WE ARE DYN@MIC! OUR TEAM AND OUR SCHOOL

Hello!

We are a group of high school students at IES Madina Mayurqa (Palma de Mallorca). We are studying fourth of ESO and we all belong to different groups.

Our team is composed of: Angel Garcia, Margalida Ribas, Aitana Benítez, Maria Martorell, Carmen Pujadas, Guillermo Velarde, Paula Blàzquez, Raquel Sebastián, Jaume Munar and Maria Frontera.

This is the first time that our school participates in EUROSCOLA. Our English teacher (Gabriela Torrens) thought that it would be a good idea to participate and it has been a great experience! 

We have learnt a lot about the European Union and we have learnt things that are not in our school books. Also, we have put into practice some of the EU values: respect for other's opinions and rights, democracy, pluralism, non-discrimination.... all necessary to work in a team of 10! 

WE ARE DYN@MIC! DIFFUSION STRATEGY

First of all, our school promoted our blog and "Euroscola" on its website. They have also promoted all of the activities that we have done on the school's social networks (Twitter and Facebook).

After that we opened our own Google+, Youtube and Twitter accounts (@euromadina) and linked them to our blog. We published our articles and got many retweets (RT). We made use of the hashtags #YYaVan30 #Euroscola2016. After our visit to the Europe Direct Centre in Palma, they promoted us on Twitter, giving us RT. As you can see we offered to write press releases if anybody was interested.

We made our own digital newspaper on Twitter: The EuroMadina Daily News, with news from our blog and on the EU. 

The digital newspaper "DebateEduIB" selected one of our articles and published it.

The Mayor of Palma tweeted about our visit! It got many RT too!

And the newspaper Diario de Mallorca published this!

Our blog has received many visits. Our diffusion strategy has worked!

OUR 10 CONCLUSIONS AFTER THE PROJECT

Thanks to this project we've learnt lots of things, not only about the EU, but also about working as a team and putting into practice values as pluralism, respect for others' opinions and solidarity.

1.The EU has impacted on the progress of Spain since Spain joined, because before 1986 Spain was behind all the member states, not only economically, but also had bad roads, small airports, etc.

2.We believe it is very interesting that the European Union has intervened in the sports' world in many occasions, improving the working situation of sportspeople.

3.Before we started Euroscola's project we didn't know about the  existence of Eurocorps.

4.We were surprised by the fact that the EU has an anthem, since none of us knew about its existence.

5.Thanks to participating in Euroscola, we feel closer to the EU and we have been able to visit institutions such as the Europe Direct Centre and we even met the Mayor of our city and one of the heads of the CIVITAS project, a European project in Palma that we have studied because of Euroscola.

6.We realized that the EU isn't as far as we thought. Many things around us have been done thanks to the EU funds. A clear example is the Civitas project, in Palma.

7.In our opinion, the best thing about being part of Europe is the right of free movement, as it grants citizens to travel, to study and to work freely within the member countries.

8.Another advantage of being part of the European Union is that we have a stronger voice in international affairs.

9.The fact of having participated in the category English has helped us to improve our English.

10.We were able to work in a team, in a very organized way.