"Schools from six European countries (Croatia, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Portugal and Estonia) are involved in this project which focuses on a variety of PORTS, “A place of a collective identity” where everything can start and everything can arrive, where life is punctuated by the cyclical time but also by exceptionality, unexpected, where uses and traditions have developed in the course of the years. The development of port dynamics is actually based on essential variables, including geographical, environmental, technological, economic, logistic ones. Hence, a port is a microcosm reflecting life and a wide range of positive and negative issues. Nowadays, ports have changed, they are overwhelmed by modernity, everywhere plastic replaces wood, automation carries more and more pollution, the habitat itself, altered by port activities, collects blows of a pressing unbridled development.“P.O.R.T.S.” refers both to the real port, centres of commerce, crucial to the economy, and to the ability to face the problems and the issues related to it.""P.O.R.T.S."" stands for “People Organising Redevelopment Technology and Sustainability”, that is the challenge to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, in accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in 2015. Thus, our schools want to deal with the ports closer to our towns/cities. The best elements of our ports are intended to build an ideal port, as a prototype of excellence. Port as a city outpost, a borough, a place to be enjoyed, which also offers situations of sustainability in order to block out the common idea which considers the port a ""non- place"".We aim to promote the acquisition of academic and social skills of our students through the current vital issue of Sustainability, Redevelopment and Technology. We want to motivate them, in particular those facing difficulties (educational, health, emotional, economic, cultural, social) through a meaningful and concrete learning context which, besides promoting the acquisition of key skills and competences, helps reduce disparities in learning outcomes.By working in international groups, we exchange our experiences, ideas and create the space and conditions for creativity, sharing the joy of spending time together with common objectives and results.The main objective of P.O.R.T.S. is to motivate students, above all the weakest ones, by dealing with this environmental topic, having in mind a concrete aim: thinking about and designing an ideal 3D prototype “Smart & Green Port” that takes into account the value of ecosystems, as well as the socioeconomic effects on the surrounding region, that is not a common practice in a traditional approach to port development.About 80 students will travel abroad, but the project group will be much larger because all the students will benefit from it. Pupils will take advantage of using innovative 21st-century technologies for design, to get in touch with other people and different cultures and for the educational process.The project activities will be integrated into the curriculum of the participating students (History, Economics, English, Maths, Science, Art, I.C.T., Technology)Our students will explore ports, their history and traditions, technological development, various abiotic and biotic environmental parameters, as well as the biodiversity and the cultural and socioeconomic activities. They will record how human activities disturb the ecological balance.They will create: -project logo, poster and motto-Six Guides “In My Port”-The 3D Prototype and a Handbook of a “Smart&Green Port""-The project website where all materials and results will be shared -A wrapping-up video containing photos, videos of meetings and activities -The TwinSpace where information, documents, outcomes and links to various sites will be published.-The project Blog to publish the researches, lectures, studies, photos and videos of activities and meetings-The FB group to communicate with partners and to get teachers and /or pupils acquainted.Finishing our project, we hope to have raised environmental consciousness among students, teachers, parents and the public, and highlighted the greatness of Nature.In addition, we believe in sensitising communities, authorities, to take measures for rational use of PORTS aiming at its sustainability in accordance with the 2030 Agenda.We expect all participants and stakeholders will acquire knowledge and experience. The project intends to encourage the exchange of ideas, knowledge and customs and to develop skills and competences, essential for their successful professional and personal life and to help them be European citizens with EU values. This European partnership promotes life-long learning. In the long term our aim is to disseminate the project to teachers, families, peers, local schools in each partner school’s area, local and European authorities."

"Entrepreneurship is considered to be the major force of economic development. The main objective of the European Commission Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan is to promote entrepreneurship education and stress its importance at all levels from primary school to university and beyond. At the same time, the European Commission stresses the significance of sustainable tourism. In its Communication, ‘Agenda for a sustainable and competitive European tourism’, it proposes ""sustainable tourism actions aiming at diversifying the tourism experiences on offer in the EU’. Diversification of tourism products and services is needed to cope with increased demand for new types of tourism needs.Our multifaceted project EUROSTAR (EUROpean Sustainable Tourism And entRepreneurship), aims at exploring, sharing and preserving the hidden treasures of Europe related to sustainable tourism and at the same time realizing what entrepreneurship is and how this can be linked to sustainable tourism. Approximately 2000 students, 300 teachers and local communities from 5 European countries, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Lithuania agree on a two-year cooperation on this topic. These five schools realized that a project of this kind will help their students and teachers to enlarge their overview on sustainable tourism and learn how they can start their own company related to it. During the 2 years of the project, lectures and seminars by experts will give the students a professional outlook on sustainable tourism and entrepreneurship. On the first year the project will be focused on sustainable tourism in relation to environment, cultural heritage and entrepreneurship. On the second year the project will be focused on the creation of 5 startup companies related to the sustainable tourism after a careful analysis on the region, the environment, its people and their lifestyles, which somehow enhance sustainable-related activities.According to Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, one of the targets is to improve the quality and efficiency of education and training. It highlights the importance of smart growth in education, by encouraging young people to learn, study and update their skills and to create sustainable conditions of secondary education. We would like to apply these values into the project activities and potentially into the long-term goals of our institutions.Our students will learn about European sustainable tourism sites, about the history and traditions of their own and other cultures, about ecology and the importance of protecting natural biodiversity. They will become aware of the threats facing the sites and learn how the international community as a whole unites to save our common heritage. All the outcomes of the project will need the active practice of ICT tools, logo, video-making, website designing, advertising, mobile app etc. Most importantly, they will learn how they can develop entrepreneurial skills and how they can be utilized to create their own startup related to sustainable tourism.The project will let participants investigate and compare different sustainable tourism issues such as culture, natural sites, traditions, art, architecture and local tourism products supported by collaborative and cooperative learning, innovative educational methodology CLIL and IT technologies. They will make contacts with local educational and cultural institutions, communities and authorities around Europe and share their best practices. The added value gained through the international cooperation will enhance the development of personal (self confidence, empathy, tolerance, team player, time management), communicative, digital and organizational skills and competences. All of these will also help and strengthen teaching profiles of teacher staff , their language and project-based competences and boost the repertoire of their teaching methods thus they become more respected by the students and regional community as not only teachers but also facilitators of innovative learning, multilingual events and international project cooperationThe results of the project will be disseminated through the project website, newsletters, photo and video-documentation, local newspapers or local TV and the brochure of the project, so that other teachers, headmasters, experts, employees of the ministry of tourism and others could use the project resultsThis project will allow young students from various parts of Europe to work on this topic together, share ideas, learn from each other, discuss similarities and differences in entrepreneurship related to sustainable tourism so this knowledge will be transferred to their startup and schools. In some partner schools through the project, refugees and students with Economic obstacles and Geographical obstacles will be given an opportunity to learn more about sustainable tourism and the entrepreneurship. This will give them lifelong experience"

Following the adoption of the Circular Economy Action Plan in 2015, the EU has promoted measures to stimulate the transition towards a circular economy. The adoption of the circular model may be an effective strategy to break the spiral of inefficiencies that seriously damages the natural, economic and social equilibriums of today’s world. In order to overcome the linear economy model in Europe (and beyond), it is necessary to adopt a re-education strategy in the context of a new economic model, where the axis buy-use-dispose-buy-again is disrupted. The new model needs to be transmitted to children and young people and, most importantly, should be included in European school plans. The LOOP project intends to transfer knowledge and competences concerning sustainable development and in particular to current scientific debates around the issues of Circular Economy and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project aims to, on the one hand, provide students with scientific knowledge and the skills to understand current global issues related to sustainable development. On the other hand, it intends to also stimulate students in learning, developing and sharing conscious behaviours. The project will involve the participation of teachers, students and tutors in the project activities. In particular, the project will involve around 160 students from 5 schools in 3 EU countries and their teachers. Moreover, specialised personnel of FEEM and the University of Zagreb will be dedicated to the tutoring operations and will be selected by the same organisations according to the functions they will have to perform.To reach its goals, the project will support and guide students in the development of a number of activities and outputs under the guidance of appropriately trained teachers and tutors and through the special “Meet&Learn” Platform. The activities will be based on innovative digital technologies specifically designed to stimulate the inclusion of participants and encourage the learning of the relevant project topics and their basic values.The LOOP project intends to adopt a highly innovative didactic approach based on digital and ICT pedagogy. In particular, the project will be based on an original methodology, developed by the partner CivicaMente and called “Open Mind” which uses multimedia tools to guarantee a high degree of learners’ involvement and which promotes the strengthening of soft skills through activities mediated by digital technology.The project will produce the following results: an Online Platform, a virtual learning environment, structured in different levels that will be used as mean of communication, online repository, interactive training provider and a dissemination channel; Teachers and Training Materials, virtual classrooms including learning units for the teachers; Pitch Elevator videos, short video messages presenting the students involved in the project; Report on Flipped Classroom, a methodological and content report in concerning the main results of the performances conducted by the students in the classroom, on the assigned research topic; Research essays (e-books), resulting from the national field research of the students investigating the four “R’s” of the circular economy; Transnational thematic projects on the basis of the e-books already produced during the national research activities; a Report explaining the overall methodology adopted for each phase of the project: from the online platform structure, through the training methodology for students and teachers, to the flipped classroom and national and international working groups. It is expected that the LOOP project will have an impact on all the individuals involved; in particular, the students will improve their linguistic, technological and scientific knowledge on circular economy, and the teachers will dispose of innovative teaching methodologies and key competences on the themes addressed. Starting from the local level, the desirable impact would be the creation of a virtuous cycle that could expand to the regional, national and European levels. A further impact concerns the awareness raising at different levels regarding the importance of turning to a circular economy model based on the principles “Redesign, Reduction, Recycling and Reuse” to promote the achievement of the SDGs of the Agenda 2030.