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We are looking for people interested
in contributing to using the Internet in the field of exchanges
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New publications
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The Trümpler Prize : The
prize winners of 1998
Internet and Educational Exchanges
We are looking for people
interested in using the Internet as an aid and as a means of communication
in school exchanges. Whats more, we are in the process of elaborating
a computer game called "Face à face" (German/French/Italian)
in preparation for school exchanges by the students and teachers. If you
have any experience on the subject and/if you are interested to contribute,
send us a message to :
or to ch Youth Exchange,
Case Postale, CH-4501 SOLEURE
Publications
Recto Verso The new
file has just been published. Order it now!
ch
Youth Exchange
has just published a practical file containing large quantities of practical
proposals, simple and to the point, to achieve exchanges between primary
school students. A small part of the file is devoted to the organization
of an exchange. Most of the file contains propositions for partnership
work amongst primary school students, eventually beginners in learning
a second language (correspondence, games, manual activities, etc.). The
proposed activities are also very good for contacts "at a distance" as
they are for student meetings.
This publication is free.
All schools, teachers or the parents of students may order an exemplary
copy at the address mentioned below.
Bilingual version French
(recto) / German (verso)
Order address : ch
Youth Exchange, "Recto Verso", CH 4501 SOLEURE
or by e-mail at :
(click on the form "publications").
The Trait dunion 32
ch Youth Exchange
has just published number 32 of its 6 monthly revue, "The Trait dunion".
This publication is at the disposal of all school establishments interested
in school links and exchanges. If you would like to take out a subscription
or if you would like to have a copy of the new edition, please
refer to :
ch Youth Exchange,
CH 4501 SOLEURE
or by e-mail at :
(click on the form publications).
Dialects of German speaking
Switzerland Tricks for better understanding
ch Youth Exchange
has just published a "mini leaflet" containing simple explications concerning
a few aspects of the pronunciation and the syntax of the dialects of the
German speaking part of Switzerland. Thanks to the reduced size, this publication
can be made available to all French speaking students participating in
an exchange; he can in this way take it everywhere with him during his
exchange. The leaflet also contains a mini dictionary.
French-German. It
also exists in an Italian version.
The leaflet is free and
can be ordered by all the students in a class involved in an exchange.
Order address by e-mail
at : (click
on the form publications).
Teacher Training Course
of October 28th 1998: the publication can be ordered now.
On October 28th
1998, ch Youth Exchange organized their third Swiss Romand course
on school exchanges, that gathered together about
100 teachers from all over Switzerland.
The practical aspects of
educational exchanges, school correspondence, the exchanges and internet,
teacher exchanges, the intercultural dimensions of school exchanges, the
multilateral exchanges, here are a few of the themes that the different
work groups were devoted to. At the beginning of 1999 the proceedings that summarize the work effected in these different work groups
have been published.
For more detailed information,
please click on "Courses" or on publications.
The "Trümpler Prize for School
Exchanges" 1998 : the prizewinners.
Since 1995, ch Youth
Exchange awards every 2 years, the "Trümpler Prize for School Exchanges".
This prize goes back to
Mr Ernst Trümpler, founder and former President of the Patronage
Committee of ch Youth Exchange. The sum
put at their disposal amounts to Fr. 12000. - and is split into equal
amounts between six school establishments of all secondary degrees, inferior
and superior, coming from different linguistic regions in Switzerland.
This sum allows the establishments attributed, to open or to feed a fund
for the exchanges and thereby representing a form of promotion for subsequent
exchange projects. In 1998, 65 school establishments put themselves forward
as a candidate. The prize giving was performed by a jury, under the chairmanship
of Mrs Jacqueline Buvelot, directress of the "Gymnase du Bugnon" in Lausanne,
on the 1st October 1998 in Bern.
The winning schools for
the year 1998 are the following :
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la Scuola Media di Mendrisio
TI (Beatrice Kunze) for their exchange with Schattdorf (UR)
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la Scuola Media di Lodrino TI
(Giovanni Mengoni) for their exchange with Morges, Prilly and Yverdon (VD)
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le Collège et Ecole Supérieure
de Commerce Nicolas-Bouvier de Genève (Bernard Tâche) for
their exchange with Bellinzone
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le Collège du Val-de-Ruz
de Cernier NE (Manuel Duran) for their exchange with Bad Ragaz, Saint-Gall
and Schmerikon
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das Gymnasium Langenthal BE
(riccardo Mordasini) for their exchange with Torre Pellice (Italien)
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die Bezirksschule Kölliken
AG (Claudia Siegenthaler) for their exchange with Valentigney (Frankreich)
Special citations were
attributed to the following establishments :
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le Lycèe-Collège
La Planta de Sion for their exemplary encouragement for exchanges
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die Volksschule Aarwangen BE
(Judith Memisi) für ein Austauschspiel
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das Literargymnasium Bern Neufeld
(Bernhard Lindt) für einen Austauschcomic
If you would like to know more,
or if you would like to participate in the "Trümpler Prize" for the
year 2000, we will gladly inform you according to your inscription procedure. Please refer to the following address :
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