"The project´s title is LESSONS FOR PRESENT, LESSONS FOR FUTURE and the countries that are participating are: Spain, Lithuania, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Poland, Finland and Turkey. All partners will prepare short-term exchanges which will include a seminar about the National Educational System and the way their schools work, focusing on the way they face the school failure and the early school-leaving (if it concerns), a seminar about the consequence of WW II in their countries (Concentration Camps), in Spain it will be about the Spanish Civil War, Pedagogical seminars about how to teach/learn the Holocaust/Extermination: Auschwitz (International Center for Education) and History Seminars: Lithuania, Greece, Italy, Poland, Finland, Spain and Turkey.The seminars are very important in order to achieve the aims of the project, which are improving and acquiring innovative pedagogical tools and resources for students and teachers in order to fight against the new forms of totalitarianism in Europe and updating the didactic material under a new perspective according to the current reality and the needs of the society that we are living.The participants will be students of Secondary Education schools and Vocational Education. We address to students from different groups and levels because we also want to involve participants with fewer opportunities which are suffering from the consequence of the crisis and of social isolation. Those participants will benefit from the grant so that money will not be a reason for not participating. We will try to involve their families in the project through the Parents Association. At the same time teachers and Departments will work together to reach the results of the project.All partners will make as a final product four teaching units about WW II from the following perspectives: Resistance, Collaboration, Indifference and Current Totalitarian messages from radical parties in Europe. Those Units will be based on testimonies of survivors and on a selection of materials: pictures, writings, speeches and movies, and they will not only deal with the Historical issue but also with ethical such as Democracy, Human Rights, totalitarian parties, xenophobia, etc. Through those Units we want to emphasize the importance of the social activism in order to have a real Democracy but without causing negative attitudes to the representatives of the different countries.The Teaching Units will be a part of a book of 4 groups (4 x 7= 28 TUs) which will follow the same structure: a) Historical introduction (background)b) Historical materialsc) Content, Concept and Procedured) Activitiese) Resourses and bibliographyThe project is complementary to other works carried out by the partners, related to our topic:1. ""Roots"" project in Lithuania.2. Missions for finding Jewish cemeteries.3. Organizing seminars, delivering educational lectures on the Holocaust.4. Managing the funds of the Jewish Museum, etc.All partners will make as a final product:1. A teaching guide (goals, contents and process) about how to fight the current radical Totalitarianism through the History of the concentration camps in Europe, the consequence of the Spanish Civil War and the Holocaust and its relationship with the national History focused on the way in which society reacts when facing the new reality during the Extermination: four didactic units: Collaboration, Indifference, Resistance and Currunt attitude. This point includes an anthology of texts, fragments of movies/documentaries and pictures about that.2. A home movie/documentary made by all partner students which will include survivors' testimonies and students feelings and opinions after knowing the History from a pedagogical point of view.3. A seminar about the Holocaust in the Auschwitz Teaching Foundation (Poland) at the beginning of the project to learn tools in order to elaborate pedagogical material which meet our current necessity.4. A power-point presentation (by students) about the concentration camp in each country. Lithuania meeting.5. A little biography of a person or family whose life was linked to WWII and a concentration camp from a pedagogical point of view. We are interested specially in noted people who resisted and opposed to the dominant power. Poland meeting.6. A booklet about the artistic works developed as an experience of living in the CC from a comparative point of view, according to the subjects and countries. Final meeting in Spain.7. A dramatical performance as a tribute to the people that died in Auschwitz with readings and songs by students. Greek meeting.8. Europass exchanges.9. Improvement of pedagogical and didactic skills to make students understand the importance of social activism."

"Project ServIam enables involved schools to share best practices in the field of voluntary work and environmental area. We have chosen the title ""ServIam"" which means ""I will serve"", since this is the motto of Ursuline school and it is a precise characteristic of the goals of the project.""ServIam"" is the way how to discover personal qualities of each individual, to accept oneself and others as they are, to search for the common good and together work for a better society and future. ServIam is a life style which enriches those who give. The goal is to become a volunteer with an open heart and willing mind. Our activities are focused on the involvement of young people in society and civic engagement. Helping especially those in dire need: orphans, elderly and lonely people, prisoners, refugees, the homeless. We keep in mind that the environment - Mother Earth is in need of help as well. We will focus on recycling and separation of garbage, prevention of littering and a longer life of products.. When we start to appreciate and accept ourselves we can serve others. Teams will be formed at schools comprised of students and teachers. These teams will be educated in areas (e.g. economical, psychological, social) to help them be effective and goal-oriented during their service. As a result they will grow up to be good people, servant leaders, who will become responsible citizens. Following methodological approaches will be employed: 1)social work with a group, social work with an individual, with the community; 2) social management and social projection and planning (to ensure proper formation for the people who want to serve, in order to achieve fruitfulness and long-term efficiency); 3) reflection after events, sharing of experiences and proper guidance.The participating schools are from France (Lycee Sainte Solange OGEC), Germany (Bischöfliche St. Angela Schule), Poland (Zespol Szkol Urszulanskich) and Slovakia (Gymnázium Angely Merici). All participating schools provide secondary education. All schools have prior experience with voluntary work and are in touch with local organizations providing social service. It is planed to involve as large number of students and teachers as well as school staff, parents and partner organizations in the project. The age of the participants directly involved in mobilities is 15 - 18 years old. During the implementation of the project more than 2000 students (aged 11 - 19) will be involved in project activities at their respective schools. Apart from direct participants it will effect numerous groups of people, from the youngest to the oldest. Each activity will focus on different kinds of needs we face . A full formation program will be prepared - theoretical knowledge, practical workshops and actual service to individual people. It will be published in the form of an E-Book online, accompanied by a Work Book for personal reflections of the participants and feedback for the teachers. E-Book and Work Book will be provided in all four languages of partner schools free of charge. The program will be offered to students, teachers and staff as an extra-curricular activity for personal development, sustainable over the following years, adjustable to current circumstances. We are prepared to share the know-how with other schools interested in following the program. We help young people become mature and responsible citizens, attentive and sensitive to the needs of others, active members of society, for whom voluntary work, ""ServIam"" is a life style."