Wednesday was jam-packed with events, all of us went to Alhama High School in the morning for the opening ceremony where we were handed name tags and a Biciclistas string backpack with maps and a yellow t-shirt within it. As our correspondents went of to school the Danish, Irish and the Lithuanians went off to […]
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St. Tiernan’s Irish students account of their Spanish cultural exchange, part 1
By Lesley Ann Pagan On March 23- 31, six students from the Green- Schools program embarked on an amazing journey across seas to a little town in Spain called Corella, this journey was all possible thanks to Erasmus+. We all meet such amazing people from each country that took part in this in this program […]
Clonakilty festival keeps growing
This past weekend we celebrated our 8th Bicycle Festival in Clonakilty and it was our best yet. Fuelled by the energy and new ideas from our recent Erasmus trip to Corella we are growing and gathering members to create more momentum for year-round events, infrastructure and advocacy work. We launched our new community bike workshop, […]
Clonakilty Bicycle Festival is growing
By Allison Roberts Last month, Clonakilty Bicycle Festival organizers Allison Roberts and Justin Grounds took part in a special Erasmus+ program in Corella, Spain, entitled, ‘Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Community’. The program which will continue until 2021, is a cultural exchange for students and project partners from Spain, Ireland, Lithuania and Denmark (Copenhagen). “I wasn’t sure what […]
Green-Schools visits Northern Spain as part of the Erasmus+ programme
By Jane Hackett, the National Manager of the Green-Schools Travel Programme. The Irish team travelled to Corella, Spain in late March as part of the Erasmus + Project entitled «Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Community». The project focuses on; youth empowerment, sustainable mobility, community engagement and cultural exchange. Cyclist.ie contacted An Taisce/reen-Schools in January 2018 with a […]
Trip to Corella on Clonakilty Bike Fest Facebook
Posted on @clonakiltybicyclefestival Facebook page by Allison Roberts Clon Bike Fest in Spain!! We have been part of an exciting Erasmus+ exchange hosted by Biciclistas de Corella spending a week with students and cycle advocates from Ireland, Spain, Denmark and Lithuania. Super excited to come home for this year’s festival full of ideas and energy! […]
The Irish team enjoyed every minute in Corella!
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 […]
Meet St. Tiernan’s future friends
Student’s from St. Tiernan’s Community School, Balally Dublin, are preparing for the initial cultural exchange in Spain as part of the Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Community Erasmus+ programme. Along with Green-Schools An Taisce and Cyclist.ie volunteers, six St. Tiernan’s students will travel to Corella in Spain to meet with students from Spain, Denmark and Lithuania. The […]
