Project

Summary

The project began with two pupils of the 5th form, Kathrin Michalitsch and Marion Naglitsch, creating a website for the Museum for Prehistory in Stillfried for the school leaving examination project.

It is now online in German and English and was presented in the HAK Gänserndorf (College for Business Administration) in February 2006.
When the website was suggested for the museum-online competition international cooperation was necessary. In cooperation with GIZ Hohenau the project went across the border to collaborate with Slovakia-based “Club Morava-March”. Owing to this new development, the project team was joined by students of the 3rd form from the College for Business Administration.

The new participants got a first impression of the project when the new website was presented in February. For further information they visited the Museum for Prehistory in Stillfried with a guided tour by the principal of our school, Dir. Mag. Gerhard Antl who is also the chairman of the Stillfried Museum Society.

The flooding at the March region in ‘April took everyone by surprise.As the whole region was effected it was necessary to reschedule our timetable at short notice. All arranged dates had to be postponed till May which made it very difficult to finish the project in time.

We would like to extend our real gratitude to our partners from Slovakia, especially to the Malacky Grammar School, who showed a lot of understanding and coordinated our visits to Slovakia.

When visiting Bratislava and Stupava we were very grateful for guided tours in German. The first impressions were great and we learned a lot about Slovakia. At the museum in Stupava we met pupils form the Malacky Grammar School.

Because of the flooding it has not yet been possible to thank our partners with an invitation for a return visit to Austria but has been arranged that this will be done at the beginning of the next school year. Pupils from Slovakia will then visit the College for Business Administration in Gänserndorf and the Museum for Prehistory in Stillfried.

This should be the beginning of a cross-border school partnership and we would be happy if our project was the foundation of this cooperation.

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