The project “Digitalization goes Schools” focuses on the steadily rising importance of digitalization in the 21st century. European companies have been using digitalization as an indispensable tool in their daily work. This means that the next generation is expected to have respective skills in this area. What is more, as companies often work internationally, the workforce should have intercultural skills in order to perform well at an international level.In this project, our goal is to enhance our students´ competences in these fields. Thus, the overall aim is to prepare them for the current challenges in today`s and in the future world of work. This will be implemented in our project by the exchange of experiences, learning activities, research, practical work and workshops. All these types of activities focus on the three main areas school, culture and social life. The main focus lies on the digitalization of different contents. With the help of this project, we would like to use various digital tools - among them are apps, VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality). Moreover, we would like to improve our knowledge of Industry 4.0, which is becoming more important in today`s world of work. All in all, in this project we would like to connect cultural competences, language competences and digital competences. Apart from enhancing our students´ skills in these fields, the project also refers to teachers. Without doubt, students at school learn what they are being taught. Hence, it is essential that teachers improve their skills in the areas mentioned above as well in order to guarantee a well-founded base for education at our schools. This can be implemented by adopting new methods and tools. The participants in this project are teachers and students from six technical schools with IT departments. The partner schools are located in urban and rural areas in five European countries (Austria, Croatia, Italy, Portugal, Las Palmas and Valencia). Hence, different cultural backgrounds are involved in our project. Each school`s project team consists of a teachers` team and a students` team that cooperate with each other and work on the products. The students are all in their upper level of secondary education, while the teachers` team consists of experts for either IT., civics and foreign languages. This way, we believe to have the necessary variety and know-how in each team.The activities in the project “Digitalization goes Schools” include six core areas:1. Two transnational teachers meetings which at the beginning and at the end of the project, to agree on the implementation and the evaluation of project goals.2. Six learning activities where each partner school is the host of the other project members. In these learning activities we will have workshops focusing on the development of the products.3. In each learning activity a company visit is planned (digitalization of companies). The purpose is to investigate where the theoretical knowledge can be applied practically. 4. All activities in the project are evaluated. Our goal is to measure the participants` individual progress and to find out what competences are acquired.5. Another part of the activities is dissemination with the purpose of informing a broader audience about the current state of our international project.6. The development of products that can be used at all participating schools and their partner for school lessons, open days, guided tours etc.Our tangible products are based on digital know-how. We are planning to exchange our knowledge with all project participants before the development of the products. The necessary skills will be taught through e-learning platforms and learning activities. This will guarantee that each partner can be supported, no matter if certain programs are new for a specific partner school.In our project the following results are expected: TANGIBLE1. creation of a project logo2. creation of a reliable, digital evaluation survey in order to assess the results3. digitalization of a humanoid robot 4. virtual city guide through all partner cities with the help of a mobile device and an app5. virtual traditional dish and menu of each partner country6. digital brochure showing the details and results of the project 7. virtual instruction guide for the developed productsNON TANGIBLE8. development of skills in using virtual technology such as (MS HoloLens, virtual apps)9. knowledge of how to plan e-learning sessions and transmitting interactive contents10. improvement of linguistic competences11. improvement of cultural awareness and cultural understanding12. improvement of multimedia skills13. understanding how modern applications, software and Industry 4.0 are integrated in today`s world of work14. enhancement of students` employabilityDuring the project, all participants will have acquired relevant skills in these areas, and passing them on to other students is an important objective.

"Through this project we aimed to develop the key competences of students in the field of electrical installations (installations and home automation) at European level,but also the training of teachers in this area by putting at their disposal some updated programs alongside with the corresponding documents.There has been used the Moodle platform for implementation and dissemination of the project and the project's goal was to offer young graduates of technical education the chance to be offered a proper and suitable job in the area.The project had as its objectives: to adapt the education of the participating schools involved into the project to the new economic conditions imposed by the dynamics of the labour market trades; the achievement of professional ties between the teachers from the participating countries in order to determine the work opportunities for the students and their integration on the labour market; to increase levels of knowledge of the students/ teachers regarding the importance of home automation installations; to increase the quality of initial and continuous formation and training through the use of ICT(implementation and use of Moodle platform). The organizations involved were:1.Cooperativa de Ensino de V.N.Famalicão,CRL-E.P Cior- Portugal;2.School I.E.S Miguel Catalán, Coslada, Spain;3.Staatliche Berufliche Oberschule Schwandorf - Germany;4.I.T.I.S G. ARMELLINI-Rome,Italy;5.WATT UNIT S.R.L -Constanta, Romania.The chosen partners have had rich experience in the attainment of home automation installations,have been interested in completing this project,because home automation systems are used differently worldwide,and they have wanted to analyse and choose the best solutions for the implementation of home automation installations in their own curriculum.The target groups identified were:students of 10th and 11th grades in the electrics field,for both the coordinator as well as for the other educational organizations involved;the teachers who teach in the coordinating organization in the fields of electrical/ automation and who lacked updated programs for their work;foreign teachers who wanted to improve the existing programmes in the field;the specialists of the participating company who wanted the implementation of home automation installations in Constanta.There have been done four intellectual products:1.a curriculum in the field of home automation installations and of the documents (materials) related to the work (at 11th grade);2. a general catalogue of home automation system chosen;3.a directory of practical training for installation of home automation of a house with two bedrooms;4.a manual of instructions for the devices used in automation systems with home automation installations.In order to achieve these intellectual outputs during the two years there have been six meetings between the participating countries of the project,two events of the applicant and three training activities.Six project meetings, as follows:the first and last meeting of the project took place at the headquarters of the Coordinator from Romania;the other four meetings were held at the participating organizations from Spain, Italy, Germany and Portugal;Two of the multiplication events were held at the headquarters of the Coordinator.The first multiplication event was held at end of the first year of the project,on July 4th, 2017,under the title:E1:""The need for the implementation of home automation installations in technical and vocational education from Romania"";The second multiplication event occurred at the end of the second year of the project, on July 4th, 2018,under the name:E2:""Auxiliary materials fot the curriculum of home automation installation"".These events were attended by specialists from Romania interested in implementation of home automation installations in everyday practice.Three training activities: 1.formation of 5 teachers in the technical field from the applicant institution at IES Miguel Catalan,which consisted of practical works with equipment designed for home automation installations,aimed at being able to implement the new curriculum for home automation installations; 2.formation of 14 students from the applicant institution at IES Miguel Catalan,who in working team with Spanish students have actually completed a home automation installation according to the curriculum conducted in collaboration with the external partners,noting aspects such as the impact on students,the difficulty in achieving the task and receiving the needed feedback. 3.formation of a computer scientist from the applicant institution at IES Miguel Catalan,which consisted in studying the use of Moodle platform,who became the administrator of the platform in order to implement and disseminate the project.The teachers and the students who were involved in the project had both professional and personal use of the following benefits:acquiring new competencies in the home automation;obtaining the EM."