BIP ECO-EU: Beasain

And finally, it is our turn, Beasain BHI

Beasain BHI is located in the centre of the province of Guipuzcoa, in the Goierri. With its nearly 1000 students divided in two buildings, it is the biggest centre of the area.

The institute has always followed a policy of modernization and involvement in essential matters, due to this its interest in participating in project that will help students to be competent for their future, mainly putting them in contact with foreign languages and taking part in activities and forums related to the respect of environment. The aim is to prepare them for their future with a maximum of guarantees and, at the same time, to make of them environmentaly friendly citizens.

Other thing that can not be forgotten is that being located in a Basque speaking area, Basque culture is one of the essential elements of our school and so it is of the knowledge given in which this language is used, and, in addition to this, we promote multilingual projects.

One of the concerns of our institute during the last school years has been sustainable food and we were very happy when we knew that in the distribution of task for this Erasmus+ project this was the subject we should deal with. Not only our students, participants or not, are familiarised with the subject but also there is a general concern in the community so that it was very easy to arrange visits and activities taking this aspect into account, apart of the touristy ones, of course.

Diary of the visit

Until now, we have been travelling to different countries with our ECO-EU program but now it is our turn to receive our friends.

This morning arrived the first ones: Italians and Turkish and in the late afternoon, it will be the moment for Slovenians and Polish.

We saw very nice images at Beasain train station when students met each other. We hope they will enjoy their time with us and we will make our best to complete our program.

The first activities of our visit started today. To begin with, all the participants met in the institute to comment the first impressions after the arrival and we had a presentation of our headmaster. After that, students worked for a while to prepare some posters that will be on exhibit in an exhibition that will open tomorrow.

At midday, all participants had lunch together in Loinazpe’s canteen and from there they went to Idiazabal where they visited the Cheese Interpretation Centre and at the beginning of the visit they received the welcome of the major of this town.

This morning the participants in our Project started the day with a nice walk to Ordizia. There they visited D’Elikatuz; it was really interesting. Later the had some minutes to walk in Ordizia before going back to Beasain to have lunch in Loinazpe.

In the afternoon session they visited the monumental group of Igartza: palace, iron forge and mill. In addition to this, a little exhibition of posters elaborated by our students is on exhibit in Igartza palace.

To finish the day, the major of Beasain gave his official welcome.

Our project appeared in the press in Noticias de Guipuzcoa: You can see the article here.

Today’s visits did not suppose to move far for the participants in our project, but they could see very different things, all of them related to food. To begin the morning, they walked to Ordizia to see the traditional market. There they could see, taste and buy different products.

After lunch in Loinazpe, they went to Ezkio to visit Igartubeiti farm house. As the group was bigh it was divided into two groups and while one of them was doing the visit the other realized a biscuits workshop and then, the other way round. The visit was very interesting.

To finish the day, teachers went to walk in the mountains, to Lazkaomendi, because they like our mountains.

News in Diario Vasco: clic here.

Our project goes ahead. Yesterday we delivered the certificates after signing the contract compromising with the environment and we planted the trees that are going to bear witness of our project.

Today we were in San Sebastian. We started with the visit of the Basque Culinary Centre and from there we went to the city centre. There we approached to La Concha beach and from there we went to the old part and we saw the city from Urgulll. After that we visited the main buildings of this neighbourhood and we went to it to conclude the day with an afternoon of shopping.

After an intensive week the participants in the programme took part in the last activities. Today’s were centred around Bilbao where the participants had a general view of the city from Artxanda to go to the old part. In the afternoon, they visited Guggenheim museum.

During the day some groups started their return to their respective countries and those still staying among us are going to leave during the following days. We were delighted having them with us and we hope they enjoyed our company too.