4. THE FUTURE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN AN ENLARGED EUROPE
European InternationalMeetingof the Students from
Austria - Friuli Venezia -Giulia – Slovenia
GORIZIA-NOVA GORICA
7 – 8 – 9 May 2004
REGIONAL SCHOOL OFFICEFRIULI
VENEZIA GIULIA
Trieste / ŠOLSKI CENTER Nova Gorica / LANDESSCHULRATS Klagenfurt / COMUNE DI GORIZIA
PROVINCIA DI GORIZIA
COMUNE DI NOVA Gorica
Friday 7th, May / 15.00-16.00 / Greetings / Dott. Cataldi
Mayors: Nova Gorica - Gorizia - Klagenfurt
Province of Gorizia
School representative authorities Slovenia - Austria
Nova Gorica
Town Council Hall / 16.00-16.40 / dott. Antonio Giunta La Spada
MIUR International Affairs
General Director / “The European Dimension of Education:
the Opportunities of Cooperation”
16.40 - 17. 20 / Prof. Claudio Bonvecchio
Insubria (Va) University / “Identity, universalism, culture:
the destiny of Europe”
17.20 - 18. 00 / Prof. Karl Stuhlpfarrer
Director of Modern History Instititute
Klagenfurt University
18.00 -18.30 / Students’ speech / Orvieto’s Campus :We, Europe
18. 30 - 19.30 / Ciak Europe –
European cinema expert / (with clips from English films or subtitles)
20.00 / dinner / (at Sempeter college)
Saturday 8th, May
/ 9.30-10.30 / Undersecretarysen.Roberto Antonione
Dott.Zechmann
Auditorium
Gorizia
pole of
Grammar school / 10.30 -11.30 / Dott. Valeria Gualandi
Milan EU Commission Representative / “The perspectives of
European enlargement”
11.30 / Coffee break
12.00-12.30 / dott. Branko Marušič
Member of Lubiana Accademy / “Institutional European Relationships”
12.30-13.00 / Dott. Eugenio Ambrosi
International Affairs Direction Region FVG / The
“Extra Large European Project”
13.00-13.30 / Students’ Speech / Debate
13.30-14.30 / Buffet lunch
14.30-17.30 / Students Workshop / Workshops with tutor
17.30-19.15 / Visit to Gorizia’ s castle and historic centre / Visit to Musič exhibition
( guideprovided by the Province ofGorizia)
ore 19.15 / cena in pizzeria a Gorizia
Auditorium della Cultura Friulana -Gorizia / 21.30-23.00 / Rock around the school / Rock Concert by L.I.S.M. coordination
by prof. M.M. Tosolini
from Udine Conservatory
Sunday 9th, May
/ 9.30–10.30 / Students’plenary10.30–11.00 / prof. Peter Brown / EAQUALS President Plenary
Nova Gorica
Town Council Hall / 11.00-11.30 / dott. Pier Giorgio Castaldi
Regional School Office / Conclusions
Transalpina
Large square / 12.00-13.00 / Studenti: a farewell poem
Report of Workshop 4
GORIZIA-NOVA GORIA MAY 2004The Future of Young People
in an Enlarged Europe
WORKSHOP 4
Promoting a European Dimension in the Learning Process
We are students from Austria, Slovenia and Italyand our age is from 15 to 18. We tried to find out what this topic meant to us, trying not to be influenced by the opinion of adult people. The following are our true ideals and proposals:
School
Many different nationalities should learn togetherin the same class, building up international classes and schools.
Some subjects should be taught in a foreignlanguage by a native speaker teacher
More optional language courses should be offered for students to learn different languages from the “standard” ones.
All degrees should be recognised all over Europe so that entering universities and higher education courses abroad could be done without entry selection
Modern history classes should be introduced paying particular attention to the development of the European Union and its laws
All students should have the possibility to receive a good education even if they are not particularly healthy
Exchanges
More exchanges should be offered for people of every age starting from an earlier age
Exchanges should last longer than one week and strengthen the cultural dimension of the experience
Exchange students should attend ordinary classes and take part in the everyday school life of the host country.
Extracurricular activities
I.C.T. (Information and Communication Technology) should be enhanced in order to create a multimedia international network
International competitions and exhibitions should be organised in arts, sports and music
International summer courses and cultural workshops should be offered for participants from all nations.
Closing Ceremony Poetry Reading
Poem delivered at EU Enlargement Ceremony by Irish Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney
Beacons at Bealtaine by Seamus Heaney
In the Celtic calendar that once regulated the seasons in many parts of Europe, May Day, known in Irish as Bealtaine, was the feast of bright fire, the first of summer, one of the four great quarter days of the year. The early Irish Leabhar Gabhála (The Book of Invasions), tells us that the first magical inhabitants of the country, the TuathaDé Danaan, arrived on the feast of Bealtaine, and a ninth century text indicates that on the same day the druids drove flocks out to pasture between two bonfires. So there is something auspicious about the fact that a new flocking together of the old European nations happens on this day of mythic arrival in Ireland; and it is even more auspicious that we celebrate it in a park named after the mythic bird that represents the possibility of ongoing renewal. But there are those who say that the name Phoenix Park is derived from the Irish words, fionnuisce, meaning "clear water" and that coincidence of language gave me the idea for this poem.-It's what the poet Horace might have called a carmensæculare, a poem to salute and celebrate an historic turn in the sæculum, the age.
Beacons at BealtainePhoenixPark, May Day, 2004
Uisce: water. And fionn: the water's clear.
But dip and find this Gaelic water Greek:
A phoenix flames upon fionn uisce here.
Strangers were barbaroi to the Greek ear.
Now let the heirs of all who could not speak
The language, whose ba-ba-bbling was unclear,
Come with their gift of tongues past each frontier
And find the answering voices that they seek
As fionn and uisce answer phoenix here.
The May Day hills were burning, far and near,
When our land's first footers beached boats in the creek
In uisce, fionn, strange words that soon grew clear;
So on a day when newcomers appear
Let it be a homecoming and let us speak
The unstrange word, as it behoves us here,
Move lips, move minds and make new meanings flare
Like ancient beacons signalling, peak to peak,
From middle sea to north sea, shining clear
As phoenix flame upon fionnuisce here.
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