Bulgaria - FACTWorld 20th Anniversary
The BETA Conference in Plovdiv began on May 3rd with a pre-conference event organized by FACTWorld with a focus on 'Waste in the Curriculum' and we had a rich and fruitful afternoon together.
We managed to bring together two plenary talks and 4 consecutive workshops focusing on waste and sustainability and considering that this was within a conference for English language teachers, I consider it a great result.
We'll be compiling all the talks and presentations into our next 20th Anniversary FACTWorld Journal.
For now, here are some of the wonderful moments from the event.
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Friends waiting for the show to start!
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Lovely Lady Lida Schoen helped me with the opening plenary on developing 'Young Voices for Change' through projects.
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Stefka Kitanova talked about change and ecology of the last 40 years!
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Ventzi and Stan presented Adopt Adata a wonderful project on River Maritsa.
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The amazing Patrick Jackson launched Picker Pals here in Plovdiv. It starts here people!
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Waiting for the FACTWorld birthday cake to arrive!
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Shopping for cosmetics with microbeads.
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Lida looking lovely as ever! x
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Opening plenary seflie - Keith and Lida
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Speakers' arrival dinner. Cheers!
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Egbert Weisheit brought microbeads chemistry to our English language conference.
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Exploring mirobeads in cosmetic products.
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Smartphone microscope photograph of microbeads in a body scrub.
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The Adopt Adata Team (Stanimir Navushtanov and Ventzislav Vassilev)
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Lora does a workshop on using natural materials in the language classroom.
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Birthday Cheers!
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More birthday cheers!
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Birthday cheers from Lyubov Kostova, director British Council Bulgaria - cheers Lyubov! x
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20 years of supporting content and language integrated learning across the world, now that deserves a slice of cake and a glass of pop!
Watch this space for materials, presentations and journal from the conference event on 'Waste in the curriculum'.