During the students' first mobility to Barcelos, our Portuguese hosts showed the rest of participants the most outstanding features of its cultural heritage through visits and workshops. Special focus was put on the smell and taste senses, and were directly related to the final tasks carried out during the stay.
Tasks completed before the mobility:
- Recipes (taste and smell). During the “Join staff training event” held in October in Portugal, partners had discussed and agreed on 3 recipes typical from their cuisine which included a starter, a main course and a dessert. They also decided which recipes were going to be cooked during the the mobility in Portugal: Greece: salad + “Dakos”, Poland: vegetable salad “SAŁATKA JARZYNOWA”, Spain: a dessert “Roques de de xocolata”, Portugal: main course “Feijoada e arroz seco”. Afterwards, each partner wrote the recipes in English and in its national language, cooked the dish at home and took photos of the whole process.
- Glossary in Progress (hearing sense). During the “Join staff training event” partners also agreed on the set of expressions useful for the short-term exchanges taking into account the suggestions made by their students prior the meeting as a contribution to the glossary. The objective is to progressively fill in a chart in the languages of the partner schools. The hosting partner uploaded a video to the project Youtube channel to show how these expressions are pronounced and written in Portuguese. The board game: Sense your city (all senses). The Portuguese partner created 20 questions dealing with different aspects related to its area and heritage.
Activities carried out during the mobility:
Day 1: Participants got to know each other, introduced themselves and their schools. They were given a tour around the school. Later, each delegation presented its two candidate logos and voted to choose the final project logo. One of Greece's designs was the winner.
The Portuguese hosting partner presented 20 questions about different aspects related to what their guest partners would discover during those days. Finally, there was a sightseeing tour around Barcelos.
Day 2: Students travelled to Porto, where they could visit one of the many famous Porto wine cellars. There they were explained about the production of this popular wine and even experienced a 3D tour across Porto vineyards.
Day 3: Visit to the local shops to buy the necessary ingredients for the recipes. Glossary in Action Part 1: Polish, Greek and Spanish students recorded speaking expressions of the glossary in Portuguese. Visit to Braga (streets, Monasterio Bom Jesus, where we observed the different monuments and landscapes related to the five senses).
Day 4: First, participants visited the impressive local market, where they could admire the work of traditional handcrafters but also shop for the groceries required for the cooking workshop on Thursday. Then, they joined at school to take part in a workshop to create a calendar and a digital recipe book with all the recipes they had prepared at home.
Day 5: Sense your city: The Game Part 1. On the last day there was a competition among partners which consisted in answering those first 20 questions dealing with the information they had been provided during that week. The workshop also included the making of cards to contain those questions and guest participants having to come up with more questions.
Afterwards, students participated in a cooking session in which each delegation cooked one of the recipes at the school kitchen using the ingredients they had shopped for or even brought with them from their countries. Thus, that evening's dinner menu consisted of all those traditional dishes from the Polish, Portuguese, Greek and Spanish cuisines.
To conclude, all participants had to evaluate the mobility through an online questionnaire.
