2nd Transnational Meeting in Crete (Greece)
The 1st Primary School of Nea Alikarnassos received representatives of the Erasmus+ Programme ‘Talent Maker’ consortium on the 24th and 25th of May 2022 at the school premises. The participants were the University of Girona and El Pla School of Salt (Spain), the University of Craiova and Constantin Ianculescu Primary School of Cârcea (Romania) and the institution Action Synergy of Athens (Greece). The host organization, namely the teaching staff of Alikarnassos, showed the attendees around the school and the city of Heraklion.
On the first day, the youngest school pupils welcomed the participants with a music and dancing performance. Then, attendees observed students and teachers in action working on the Digital Educative Capsules.
Later, they took part in a guided tour of the school premises carried out by the students themselves. Afterwards, they had lunch in the school dining room. Finally, the first day was completed with the participants attending a creative workshop based on new technologies organized by the University of Girona.

On the second day, the attendees discussed the steps that have been taken so far, as well as the following steps towards the project’s completion. They exchanged views, ideas and concerns about the project with the aim of taking collective decisions regarding the implementation of the Talent Maker programme. A briefing about the digital educative capsules making followed, presented by the organizers of the programme.
Later in the evening, in a friendly environment, the participants shared their experiences, entertained and arranged to meet again in Girona (Spain) in February 2023.
Promoting inclusive education

On the 24th of March, the Girona representatives of Talent Maker were invited to a conference on experiences to promote inclusive education and social inclusion organized by the Inclusive Education Master at the University of Girona.
El Pla school team explained their original project Talents; and how it has evolved into our current Erasmus + project: Talent Maker.
They focused on the social reality of the municipality of Salt and the difficulties the multicultural schools with children from vulnerable families have to face to guarantee equity an inclusive education.
They presented the project as a universal measure to attend diversity as it applies to the individuality of each child, encouraging their multiple intelligences, learning by “making”, and global personality growth.


On days like this, when sharing Talent Maker, we recognize the importance of this European cooperation. We value having the opportunity to discuss, design, implement and share this pedagogical project and adapt it to different country realities and their possible lock-downs.
Because the way we see it, from the inspiring practice of El Pla School, three schools with social inclusion problems are working together with research groups of universities that also care for children from vulnerable families, and this is how we can make a real change.
We believe that cooperation is the way to improve and promote transformative educational practices.

Our 1st Transnational Meeting
In the first week of November, the University of Girona (UdiGitalEdu) team coordinated a face-to-face meeting in Craiova (Romania) to review the work done and discuss the following steps of the Talent Maker Project (Erasmus+).
During the meeting, the partners visited one of the consortium schools (Constantin Ianculescu), discussed the Methodology (IO1) and the format of the Digital Educative Capsules (IO2) and participated and created some Talent Maker Workshops. Moreover, they assigned tasks and organized the next phases.
Representatives of all partners attended the meeting hosted by the University of Craiova and Constantin Ianculescu School: UdiGitalEdu (Girona, Spain), El Pla School (Salt, Spain), University of Craiova (Craiova, Romania), Constantin Ianculescu School (Cârcea, Romania), Action Synergy (Athens, Greece) and Alikarnassou School (Crete, Greece).
Talent Maker a cooperation result
On the 8th of September, the Cathedra TEKHNÉ originated from the collaboration between the University of Girona (UdG) and the City Hall of Salt celebrated their first year with a Meeting in El Pla school (Salt, Spain).
In the meeting UdiGitalEdu, the research group in Education, Technology and Development Cooperation of the UdG, shared their impact in the educational context of the village through projects’ implementations, technology workshops, teachers’ training and schools’ collaborations among others.
The Talent Maker project was head lighted for being a successful example of the establishment of the Cathedra and the result of developing the idea of a project already carried out by one of the municipal schools.

“I was very impressed by the quality of TEKHNÉ Cathedra projects and their transference of technological knowledge in the context of the schools of Salt. Educative sparks that can change the future of children and have deserved European funds.”
Xavier Aldeguer
General Director of Knowledge Transfer of Catalan Government