Getting To Know Each Other In Cornellà, Barcelona

After months of intense, hard work, a great deal of brain racking, seemingly endless form filling, loads of telephone conversations and countless emails exchanged, our COMMUNITEK – Melting Distances project has finally begun to take shape today with the coming together of the coordinators for the five educational institutions involved.


The Official Language School of Cornellà in Barcelona has been the setting for the first of several meetings that are to take place in the different participating institutions over the next two years.

Our guests have come from the four corners of Europe to get to know each other in person and to set the project in motion.


Representatives of the Centre d’Orientation et de Formation in Amay, Belgium, the Lapuan Kansalaisopisto in Lapua, Finland, and the IT Academy Panagiota Bourtsoukli in Tripoli, Greece have been met at the school by our principal and by some of our teachers this afternoon. The representative of the University of Chester in the UK will join us tomorrow via Skype as it has been impossible to find a date that would accommodate all schedule constraints.

After being shown around the school premises, our guests have popped into a few classes to introduce themselves to our students – to the pleasant surprise of the latter, let it be said – and to tell them about the starting of the project.

And to make sure the project gets off to a good start, a training session on the use of ICT tools – which will be needed for communication between partners throughout the project as well as for sharing students’ productions and disseminating the project’s results and activities – has followed.

Finally, a ‘fellowship dinner’ in the small-town-flavored neighborhood of Gràcia in the Catalan capital has brought this first day to a relaxing close in preparation fro tomorrow’s hectic morning.