with P4 before Christmas 2023. Moreover, some management issues were discussed and the appropiate solutions were proposed and accepted by the partnership.
Then AO presented the project mid-evaluation report and shortcomings were discussed.
The following step was setting the stage for the Methodological Guide to be prepared, being P2 the leading partner. The partners agreed to define the Guide outline, the material gathered so far and the one that needs to be gathered up urgently, the discussion and the feedback on it.
After the presentations, we met for dinner at TurizmPark Restaurant run by Kaş Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School. The day was completed with a visit to Kaş Amphitheater and Kaş Republic Square after a delicious dinner accompanied by a unique Kaş View. We would like to thank Kaş Tourism Park students and staff for their hospitality.
On the second day, P4 presented the Project Room, a spin-off activity based on the FabLab approach, that will enable the local students to delve into robotics, domotics and other STEM disciplines.
Later on, the MOOC delivery was carefully planned, setting up the scheduled activities according to the original project.
After presentations and meetings, the participants were hosted at the Lures Hotel (that entered into service this year in Kalkan) for dinner. Thank you very much to our school’s philanthropist Süleyman Yılmaz for their kind invitation. After dinner, them guests guests were given a chance to get to know our area by touring Kalkan Neighborhood.
The third day started with breakfast in Kalkan and continued with dissemination strategies, mainly based on the website structure and future contents, as well as quality control measures to be implemented at both schools under the supervision of AO.
After the presentations regarding our student selection process to participate in the project and our completed project team, a photo shoot was held at our school with our students.
For the rest of the day, a visit was scheduled to Saklıkent Canyon, the longest canyon in Europe after Samara Canyon in Greece and one of the most productive clean water sources of our region, in order to introduce the environmental and historical beauties of our region, we completed it with a visit of Xhantos Ancient City and Patara Sand dunes and sunset. For dinner, the guests were met in Alabalık pools created by taking advantage of cold water sources with ecological value found in our Islamlar Neighborhood.