The European Chain Reaction 2022

The European Chain reaction is a European Quality Label winning eTwinning project that was first organised in 2011. The project is a contest and a European collaboration between primary schools from as many as possible European countries. In the contest primary schools compete for the honour and a nice trophy: Which country builds and films the most astonishing and creative Rube Goldberg / Robert Storm Petersen chain reaction? The competing children are the only judges in this game!

tirsdag 8. mars 2022

The trophy has arrived in Belgium!

Yesterday the mailman delivered our school a special international delivery containing the most beautiful trophy we have ever seen!

Thank you to everyone in this project for making this project possible even in difficult corona-circumstances! Our love for The European Chain Reaction already was VERY BIG, now it is even BIGGER !

Special thanks to Jan Erik (Norway) for the truly wonderful trophy and for the way how he ran the project!

We will cherish it for many years to come and we look forward to meeting you all again in ECR'23!

the kids in year 6 - Qworzó - Belgium

mandag 14. februar 2022

Newsflash ECR 2022

Who gave us the points? Click here to see the scoreboard!

Congratulations for reaching the final stage of The European Chain Reaction 2022!

Greetings from Moldova!
Thanks for the great movie examples!
Just great - now we can come up with other ideas for the European chain!

Very exciting!

We voted with all our heart and good mood!

More pictures from Moldova here!

tirsdag 1. februar 2022

13. Spain -Technical Chain Reaction 2022

The longer the chain is, the more you enjoy creating it. But the crazier it is, you can believe me!

As this course all our Primary Education students and teachers took part into the project, we can only feel proud for having achieved our particular challenge.

We hope you enjoy watching. Congratulations and good luck to all of you!

12. Greece - The Chain Reaction Greece, Athens, 2022

mandag 31. januar 2022

11. Latvia - Technical Chain Reaction

Here's the Technical Chain Reaction from Latvia

10. Slovenia - Technical Chain Reaction

Dear friends!

This is our technical chain reaction. Despite all the trouble we had (isolations and quarantines), children enjoyed in this short time of making the chain reaction.

Best regards from Medvode, Slovenia,

Teachers Manca Tušek and Urša Koritnik

søndag 30. januar 2022

9. Germany-Technical Chain Reaction

Hello scientists and inventors, here comes our little film. This year, we couldn`t use all our rooms and we had less children in our group. But we managed to build and film some interesting chain-reactions.

Good luck to all of you!

lørdag 29. januar 2022

8. Poland - Techical Chain Reaction

torsdag 27. januar 2022

7. Norway - Technical Chain Reaction

We had great fun building our chain reaction

and we were surprised to see that it also had magical power....

onsdag 26. januar 2022

6. Belgium - Technical Chain Reaction

In the early days of 2022 40 brilliant young engineers mastered to create this Rube Goldberg machine.

We hope you may enjoy watching our chain as much as we did building it!

We look forward to watching all your chains appear to the blog!

We want to wish you the best of luck with the voting and we look forward to reading your comments!

Keef safe and enjoy life!

Team Belgium

5. Catalonia - Technical Chain Reaction

Enjoy our chain reaction and good luck everyone!

tirsdag 25. januar 2022

4. Sweden - Technical Chain Reaction 2022

3. Moldova

Moldovan students have created a chain

onsdag 19. januar 2022

2. Lithuania - Technical Chain Reaction

1. Iceland -Technical Chain Reaction - Selásskóli

Greetings from Selásskóli, Iceland!

Our students were very excited to try their best making a Rube Goldberg machine. We had so many students participating that we divided them into two groups and let them do almost everything themselves. When the machines were ready and footage had been captured they where very excited to edit the videos themselves. Therefore what you see here is wholeheartedly the fruit of the work from our amazing students.

We really hope you enjoy and we can't wait to see all the other projects ! :-)

søndag 19. desember 2021

HUMAN CHAIN REACTION 2022 FROM SPAIN

More than a bit later, but better late than never.

Here we are, ready for the challenge!

After all, we tried our best... 🙈😅 We hope you enjoy watching!

Merry Christmas to all of you!

onsdag 8. desember 2021

Latvia - Human Chain Reaction 2022

Greetings from Latvia!

We are 5th grade students. We are only six students in our class. We have 71 students in our school and 32 kids in the kindergarten.

Merry Christmas to all of you!

tirsdag 7. desember 2021

Lithuania - Human Chain Reaction 2022

Belgium - Human Chain Reaction 2022

Hi folks,

A bit later due to the fact that ons class had to shut down for a week, but not less enthusiastic!

Please enjoy the Human Chain Reaction from Team Belgium!

We hope you may all stay healthy and enjoy building the Rube Goldberg machines!

Good luck to all!

fredag 3. desember 2021

Human chain reaction-Germany

Hello everybody,

this year, we filmed our Lampion-Parade.We celebrate St. Martins-Day every year on Nov.11.

We hope, you like to watch our little film. We really look forward to see your chain-reactions.

Kind regards from Kindergarten Rasselbande-Germany

Human chain reaction 2021 2022 - Slovenia

Hello to all of you!

This is the human chain reaction, made in our school gym. We had a great time making and filming it. I hope you will enjoy watching it.

Happy December days to all.

Manca & Urša (Primary school Preska, Medvode, Slovenia)

Human Chain Reaction from Sweden

torsdag 2. desember 2021

Human chain reaction from Catalonia

onsdag 1. desember 2021

Moldovan students experiment with cardboard boxes

Human Chain Reaction from Norway

A little "HELLO!" from us in Norway!

onsdag 24. november 2021

Human chain reaction from Iceland

Here is our first video, hope you enjoy it!

The Human Chain Reaction Greece

tirsdag 23. november 2021

Greetings from the students from Moldova!

mandag 15. november 2021

Human Chain Reaction 2022- North Macedonia

tirsdag 7. september 2021

Last year's winner: Estonia

While we're waiting for the new project to really take off, we can all enjoy watching last year's winning entry from Estonia.

Austria

Volksschule Trahütten Our school is located in the middle of the mountains and is an elementary school situated in the south of Graz in Styria. The name is VS Trahütten and our children are in the age of 6-10 years. It´s a small school with just 2 classes with 27 kids in a rural environment. For many years the profile of our school is working at the principles of alternative educational sytems. Visit our school website by clicking the picture. If you want to take a look at our homeland - https://www.trahuetten.net/ and www.schilcherheimat.at

Hungary

Teleki Samuel Elementary School is in Érd, Hungary. Érd is a town about 20 km southwest of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary. The school was established in 1933. The name, Samuel Teleki comes from a famous Hungarian geographer and explorer who mapped the last white spots of Africa in the 19th century. We have chosen this name in 1991, because the school aims to educate students to become responsible, creative and thoughtful young teenagers. Our school is a member of the Hungarian Eco-School Network. Now there are about 500 students from 1st to 8th grade (6-15 years olds) and 40 teachers. We are looking forward to take part in the European Chain Reaction with the students of year 5 and 6 . Hopefully it is going to be a great challenge and fun for us. Click the picture to visit our webpage

Latvia

Latvia Voorbeeld Pāle Primary School is situated in a small rural village with about 700 inhabitants, in the northern part of Latvia 22 km from the Baltic Sea. There are 70 students (7-16 years old) in the primary school level, 32 children in the preschool group, 19 teachers and 8 technical workers. The school was built in 1936. About 20 students have learning difficulties and some students are at a risk of social exclusion. For that reason we are realizing not only the general education programme, but also the programme for students with the learning difficulties. Every year our students participate in regional Olympiads of school subjects, different projects, sports, music and art competitions, showing good results. Click on the picture and visit us!

North Macedonia

“Tode Hadzi-Tefov” Primary School was founded in 1962 by the local authorities in Kavadarci, Macedonia. At the moment, 768 students study at this school. Students are aged from 6 to 15 (from first to ninth grade). Students from first to fifth grade start school at 7:30 a.m. and finish at 12:30 p.m. Students from sixth to ninth grade start school at 1 p.m. and finish at 6:30 p.m. There are 58 teachers and 15 other employees in the school. There are 17 classrooms and 5 cabinets (specialized classrooms). There are 538 computers in the school and there is a computer for every student in the school and an internet connection. Students study in their mother tongue, Macedonian language, which is the official language in Macedonia. Students also study English, French and German. There are 6 teachers who teach English, one teacher who teaches French and one teacher who teaches German. Our school has won the award as a Green School in Macedonia three times. Have a look at our schoolwebsite by clicking the picture!

Spain

Hi there! Guenia is a preschool and primary education public school located in Guatiza, a small village in the north-east of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. Our picturesque island is well worth a visit – it's full of volcanoes, beaches and stunning landscapes –. You can find salt mines, prickly pear crops and cochineal natural dye you can use for many purposes, even for painting! We try to keep up our traditions at school, we don't want to lose our roots! We are absolutely enthusiastic about being part of this amazing European Chain Reaction community. See you soon!

Belgium

Qworzó is an elementary school in a small village called Merksplas which lays about 70 km north of Brussels. We speak Dutch like they do in the Netherlands, since our school is located in Flanders. Since there are a lot of people in Belgium who speak French we also learn French in school. Our school teaches about 400 children aged 3,5 – 12 years. We are very enthusiastic about the fifth anniversary of The European Chain Reaction and we hope many schools will join the project! Want more info? Visit our website by clicking the picture!

Estonia

Kuressaare Gymnasium is situated on the biggest island of Estonia – Saaremaa. This schoolyear we have 1052 students between 7 and 18 years. Our school has also an unique interests school - Inspira, there are a lot of different things to do, like educating yourself after school from your free time and learning, some cool dance moves, singing, martial arts, robotics and so on. Useful to know: Viking-age starts on Saaremaa and Kuressaare is one of the world’s most spa-filled cities! Click the picture to visit us at Kuressaare Gymnasium !

Lithuania

ŠIAULIAI „JUVENTA“ SCHOOL school doors opened in 1971 in its first generation and in 1999/2000 school year, pupils and teachers chose her a new name: „Juventa“ High School.Our school always was famous of it‘s music. Our school is famous not only for his musical achievements. Our students actively participate in various arts, sports contests and competitions. The school is decorated with ever-changing exhibition of works by students. Students participate in various projects: the Comenius, eTwinning, the city and the republic. You can find a primary school drama, road safety, the fine arts section in „Juventa“ school. Visit our website by clicking the picture!

Norway

Justvik school celebrated it's 50th anniversary in 2015. In 2018 we moved into a brand new school building.

Justvik school is a primary school with classes from 1-7 grade. We are 260 students and 22 teachers at our school.

The 50 students in 7th grade will be our representatives and they are happy to join you! Click the picture to visit our website!

Poland

Primary school number 5 is situated in Ostrów Wielkopolski, a small city with about 70.000 citizens. The school’s patron is Mieszko I, the first ruler of Poland. We have about 600 students and 70 teachers. The school is over 100 years old. During the II World War there were German schools and a hospital in the building. Students learn many different subjects here such as History, Geography, Maths, Biology, English and German. At the end of their primary educations, students take exams. In 2020 our school had excellent exam results (the best in the city), especially when it comes to English and Maths. We all hope to have such good results every year!

Slovenia

Our school lies in Preska, a village not so far away from Slovenia's capital Ljubljana. It consists of two parts: the old and the new one. In the old part we have classrooms for art classes, history and craft, a dining room and a kitchen. We also have a very friendly chef, which will always make you laugh. In the new, bigger part, there are classrooms for Science (Chemistry and Physics), Math, Slovene, English, Music, Biology, Geography and a computer classroom. There are also two gyms and a library with over 14,000 books. Primary school Preska is visited by students from villages Preska, Golo Brdo, Studenčice, Goričane, Sora and Dol. It also has two branch schools in Topol and Sora. There are about 400 students in our school at the very moment. Want to know more? Visit our website by clicking the picture!

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