The European Chain Reaction 2023

The European Chain reaction is a European Quality Label winning eTwinning project that was first organised in 2011. The project is a contest and a European collaboration between primary schools from as many as possible European countries. In the contest primary schools compete for the honour and a nice trophy: Which country builds and films the most astonishing and creative Rube Goldberg / Robert Storm Petersen chain reaction? The competing children are the only judges in this game!

Monday, March 20, 2023

Proud Swedish winners

Congratulations to Sweden!

The trophy has now arrived the proud winners at Kallingeskolan in Sweden.

They are already looking foreward to next years ECR.....

Friday, February 17, 2023

Monday, January 30, 2023

11. Slovenia - Technical chain reaction 2023

Thank you for waiting!
Every year brings us new challenges and still we are standing here, besides all of you, great inventors of great chain reactions. It's an honour to contribute to this great project.

Regards from Slovenia.

Manca and Urša

Sunday, January 29, 2023

10. Latvia

Greetings from Latvia! Sorry for the delay! Due to technical problems our video is yellow..... Hope you are able to watch our chain reaction!
Best wishes to you all!

9. Croatia - Technical Chain Reaction

8. Iceland - Technical Chain Reaction

Friday, January 27, 2023

7 - Serbia - Technical chain reaction

Class 4-10

Thursday, January 26, 2023

6. Sweden - Technical Chain Reaction

Here is our Technical Chain Reaction. We had a lot of fun!

5.Germany-Technical chain reaction

Hello Europe,

this year we present you two little chain reactions. Our Kindergarten-Kids had much fun, building the chains. We are excited to see all your films. Best wishes to all of you!

4. Catalonia - Technical Chain Reaction

Fifth grade have been growing a hyacinth bulb for the past few weeks, but it needs watering. Sounds like the perfect excuse to build a chain reaction. Check out our incredible plant watering invention!

Thursday, January 19, 2023

3. Norway - Technical Chain Reaction

Here is our chain reaction! We had great fun working with our first attempt in this European project. Good luck to all of you in the competition!

Monday, January 16, 2023

2. Belgium - Technical Chain Reaction

Hi all,

We hope you may enjoy watching our chain as much as we did while building it!

We look forward very much to watching al these different Rube Goldberg machines from all over Europe!

Good luck on the voting and please leave us a comment!

Carpe diem! ;-)

The 40 would-be-Einsteins at Qworzó - Merksplas - Belgium

Friday, January 13, 2023

1. European Chain Reaction from Finland!

We are ready! Here is our chain reaction from this year! We hope you'll like it! And good luck to everyone!

Classes 4A and 4B and teachers Jenni and Sari

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Greetings from Latvia! -Human chain-

We are 5th grade students and we all wish you

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🌲

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Human Chain Rection from Sweden

Hi everyone! Here is grade four and our warm up for the Technical Chain Reaction in January.

A very merry Christmas to all of you!

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Human Chain Reaction from Belgium

Hi all of you science freaks, ;-)

We proudly present to you ... the human chain from Team Belgium.

We will be creating this years Belgian Chain Reaction and we hope you all have as much fun as we do!

We look forward to watching al these different chains!

Good luck to all of you!

the year-6-kids at Qworzó - Merksplas - Belgium

Friday, December 2, 2022

Human chain reaction from SLOVEnia

This is our human chain reaction from this November 2022.

Greetings from Slovenia.

Manca & Urša

The Human Chain Reaction from Iceland

Germany-HCR23

Hello participants of this great project. Here comes our Human Chain. We had less time to produce it this Year, but it was funny. Greetings and wishes to all of you!

Thursday, December 1, 2022

The Human Chain Reaction from Norway

The 29 students from the 5th grade at Justvik school are ready for the European challenge: This is our first year in the ECR. We are looking foreward to a joyful competition! Good luck to you all!

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

The Catalan Human Chain Reaction

This year's Catalan team are fifth grade from Casa Nostra primary school in Banyoles. 27 ten year olds who are looking forward to collaborating with you all.

Thursday, November 17, 2022

The human chain Reaction from FINLAND!

Hello all!

Here is the human chain reaction from Finland! Our school's fourth graders will represent Finland this year, classes 4A and 4B. They are 10 years old.

Here you can see them receiving something they like from the pupil right to them. After that they hand out the thing that they were holding to the next one.

Good luck to everybody! And Merry Christmas!

Monday, September 19, 2022

Last year's winner

While we're waiting for this year's entries, we can enjoy Belgium's winning chain reaction from 2022.

Belgium

Qworzó is an elementary school in a small village called Merksplas which lays about 70 km north of Brussels. We speak Dutch like they do in the Netherlands, since our school is located in Flanders. Since there are a lot of people in Belgium who speak French we also learn French in school. Our school teaches about 400 children aged 3,5 – 12 years. We hope for a lucky 13th participation of our school in "The European Chain Reaction" and we hope many schools will join the project! Want more info? Visit our website by clicking the picture!

Croatia

We come from a small village called Vrpolje. In the center of Vrpolje , hidden from human eyes is the most interesting place , our school. The school is named after the famous sculptor Ivan Mestrović. We are a small school and we have only 299 students and 42 workers , of which are only 28 teachers. We love our school because it constantly discover new things and apply them to the creation of new knowledge . Teachers constantly give us new challenges in order to learn as much as possible . We look forward to the our new challenge and we are sure that we will learn a lot of new things but have fun at the same time.

North Macedonia

“Tode Hadzi-Tefov” Primary School was founded in 1962 by the local authorities in Kavadarci, Macedonia. At the moment, 768 students study at this school. Students are aged from 6 to 15 (from first to ninth grade). Students from first to fifth grade start school at 7:30 a.m. and finish at 12:30 p.m. Students from sixth to ninth grade start school at 1 p.m. and finish at 6:30 p.m. There are 58 teachers and 15 other employees in the school. There are 17 classrooms and 5 cabinets (specialized classrooms). There are 538 computers in the school and there is a computer for every student in the school and an internet connection. Students study in their mother tongue, Macedonian language, which is the official language in Macedonia. Students also study English, French and German. There are 6 teachers who teach English, one teacher who teaches French and one teacher who teaches German. Our school has won the award as a Green School in Macedonia three times. Have a look at our schoolwebsite by clicking the picture!

Poland

Primary school number 5 is situated in Ostrów Wielkopolski, a small city with about 70.000 citizens. The school’s patron is Mieszko I, the first ruler of Poland. We have about 600 students and 70 teachers. The school is over 100 years old. During the II World War there were German schools and a hospital in the building. Students learn many different subjects here such as History, Geography, Maths, Biology, English and German. At the end of their primary educations, students take exams. In 2020 our school had excellent exam results (the best in the city), especially when it comes to English and Maths. We all hope to have such good results every year!

Serbia

First Belgrade Gymnasium First Belgrade Gymnasium was founded back in 1839. Today, the First Belgrade Gymnasium has thirty-seven classes, 1,050 students divided into natural-mathematical, social-linguistic and classes for students with special abilities for computing and informatics, developed cabinet teaching and modern studies. The gymnasium is characterized by high-quality educational work and teaching staff, engaged pedagogical and psychological service and traditionally exceptional student potential.

Hungary

Teleki Samuel Elementary School is in Érd, Hungary. Érd is a town about 20 km southwest of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary. The school was established in 1933. The name, Samuel Teleki comes from a famous Hungarian geographer and explorer who mapped the last white spots of Africa in the 19th century. We have chosen this name in 1991, because the school aims to educate students to become responsible, creative and thoughtful young teenagers. Our school is a member of the Hungarian Eco-School Network. Now there are about 500 students from 1st to 8th grade (6-15 years olds) and 40 teachers. We are looking forward to take part in the European Chain Reaction with the students of year 5 and 6 . Hopefully it is going to be a great challenge and fun for us. Click the picture to visit our webpage

Latvia

Latvia Voorbeeld Pāle Primary School is situated in a small rural village with about 700 inhabitants, in the northern part of Latvia 22 km from the Baltic Sea. There are 70 students (7-16 years old) in the primary school level, 32 children in the preschool group, 19 teachers and 8 technical workers. The school was built in 1936. About 20 students have learning difficulties and some students are at a risk of social exclusion. For that reason we are realizing not only the general education programme, but also the programme for students with the learning difficulties. Every year our students participate in regional Olympiads of school subjects, different projects, sports, music and art competitions, showing good results. Click on the picture and visit us!

Norway

Justvik school celebrated it's 50th anniversary in 2015. In 2018 we moved into a brand new school building.

Justvik school is a primary school with classes from 1-7 grade. We are 260 students and 22 teachers at our school.

The 50 students in 5th grade will be our representatives and they are happy to join you! Click the picture to visit our website!

Slovenia

Our school lies in Preska, a village not so far away from Slovenia's capital Ljubljana. It consists of two parts: the old and the new one. In the old part we have classrooms for art classes, history and craft, a dining room and a kitchen. We also have a very friendly chef, which will always make you laugh. In the new, bigger part, there are classrooms for Science (Chemistry and Physics), Math, Slovene, English, Music, Biology, Geography and a computer classroom. There are also two gyms and a library with over 14,000 books. Primary school Preska is visited by students from villages Preska, Golo Brdo, Studenčice, Goričane, Sora and Dol. It also has two branch schools in Topol and Sora. There are about 400 students in our school at the very moment. Want to know more? Visit our website by clicking the picture!

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