Back in September 2017, we were delighted to be contacted – completely out of the blue – by Toño Peña, the Vice-President of Biciclistas de Corella, a Spanish organisation promoting the bicycle as a means of transport. He was inquiring to see if Cyclist.ie would like to be a partner in an Erasmus+ project funding application he was […]
Archives for 2019
Pitching in with plastic recycling in Corella
Six Erasmus students have helped today with the plastic recycling. We´ve taken all the bins from the schools and nursing home and emptied them. We´ve finished our recycling afternoon filling seven big sacs with the plastic and driving them to Solteco, the company where plastic rubbish is turned into tables, bins, benches, bike racks (even […]
Rickshaw training by Foreningen Frie Fugle with Erasmus+ students from Randersgade Skole
Pernille Vederso, Copenhagen, March 20th 2019. On Wednesday 20th of March, six Erasmus+ students from Randersgade Skole in Copenhagen went to ride rickshaw bikes for the first time. They used each other as passengers while riding in the city. The rickshaw session took place at the retirement home Nybodergården where this optional activity is part […]
Road traffic analysis: Alhama High School, Corella – seen from outside
Jens Erik Larsen, 1st of April 2019. It ‘s 8 o´clock in the morning in the small town of Corella and the sun is shining. From many different directions the pupils are walking to school, some wait for each other at a corner and walk together, slowly – muy tranquilo – to reach the school […]
ConBici announces our first Erasmus mobility
ConBici, the Spanish platform that brings all cycling-promotion associations together, explains thoroughly our first mobility in Corella. We are more than delighted! Thanks, ConBici, for your support!
Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate
Author: Jens Erik Larsen. The worldwide demonstrations and school strikes also happened on Friday 15th of March in 32 towns in Denmark including Copenhagen in front of the Danish parliament, Folketinget. Among the participants there were students from Randersgade Skole, members of Foreningen Frie Fugle, now ready to go to Spain to discuss sustainable mobility […]
Our last fundraiser: pi-stickers
Jesús Javier Jiménez, Jota, has led the Math Department in the most surprising and memorable fundraiser so far: Yayacleta pi-stickers. We celebrated number π day on March 14 (3/14). Math teachers sold Yayacleta pi-stickers. There was a very interesting banner with as many Yayacletas per column as decimals number pi has: 3.1415926535897932384626433…
Acting to tackle climate change on March 15
Today, March 15, more than 1,600 cities around the world, 45 of them in Spain, have organized demonstrations and activities of all kinds following the movement Fridays for Future that Greta Thunberg, a determined 15-year-old girl from Sweden, started in August 2015. The objective is to combat climate change and demand that our institutions take […]
Huelga escolar global contra el cambio climático
Hoy, 15 de marzo, más de 1.600 ciudades de todo el mundo, 45 de ellas en España, han organizado manifestaciones y actividades de todo tipo siguiendo el movimiento Fridays for Future que inició la adolescente sueca Greta Thunberg. El objetivo es combatir el cambio climático y exigir a nuestras instituciones que tomen medidas para paliarlo. […]
Taking stock of a fruitful week
March 11-14 has been a hectic week in Alhama High School. We´ve been picking up rubish all around the school and in distant places like Estanquilla, Estanca, and Ombatillo. We all, students and teachers, are impressed with the results. NUMBERS OF A HECTIC AND FRUITFUL WEEK: Groups who have participated in the clean-up: 19 Students […]
