Erasmus + 2023-2025
Radio broadcasting about the project at RAI, OBZORNIK Magazine, RAI, 30 March 2025, from minute 43:20)
INNOVATIVE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY CREATIVITY
On Thursday, March 27, students from the 1st and 3rd biochemistry department participated in the final event of the Erasmus+ Innovative International Library Creativity project in Postojna. The project was implemented together with the SGLZŠ Postojna school and the Šmarje pri Jelšah Library. During the meeting, students took part in a round table discussion on reading, went on a photo orienteering tour of the city accompanied by their peers, watched book trailers and visited an exhibition of poems and drawings produced by the participating students. There was also an opportunity to participate in an escape room in the school library, where they had to solve literary challenges.
From October 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025, in cooperation with Srednja gozdarska, lesarska in zdravstvena šola Postojna and Library at Šmarje pri Jelšah, we will implement an Erasmus+ project. Its main goal is to attract young people to libraries. With this projects, we want to innovatively upgrade the library activity and bring it closer to young people through: – new innovative programmes of creative labs (creative writing, art, literary workshops, reading clubs), gamification in the library, events, travelling exhibition, – the use of digitization in the presentation and use of books (book trailers), – creation of a reading corner, – international networking of young people, – involving immigrants in library activities (travel lectures, purchasing literature in their mother tongue) with the aim of helping to preserve their language and culture.
On Wednesday 13 December, in the emerging library of the Stefan school and online via the google-meet application, the first meeting of the reading group took place as part of the Erasmus+ project Innovative international library creativity. The students of the 3rd biochemistry and mechanics and 2nd mechanics classes connected via the google-meet application and presented the life and work of the Trieste writer Dušan Jelinčič to the students of the Postojna vocational school, and talked about the collection of short stories I fantasmi di Trieste (The Ghosts of Trieste).
On Wednesday, March 13, as part of the Erasmus+ project Innovative international library creativity, the 3rd biochemistry class and the 3rd mechanics class students had a second virtual meeting with their peers from SGLZŠ from Postojna. At the second meeting, the students discussed the collection of short stories Tržaške prikazni – I fantasmi di Trieste by Dušan Jelinčič. The 3rd year students led the conversation, performed a Kahoot quiz and other online games. Some topics of the San Giovanni mental hospital were highlighted, such as Franco Basaglia’s reform, the figure of Diego Henriquez, the tramway, the Risiera/Rižarna concentration camp and others. At the end, they took a virtual walk around the Slovenian Trst/Trieste.
On Wednesday, May 22, as part of the Erasmus+ project Innovative International Library Creativity, students from the SGLZŠ school in Postojna came to visit. In the morning, a literary walk took place led by Stefan students in the footsteps of the book I famìntasmi di Trieste by Dušan Jelinčič.
The meeting with the writer Dušan Jelinčič took place in the afternoon. The conversation was led by the students of the third class of biochemistry, while the students of the third class of mechanics read passages from Jelinčič’s book. The parents of Jakob Bitežnik, a student of SGLZŠ, were also present. They were the first to establish contacts between the two schools, and presented the two schools with a voucher for the purchase of books. At the end, the musical group composed of Emil De Luca, Goran Rismondo and Alexander Rismondo played.
Leaflet of the literary path
Local TV about the meeting on 22 May 2024
Primorski dnevnik, 23/5/2024
KA210 project dissemination on Innovative Libraries, December 2024
At the 4th staff meeting, on 19 December 2024, the two teachers accompanying a group of students who participated in a workshop on making book-trailers in Postojna, presented to their colleagues the activities carried out and highlighted the pedagogical aspects, benefits and challenges of such activities, also in the comparative perspective of two school systems. They presented the good practices, new skills and future perspectives for improving the educational offer of the Stefan School.
Opening of the exhibition and presentation of the collection of poems composed by Jožef Stefan students
On March 21, the first day of spring, the World Poetry Day and the International Day of Forests, our students celebrated the importance of artistic creativity. In the school’s hall, they presented the freshly published collection of poems and drawings Dotiki. An exhibition was opened at the school library. The catalog is a collection of 60 poems and drawings created as part of the Erasmus+ Innovative International Library Creativity project in partnership with SGLZŠ Postojna and the Šmarje pri Jelšah Library.
During this school year, teacher Vilma Purič organized a creative writing workshop in which fifth-year students accompanied and guided their younger classmates in developing their poetic skills and composing poetry. The activity was inspired by the book Dotiki narave by Igor Škamperle, which encouraged participants to explore writing in a creative and original way.
The cultural program was designed by students of 1st KB, 4th KB, and Silvia Fortuna, Gabriel Malalan, Bastian Rismondo and Stefano Meluzzi.
