Next Level Art Bridge – The earth is one country and mankind its citizens – is an art based approach twinning project of two primary school classes towards a better and more sustainable future. It is done in exchange between The Reijola school in Joensuu, Finland and Bajram Curri school in Tirana, Albania. The project is hosted by Environment Online -ENO network of schools for sustainable development.
This school project is done in the Sustainable Development via Co-creation project, which is funded by the Central Finland Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment.
Please stay updated on the project advancement by visiting this page. The project starts in mid-Sep 2022.
19.9 2022 Greetings from Albania!
The students and teachers from Bajram Curri from Tirana, Albania sent video greetings to finnish students introducing themselves and their school and its surroundings.
After watching the Bajram Curri school greetings the students of Reijola school prepared themselves with the vocabulary related to sustainable development by playing “coctail party” in english. Find instructions from here
17.11.2022 Greetings from Reijola to Albania!
Here are Reijola school students greetings to Albania. The music in the video is an instrumental version of a song composed by the Principal of the school Mr. Jyri Martiskainen. The song was performed by nearly 6000 students at the Suomen suven avaus – finnish summer opening festival 2022. The event is a big musical event where all the primary school students of the City of Joensuu gather at the Laulurinne -the singing stage – to sing and perform the songs they have practised during the springtime.
7.12.2022 A Christmas meeting!
Finally we were ready to organize a video meeting between the classes. The meeting was held in the spirit of Christmas. The finnish students presented reused crafts they had made: boiler plates from an old coffee package (instructions of finnish students in English are coming soon here for all! Meanwhile you can follow these ) and everybody got a chance to present themselves and tell about their hobbies.
Finally some Christmas songs were sung to each other in four languages – in english, in finnish, in albanian and in italian also! Next meeting was agreed to be held around Valentine’s day in February where both classes will present some art and craft works related to the theme and more songs will be sung for the friendship.
May 2023
The schools took part in the ENO Art competition 2023 FOLK CREATURES. In addition to the contest the schools presented the works to eache others.
Works from Bajram Curri school
Works from Reijola school:
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- Flowerfairy (a teachers work)
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- Möhkäle troll
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- Fairy-unicorn
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- Sauna troll: Have you ever wondered what's banging from the heater in the sauna when it's too hot? Namely, you will find out now… Sauna Elf…… He doesn't like it when the sauna is too hot. The sauna elf is a character that many Finnish children and even some adults believe in! He lives in the sauna heater, but he does not cause any harm to people. He is really shy by nature, but a friendly person. He can be recognized by his long beard and small size. Well, how do you know that the Sauna Elf lives in your stove? You can tell by the sound coming from the sauna when it gets too hot. The sauna elf inside the stove beats the wall of the stove with a brush.
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- French bogey – The name of the French bogey is Franskalainen Mörkö – He is 100,000 years old. – His birthday is January 1. – 97977. – His favorite food is a baguette. ( He doesn't eat anything else. ) – Mörkö lives in Paris, in the Eiffel Tower. – Mörkö doesn't like people because they eat his baguettes. – Mörkö is a boy by gender. – Mörkö is really stupid.
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- Walto troll: Walton is a furry troll who is of the animal family. He has no gender. Walton lives underground. There it eats worms and sometimes goes on earth to collect flowers and grass for food. His favorite food is mud cake. He drinks pond water with his food. Walton weighs about 10 kg-15 kg and his height is about 60 cm-70 cm. By nature, he is goofy, funny, curious, sometimes observes people and he doesn't like people/other creatures. He has a really good hearing; he can even hear a pin drop 5 km away. Walton lives forever.