BIP ECO-EU: Elazig

Our partner school in Turkey, in the city of Elazig, is the Ahmet Kabakli Anadolu Lisesi.

The institute, of quite recent construction, is considered one of the most modern of the city and it is involved in several international projects. In fact, they were the ones starting our project.

The city of Elazig is located in Eastern Anatolia and it is the capital city of the region of the same name. Its population is of about 300,000 inhabitants and it is an area that has experience an importal industrial development during the last decades, what is creating an special awareness of people about the enviromental sustainability.

Diary of our stay

Our first visit has estarted. Now it is the turn for Turkey, Elazig. There we will meet our Turkish, Polish and Slovenian friends. Italians are not joining us finally. We will have a four day programme full of activities and wee hope to spend a wonderful time with our friends.

Finally, after a long trip, our expedition arrived to their destiny in Elazig. Without enough time for a rest, we went to the institute where we were offered the official reception of the headmaster and the rest of the teaching board. Our students finally met their colleagues and, at midday, each of the groups chose a tree that had been planted especially for the occasion.

In the afternoon our students went with their families while teachers continued with institutional work: a reception in the Education Department and, a bit later, in the town hall. It looks that everything has started fine; since tomorrow we will have some trips and a bit of work as well.

Today our group visited Elazig surroundings. In the morning, after meeting at the institute, they tood the way to Sivricera where they did a tour in ferry. After that they went to Hazar baba'ya hareket where they visited the sky station and they enjoyed with the snow.

Our visit had its echo in the local press, as it can be seen in the following link

We started the day in the institute. Our first activity was the presentation of participant schools and our students presented our institute and the work done in this in favour of the environment. They had few time because other groups expanded too much but they finished in an elegant way dancing an aurresku.

At midday we saw and participate in some folk dances and after having lunch all together we visited the interesting village of Harput. After that we returned to Elazig.

Our last day in Turkey arrived. After some activities at school, students and teachers visited a damn and they had lunch together before retourning to Elazig. In the afternoon all the participants in the experied enjoyed their farewell party after which they received their certifies. It was a moment of emotions, mainly because we were going to leave our friends. We hope to see them in their visit to the Basque Country at the end of the following school year and even if the distance is big, they will always have a place in our hearts.