"As teachers, we observe that students are no more interested in poetry, drama and classics in recent years .They are getting further and further away from reading these literary works since they are thinking of poetry, drama and classics are not the part of modern life and modern education .They also don't find them benefical for their education.The result of the survey we submitted to the students emerged out the problems why students don't prefer reading these literary works; many students suffer from studying them in their lessons. They find this method quite boring. Most students spend most of their time playing computer and video games.Many others prefer reading the same kind of books such as science-fiction,fantastic stories and detective stories and most students focus on doing tests for their exams which carry them better university life and a future career.They are unaware of the taste of reading a poem, a play or a classic novel. Seeing all these problems, we started the project idea to create opportunities for students to understand the value of these literary works for their educational and social lives.We are six countries from different parts of Europe.; Czech Republic ,Portugal, Italy, Latvia, Spain and Turkey.We met for the same reason to open new windows for the students with the activities. Since each partner school has specific competence, we have great expectation that all partners will host this project with their contribution and literary background. We planned various activities such as Poetry Contest,Oratory,Theatre Play,Musical Play,the World Literature Quiz Show, Liteary Magazine and Poetry book.With all these activities we aim to enrich the students' knowledge of poetry,drama and classics and make them realise the importance of them in educational and social life.We want to revive these literary works on stage and make them part of students'lives breaking their prejudice and opening their hearts to these works.We planned more activities such as visiting charity organisations to perform plays, read poems and share classic novels with these lonely people. So that students will learn to emphaty with other people and they can be inspired to write about real life stories. Role play very important literary figures and national poets on stage with ""Who Am I"" activity ,they will also learn to emphaty with the writers and the characters living and feeling on stage.To write for the Essay Competition and to speak and defend the idea in Debating Activitiy,they will need to research from different sources,they will read different books and learn different opinions.So they will develop critical thinking and form their own idea being respectful to the other opinions. We also forsee ""Families Are Reading Classic Novels""activity to enhance students reading poetry, drama and classic realising the importance of these works in lifelong learning. To make these literary works part of modern education, we will appeal to the ICT integrating it into our activities. Students tend to be addict to computer and video games, they use technology pursuing no aim.With this project they will learn to use technology for knowledge engaging with the ICT activities; preparing facebook page, project website, weebly page ,slights, videos, digital diary of the activities.Furtermore they will live the enjoyable side of poetry activities using coding method. Reviving very important literary works of past , teaching us literature,history,cultural values of different nations, in multicultural area will create big opportunity to compare past and today to think about the future. They will manage this sharing knowledge, learning traditions, social values and today's life style through project activities. While creating these opportunities, one of our aim is to teach students to be more understanding of others,respectful to the values and accept them without prejudice. They will also have a chance to observe attitudes of European schools towards these literary works and how they benefit from them to increase the quality of their education and prepare the students for their future life. We believe that students will broaden their minds analyzing the different points of view through poetry,drama and classics activities with schools from different countries in different settings. This will be a unique opportunity for them not only to develop social, global competences but also they will start to think critically to form their own ideas. All these improvements will carry them to an intellectual area where they can be open to innovation and progress during throughout lives in a life-long learning perspective. When participating in LTT activities, the students will realise the importance of improving language skills, which they will need during their educational lives and for future work careers."

The project' Culture shadow-cultural learning cookbook' is the result of the need of development of our Upper Secondary Schools in the field of strenghtening and developing students key competences, change in educational methods towards exploring teaching and creative learning with the use of multimedia and ICT. The project main topic is Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning creativity and culture-(widely understood in its social,cultural, historical context)with factors influencing it, pedagogy and didactics.The project is meant to connect youth across cultures and generations.In it we want to have deeper insight into widely understood culture, first of our local neighbourhood, then country. We want to examine examples of culture in different aspects and share our experience in teaching cultural awarness. Main goal of the project is first of all development of our youth key competences, encouragement for learning and language development, obtaining knowledge with the use of foreign languages, exploring local and national cultures, education for peace without prejudice, assumption and bias. Furthermore increase of students mobility number, school internacionalization, openness towards EU, equalling students educational opportunities.Additional important purpose of the project is to use job shadowing in cultural institutions or any institution or business connected with culture as a method to increase students’ motivation, to learn working conditions, to combine theory and practise and to see the potential of cultural heritage in the labour market.The participants will through their experiences in a new learning environment attain knowledge about and get an understanding of the similarities and differences between working life in the culture field in different countries. This will give the participants an opportunity to reflect and achieve a deeper understanding of the shared European labour market.Direct participants of the project will be 60 pupils(15 from each participating school) aged 16-17 and 12 teachers- members of coordinating team. We will try to keep gender balance between participants.Activities in the project will be different workshops, lectures, researches, job shadowing, presentations, exhibitions, drama, evaluation sessions on intercultural learning.The project will be implemented with methodology of both formal and non formal education like active participation, workshops, team work, learning from various sources, use of new technologies, creative methods, games and quizzes, self presentation and self reflection, research studies in 4 high schools from Poland, Italy, Latvia and Turkey.The main product of the project will be a pdf cultural learning cookbook- a guidebook through our cultures seen with students eyes including job shadowing experience summary. Apart from this we expect; increasing the students' ability to understand culture, increasing their command of English,learning about the education systems and cultural heritage of partners, getting more understanding of own culture and background,getting ideas concerning entrepreneurial thinking and behaving increasing the students and teachers ICT-abilities,broadening the students' communication skills, enlarging teacher’s aid base with new materials made in the project, sharing practices and methods of teaching English and teaching cultural awareness with English as a tool, increase of didactic knowledge in case ofteachers, promoting our cultures, promoting EU learning programmes.The main impact on direct participants will be increase of their cultural awareness, key competences and knowledge.We hope that project visibility, its results and products will influence not only direct participants but also indirect ones like other students, teachers, school management, parents, local community, institutions involved in job shadowing and their workers and other people interested in diversity and culture awareness. They will realise the positive impact of European programs on education and key competences development, opportunities for the youth,importance of intercultural learning and make themselves familiar with different cultures.The project will lead to making schools more attractive on educational market.In longer perspective we count on strengthening cultural bonds between our schools, longer cooperation in new projects, further exchange of tools and good practice, increase of school open educational resources and interdisciplinary cooperation, implementing job shadowing in curriculum of civic studies or advisory classes of each school.

Through this project, we intend to make the students absorb the idea that entrepreneurship is not the realm of business people, but everyone can be entrepreneurial, engage in learning more about what entrepreneurship is and learn how this competence can benefit several aspects of their life. Our partnership consists of 5 countries from Finland, Turkey, Italy, Portugal and Latvia. Our primary target group is the students who are indifferent to school, don’t attend to school regularly and tend to leave school early. Through the project activities, we will engage the students in school related activities and internalize the idea that they can be successful and have a good future by learning how they can put their ideas into action using entrepreneurship skills. Therefore, school and school related activities will make more sense to them.Our methodology is activity-based and solution-oriented. That’s why we have planned our activities relevant to our methodology. With the project activities, the students will be able to practice the entrepreneurship skills which they have learned only from books. Solution-oriented as they will be more hopeful, active and contribute to the workforce and economy in the future.We believe that real examples and success stories from real life will inspire them effectively. Thus, we will arrange meetings with entrepreneurs and the students will interview with them, visit the Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the local area of each partner school and learn about different opportunities which are supplied in the partner countries. Each partner will identify a role model entrepreneur who has succeeded his/her idea into action, which will definitely inspire the students. The teams in each partner school will select a different business enterprise area and the other partners will be a marketing area for their enterprise. Therefore, the students will learn different kinds of enterprise areas, market their ideas, develop their horizon, creativity and inspire each other. Apart from different enterprise areas, they will also create one common enterprise and each group will be a kind of a branch of this enterprise. The groups in their own country will do activities to develop their branch. At the end of the project, the most successful branch of the enterprise will be selected. This will foster the students to create more remarkable and original activities to enhance the success of their branch.Approximately 200 students and 30 teachers will participate in the project. The students will prepare visual presentations, create the project logo, poster, e-magazine, a real pop-up enterprise, join live events and Skype conferences, visit Chambers of Commerce and Industry, take part in surveys and design project dissemination tools and Erasmus corner in their schools. The teachers will be the mentors of the students, guide them to obtain best results, arrange meetings, carry out the eTwinning project, form their national and international project teams, conduct surveys and write evaluation reports. The school boards will supply convenient environment for the project teams and activities, support them, take part in the meetings, help with the dissemination activities and facilitate the bureaucratic work.Entrepreneurship clubs will be established as extra-curricular activity in the partner schools.These entrepreneurship clubs will organize an event in their schools on the dates which will be identified by the project partners.During the determined week,each partner will do activities to inspire the other students and also prepare presentations to share on the project dissemination tools, so the connection between the partners and also the sustainability of the project will be continued after the project is completed.In addition, these clubs will be in contact with local Youth organisations to create an entrepreneurial mindset along together,which will enable the local Youth organisations to benefit from the objectives of the project.All the activities will be shared via visual presentations in English by using web2 tools to be able to share the objectives of the project in the national and international dimension. There will be two dissemination teams which are national and international. The project dissemination coordinator will check the quality of the presentations and warn the partners about the deadlines. All the partners are experienced in Erasmus+ -projects, enthusiastic and open to collaboration. Each partner has accepted all their responsibilities. Thus, we are sure that we will obtain our desired consequences through our strong partnership.

"We are the six schools from Hungary, Turkey, Poland, Latvia, Spain and Italy. Our project started from the idea that “Live Freely and Individual Like a Tree, and in a Brotherhood Like a Forest”. There are lots of nations on earth, there are lots of nations in European Union. You can recognize a nation by learning its culture because the culture is consisted for a long time and there aren’t any communities who haven’t any cultures. Famous German archaeologist Hugo Winckler said that the nations who created culture didn’t have pure ethnicity, on the contrary culture is a product of the community which consist of by mixing multiracial in some way. We think Winckler is right so we have lots of similarities on the other hand we have lots of differences. Each nation has variety cultures. Some of these cultures are the same in some counties while some of them are unique. We can say these nations and their cultures are look like flowers in a garden.This Project will help us to live in a peace at home, at school, at work, in the street, in the country and on earth, according to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's sentence ""Peace at Home, Peace in the World"". We will encourage our students to show respect to their friends. They will notice that they are not opponent. They will understand that they can achieve lots of things together by helping each other. We need to carry out this project trans-nationally because it will help us to know each other, it provides that we can remove some prejudices against each other. We can learn to live in a peace and we can prevent war on earth.There are four main objectives at this Project;- to notice our traditional and cultural values which are still alive among different European community with the helping of this project. - to notice differences and similarities among our European partner communities. - to promote peace, understanding and communication in general by making children aware of the dangers of isolation, miscommunication and indifference. - to encourage school education. We want to involve as many people as possible in this project. Of course, the project team of the school will be at the center of the project circle. Target participants will be students, teachers, school managements, parents, local authorities, residents of the partners' cities and NGO's. Especially students who have certain skills related to the project and are interested in project will be take part in the project activities. We will ensure all pupils of the school participate in this project. The target students will be between the ages of 14-19. Students' parents will be included in this project. Local authorities, our colleagues who work at other schools, NGO's and the people who live in our city will be included in our project. We have planned six mobilities to achieve our objectives;- In November 2019 to Hungary in order to learn and share Hungarian Culture and Traditional Musical Instrument- In March 2020 to Poland in order to learn and share Polish Culture and Traditional Game- In May 2020 to Latvia in order to learn and share Latvian Culture and Legend- In October 2020 to Spain in order to learn and share Spanish Culture and Feast- In March 2021 to Italy in order to learn and share Italian Culture and Traditional Cuisine- In May 2021 to Turkey in order to learn and share Turkish Culture and Folk DanceDuring and at the End of the Project, we would like to produce these results:- creating a project website so that all the documents, articles and resources for teachers/students and parents related to this project will be put on it and it can be reached every-time.- with each mobility, learning more about partners' culture by researching their history, their traditions and their social life.- improving language skills, cultural knowledge - organizing conferences and workshops to raise awareness building bridge from past to future and find solutions adapted to today's world - videos/photography exhibitions to raise interest and awareness- increasing interpersonal communication, improving self-confidence and motivation for sharing common ideas- useful materials on the topic for each school and local community that can be shared with others- better collaboration between schools and local authorities/local associations- ideas and concrete lists of actions and activities to help integration of isolated children in school- using some ideas and recommend them for new project (eTwinning or Erasmus)."

Through our initiatives we wanted to respond to the concern that children from all our schools do not experience nature as much as past generations and moreover they encounter difficulties in science classes. Since technologies are a demand of the 21st century we focused on the integration of technology into nature and science programs, incorporating interesting technologies into programs to engage children’s attention and interest. Our project aimed to promote the use of technology to increase kids' interest in and engagement with the natural world. We wanted to identify opportunities for digital technology to support children’s connectedness to the natural environment, thereby encouraging positive environmental attitudes in children, as well as healthy physical play. We also needed to innovate our curricula with a new actual theme - participatory science – in fact the implementation of CITIZEN SCIENCE as an elegant, efficient and engaging solution to the huge environmental problems we face in the 21st century.Our main objectives were to promote a responsible environmental awareness and increase understandings of science, leading to more positive attitudes towards STEM subjects. Bringing scientists, teachers and students together in partnerships have created lots of opportunities to explore new pedagogical approaches. The partnership consisted in the end of 5 European partners Romania, Spain, Czech Republic, UK, Italy Our target groups were students from 10 to 18 from all the five European schools and we addressed our project as well to the skilled students in STEM subjects, as for less skilled students to amplify or improve their competencies.Each partner brought its own experience and expertise to the project. All the schools took students of broadly similar age range.Our main activities have been:1. Create visual elements and ID of the project (logo, sociomedia, blogs, websites) 2. Prepare questionnaires and online surveys: based on 3 main aspects: How Can Technology Enrich the Nature Experience/ How kids are using technologies/ Impact of Technology. 3. Train teachers and students - teachers from the project have been trained by other teachers, specialists, scientists on the next main subjects:i. Deal with Bioblitz and Citizen Science in schoolsii. Managing iNaturalists iii. Virtual Curriculum (making & integration)iv. Naturalist expeditions step by stepStudents have been also trained on:i. Bio ID - Scientific Identification of plants, birds, mushrooms and dealing with species inventories - Students learnt how to identify and record the number of species they find in a certain area and document their findings using digital cameras using smartphone apps and/or field guides.ii. Macroscale Photographyiii. Writing scientific articles - Scientifical protocols- interpreting scientifical data;iv. Using iNaturalist v. Using Apps to explore NatureTeachers training have been made face to face in local schools or during the transnational meetings.4. Prepare Nature Chronicles - this activity aimed to investigate the meaning of nature for ancient people (and this according to the local legends, songs and fairy tales, and by exploring the exhibition, local gardens etc), interrelationship between the local people and nature evolution in the 21st century. We also wanted to investigate the impacts of a modern lifestyle and its activities on the ecosystem and biodiversity. Students and teachers made researches and compilations,preparing presentations.5. Organize Nature Challenges - Bioblitz and many field trips & naturalist expeditions6. Making Science More Attractive: researches and experiments - Students have conducted lab experiments Our approaches provided much more skilled students in different ways: 1. Using technologies helped kids to go outside for observation and active learning about local habitats2. We developed many authentic STEM learning materials to encourage the Science careers3. We have designed a pedagogical model of citizen science projects for schoolsOur project lasted 3 years and all the activities have provided the next results>1. Create methodologies regarding the integration of ICT into nature and science 2. Develop on-line/ virtual/Internet materials 3. Publications on researches and methodology at small scale- brochures,4. Training and events for teachers and studentsThe project offered us a deepen understanding of nature, we have challenged with new pedagogical approaches for the 21st century. Thanks to new tools we will constantly improve the nature study by using technology.