ACTIVITIES – Animal integration in the educational programme

Below you will find short description of transnational meeting carried out in the project. You can find more about the meetings in our Gallery section here

1st TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING, Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia

The first project meeting was held in Rogaška Slatina and was organized by the coordinating organization, Ljudska univerza Rogaška Slatina. Participants of the meeting found out about the general rules of Erasmus + programme, learned detailed information about the Animal Integration in the Educational Programme, set goals for the future, distributed tasks among partners and created a dissemination plan of the project.

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2nd TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING, Jozefov, Poland

The second project meeting was organized by Polish partners in Jozefov. The participants reported about their project activities since the last meeting, learned about the safe animal handling, recognizing stress in animals and were able to go through and discuss some practical study cases.

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3rd INTERNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING, Patras, Greece

The third transnational meeting took place in a Greek town Patras. The participants took part in theoretical training prepared by the Irish partner about assessing animals for Animal Assisted Interactions with children, about preparing and training animals for their integration in the education. The participants did some practical work about how to plan goal focussed sessions and how to measure outcomes of the activities with animals and children. They also learned how to use the booklet prepared by the Irish partners – appendix 10 in the final Guideline. They visited the local equestrian centre, where the theoretical knowledge from previous sessions was put into practice. All the partner also presented their activities carried out since the last meeting.

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TRAINING IN IRELAND

In June all the partners attended a special training in Ireland, organised by the Irish organisation Elista Education. The participants were first able to observe demonstrations of Animal Assisted Interaction Programmes as offered by the ELISTA centre, which was followed by Animal Assisted Education Practical work and Activities.

After two days of work at Elista Centre, the participants visited Knock National School where they observed a demonstration of Animal Assisted Education classes and the next day they visited the Phoenix Park Special School where they had the opportunity to observe another demonstration of Animal Assisted Education sessions. On the last day of the training, the participants planned and presented their own Animal Assisted Education sessions with various animals at the Elista Centre.

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TRAINING IN IRELAND

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4th INTERNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING, Denizli, TURKEY

For the fourth international meeting partners met in Denizli in Turkey. They reported about the project progress, attended a very special Maths lesson at Ozel Denizli Ayildiz Ozel Egitim ve Rehabilitasyon Merkezi school and visited three more schools for individuals with special needs. Partners also spent a nice afternoon at the local horse stable with children from the partner school and their parents.

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5TH TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING, Erd, HUNGARY

At the meeting in Hungary the participants visited several lessons with animals, which are a part of regular curriculum at the Hungarian school. They also visited a volunteer organization with rescue dogs and did some activities in connection to the project and enjoyed in the programme prepared by students.

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6TH TRANSNATIONAL MEETING, Asau Village, ROMANIA

In Romania participants discussed details of the final guideline, set the dates for final translations and discussed project details. They also had the oppurtunity to enjoy in beautiful performance prepared by pupils from the host organization and spend beautiful evening with local people from the village.

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7TH TRANSNATIONAL MEETING, Vukovar, CROATIA

in Croatia the participants made an overall assessment of the project and its success, made final observations, feedbacks and reports and discussed the final report. The programme was also enriched by performances of the students.

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