A selection of successful Comenius projects, highlighting the benefits for students and teachers, with helpful tips on managing and evaluating your project.

Alternative Energy - UK, Portugal, Italy, Norway and Romania

A teacher at Glenlola Collegiate, a girls' grammar school in County Down, Northern Ireland, explains how their Comenius project is using science and citizenship to focus on alternative energy sources in Europe. More>>>

Citizenship and Social Inclusion - UK, Denmark, Germany, France and Italy

Students at Hope High have been working with their European counterparts on a project about Citizenship and Social Inclusion. Here, Sharon Hughes describes how the students have 'looked beyond the label "Asylum Seeker" and seen real people with real stories to tell'. More>>>

Citizenship - diversity and equality - UK, Germany, Sweden and Italy

Fiona Swanson, the school's Head of International Education, describes how students at this language college in Cambridge have learnt to celebrate diversity by collaborating on a global citizenship project which has explored issues such as asylum seekers, refugees, racism and human rights. This case study offers useful advice on how to manage and sustain a complex partnership with a serious theme. More>>>

Citizenship and community - UK, Romania and Italy

Mr Williams, head teacher at Old Sodbury primary school, talks through a school project focused on citizenship and community. He explains how the partners got round communication difficulties (neither of the partner schools is online), and tells how the children who visited Romania will remember it for the rest of their lives. More>>>

Creativity - UK, Sweden, Finland and Greece

Pond Park Primary's principal and teachers used Comenius 2.2 professional development courses to learn about the Reggio Emilia Schools of Northern Italy, which have a creative and child-centred approach to schooling. Pond Park has also done a school project - find out how teddy bears helped develop the children's knowledge of different countries, including travel, climate and languages. More>>>

Environment - UK, Portugal, Finland and Hungary

'Many in our school can't experience the world, therefore we have to bring the world to them,' says Ann Southren, Deputy Headteacher of Durham Trinity School, a special school. Through its Comenius project focused on the environment, the school has strengthened links with the local community, increased the dynamism of the curriculum and staff have learnt about new educational methods. More>>>

European Day - UK, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Latvia and Ireland

Ysgol y Dderi is a rural community primary school located in the Teifi valley half way between Tregaron and the old University town of Lampeter in West Wales. But that's just our location on a map - creatively-speaking we're at the heart of Europe and that's because of a Comenius1 project called 'Roots and Wings' which began in 1997! More>>>

European Citizenship - UK, Poland and Germany

Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School, a specialist technology college, has been deemed Outstanding by Ofsted since becoming involved in Comenius. Carol Rushton, assistant head teacher and the Comenius project co-ordinator describes the experience of a joint curriculum project, which launched with the Germand and UK schools celebrating Poland's entry into the EU. Carol asked some of the children who had been to Poland to comment on their experiences. These make for wonderful reading. More>>>

Friendship - UK, Portugal, Germany and Italy

This Comenius 1 joint project report from Eastbourn Junior and Infant school, offers a unique insight into how one school responded to the different questions and headings using the required Comenius forms. More>>>

One world - UK, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Italy

A look at two Comenius projects from Ounsdale High School in Staffordshire: 'One World' and 'Europe - Unity in diversity' that aimed to bring young people together through meaningful educational links and celebrate both diversity and common values. More>>>

The Environment - UK, Germany, Holland and Hungary

Bredon Hill Middle School in Worcestershire is working in partnership with schools in Germany, Holland and Hungary on a Comenius project about the environment. Below, Robert Wells, International Co-ordinator at the school, describes how he has encouraged the whole school to get involved, and reports on a chance meeting with Comenius himself. More>>>