ECO-LOGIC was born from the shared commitment of the partners in the areas such as environmental consciousness, active citizenship, outdoor education, social and civic competences, EU cultural heritage. The applicant, Calvisano Institute (IT), wants to share its innovative experience of participation in Q-Educational projects by involving the partners in activities of common interest.The partnership is composed of 5 EU primary and lower-secondary schools from Italy, Lithuania, Greece, Denmark and Portugal. The project will see an involvement of two external experts for the use of the educational platform (Q-cumber).ECO-LOGIC was inspired by the character of Leonardo da Vinci: a great example of a brilliant citizen, who used his talents to propose innovative solutions in many fields of life of his time. The project promotes active participation of pupils, wants to enhance their sense of belonging to the society and make them feel responsible citizens.Eco-logic aims to:- develop citizenship skills and soft skills of the participants- increase pupils’ awareness of the global environmental challenges- orientate towards STEAM careers- promote outdoor education and contamination with the territories; build partnerships with local stakeholders- strengthen teachers’ skills towards innovative teaching tools, methods and approaches- support teachers and students to ICT in didactics- for the involved schools, to change in EU dimension, increase their ability to work on international level, stimulate innovation and processes’ improvement, and to promote the values of inclusion and tolerance.The project envisages one transnational training for teachers (on the Q-Cumber platform usage) and five transnational learning/teaching activities with groups of 5 pupils from every partner school to work together on chosen topics: clay and painting; theatre and drama; sounds and music; photography; STEAM activities. Also virtual eTwinning meetings are planned to reinforce the exchange among the involved schools.On local level, the schools will organize fieldwork activities with the pupils collecting material and uploading them on the Q-cumber platform. They will be asked to identify environmental and artistic-cultural sites of their territory, creating a “map” with “case studies” for sensitizing campaigns and regeneration projects promotion.The Q-cumber platform will be the main instrument for the project implementation and a shared working and monitoring space. The proposal will see parallel eTwinning collaboration between partners.The project involves directly the following beneficiaries:- primary and lower-secondary level teachers from the 5 schools involved- 10 -13 years old students to be involved virtual exchanges, local activities and transnational mobility- other school staff members (principals and administrative staff )- hosting families.Indirect beneficiaries:- other teachers- other pupils and families- local stakeholders and citizensExpected results are:- developed soft skills of pupils involved (especially: citizenship, social and civic skills, spirit of initiative, etc.) through participatory approach- increased use of ICTs as learning tools, through the Q-cumber digital platform and eTwinning- increased teachers’ skills in innovative pedagogies (outdoor education, project-based learning, STEAM teaching)- enhanced understanding of problems related to pollution and human intervention and better results in English of pupils - spread of a new attitude of responsibility towards the environment protection- international network of schools, based on the exchange of best practices.The project will have an important positive impact on the development of the involved schools in the long term. The involved schools will: enhance their EU dimension and increase their ability to work in international projects; stimulate innovation, improvement and diversification of educational proposals and school management; implement innovative teaching methodologies such as outdoor learning, project-based teaching, STEAM teaching.ECO-LOGIC will permit to integrate the skills acquired in school management and in innovative pedagogical proposals for better teaching and better schools’ managing. Thanks to the increased EU network and acquired skills and motivation from the project’s experience, the participating schools’ will reinforce their internationalization level and develop future EU projects. The involved schools will be able to implement other intercultural and transnational activities for pupils and teachers such as virtual exchanges and projects on eTwinning, international on-line training. ECO-LOGIC will reinforce also future local collaborations thanks to stronger partnerships with local stakeholders in order to face together identified challenges and opportunities in cultural/environmental field.

"The OUR HEALTH IN OUR HANDS project was drafted by teachers of the Primary School in Grzechynia in cooperation with teachers from schools in Aravete (Estonia), Volos (Greece) and Sanluri (Italy). The main goal of the project is to shapethe students’ pro-health and pro-ecological attitudes and make them aware of the role that everyone has to fulfill in the development of living conditions in health and in a clean environment. The project will result in the students’ awareness of how they influence their quality of life. They will become aware of the preservation of a clean, natural environment.They will also have a positive impact on other people’s behaviourin their environment, and in the future, they will be citizens aware of their influence on creating the conditions in which they want to live. A good education is an opportunity for students to develop and participate effectively in the culturally diverse society of a common Europe, and the implementation of the project will affect the development of basic skills and key competencies. The project activities will also include elements of intercultural and intergenerational education as well as social and educational values of European cultural heritage. The implementation of the project will also strengthen the status of teaching professions. The project there will be an increase in knowledge and skills of participants in the field for health and nature protection, their personal and professional development, improvement of language skills and ICT, increased tolerance for cultural diversity and a sense of satisfaction with the implementation of an ambitious task.The project partners represent various the climate areas of Europe, which will allow to determine differences in eating habits resulting from climatic conditions and to look for similarities resulting from universal laws of nature. Partner schools are located in diverse natural areas which will give, the participants of the project,the opportunity to compare the scope of activities that help to maintain an unpolluted environment.Students will learn about traditional recipes and methods of food production free from chemical additives, and how local communities care about their natural environment and what actions prevent the contamination of nature.The project is planned for 22 months. The project is dedicated to pupils aged from 12 to 15. From each school will be involved in it 18 pupils and 6 teachers. All of students and teachers of partner schools will be involved indirectly. Students' families and local societies will also participate in the project to a certain extent.As part of the project, there will be five-day student exchanges. The program of each meeting will have its motto: ""Secrets of the Mediterranean diet"" - October 2019 in Greece, ""With traditions to the future"" - May 2020 in Estonia, ""To be healthy"" - October 2020 in Poland and ""Our common goal"" - April 2021 in Italy. Interesting programs of activities were prepared for the duration of students' stay in partner schools. Culinary workshops will take place, and the students will prepare dishes according to traditional recipes collected from older people. Educational trips, among other things, to small establishments producing food according to old recipes will help them to understand the importance of the quality of food products. There will be discussions, integration events, cultural presentations, games, and sports.The students will be accommodated in the family homes of their peers which will introduce them to the customs and traditions of the region. Simultaneously, virtual cooperation will be carried out via the eTwinning community. Its tools will allow cooperation before and between the trips. Thanks to the platform, participants will exchange information, conduct discussions, collect course materials and document the effects of their work. The material outcome will be the paper and digital publication ‘Kitchens of our great-grandparents’ containing culinary recipes tested on the workshops and photos of ready-made dishes. The coordinators will meet twice for the good implementation of the project. The first meeting, at the beginning of the project, will be devoted to the final agreement of the schedules, scope of responsibilities, procedures, monitoring, studying the effects and the project’s evaluation and second will focus on the summary and plans for further cooperation. The lessons learned from observing good practices in the partner schools, especially in the methodological or organizational field, will be used by the teachers in their daily work. Besides, the school, as an institution, will strengthen its image in the local community. All the experience acquired by the teachers will serve them in further years for successive education for health and a clean environment."

"<< Background >>Specifically; Project partner schools; • Tools and studies that will make their schools sensitive to gender equality, • To transform gender equality into a corporate culture, to change the whole atmosphere of the school (teacher attitude, textbooks away from sexism, pro-equality activities, parent education, etc.) accordingly, and thus to reduce problems such as early school leaving and peer bullying caused by gender inequality. • Ensure that school teachers and students' families receive gender equality training. • The students who are determinant of Europe's future; to be treated equally regardless of gender, to demonstrate their potential without any hindrance, to equal opportunities in all fields, Of MACEDONIA UNIVERSITY; • To do scientific research on gender equality in European schools • To expand the European dimension of academic studies and trainings on gender equality, The coordinator of our organization; It needs to expand its international cooperation and working network on gender equality. All project partners have come together and cooperated in order to be a part of the EU gender equality policies and strategies, to contribute to the applicability and functionality of these strategies, and to meet the needs of the project partners related to the project subject. Our project activities are planned to meet the needs of the partners. Showing European youth that women and men are equal, have the freedom to follow the path they choose in life and reach their full potential, have equal opportunities to thrive, and can participate and lead our European society equally and cooperation with schools and university partners project idea outputs strengthened our project.<< Objectives >>Will provide gender equality instructor training in C1 and C2 to participating teachers. Trained teachers will train other teachers in their schools. Thus, the training needs of the teachers of partner schools on gender equality will be met. ** Teachers participating in the training will cooperate in transnational project activities (C3-C4) and will form a Gender Equality Sensitive European School Guide (IO1). Gender equality will become a corporate culture in partner schools. Depending on the strategies; teacher-administrator attitude, the separation of textbooks from sexism, pro-equality activities, parent education, etc. practices and measures, school students; A school atmosphere will be created, where it is treated equally regardless of gender, where it can unleash its potentials without any hindrance, and where it has equal opportunities in all areas. Thus, problems related to gender inequality in partner schools such as early school dropout and peer bullying will be reduced. ** In the background of our project MACEDONIA UNIVERSITY will have the opportunity to conduct scientific research and analysis and to present data on the reflections of the gender equality strategies to be applied simultaneously in European schools on school culture and school members on the consistency between the project activities and the realization of our goals. The coordinator of our organization will ensure that schools, universities, NGOs and youth organizations from Europe come together in the portal, which will be created within the scope of the European-scale network work (IO2) with our project. our organization thus plays a dominant role in the portal and will both increase its working capacity across Europe and expand the network to be established.<< Implementation >>The European School Guidelines Sensitive to Gender Equality and the European Gender Equality Portal, which are our project idea outputs, will be shaped by the cooperation of all partners in LTTA. Our project idea outputs will meet the needs of the institutions involved in our project regarding gender equality and support the attainability of our project goals. Our project goal coincides with the EU's 2020-2025 gender equality goals, as we explained in the relevant section. Therefore, LTTAs will enable us to achieve our project goals, on the other hand, they will provide added value in European dimension with our intellectual outputs to be created in LTTAs. In C1 and C2, teacher training on gender equality will be given to the teachers of partner schools. Our goal of providing professional development in participating teachers will be realized and it will be ensured that teachers who receive training provide training to teachers in their own schools. Thus, our goal of increasing the number of teachers who have received gender equality training in partner schools by 80-90% will be achieved. The University which will provide gender education to participating teachers in C1 and C2 will prepare a ""training package"". The training package will be shared on the internet indefinitely and indefinitely in order to contribute to the professional awareness of gender equality in many European teachers. Gender Equality Sensitive European School Guidelines will be prepared in C3 and C4. Guide will serve our goals regarding the adoption of gender equality as a corporate culture in partner schools and ensuring continuity with certain strategies related with our project. In addition, every school in Europe will be able to access the guide free of charge and indefinitely and implement the strategies in the guide. The contents of the European Gender Equality Portal, of which the digital technical infrastructure will be formed by the NGO partner, will be prepared by participating teachers in C5.<< Results >>* Partner schools will organize seminars to introduce the outputs of our project and its results to educational institutions in their region. Thus, schools in the region; - Learn about Gender Equality Sensitive Educational Environments and Processes Standards and Gender Equality Sensitive School Management Standards. They will apply it in their own schools. -They will be aware of the portal. Both school and teachers of the school will be members of the portal. On the portal, their schools will be visible at the European level and they will be able to communicate and interact with many European organizations and teachers under the topic of gender. They will be able to access good practices, exemplary projects regarding gender equality, and establish partnerships through the portal in their possible studies and projects. After meeting the necessary conditions in their schools, they will be able to receive the European School Sensitive to Gender Equality label, which will be given by the MACEDONIA UNIVERSITY. In addition, they will be able to download and reproduce the Gender Equality Sensitive European School Guide from the platform. - Theirmotivation to take part in Erasmus + projects and produce projects will increase. * In accordance with the Standards of Gender Equality Sensitive Educational Environments and Processes, with our project, school textbooks will be screened within the framework of gender equality, and partner schools will make suggestions to the national authorities regarding the regulations to be made. With the recommendations to be taken into account, contribution will be made to the preparation of school textbooks and course contents throughout the country in consideration of gender equality in the next process. * With the international conference to be held in our project, many universities, NGOs and school projects from Europe will be informed. The institutions / organizations participating in the conference will become members of the European Gender Equality Portal and the network on gender equality will be expanded throughout Europe with our project. * MACEDONIA UNIVERSITY will prepare a document containing the scientific research results and the data obtained in the background of our project and share them on academic platforms where European universities are located. This scientific study of MACEDOMIA UNIVERSITY will be a reference to the future projects of European universities. * Our project outputs and results obtained will contribute to the implementation of EU gender equality policies and strategies."

This is an education project mainly focused on “IMPROVING BOOK READING, TRASNFORMING KNOWLEDGE INTO PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES” and leading our students to read more, to be active more by participating in Arts, ICT, Media, Literary, Social and Volunteering activities. So its move is “ EDUCATED AND ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP”. It is developed by participation of schools from Europe Union.Whenever you read a book, you learn a new information that otherwise would not have known. Studies have shown that reading has strong positive effects on the brain. Every time people read a book, you have to remember the setting of the book, the characters, their backgrounds, their history, their personalities, the sub-plots and so much more. As your brain learns to remember all this, your memory becomes better. Reading has a positive effect on the body as well. Reading a book can relieve stress better than taking a walk or listening to music. The more people read, the more imaginative they become. Whenever children read a fiction book, it takes them another world. One of the primary benefits of reading books is its ability to develop critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills are crucial when it comes to making important day to day decisions. Reading improves children vocabulary and command on the language. As they read, they come across new words, idioms, new words, phrases and writing styles.OBJECTIVESThe completion of the project will lead our students to read more, to be active more by participating in Arts, ICT, Media, Literary, Social and Volunteering activities.Our students will be active readers and they will gain skills for how to transform a book into their own products.We will struggle to make books important again since the books are the true source for true information. The project will promote to have better literary pleasure, to face with arts and to recognise cultural treasure between our studentsACTIVITIESThe project include two types of action. On the one side students will read books (NOVELS, PHILOSOPHY, POETRY, BIOGRAPHY) on the other side they will develop activities such as SCENARIO, WRITING ESSAYS, CREATING POETRY MAGAZINE, TAKING SHORT MOVIES. Every partner will read on their own national books and when they come together in the LTTA meetings, they will meet them together and produce their activities together. Activities and products will be multi national.METHEDOLOGYAfter the beginning of the project, we will set up project clubs in the schools and will announce the students to join the club. Minimum 50 students will be involved. These 50 students will be divided into 5 teams as; Literature Team, ICT teams, Culture Team, Magazine Team, Arts Team. These team will be given tasks for a curtain duration regards to stages and activities of the project. All teams will work and support the main body of the project under supervision the teachers. There are 6 L/T/T/A in two years. Teachers will lead the students to join all kind of activities (Book reading, Creation of scenario, magazine, taking short movie; etc./ the usual side activities like; preparing Erasmus+ corner, taking photos and videos to put into digital monitor, logo contest, joining seminars, preparing traveller manuals, etc. ) PARTICIPANTOur project is prepared mainly for the students and all the stages are designed for them. Teachers are added into as supervisor and beneficiaries. Administrative staff are the other participants. Parents and local community will be the side beneficiaries since they will be the target group of while we are disseminating our project activities, outputs and results.IMPACTAn important impact will be provided to the participant by the project, direct and indirectly. The possibility to be in direct contact with students and teachers from other countries and especially working together for reaching common goals will lead to positive changes within institutions involved.

Our projects name is ECO Echo.The priorities of the project are:Environmental and climate goalsReinforcing the development of key competencesEnvironment and climate changeHealth and wellbeingInternational cooperation, international relations, development cooperationWe believe that priorities chosen at the beginning of the project are closely linked to the objectives and results we would like to achieve.The main objectives are:to help all the participants to protect their health and wellbeing from environment-related risks and impactsto develop and manage their educational, physical and emotional wellbeingto raise consciousness to counteract environmental challenges to involve as many people as we can in the learning teaching and training activitiesto develop knowledge and consciousness towards environmental and well-being issuesto learn new skillsto reinforce key competencies of pupils and teachersto know more about each other, in order to compare how different people and cultures are trying to achieve the same goalsThe expected results are: a project blog a public notice video a collection of Mindmaps, Collages Interview videos Maps of the historical and ecological routes Hand-made souvenirs.a youtube channel promoting the project objectivesFB group providing the wider audience more wiser consumers more socially integrated people more motivated learnersmore citizens who are able to counteract climate change and other environmental challenges Project participants:Partner from Estonia (Coordinator). Tallinn Kuristiku Gymnasium. Public school providing all levels of education from pre-school to upper secondary. The number of students is 930, staff number is 90. In the 3 years preceding this application participated in 1 Erasmus+ project.Partner from Turkey. OZEL DEMRE BIL OKULLARI. Private school which has campuses in 7 regions of Turkey. It provides education for students from 5th to 7th grades. This school takes part in Erasmus+ project for the first time.Partner from Greece. 5o GYMNASIO VOLOU. Public school providing education for students aged 12-15. The school includes 250 students and 25 teachers. In the recent 3 years this school took part in 6 Erasmus+projectsPartner from Spain. LIzarra Ikastola Sociedad Cooperativa. This is a nonprofit Educational Centre supported by parents. This co-educational school educates students from 4 months to 16 years, from Kindergarten to Secondary school. There are 665 students and 70 staff members. In the 3 years preceding this application school took part in one Erasmus+ project.Partner from Portugal. Agrupamento de Escolas Latino Coelho, Lamego. This is a big public organisation which includes pre-school, primary, middle and secondary levels for students aged 6-16. This school has a valid eTwinning label. There are 1200 students and 120 staff members. In the recent 3 years the school participated in 3 Erasmus+ projects.Activities:We are planning to organise short-term student exchanges in all partner schools and countries. Each partner school will select students and teachers themselves. The teachers who take part in the project are responsible for all kinds of activities including organisation and holding. As the entire school approach is used in our project the support of parents and school/local authorities is also essential.Before these activities, we are planning to organise preparatory work and short-term joint staff training event during which eTwinning platform, FB group, project website and Youtube channel will be created and they will be led during the whole project and after it.After each phase of the project we are going to assess our objectives, evaluating the following points: schedule, quality, cost, participants satisfaction and students performance.As for dissemination, there will be two local dissemination events to be organised by each partner. In the long-term the project participants are going to improve gained skills and competences. We would like them to look critically at their own lifestyle and to become citizens of the entire world who are responsible for global issues, who are ready to reconcile their lifestyle with environmental challenges. The more long-term results are that after taking part in our activities and promoting them for wider audience all people involved into the project are going to be citizens who can protect “their health and wellbeing from environmental-related risks and impacts”.