The Bonn mobility with students staying in host families in Bonn from Monday 12th to Friday 16thJanuary 2026 was designed to let students take an active step into creating their own learning experience with all their senses within the Lansen project. Taking the challenge of coming to Bonn, one of the warmest city within Germany in the winter season took special care in preparation and survival during the trip, as did the workshops on cooking a traditional full German meal themselves and experiencing the bitter-sweet taste of chocolate in a workshop at the Chocolate Museum in Cologne.
Moreover, the brain was challenged with a lecture on AI in Learning, given by a professor of Bonn university and by doing a digital treasure hunt around Bonn, the outdoor experience of climbing the hills of the “Seven-Mountains” near Bonn balanced the brain challenge to a more physical one. As this week combined different sensory experiences in taste, smell, sight and touch in the context of getting to know Bonn and Cologneas well-known cities in the Rhine valley, students dipped into cultural immersion and sensory experiences alike, being in full coherence with the project’s “5 Senses” approach. All the 4 partners were welcomed to Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium for 5 full days of challenge and experience alike, going into the last round of actively taking pupils with us in this project after the Silesian and before the Murcian mobilities with students.
Monday 12th January 2026 – Welcome and change of plans
Good bye to schedules: due to rule of the federal government of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), schools all over the country had to stay closed on this day because of expected extreme icy weather conditions with danger of “Blitz-ice”. This rule came Sunday afternoon, so the schedule was adapted.
In several work sessions – interrupted by lunch in a restaurant nearby and a scenic walk through Bonn’s “Südstadt”– further work on the “fiche de travail” lessons was done, scheduling the process, overcoming difficulties in the concepts, the outcome, practical aspects of changes in the template and decisions on how to evaluate the lessons and give feedback.
The Spanish team gave an overview on the mobility to Murcia in March and the “The Little Prince” workshop, the French team introduced more information on e-twinning activities connected to the “taste experience” in Bonn with fusion recipes and a cookbook as well as the common Little Prince book.