Nowadays, it is essential to find a transition from learning facts to acquiring real life skills which will prepare young people for life and motivate to study. The schools involved in the project were with a different experience in developing entrepreneurial skills in young people and in approaches to career education. The schools worked on a cooperation model together: school – municipality council - entrepreneurs. An important aspect – students while participating in project activities investigated entrepreneurship environment and job market. The project intended to involve all subject teachers, not only economics and social science teachers, as entrepreneurial skills are developed in various situations and every teacher can contribute. Project aims: - To work out the themes for the business basics related to the skills of the young people and their interests based on the entrepreneurial skill development, to prevent dropping out of school because of out-dated methodologies. - To work out innovative pedagogical approach creating students` self-assessment system adopted into the formal education process. The main result – informal study tool – learning platform on Moodle with a certification possibility „Entrepreneurship skill development possibilities in young people”. The Project uniteed students and teachers from 5 countries – Latvia, Romania, Turkey, Spain and Croatia. The target group – young people, aged 15 – 19. Study materials are available in 6 languages – Latvian, Spanish, Romanian, Turkish, Croatian and English.For the convenience of users there is a link from the project website www.epps.lv to the e-platform - Learning Moodle http://www.epps.lv/moodle/ ..

Our project brings together students from 5 countries (Turkey, Poland, Germany, Romania and France) from 15 to 20 years old. The goal was to study and develop natural sites. For this, we proceeded in several stages. Using a protocol developed by the French partner, we have identified the animal and plant species present on the sites. Each school was able to educate students about the environment and the practice of a scientific method. This work required the collaboration of town halls (Olstyn in Poland for example), competent authorities (Sylvique in Romania for example), local institutions (University of Kocaeli in Turkey for example) and associations (association of hikers in France for example).Various intellectual productions were produced at this time of our project: lexicon (Romania), prospectus (Poland), page etwinning (Germany), calendar (France), page Padlet and logos for all.We then carried out various concrete actions on the various sites: cleaning (Poland and Germany), installation of educational panels (Turkey, France and Romania), pedestrian route route (France and Romania). In partnership with town halls and tourist offices, leaflets with symbols and common layouts were made available to the population.In each school, the group of participants was in their twenties. During the mobilities, each partner brought between 6 and 12 students. These students were volunteers to invest in a European project and their participation was only their goodwill.Our schools have long been part of a citizen and European approach. Through these actions, we promote the learning of autonomy and the initiative of our students.Our students have no particular qualities or difficulties. However, we want everyone to have the chance to progress at their level and to flourish in an original and rewarding way.Three of the partners have already collaborated in the past; they formed an effective and complementary team with the two new partners. This subject has allowed to progress in foreign language and autonomy while exploiting their various specialties (scientists for natural species, linguistic exchanges, artistic panels and logos).Thanks to a precise and feasible schedule and to our monthly meetings on Skype, the different deadlines were respected. The mobilities were the occasion to expose the results and valid the steps.We have all noticed in our students progress in foreign languages ​​and taking initiative. During the mobilities, the different groups of students quickly mixed and everyone found that he was able to communicate. Since then, progress has been visible. Many students stayed in touch via social networks. Everyone was also able to discover new cultures.In addition, students visited and studied natural sites close to home. They discovered the fauna and flora around them.The benefits for our students have been many: open-mindedness to foreign cultures, discovery of nature (local and foreign), use of foreign languages, fostering eco-responsible behavior, taking initiative. For partner cities, the benefit lies in walking routes, exchanges with local primary schools and tourism promotion.

In A Far Away Land: Refugee Children is an EU Erasmus+ project about the immigrant& refugee people. The reason of the name is children. ‘In a faraway land’ is a quote from worldwide fairytales. The children will feel themselves just like in a fairy tale, safe and normal. 51 million people have had to displaced due to many different reasons. The situation has caused many problems in their lives and international crisis in Europe. Especially, the children have been affected. Every one in three refugees is a child. The project aims to understand them and raise awareness to their reasons to immigrate, the problems they face, pull down the walls between them and other people who have predijuce. The United Nations Convention on Childrens’ Rights particularly emphasize the refugee& immigrant children. All the contracting states are responsible for protecting these children from dangerous situations may harm these group. That is because we take the refugee& immigrant children as the project’s main target group. Our countries, especially Greece and Turkey have a high population of refugees and in Italy, Portugal, Spain and Romania there are immigrants and asylum seekers, too. These circumstances require empowering the services working on providing the well-being of children and avoiding from the risks which may affect their development negatively.Recent years, European countries have formed some strategies aimed to dissemination of the services children and youth. We aim to contribute ET2020 headline target objectives, priority areas and also LLL quality. We; Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Greece, came together to contribute this goal of European Commission under favour of our project.We have many special activities to improve their art, sensory, linguistic, thinking, learning skills and improve them physically. They will participates the educational, preschool activities with our teenage students and they will improve their basic, learning, sensory, cognitive, thinking, language, maths, social, DIY (do it yourself) and art skills; they will improve their knowledge of concept and bio-natural; they enhance their creativity. They will be innovative, successful, socially and emotionally developed, tolerant, encouraged, ambitious, active citizens of our future world. We aim to create awareness and tolerance to these people and let them be the members of our society. We would like them to contribute to our national and European development. We will try to understand their situations, learn about their problems and find the solutions to these problems as far as we can. And also our students will learn about Europe and European life. They will get an idea about immigration and refugee people. They will work in the kindergarten for refugees’ children, they will organize extra classes for refugee teenagers and adults. The classes will be compatible with the volunteers’ hobbies and qualifications and will be aimed at organizing free time for children, teenagers and adults. They will also design their own activities to reach the aim of the project and help prepare integration events. Informal learning methods, like discussion, presentation, exchange of ideas, opinions, training combined with discussion of the issue, learning by doing, individual and group initiatives, will be dominating throughout the project. The effect of the project will be the development of intercultural dialogue, raising awareness of the refugee issue among the participants and recipients of the project, increasing the level of knowledge and competence of both participants and recipients. Additional effect will be increasing the visibility of the ERASMUS+ Programme in the regions.The project will bring the results such as better learning outcomes, a good start to education for the preschoolers, developed holistic and age appropraite pedogocical frame, ensuring the benefits of early childhood education are carried through the other school education levels, a new methodology, scouting activities as an education tool. For longer term there will be increased feeling of internationalism; youngsters will start to look for information about the EU and its youth program; refugees will be integrated to local community and European volunteers will have much better knowledge about different cultures and subjects they are interested in, this will lead them to better position in the work market and social life in their homeThe working method will be based on methods of formal and non-formal education. Active participation, informal and direct involvement of the participants and stakeholders that cooperate in the initiative will be strongly encouraged. The richness of this partnership is also on the approach of migration issues and target groups of different partner refugees, asylum seekers and migrants coming from different cultural backgrounds. Results from our project will be used in local, regional, European policies, systems or practices.

The project starts from the current economic worldwide situation to provide the necessity to develop school programmes based on entrepreneurial skills. Today, Globalisation and Glocalisation represent a relational model oriented towards the cooperation among cultures with the scope to preserve local identities into global economic process. Many students leave the school with a low or inexistent knowledge in the entrepreneurial field and the teachers are often without competences. Moreover, we can register a low interest about the entrepreneurial education (Eurydice Report 2016) even though the directives established by the Entrepreneurship Action Plan 2020 and the three Europe 2020 key initiatives (innovation union, youth on the move, new skills for new jobs), which support the creativity and innovation, including the entrepreneurship at all levels of education. The results of a survey given into the Etwinning group “Globalisation and local identity” to know the level of students and teachers’ familiarity about Global-Glocalisation, highlighted that our students and teachers coming from 6 EU partner country (Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Spain and Portugal) don’t know what Glocalisation is (73%), how to build a firm (56%), least of all received training (65%) on the topic within the school. Moreover, students have the problem to leave their city/country to find a job after their high school leaving qualifications (41%). OBJECTIVES: In order to sustain these needs, and through the upgrading of teachers’ professional competences, the project wants to implement the students’ entrepreneurial competences developing multicriterial skills and an active citizenship. The direct target group is formed by 384 students (aged 15-18 years) and 48 teachers with low skills on entrepreneurial field, working as teams with local companies, stakeholders and experts in the field. Our project will learn to 348 students how to create a firm and will prepare 48 teachers for the subject matter. Moreover, several thousands of teachers and students will be indirect participants and users of our project results. Other aims are: 1) the implementation of a partnership among training and real companies; 2) the implementation of the collaborative learning and critical thinking among all actors; 3) the development of communication skills in a foreign language;4) the development of an active European citizenship. METHODOLOGIES AND MANAGEMENT: the experience will be developed by “Cooperative Learning” and “Learning by doing” methodology; moreover, the project will be carried out using the teamwork, workshops, roleplay, visits, and case studies. The management of the project consists in monitoring, evaluating, reporting and archiving, financial and accounting activities, as well as informative, promotional and advertising activities for its dissemination. The partnership will be employed in joint staff training events for teachers and project work for students. ACTIVITIES WE PLAN: A) Entrepreneurial Lab (ELab) in each school partners, where students and teachers meet experts to receive knowledge and tools to develop their firms; B) Implementation of a Cross-Regional Thematic Network (CReTNet) within the partnership to improve key-competences; C) Movie, Project Logo, until 12 Training Firms, and eCommerce portal; D) EXPO made during the Inca’s fair where students and teachers will participate to promote their products; E) Tours/Trails, Posters, Twin Space site, online-school magazine, Website, Facebook-Instagramm-Youtube account, eBook of the project, Booklet/guide about how to set a business in Europe, and participation to UN World Day. RESULTS AND IMPACT FOR STUDENTS: we have the development of their entrepreneurial capacities-increased sense of initiative and entrepreneurship; to improve their language and digital skills; the development students’ personality through engaging the soft skills into project activities; for more favourable attitude in taking initiative and risks; a better understanding and recognition of European competences and qualifications.RESULTS AND IMPACT FOR TEACHERS/SCHOOL STAFF: the increase of the professional development opportunities, motivation and satisfaction in daily jobs; the development of pedagogical, planning and project management competences; the improvement of the image through the promotion of the school at European level; the diminishing of the students’ school failure and the increment of their motivation and relationships. RESULT AND IMPACT FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY: the contribute to the decreasing of unemployment rate at the teenager’s level, to increase the quality of education at local level, and more interaction between firms and school programmes. As concerns the benefit in the long term we have effects between school offer and demands of job. Another aspect regards the importance that school has in the education of students, and its role in the society as agent of the change.

"The project ERGO promotes the message of “Equal Rights, Great Opportunities” where it highlights the need for a community of equals with the potential to lead to great opportunities for human development taking steps to put it into action.This project allows for a better Europe, where European countries can assimilate more easily rejecting discrimination related to the personal identity of individuals. The principle of social equality suggests that the gender, age, color, financial status, origin, language, religion, health, personal beliefs and ideas of individuals should not result in unequal treatment and should not unduly reduce opportunities to improve their lives.Objectives Interculturalism and to inform participants about the language differences, and by learning everyday phrases in the languages of the participating countries to project. Cultural exchange on the delivery, linguistic, geographical and historical experiences. Enhancing critical thinking about the ""-isms"" (e.g. nationalism, racism, sexism) Overcoming language barriers in the European Union through the common, neutral language. Contributing to the spirit of European citizenship. Development of personal potential of students, such as the ability for teamwork and the desire for cooperation, skill for solving nature of communication problems. Improve the adaptability and practical use of new technology in communications.Promote the woman's role and status in societyTo teach our students to respect and accept disable people and provided to them the same opportunities in their lives. Promote the message that all human-beings are entitled to have equal opportunities in their lives without being discriminated or rejected based on their gender, sex, color, religion, origin and any disability. Number and profile of participant organizations The participant organizations involved in the process are professional training centre and schools of secondary education. There are six in the project:Techniki Scholi Larnakas (Cyprus)2nd Lykeo of Kalamata (Greece)Ogrenciden Armagan Anadolu Lisesi (Turkey)Colegiul Energetic (Romania)Kauno buitiniu paslaugu ir verslo mokykla (Lithuania)Höhere Technische Bunderslehr – und Versuchsanstalt Wiener Neustadt (Austria)Description of main activities undertaken In each meeting, teachers will be informed about the main education strategy and privilege of the visited country by experts and representatives from the local ministry of education. Teachers will develop: good examples of strategies of how to transmit the basic humanitarian values (mainly increasing tolerance, non discrimination and non prejudicement) in education of social sciences like history art, and sport, curriculum materials, learning and teaching resources and different survey types. The results will be written in the Euro-human project booklet. Equality, equal rights, human rights are all concepts that are difficult to interpret and apply. We will try through seminars, workshops, local organizations, media and guest speakers to explain these concepts and expand people's perception and feelings. Students will have interactive workshops on the aforementioned topics with the guidance of their teachers and have multinational experiences to feel and take the responsibility of being humanistic individuals in the society. Brain storming, on line communication, student centered and interactive methods will be used during the workshops. Teachers and students will visit some art, history museums and see some examples of humanitarian displays. The project photos and other documents will be downloaded in e twinning platform and web site. Seminars will be organized for the dissemination of the project in each country .The booklets and brochures will be delivered and the project impacts, results, recommendations to the other schools will be declared by press. We will involve different students paying special attention to those disadvantaged for socio-economic reasons. We will involve pupils in the evaluation process, with questionnaires, focus groups, feedbacks on activities carried on.Long-term benefits ""ERGO"" will promote intercultural education, and/or help combat racism/xenophobia: it will reveal students' diversity and richness of the European civilization and prevent possible stereotypes and xenophobia existing in our nations.We strongly believe that “ERGO” will encourage young Europeans to understand someone of different nationality, race, religion, gender, sex which is the evidence of acceptance and respect for diversity. Additionally will enhance students’ self confidence and other personal qualities regardless of their differences of any kind as they will learn no to judge the physical but instead trying to understand the deeper roots of their psyche and the hardships a person may face.The project will disseminate the message: ""The effort for equal rights and opportunities is lasting, timeless and everyday""."