"Last year, in 2018, the 100th anniversary of end of the ""Great War"" was commemorated. For this reason and on this occasion a number of ceremonies, events, exhibitions and historic publications were initiated on the topic and the effects it had as introducing a radical and global historical change. This anniversary was impulse and motivation for the three schools united in this Erasmus+-project to trace back the developments that led into WWI as well as to observe which results and consequences the war had on European societies in the years after - and in the long run - up until today.Therefore, the scope of and the approach towards the project was quite comprehensive and diverse: issues that been hotly debated by the people 100 years ago were scrutinised from a current perspective, trying to find modern answers that are also supposed to help to understand 21st century Europe. The consistently adopted, transnational character was the outstanding feature of the project, focusing in past and present on overcoming traditional, national and post-national patterns. During the project this transnational approach proved to be able to contribute to erasing historically developed antagonisms and oppositions by raising the awareness of another contrast, which should possibly be called a ""historic gap"". This gap mentioned is the deep contrast between the values, lifestyles and global perspectives between the ""1914 generation"" and their great-grandchildren of the 21st century.These differences (also in the approach towards the terms ""nation"" and ""Europe"") between then and now, between past and present would turn into one of the central guiding themes, leitmotifs of the cooperating teachers and schools, helping to analyse the radical changes originated by the Great War. This theme was also used to illustrate the effects it had on local, regional, national and international developments since then. Results of these observations and their analysis were presented and discussed in a transnational pupils' exhibition taking place from November 2018, each at the same time at every participating school. This exhibition had been prepared and assembled in two project meetings in Germany and France in the months before. The core ideas of all the three exhibitions was the same: the use of a certain number of exhibition panels had been part of the teachers' agreements and was therefore compulsory. But there was also space for a more individual, flexible approach for every school, trying to meet local needs or the individual requirements of every school involved. It was also optional for the schools to accompany the exhibition with a supporting programme, that was intended to disseminate results of the project into a local or regional public open to the topic.The evaluation of the project took place in a final exchange programme in Reggio Emilia in February 2019. It was an important feature of this last meeting to involve the participating pupils in the evaluation: which gave birth to the final project of a common Erasmus+-video prepared and produced by members of all three schools."

<< Objectives >>We establish the following objectives:- Help children in losing weight and adopting a healthy lifestyle;- Reducing bullying over fat children and children with less opportunities by promoting inclusion;- Reconsidering sports as essential activity for having a long term strategy for a heathy lifeWe may synthesize our goal in helping children and adolescents with weight problems to achieve a positive weight and emotional balance in a positive way, gaining self-confidence and new friends.<< Implementation >>On cultural interaction of the project every culture has hosting tips and experiences about healthy living in their structure. We are planning exchange activities:Make acquaintance- Cooking activities- group mobilityDance is the more attractive way to move - group mobilitySports as essential activity for a heathy life -group mobilityACTING TOGETHER - WATER IS LIFE - Seminar online, and monthly activities developed in each participant school: GREEN DAY IN SCHOOL and 10 MINUTES OF DANCE.<< Results >>The expected results of this activity are also behavioral-attitudinal and intellectual:The behavioral results will be in the area of inclusion and fight against bullying, acknowledgement of fact that fighting with weight gaining starts with a heathy food recipe with involving in food preparation, development of skills for independent recreational sports.The intellectual result will consist of: cooking book, film of the dance performed by all children participants, personalized nutrition plans.

<< Background >>During two last years, democracy has been managed in various ways and on different levels because of the pandemic, e.g., in the form of restricting or even cutting down civil rights all over the planet. The political system of the EU has been weakened in many ways; borders were closed and people were not allowed to travel freely from one country to another. In many countries, democracy was attacked by various extremist political movements. The stability of the EU was influenced by Brexit. Thus, the 21st century has brought about many changes, even existential threats to our moral, spiritual and cultural conventions. We have learned how vulnerable democracy and every-day life can be and, indeed, they should not be taken for granted. All in all, the situation has shown us how important international cooperation is. We strongly believe that it is our duty as teachers to enable the construction of such cooperation between our schools. Schools have been closed for periods of time in Europe, which has caused many challenges for students and teachers. The duration of the pandemic has been long, especially for the students. The need for different types of support has grown remarkably. For example, the need for mental services seems to be bigger than ever before in school life. In addition, the need for support for achieving the goals of education keeps growing. We are aiming at offering possibilities to our students to broaden their horizons again geographically, mentally, socially and personally. Because of the global situation, especially due to the pandemic, we seem to be better equipped and trained in using tools for online teaching and learning, online meetings, workshops and discussions. All this is important and a huge digital leap towards the future from the viewpoint of learning and teaching. Therefore, we will use such tools, e.g., online platforms and various applications for meeting each other online, as well as keeping our outcomes available during and after the project. Nevertheless, during the pandemic, we have all understood the importance of face-to-face meetings and the significance of learning to know each other in real life, simply to see and hear the other person, and to interpret their body language, especially if the person has a different cultural background.<< Objectives >>We see our project as a Europe-wide restart to celebrate European culture and togetherness by building new connections and reopening the existing ones after the pandemic. We aim at supporting our young learner by offering the possibilities to learn together, to solve problems together and to build long-lasting relationships among young members of different cultures. By doing so, our goal is to create understanding, willingness and courage to support those who are facing troubles. At the same time, we aim at supporting the development of individual growth of the youngsters towards balanced adulthood and active citizenship. In addition, by including perspectives of five participating countries into the project, we aim at improving and deepening the understanding of the EU and its values, not forgetting the importance of democracy. We are aiming at removing cultural and linguistic barriers, promoting tolerance, collaboration, as well as innovation and invention in teaching and learning. In other words, our goal is to promote cultural exchange and mutual understanding in the spirit of cooperation, solidarity and respect.<< Implementation >>In this three-year project, we are going to offer young people possibilities to familiarize themselves with other education systems, new customs and traditions, which will enrich our own way of seeing and understanding things, and which will give us new means to tackle emerging challenges. The students' work will take the form of workshops, online platforms and conferences, art work and creative publications, festivals and seminars. We consider interdisciplinary work as the base of project activities. We aim at improving the participants' transversal skills by involving as many subjects as possible into the project, e.g., home economics, history, geography, health education, languages, mathematics, PE, arts and social studies. The activities will be built on the already established commitment and support of colleagues in our schools. We involve participants, especially our students, in coming up with new ideas for further activities that aim to strengthen interaction, democracy and friendship.<< Results >>Vision 2021 is a project designed by five European schools on order to return back to normal; to find joy in learning and life in general, and to innovate new ways in learning and teaching together in all participating schools. The knowledge and material gained as the result of the project work will be made available on a shared web area to be used by teachers and students in all five schools. There results can be further introduced to local schools in each area. The students will be given voice in designing the project activities and their evaluation. Thus, this will deepen their understanding of long-term commitment and project work in general. They will also realize the importance of being able to work in foreign languages in multicultural groups. We believe this project will provide immeasurable opportunities for teachers to pool their ideas and their resources, to share best practices and increase their repertoire in teaching. As such, the project can be seen as an area for peer mentoring. Further more, the materials created in the project will be used in teaching during subsequent years. We expect to raise standards, improve outcomes in teaching and learning and embed an international dimension into the curriculum. We are also willing to share our experiences with such schools, who are taking their first steps in Erasmus+. This project will promote democracy, well-being and fundamental European values. We hope to equip our students with tools to broaden their horizons; to live and work successfully in a global society, free from prejudice, free from cultural misunderstandings and, lastly, free from barriers to learning.

"According to The World Health Organization (WHO) depression is the principal cause of illness and disability in the world. The organisation has been issuing warnings over several years, as this disease affects over 300 million people all over the world and is characterized by a high risk of suicide (the second most common cause of death in those aged between 15 and 29). Studies on the child population have observed prevalence rates of, for example, 4% in Spain, 8% in Greece, 10% in Australia and up to 25% in Colombia. As the World Health Organization (WHO) has also stated, preventing depression is a key aspect of major importance and the organisation argues that school programs and interventions aimed at parents help reduce the prevalence of this disease. Depression prevention programs do exist, mainly targeted at adolescents and only a few at children that are younger.As these numbers and first remarks show, issues of mental health are supposed to play an important role in contemporary education, be it in school or outside. However, they do largely play a marginal role in schools. Having said that, it has to be clearly stated that schools are not institutions that can cure diseases. But what we can do is to focus on prevention. For this the concept HAPPINESS plays a very important role. Therefore, the main idea of this project is to deal with the different facets of HAPPINESS, declined in different perspectives: happiness can be experienced, following very different ways and paths and because of that also a intercultural approach of the European countries involved is valuable and benefitting. Besides that, respect of cultural differences will be a common goal, in order to make our pupils more sensitive to one of the main mottos of EU: United in diversity. Given that happiness is a basic human need, we want to open up opportunities to the pupils, so that they learn themselves to become happy. This project answers a fundamental need in today's Europe: it makes the pupils think about an existential aspect of their life, although they are not used to reflect on it and they usually take it for granted. For this reason, we see the urgent need for them to talk about these topics, to discover what could possibly make them happy, and to make use of that knowledge in their daily life. At the beginning of the project, pupils will not be aware of the need to discuss the concept of happiness. These ideas include e.g. questions why happiness is such an important issue not only for an individual, but also on a social or even political level. Whereas in countries of the Western hemisphere political debate is still dominated by e.g. the gross domestic product, in Bhutan GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS is a major goal of governance of the country's leaders there. Following a resolution ""Happiness: towards a holistic approach to development"" (UN General Assembly 2011), urging member nations to follow the example of Bhutan and measure happiness and well-being and calling happiness a ""fundamental human goal, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network has published a World Happiness Report almost every year, making it clear that overall happiness of a population is influenced by a set of factors in every country. Similarly, the EU commission issues health reports every year and has called the physical and psychological health of the young generation an important aim. To deepen those philosophical and political ideas of happiness we, the European citizens, have to ask ourselves questions like: What kind of effect does the lack of happiness have (again: for an individual, for society)? What is the relationship between human concepts like HAPPINESS to others like FREEDOM?Participation in this project will allow each participant to reflect on a person's individual resources of happiness as well as on those that have its origins in society. One goal is to facilitate students from different countries to have a cross-cultural reflection on the achievement of happiness. Is it because we are people from Italy, Germany and France that we have different ways of achieving happiness? This is another question that will be raised during the project.Pupils will be confonted with the concept ""happiness"" in a more THEORETICAL way throughout literature, languages, philosophy, art, theatre, sciences, social studies, as well as in a more PRACTICAL way with the exchange of experiences (in the fields mentioned before, but also by means of e.g. sports) and the encounter with other cultures. The concrete results are: -Final Common Product: a video documentary with the title “The Art of Happiness”-Specific Products: Collège Henri Wallon will produce a theatre play. Liceo IESS will prepare a photo documentation of the project. Leonhard-Wagner-Gynnasium will host a panel discussion at the end of the workshops, reflecting on the results and findings of the project."