Best wishes from Germany to Norway

Two European regions with wonderful nature and open and interested people will cooperate in order to improve their knowledge about each other – culture, daily life at school and about all – something about the best ways of teaching and education!

The teachers and regional partners in Bad Tölz are really looking forward to our future cooperation and we are quite excited to come to Norway for the first meeting.
We are very interested in the Norwegian education system and hope to learn a lot by discussing common issues and sharing useful experiences.

At the moment warm summer has come back to the region of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
and pupils and teachers are enjoying their holidays till September!

Because our region has got a really attractive and intact landscape with mountains, lakes and pituresque villages, many tourists are spending some nice days here.

In Norway summer holidays are over - and so we wish all children and their teachers
a very nice and exciting start into the new school year!

Best wishes from happy Bad Tölz!

How they met each other..

Do you want to know how the two regions found each other?

It started in Budapest in December 2010. Hanne from Norway and Marianne from Germany traveled to a "partnership seminar" in Hungary. The goal was to find a partner that wanted to work on the same issues.

The first thing we had to do on the seminar was to present food from our region. Here you can see what the regions presented as typical food from their location.




After we had tasted each other, it was time to talk to each other. It was time for speed dating. We had seven minutes with each region to try to find a match..



Hanne from Norway is not impressed by some guys from the UK...

But finally...we found each other...
First meeting between Hanne and Marianne. We found out that we had a lot in common. We were from rural regions, close proximity to nature and mountains and wanted to develop more practical teaching methods using environmental approaches.

Here you can see Marianne and Hanne starting to work on the application for the Comenius Regio programe..

The application was completed and submitted in february. In summer we both got the happy message; you got the funding. It's just to get ready to european cooperation and friendship!

First visit

Both Staatliches Schulamt Bad Tölz -Wolfratshausen and Vågå municipality are happy that we are selected to be in the EU Comenius regio project. For the next to years the school authorities, the schools and the local partners in both regions will have a close co-operation. Together we will get to know each other, share teaching methods and develop new ones.

The first visit will happen from the 10th to the 14th of October. The meeting will be held in Vågå. The teachers and the staff in Vågå are looking forward to meet our new friends from Germany!

Our project idea

Teachers in Norwegian primary schools and German secondary modern schools notice an increasing number of pupils who aren’t able and motivated to manage their own learning process: they don’t find school attractive, they often feel bored or not able to succeed in different subjects and some of them suffer from a lack of self assurance because of different handicaps. We also see poor performance in the basic skills.

Our project idea is to share and develop more practical and effective teaching methods. In order to develop better basic skills and strengthening the pupil’s self assurance we would like to share and develop new and more practical teaching methods. We will especially focus on environmental education, since both regions are rural and located in close proximity to the nature. The main objective of the project is improving the learning outcome, especially in certain basic competences, by exchanging and developing practical and effective teaching methods.
In cooperation with experts from the local partners methods should be developed, which are suitable to improve scientific skills as well as social competences like working in teams and planning and managing small projects. The project will also help to make schools in rural regions more attractive.