The „U-Knight-Europe” project is undertaken with the broad objective of promoting European

citizenship through the emphasis on historical and cultural heritage. Its main aim could be ex-

pressed by the phrase: multi-cultural education and the unification of different cultures. The un-

derlying idea of this international partnership of 9 countries (Poland, Netherlands, Finland, Eng-

land, France, Portugal, Cyprus, Italy and Spain) is to work on raising the students' cultural

awareness and to develop their understanding of the needs of others in their communities. This

will be achieved through the study of knight heroes in the participating nations’ histories. The

primary goals are to extend pupils' knowledge of knights from Europe by discovering their style

of living, their charter, their values and aims in order to resurrect a “Knight Spirit” in young

people. We intend to present an alternative way of living to our pupils and we will encourage

them to follow it by becoming a contemporary Knight of Europe with the motto and mission

traced from the medieval knights’ code: "Protect the weak, defenseless, helpless and fight for

the general welfare of all". We Endeavour to create realistic and hands-on experiences (for ex-

ample the becoming a knight ceremony, inter-country tournaments, intra- school competitions,

music and art festivals and above all - voluntary work). These opportunities will encourage

great commitment from the whole school community and will provide worthwhile and exciting

experiences for the students, teachers and parents. Throughout the two years this project aims

to work against the unfair attitudes of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. The ultimate end-

product of the schools cooperation will be the creation of a multilingual website.

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12 Presentation of the project to teachers

13 Establish the rules of the future co-operation

14 Presentation of the project to pupils

15 ( topic, general ideas, aims, partner schools)

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19 Launching the Logo of the project competition

20 Fifth and Sixth class

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26 27 Preparing the questionnaire for pupils regarding

28 the knowledge of European knights

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September 2011

Be u-knight-ed

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3 Letter for Parents and clarifying

4 LLP ideas and Comenius pro-gram

5 1st Comenius Meeting in Finland

6 1st Comenius Meeting in Finland

7 1st Comenius Meeting in Finland

8 Contract for teachers writ-ten by all part-ners

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10 Creating Comenius Cor-ner at school

11 12 Calendar con-taining the activities of the first year.

13 14 15 MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL AGIA NAPA

16 Participating with pupils

17 MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL

18 MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL

19 MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL

20 MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL

21 MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL

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24 Writing the lyrics of the Comenius song

25 26 Making the Power point presentation

27 of the school

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31 Have to be Sent the lyrics to Poland

October 2011

Being brave!

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1 Creating the blog of the project U-KNIGHT-EUROPE

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4 Pupils/teachers discussions about the fea-tures of the

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7 knight and how to become a contemporary knight.

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9 Creating a Knight pledge

10 Displaying it on the Comenius corner

11 Displaying it on the blog

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14 Logo competi-tion. Putting the 3 winners

15 of every partner on the blog

16 2nd Comenius meeting in Po-land

17 Comenius song Comenius Logo Honor Code

18 The missions of Comenius Knights in life

19 Contract for pupils

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21 Creation of a page of a “Trip Diary” by pupils

22 Presentation , album, posters, films from the visit in Poland

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28 29 30 Meet with an expert. (Alexis Michailidis)

A lecture for pupils about the way of living of Knights

November 2011

Being loyal!

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1 Choosing e-mail Friends from partners coun-tries

2 E-mail exchange with twin friend

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5 Preparing Christmas Knights cards

6 Reading the Honor code of Comenius knights to the whole school.

7 Displaying it in Comenius corner

8 National honor code in every partner school

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19 20 21 22 23 CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

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December 2011

Keep your promises!

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2 CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

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9 Creating the shields of the Comenius knights

10 Photo exhibition on the blog

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12 Ping pong story Finland, France, Poland

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16 Learning the inter-national Comenius Anthem

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19 Chat between pupils

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23 Knights newslet-ter

24 Knights newspa-per/ Netherlands

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January 2012

Being courteous!

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1 Making children to be aware of the words of the vow and of the honor code of

2 the Comenius knight by discus-sions, making posters, writing summaries ...

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6 Preparing the presentation of a famous knight of each country

7 Posters, PPT, photos displaying it in the Comenius corner

8 Photo exhibition or DVD of the famous knight on the blog

9 Comparison of these using internet

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13 Interview with the knight (role playing or crea-tive writing)

14 Displaying it in the Comenius corner

15 Photo exhibition of the interview with a knight on the blog

16 Comparison of these using internet

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20 Continuation of writing ping pong story (Netherlands, Portugal,….)

21 Preparation of the videoconfer-ence / France

22 23 Pupils Videoconfe- rence

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February 2012

Defending the week!

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1 Posters present-ing similarities and differences between knights

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5 Making the poster of the castle of the chosen knight

6 Preparation for the ceremony of becoming o con-temporary

7 Knight (making helmets, swords, scrolls with vows)

8 9 Continuation of the ping pong story (Cyprus , England, Italy)

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12 13 3rd Meeting in France

14 3rd Meeting in France

15 3rd Meeting in France

16 3rd Meeting in France

17 3rd Meeting in France

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19 Protocols from the interna-tional pupils

20 discussion about missions

21 Protocols from the discussion panel for teach-ers

22 23 A DVD film from the international ceremony of be-coming a Comen-ius knight

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26 from the visit in France to be displayed on the blog

27 Preparing “Trip Diary” from the visit in France

28 29 30 Making a film from the visit in France and distributing it to the partners

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March 2012

Practicing Hospitality!

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2 Presentation of the results of the visit in France

3 (posters in Comenius corner, ppt, leaf-lets, trip diary)

4 Ping pong story Spain, Finland, France

5 Preparations for the ceremony of becoming a

6 Comenius knight in every partner school

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EASTER VACATIONS

11 12 13 14 15 GREEK EASTER

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9 Planning knights missions “How can I become a

10 contemporary knight”

25 The big ceremony of becoming Comenius knight

26 Photos and film from the cere-mony

27 to the blog

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30 Displaying the ping pong story to the blog

Apri l 2012

Never lie!

M O N T U E W E D T H U F R I S A T S U N

1 Making a first letter of the name of every knight

3 about it from books or inter-net

4 International initial of the name of the knight

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7 Ping pong story Poland, Nether-lands, Portugal

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DAY OF EUROPE

10 Presentations, albums, poster, films documenting the ceremony

11 of becoming Comenius knights Displaying them on the blog

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14 International exhibition of the log books from partners schools

15 16 Teachers pupils discussions about female heroism

17 Making posters of “female knight”

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21 4th Meeting in Portugal

22 4th Meeting in Portugal

23 4th Meeting in Portugal

24 4th Meeting in Portugal

25 4th Meeting in Portugal

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28 Preparing “Trip Diary” from the visit in Portugal

29 Knights newslet-ter

30 Knights newspa-per/ Nether-lands

31 Starting prepa-ration for edit-ing the book of the knights story

May 2012

Respect the diversity!

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1 Starting prepa-ration for edit-ing the book of the knights story

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4 Presentation of the results of the visit in Por-tugal to the

5 community of the school (Comenius corner /blog)

6 Finishing the Knights ping pong story

7 Translate the book in mother tongues of every partner school

8 Making the book with the active involvement of pupils

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11 Evaluation of the first year of the realization of project for

12 pupils and teach-ers involved

13 Evaluation of Knights missions for pupils

14 Preparation of the videoconfer-ence (France)

15 Pupils Videoconfer-ence

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18 Planning the knights missions for summer

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25 SUMMER HOLIDAYS

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June 2012

Remain faithful!

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Making pictures of castles that pupils come

across during holiday trips in order to display them in the

Comenius corner in September

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July 2012

Purity and honor!

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August 2012

Morality!