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4th December 2009 On Friday 4 December 2009, on the premises of Città di Castello Town Hall the prize-giving ceremony will be held. The Yildirim family, winner of the first prize is also awarded with a pleasant stay from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 December 2009 in Florence, where the head offices of the project partner Giunti O.S. are located. This prize is a recognition for the commitment and the good results reached by the Yildirim Family during the PATCH-WORLd experimentation and the transnational phase of the PATCH-WORLd Game. 18th December 2009 Final Project in Malta It will be addressed to teachers, school administrators, parents, students and game participants. During the conference the project aims and findings will be disseminated and a panel discussion will be held about the experience of participating in the PatchWorld project by AKS members and the feeling gathered by the game participants. During the event the Pavia family will receive a participation certificate and the Apple iPod Nano, the prize for the winner of the 4th place.

4th December 2009 Prize giving ceremony of the Yildirim family, winner of the first prize of the PatchWorld Game On Friday 4 December 2009, on the premises of Città di Castello Town Hall the prize-giving ceremony will be held. The Yildirim family, winner of the first prize is also awarded with a pleasant stay from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 December 2009 in Florence, where the head offices of the project partner Giunti O.S. are located. This prize is a recognition for the commitment and the good results reached by the Yildirim Family during the PATCH-WORLd experimentation and the transnational phase of the PATCH-WORLd Game.

23rd -24th October 2009 Final Conference of the project in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Conference audience will be composed of project partners, experts from Ministry of Education and Science, State Agency for Child Protection, University Professors, NGOs, Headmasters, teachers, Families involved in the project experimentation. The Conference focus on the Possibilities for Integration of Project Activities into the Educational System.

26th June 2009 After the draw of June 20th, today two families from Turkey and Romania are going to play the second match to single out the winner of the Transnational Quiz Contest

20th June 2009 At 6:00 p.m. the Final Match for defining the first and second place!

19th June 2009 Today, starting from 6:00 p.m., four families are going to take part in the Transnational Quiz Contest Semi-final !!!

5th/6th/7th June 2009 Transnational Quiz Contest - the final phase of the learning game begins. 9 matches are played among the 18 families that won the national quiz contests. After this first round the other matches among the winners will be played on June 11th.

25th May 2009 Fourth transnational meeting in Malta. The meeting aim is to discuss about the project experimentation carried out in the various countries involved all over Europe, to organize the awards delivery and define the next project steps in view of the final months of the project implementation.

11th May 2009 After the experimentation on national level, the two winner families singled out in each partner country begin the social network activities on Transnational Level.

8th May 2009 PatchWorld experimentation in Bulgaria, dissemination on the Association Roditeli website.

27th April 2009 All the project partners are completing the National Quiz Contests. Soon the two winner families in each country.

22 - 28 April 2009 Quiz Contest It’s time to play the Quiz Contest Game! Challenge your opponent, play the quiz game, answer the questions and enjoy yourself! Before you click on the button of Quiz Contest to play, we suggest you to read the Quiz Contest Guide.

15 - 21 April 2009 Traditional holiday habits: This activity requests you to point out the more interesting or funny or curious movies of national or local celebrations like as Christmas, Eastern, mother’s day, patron saint’s day, etc. Personal blog: Using the Blog activity each family will publish personal information concerning: hobbies, family pictures, gestures, nicknames and diaries.

8 - 14 April 2009 The sports in the family: you are involved to share your family and your experience with the field of sport. The family cooking book: you are asked to write down a simple recipe of some famous and traditional dishes in your family and to take a picture of it.

1/7 April 2009 1st Activity Many families from all over Europe took part in the first week activities! We ask the partners to monitor the work made by the families and to involve the participants that didn’t manage to go through the activities so far.

1st April 2009 Нека започнем игра !! Sa începem joc !! Laten we beginnen te spelen !! Lasst die Spiele beginnen !! Let's aloittaa pelaamisen !! oynamaya basliyor !! Zacznijmy gry !! Iniziamo a giocare !!

18th March 2009 Link of Patch-World project in the project website of SimSafety .

18th March 2009 PATCH-WORLd popularized on the one of the most viewed educational webgates in Bulgaria - the one of Paideia Foundation. It informs about the meeting in Rzeszow, Poland and the family game.

22nd March 2009 Italy - CSFVM encounters the families in Italy .. .. to update them about the results of the last meeting in Poland and explain how to use the learning Game developed by GiuntiOS.

9th and 10th March 2009 Netherlands - Parents and children start working togheter with the Learning Game.

16 January 2009 On Friday 16th January 2009 the third transnational meeting will be held in Rzeszow, Poland. The meeting will be strategic to effectively define and start the experimentation phase and it will be the occasion to present the online learning environment and the Learning Game, an innovative product realized in collaboration with Giunti Lab. European families involved in the project will participate in a challenging quiz tournament.

10 December 2008 Centro Studi e Formazione Villa Montesca meets the Associations to be involved in the experimentation activities.

6 October 2008 The second meeting of the project Transversal ICT will be held in Karvia, Finland on Monday 6 October, 2008 The meeting will be of strategic importance for the presentation of the results of the first phase of the research and good practices in the field of new technologies in order to understand their effect of the lives of European families and the role of ICT tools in the relationship between parents and children, family and community. . The next steps of the project will be defined on the basis of what will have emerged from the meeting in order to build an online learning community both for parents and children involving them in a shared path in order to promote and help the exchange of knowledge, work and mutual enrichment. Partner organisations from Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Germany, Rumania, Malta, Poland and Turkey will take part in the meeting.