Newcastle of the World is an Alliance between cities around the world that share the same name “Newcastle”. The cities work together to share, inspire and develop projects that promote culture, education, tourism and business.
When the cities met in Shinshiro, October 2018 it was agreed among other initiatives “to raise awareness of the Alliance in Pupils from a young age.” The cities also decided to commence a project called “Learning from other Newcastles” - a school project led by Nyborg in Denmark.
Schools will create a video, which tells a specific story of their country and city.
The purpose is to encourage learning about and between our Newcastles through the creation of videos by students (aged 12 to 18 years). The students decide on the content according to specific guidelines. The videos can contribute to building closer links between our cities by establishing new friendships between pupils/classes across the world. The videos will be released on our new RU-vid-channel “Learning from other Newcastles”.
In the first movie you will learn about Nyborg: a city in the middle of Denmark with a great history. In the early 16th century Nyborg was the first capital of Denmark. The first constitution was signed at Nyborg Castle in 1282. In the video you will meet Twana, Lauge and Tristian, grade 9 pupils from Birkhovedskolen. You will meet Carsten, the principal at Birkhovedskolen, Mette the School librarian and Kenneth - the mayor in Nyborg Municipality with 32.000 inhabitants. Finally you will see a greeting from the city council members.
We hope you enjoy our video, and encourage you to get involved.
Best Regards
Peter Wagner Mollerup & Martin Stenmann
Councilors, Chairman and vice chairman of the Committee
for Business and Development in Nyborg.
24 май 2021
