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• Dreams Come True

  Ms Hannele Puolakka, Teacher at Lappeenrannan Lyseon Lukio, Finland
  January 2017, Meera Bagh, India

  Three years ago I participated in the ASEF ClassNet project "Language – A Mantle of Communication" and I made friends with the project coordinator Ms Anjali Handa. One day during the project I told her how wonderful it would be if she could come with her students to Lappeenranta, Finland. "Why not, yes it would be interesting", she answered. And so it happened. We had a group of students and Ms Handa for one wonderful week in my school Lappeenrannan Lyseon lukio. We received a return call to visit St. Mark's Girls Senior Secondary School. I wrote an application to Finnish National Agency for Education but I was almost sure it is not possible to get money for this. But as Walt Disney has said, "All our dreams come true, if we have the courage to pursue them". We were very lucky and got the money.

• France to India: On Exchange with Good Friends

  Professor Laurence Barbier, Teacher at Lycee Elie Cartan, La Tour du Pin, France
  April 2017, Meera Bagh, India

  AMAZING! That one word would be enough to describe the experience students and teachers from Lycée Elie Cartan, France, have just lived! The mere fact of meeting up with our Indian friends was a great pleasure! But the 10 days we spent at St. Mark’s Girls Senior Secondary School, India, from April 6 to 16, were also filled with discoveries, activities, emotions, laughter and happiness.

• Cultural Exchange Programme – India Meets Malaysia

  Ms Anjali Handa, Global Co-ordinator at St. Mark's Girls Senior Secondary School, Meera Bagh, New Delhi, India
  March – April 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  True education involves knowledge of many things; with some of the most important aspects being culture, language and food of other nations. Edmund Burke once said, “Education is not just a parcel of books but an intercourse with the world, with men and with affairs”. To achieve this very end, a group comprising 10 students from St. Mark's Girls Senior Secondary School, New Delhi, India and their two teachers, Ms Anjali HANDA and Ms Shruti SHARMA, embarked on a student exchange programme across Malaysia, visiting Sekolah Menengah Sains Selangor and Sekolah Menengah Sains Seri Puteri (Kuala Lumpur), Sekolah Menengah Sains Muzaffar Syah (Melaka), Sekolah Menengah Sains Sultan Ahmad Shah (Pahang) and Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra (Kelantan).

• Indo-French Exchange

  Professor Laurence Barbier, Teacher at Lycee Elie Cartan, La Tour du Pin, France
  September 2016, La Tour du Pin, France

  Lycée Elie Cartan in La Tour du Pin, France, was thrilled to welcome 15 students and 2 teachers from St. Mark’s Girls Senior Secondary School (SMGS), Meera Bagh, New Delhi, India, from 25 September to 2 October 2016. This was the first meeting after Mrs Anjali HANDA and I met at the 2015 conference in Sofia and started collaborating, initially on her ‘Language – A Mantle of Communication”, an online collaboration under the ASEF Classroom Network.

• Cultural Exchange between France, Sweden and Bulgaria

  Professor Laurence Barbier, Teacher at Lycee Elie Cartan, La Tour du Pin, France
  November 2016, La Tour du Pin, France

  Hosting two foreign groups at the same time was a new experience and a challenge for our school, Lycée Elie Cartan in La Tour du Pin, France. We welcomed 14 students from St Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria, with whom we have been collaborating for 5 years now, and to whom I owe my first participation in the ASEF Classroom Network Conference in 2015! At the Conference, I met Ms Berit ANDERSSON, who was in charge of the group of 16 students from Ebba Pettersson, Göteborg, Sweden.

• ASEF ClassNet Brings Delegation from Petru Maior High School, Romania to St. Mark’s School, Meera Bagh

  Ms Geeta Rajan, Head of International Affairs at St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School, Meera Bagh, India
  November 2016, Meera Bagh, India

  A meeting between two teachers, Ms Geeta RAJAN and Ms Alina STIEU at the 12th ASEF Classroom Network Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria in November 2015, blossomed into a beautiful friendship between the 2 countries and the 2 schools, St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School, Meera Bagh, New Delhi and the Petru Maior High School, Gherla, Romania.

• A Trip to India – An Exchange Programme between India and Denmark

  Ms Helene Tind, Teacher at Nordskov School, Denmark
  December 2016, Meera Bagh, India

  From the 2nd to the 10th of December 2016, eleven students and two teachers from Nordskov School in Haslev, Denmark visited St. Marks Girls Senior Secondary School in New Delhi, India. The connection has been made through the organization AEC Net. Driving from the airport to the school we had to stop because of a holy cow which crossed the road. Already here we knew we would have one purpose of the travel fulfilled: to have strong experiences in a very different culture. Upon arrival at the school teachers and students hung garlands around our necks and they painted a red dot in our forehead as a symbol that we the forthcoming week also would see with the eye of our mind. We felt we had been invited inside the Indian culture.

• New Chapter of Collaboration between St. Mark’s Senior Secondary Public School and Spojena Skola

  Ms Geeta Rajan, Head of International Affairs at St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School, Meera Bagh, India
  May – June 2016, Bratislava, Slovakia

  Yet another ASEF ClassNet Online Collaboration between St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School (India) and Spojena Skola (Slovakia) has initiated a bilateral exchange programme! Under the supervision of Mr Pavol TRUBAC and me, both schools have worked on ASEF ClassNet Online Collaborations over the last couple of years. From 26 May to 3 June 2016, Ms Guninder KAUR, teacher in charge, and a 10-member student delegation comprising of Mr Ritik BHATIA, Mr Kuvam SEHGAL and Ms Bhavya GOEL of Class 11 and Ms Simran TUTEJA, Ms Arushi BHATIA, Ms Annie OSAN, Mr Shivam JUNEJA, Mr Amardeep SINGH, Mr Aman JINDAL and Mr Hemansh SHOKEEN of Class 12 visited Spojena Skola, Bratislava, Slovakia.

• India Meets Denmark: “Velkommen” in Haslev

  Ms Anjali Handa, Global Co-ordinator at St. Mark's Girls Senior Secondary School, Meera Bagh, New Delhi, India
  May 2016, Haslev, Denmark

  The Moroccan traveller Ibn Batuta considered experience gained through travels to be a more important source of knowledge than books. To gain knowledge about other cultures and to share one’s own, makes you more dynamic. To achieve this very end, a delegation of 10 students and 2 teachers from St. Mark’s Girls Senior Secondary School (India) visited the Nordskov School, Haslev, Denmark from 13 to 21 May 2016 for a Student Homestay Programme. The main purpose of this exchange programme was the promotion of cultural knowledge, creativity and intercultural understanding amongst the students by creating awareness on the similarities and differences between the Asian and European culture.

• ASEF ClassNet connects Romania with India

  Mrs Alina Steiu, Teacher at “Petru Maior” High School, Gherla (Romania)
  April 2016, Gherla, Romania

  After participating in the 12th ASEF Classroom Conference themed "Coding for Education" organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in November 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria, my school, “Petru Maior” High School, initiated a series of projects and collaborations with schools from Asia and Europe. One of our partner countries in India was represented by the St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School, New Delhi.