A group of 13 students and three teachers from IES Tías have started this Tuesday a trip to Iceland to participate in an Erasmus + program, through which they will live for 10 days with Icelandic families. The students of the Erasmus KA2 Project are accompanied by the three teachers participating in this project: Ana Moreno from the English Department, Ernesto Galván from the Physical Education Department and José Manuel Lage from the Biology Department.
In the current 2018/2019 school year, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the creation of this secondary school in Tías, the IES participates, for the first time in its two decades of existence, in an Erasmus KA2 Project (co-financed by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union) together with the educational centers Menntaskólinn á Tröllaskaga, in Iceland, and IES Patini Liberatore, in Italy. According to the Consistory, it is also "the first time that an educational center in the municipality of Tías and Lanzarote participates in an Erasmus project within the European Union, strengthening exchanges between students from Lanzarote and those countries of the EU".
Last February, students from those centers in Italy and Iceland traveled to Lanzarote and lived with 23 families from the municipality of Tías. On that occasion, those delegations were received at an official reception at the Tías Town Hall.
Educational and recreational activities and visit to Parliament
The students from Tías will be in Iceland until September 27 and will carry out educational and recreational activities. During their stay, in the north of the country, they will stay with families of students from the Menntaskólinn á Tröllaskaga institute, and will carry out academic work related to tourism, sustainability and the environment.
The Lanzarote delegation, together with its teachers, has planned to visit the Icelandic Parliament in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, and will be received in audience by the president of that country, Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson.
The director of the IES Goreti Eugenio together with the mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, the deputy mayor, Amado Jesús Vizcaíno, and the Councilor for Education, Seniors, Social Welfare and the Family, Aroa Pérez, attended Guacimeta airport this noon to say goodbye to this group of students.
