Join our consortium!
We want to build strong relationships with schools that share our vision, creating a chain of educators and students that learn through the exploration of our common cultural heritage with innovative tools.
About us
Our consortium consists of 3 Primary schools in Florina, northern Greece with a total of 360 students aged 6-12 years old. Head of our consortium is the 5th Primary School of Florina “Theodoros Kastanos” and the other two participating organizations are the Experimental Primary School of Florina and the Primary School of Ydrousa.
Erasmus+ Accreditation
We have been awarded an Erasmus+ accreditation (2021-1-EL01-KA120-SCH-000051589). For the school year 2023-2024 we have an approved plan that includes group mobilities of pupils, job shadowing and teaching assignments (2023-1-EL01-KA121-SCH-000143996)
- Student short-term mobilities
- Job shadowing for teachers
- Teacher assignments
- eTwinning projects
Our interests
For the next two years (2022 – 2024) our consortium focuses on the following thematics
Group student mobilities
Give our students the chance to learn together with their peers from another country in structured activities.
Job Shadowing for teachers
Give our teachers the chance to learn new practices and gather new ideas through observation and interaction with peers.
eTwinning online projects
Give our students and teachers the chance to collaborate online with peers from other countries on specific projects.
Cultural heritage
Explore customs, beliefs, ceremonies, traditions, arts, crafts, foods, that influence culture, behavior, history.
Art
Create artifacts with imagination and skill in ways that expresses important ideas or feelings and can connect us.
Innovation
Explore and design new innovative ways of teaching, learning and collaborating between our schools.
Schools working with us
So far
5
Ongoing projects
15
Student mobilities
12
Teacher mobilities
Latest Projects
We are working with schools and educational organizations in various projects
Art remodeled
Provide opportunities for children to understand their cultural background and that of the partner country through the medium of art while adopting innovative technologies both for the process of creating and presenting their work.
ReFashion!
Create a virtual student fashion company that aims at sustainability, technology and art. Project with two schools from Barcelona that entails student group mobilities, job-shadowing and eTwinning.
Art is everywhere!
Design and implement educational materials and methods that explore how technology can be innovative in art exhibitions, and outdoor art activities. Working with a school at Sepolno Krajenske.
Our Europe
Focusing on our common cultural heritage through and eTwinning project with two schools in Austria and job shadowing activities for our teachers. The project is designed for young students and teachers of the lower classes.
Practical STEAM
Exploring ways to implement STEAM Methodology inside and outside the classroom in meaningfull contexts. A job-shadowing project with two Spanish schools from Seville and Huelva.
Educational Materials
Latest educational materials we have developed in our projects.
An android game application for exploring a city while visiting its history. Find the places of the past and take new selfies!
A smart device for orienteering games, using Microbit and 3D printing!
An inntroductory robotics activity in an art gallery!
WeDesign!ForSTEAM
A Design Thinking Methodology for supporting the ideation process of student teams.
We'd Love To Hear From You
Get in touch with us to share ideas and establish cooperation with our consortium.
Mobilities
26/9/2022 - 30/9/2022 Hosting Sepolno Krajenskie13/3/2023 - 17/3/2023 Hosting Huelva13/3/2023 - 17/3/2023 Visting Sevilla27/3/2023 - 31/3/2023 Visiting Lliçà d'Amunt and Terrassa8/5/2023 - 12/5/2023 Hosting Lliçà d'Amunt and Terrassa15/5/2023 - 19/5/2023 Visiting Knock29/5/2023 - 2/6/2023 Visiting Sepolno Krajenskie29/5/2023 - 2/6/2023 Hosting Sevilla- 30/10/2023 - 3/11/2023 Hosting Tampere
- 20/11/2023 - 24/11/2023 Hosting Monzon
- 4/12/2023 - 8/12/2023 Hosting Braila
- 15/1/2024 - 19/1/2024 Visiting Guliena
- 19/2/20204 - 23/2/2024 Visiting Huelva
- 11/3/2024 - 15/3/2024 Visiting Pescara
- 11/3/2024 15/3/2024 Hosting Guliena and Sandnes
- 15/4/2024 - 19/4/2024 Visiting Monzon
- 22/4/2024 - 26/4/2024 Visiting Tampere
- 13/5/2024 - 17/5/2024 Visiting Sandnes
- 13/5/2024/17/5/2024 Visiting Braila
- 20/5/2024 - 24/5/2024 Visiting Šiauliai
- 3/6/2024 - 7/6/2024 Visiting Rosny-sous-Bois
Meet Our Team
Paraskevi Golia
Director of the 5th Primary School of Florina
Kostas Sechidis
Director of the Experimental Primary School of Florina
Stavros Voskopoulos
Director of the Primary School of Ydrousa
Giannis Arvanitakis
Contact person of the CHAIN Consortium
Areti Oikonomidou
Contact person of the CHAIN Consortium
Our schools
5th Primary School of Florina "Theodoros Kastanos"
The head school of our consortium is a typical primary school with 200 students that emphasizes in art, cultural heritage, inclusion.
Experimental Primary School of Florina
We serve 130 students and we emphasize on STEAM, Educational Robotics, Design and Computational Thinking.
Primary School of Ydrousa Florina
We are a small rural school serving seven villages in the region of Florina. We emphasize on the environment, inclusion and sustainability.
Latest News
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Hosting teachers from Monzon
The schools of our consortium hosted three teachers from CEIP Aragon from Monzon, Spain, between 20-24 November 2023. The visiting teachers were interested in learning about the Greek educational system and the school organization, teaching methodologies, and activity design concerning sustainability, inclusion, diversity, literacy, and physical education. Monday 20/11/2023 Our guests visited the Primary School…
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Dream Planet’s first online meeting
Students and teachers from CEIP Guliena (Spain), Sviland Skule (Norway), and from three schools of our Consortium (5th Primary School of Florina “Theodoros Kastanos”, Experimental Primary School of Florina and Primary School of Vevi) met online at 14/11/2023. In this first meeting of the project Dream Planet, they introduced their towns and schools and voted…
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Myths and emotions in Florina
From the start of the 2023-2024 school year, students in Florina and Tampere have been working on discovering the characters’ emotions in national mythology through various art forms. Eight students and two accompanying teachers from the Tampereen yliopisto Normaalikoulu, yläkoulu visited the schools of our consortium at the end of October 2023. Local families of…
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Preparation for the visit in Florina
Our consortium will host eight students and two teachers from Tampere, Finland, from 30/ 10 until 3/11/2023 as part of the Art remodeled project. During this week, we have organized art, music, and technology workshops, theater events, and games in all our schools. On Friday, 27/10, an online meeting was held in which students from…
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Hosting teachers from CEIP Francisca Romero, Sevilla
Our consortium hosted Fran and Alejandro from CEIP Francisca Romero for job-shadowing activities between 29/05/2023 and 02/06/2023 as part of the project Practical STEAM.
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Trip to Sepolno!
Seven students and three accompanying teachers for the schools of our consortium visited Szkoła Podstawowa nr 1 w Sępólnie Krajeńskim for group student mobility activities between 29/5/2023 and 2/6/2023 as part of the Art is everywhere project. Teachers from the hosting school organized various activities for our students. Monday 29/5/2023 The opening ceremony and the…
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Hosting students from Lliçà d’Amunt, reFashion project
From 8/5/2023 to 12/5/2023, our consortium hosted eight students and two teachers from INSTITUT ESCOLA MIQUEL MARTÍ I POL from Lliçà d'Amunt for the reFashion project.
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Job shadowing in Austrian schools
Four teachers from the three schools of our consortium visited three different primary schools and the Private Padagogische Hochschule Augustinum teacher academy in Austria during 2/5/2023 – 5/5/2023 for job shadowing activities in the project Our Europe. Tuesday 2/5/2023 We visited the Volksschule Bruck an der Leitha, where: Wednesday 3/5/2023 We visited the Volksschule Großsteinbach…
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Group student mobility and job-shadowing in Lliçà d’Amunt and Terassa
Eight students and six teachers from the schools of our consortium visited Lliçà d'Amunt and Terassa between 26/03/2023 - 31/03/2023 for group student mobility and job-shadowing activities as a part of the refashion project.
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Hosting teachers from Huelva for job shadowing
The headteacher and two more teachers from the CEIP Profesora Pilar Martínez Cruz school from Huelva, Spain, visited our consortium for job shadowing activities. Their school has started to implement the STEAM methodology in the last two years, and they wanted to exchange good practices in this field.
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Job shadowing in Seville
Two teachers and one head teacher from the schools of our consortium visited CEIP Francisca Romero in Sevilla, Spain, for a five days job shadowing program.
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Students from Florina meet their fellow students from Bruck an der Leitha
Two online meetings were held in December 2023 between the teachers and students of the 3rd grade from the Experimental Primary School of Florina and Volksschule Bruck an der Leitha.
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The first meeting of the reFashion project
The representative students from each school held their first online meeting on the 13th of December, 2022, with the following agenda: The meeting proceeded as planned, and after the introductions, students presented their productions ideas: They also presented their ideas for logos of the common company, and the winner was the following logo from Escola…
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Together in everything!
The schools of our consortium (5th Primary School of Florina “Theodoros Kastanos,” Experimental Primary School of Florina, and Primary School of Ydrousa) in collaboration with the Special Education Primary School, the Special Education Kindergarten of Florina and the Municipality of Florina organized events for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Friday, December 2,…
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Visit Ydrousa
Students and teachers from the visiting school of Sepolno Krajenskie arrived at the Primary School of Ydrousa. After a warm welcome, they attended a presentation of local dances by a local cultural group. They visited local vineyards and watched the process of harvesting. They also attended activities about school gardens with local plants.
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Find our way to the forest
In this activity, mixed student teams from our consortium and Sepolno Krajenskie had to navigate from the town center to a specific point in the peri-urban forest on the surrounding hills of Florina and complete several missions on their way. Each team was provided with the device they designed and programmed in the morning workshop…
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Workshop on Smart devices for outdoors
Students from Sepolno Krajenskie, the 5th Primary School, and the Experimental Primary School of Florina attended a two hours workshop on how to utilize the Microbit platform to create and program a smart device that can help them guide in the forest. Students worked in five mixed teams and were provided laptops and one Microbit…
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Field trip to Prespes
Students and teachers from our consortium’s schools accompanied our visitors from Sepolno Krajenskie on a field trip to Prespes lakes. They visited archeological sites near Lemos village, where work is underway to restore artifacts from the past. They also visited the island of Agios Achileios and the Basilica of the same name, which is dated…
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A cultural walk in town
Students and teachers from Sepolno Krajenskie, the 5th Primary School of Florina, and the Experimental Primary School of Florina participated in this outdoor activity using the smart app students created in the morning workshop. The meeting point was at the center of Florina by the river Sakoulevas. Each team was provided with a tablet or…
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Cultural Smart app workshop
In this workshop, students from the Experimental Primary School of Florina, the 5th Primary School of Florina, and our visitors from Sepolno Krajenskie cooperated and created a cultural smart app. The workshop was held at the robotics lab of the Primary School of Florina. Students formed five mixed groups and developed the app using the MIT…
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reVisit art at the Modern art museum of Florina
Students and teachers from the visiting school Szkoła Podstawowa nr 1, Sępólno Krajeńskie, and also from the local schools of our consortium met at the Modern Art Museum of Florina to work on activities prepared by teachers from our consortium. They attended a VR exhibition navigating through the artifacts using handheld devices. They also attended…
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Welcome Sepolno Krajenskie
Visiting students and teachers from Szkoła Podstawowa nr 1, Sępólno Krajeńskie, arrived at the 5th Primary School of Florina “Theodoros Kastanos” in the morning. After a warm welcome, students and teachers watched two introductory short videos that each school had prepared. The videos were made by students and creatively presented the history of each town…
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