The document summarizes the 7th meeting of an Erasmus+ project called "Young citizens of Europe – our future" that took place in Järvenpää, Finland from May 15-21, 2016. Students and teachers from Osnovna škola Bartola Kašića in Vinkovci, Croatia participated along with the host school Koivusaaren koulu. Over the course of the week-long meeting, participants took part in welcoming ceremonies, baked pastries, decorated shirts with motifs from their countries, took an English lesson led by the Croatian students, played baseball, visited schools and landmarks in Helsinki, and saw the home of famous Finnish composer

1. Osnovna škola Bartola Kašića
Vinkovci
Erasmus + 2014-2016
Young citizens of Europe – our future
MEETING IN FINLAND
May 2016

2. The seventh meeting of partners in the Erasmus+
project “Young citizens of Europe – our future. The path of
knowing, growing and understanding.” took place in
Järvenpää from 15 May till 21 May 2016. The topic was
“Future school”. The host was Koivusaaren koulu.
Osnovna škola Bartola Kašića was represented by 3 students:
Ana Ešegović, Ivona Farago and Veronika Huber.
They were accompanied by the headmistress
AdrijanaCvrković-Lasić
and Gordana Maršić, an
English teacher.

3. In the town there are
modern and traditional
houses.

4. Hosts prepared a
welcoming ceremony and
performed the song
“Hope”, written by all
students and composed by
the Finnish students.

5. In the home
ecconomics classroom
students baked tasty
“Karelian pasties”.

6. They decorated
T-shirts and
painted motifs
from their
countries.

7. We tried to learn some
Finnish phrases, but it was
very difficult.

8. Croatian students
conducted an Englsih lesson
“Will our Earth survive?”

9. They had the
opportunity to play
baseball.

10. We visited primary school

11. High school has 1200
students and is the second
biggest high school in
Finland.

12. A pleasant afternoon by lake Kerava

13. Trip to Helsinki
We went by train to the
capital of Finland, Helsinki.

15. We visited a great
cathedral.

16. Ainola, home of Jean Sibelius, a famous Finnish composer

17. Järvanpää has a modern
church built in 1968.

18. The meeting in Finland was the last students’ meeting in the
Erasmus+ project Young citizens of europe – our future. The path of
knowing, growing and understanding.
Students, their parents and teachers learned a lot, acquired
new skills and made new friends.