Intercultural Skills,
Skills for life Grundtvig Learning Partnership
Who We Are:

We are not professionals

We are not intellectuals

We are parents who care about our
community, the environment and
conditions in which our children grow up
Our Activities

We organize a number of activities every year,
trying to improve the quality of life of our children
and improve the parents knowledge.
We do activities like:

Afternoon tea gatherings with a bingo game

Organisation of plays and cinemas.

Organisation of educational lectures to improve
parents knowledge of children behaviour.

Collaboration with school authorities (organisation of
events e.g. book exhibitions, Christmas ceremonies
financial maters, etc.)
Parents’ Association of Elementary School and
Public Kindergarten of Astromeritis, Cyprus
1st Meeting
“Intercultural Skills, Skills for Life”
Astromeritis/ Nicosia, Cyprus
December 13-17, 2010
Structure of our Organization

Board (15 members)

Executive Board (6 members)

Yearly Elections

Number of members/families (112)

Number of children (154)

Elementary (122)

Kindergarten (32)
Project Main idea

Until recently, Astromeritis has been a pretty closed
society with most of the people living there all their
life. In a short period of time, the really small and
closed community has changed demographically in a
significant way (newcomers from Europe, the Middle
East, Africa, China and the US.), making the locals a
little cautious.

New ideas, methods, customs, and ways of thinking
are all affecting our children and if we as parents do
not know how to approach the newcomers, then our
children will also not know how to approach them.
What is the need?

Need for intercultural skills to be able to
better welcome the newcomers,
incorporate them in the community,
accept and include the differences they
bring with them.

Pass these skills on to the children
(in classrooms, during playtime, and in
their lives in general).
How: Learning Partnership

Main Aims/Objectives:

Increased awareness of the International
and European multicultural, social, and
economic scene.

Better understanding of areas of common
interest in the field of children’s emotional
development and advancement of
intercultural skills

Possible Activities We are Flexible

Our project (Intercultural Skills, Skills for life)
could involve:
We are open to other ideas

Activities to encourage participation from all
We are ready to discuss
families/parents in children’s academic and
emotional development (e.g. children's art, craft,
We are ready to make a program that is
dance, music exhibitions)

Exchange of ideas regarding incorporation of new
productive for all our partners
cultures in small communities like Astromeritis

With the help of professionals, exchange of ideas on
related issues with the incorporation of new cultures
(discipline, language, cultural communication, etc.)

Establishing a “guide” or annual event for welcoming
difference in small communities

Contact Us

Andreas Kypridemos
E-mail: andreas.kypridemos@gmail.com