Freeway is a cross border school paper made on the Internet. The idea was born in 1996 and became reality
in 1997. The project is financially supported by the EU Sokrates programme – Comenius 1.
The idea to produce a cross-border newspaper for schools on the Internet came up when the
headmaster of Instituto Tecnico Statale Commersiale Mosè Bianchi together with the governor
of the province of Milan visited Parkskolan in August 1996. This study visit was paid within
the cooperation between the province of Milan and the province of Västernorrland - "The Regions
of Europe".
Parkskolan applied for money and was granted 28 000 SEK from The Swedish Institute for 4 persons
to visit Instituto Technico Statale Commerciale E Per Geometri, Mosè Bianchi in Monza. On the
22-25 of January 1997 the meeting was held there between the three partner schools – the Italian
school Instituto Technico Statale Commerciale E Per Geometri. Mosè Bianchi in Monza, the
British Bishop Heber High School in Malpas, Cheshire and the Swedish Parkskolan in Örnsköldsvik.
The negotiations resulted in the agreement of a cross border newspaper for schools – Freeway.
The Project
A project like this has a lot of benefits, some are quite obvious, such as the linguistic
and cultural benefits. However, in order to make this a working project we needed to put up
some goals or aims. The newspaper works as a tool to reach those goals.
Project Goals
To encourage European students to develop cross-national links.
To compare different cultures.
To use cultural differences as a form of educational enrichment and unity.
To develop linguistic skills through cross-national communication.
To use English as the common language with native language additions.
To maximise the use of information technology through the Internet.
To facilitate meetings of the participating students.
To establish the newspaper as an integral part of the schools' long-term curriculum.
To develop student-centred responibility for their newspaper.
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