"""Feed4Saving"" was a strategic partnership developed by eights schools from Europe and implemented in the period 2016-2018, with the financial support of the European Commission, through the programme Erasmus+, Key Action 2. The project emerged from the need to offer schools a range of concrete tools to help them prevent or intervene in cases of early school leaving, which is a real problem of the education system nowadays, identified as such even by the European Union in the ET 2020. Thus, the objectives of the partnership referred to the causes of the early school leaving phenomenon and the project aimed to:- improve students' school performance by equipping them with practical skills in the fields of languages (communication), science, art and cooking- enhance students’ engagement and motivation to attend school by implementing effective self-awareness and evaluation tools- reduce the degree of absenteeism with at least 5% among the students of the partner schools- improve teachers' skills when dealing with students at risk of early school drop-out, by equipping them with innovative methodology meant to boost students' motivation and involvement. The target group of the project was formed of a number of about 400 secondary school students, aged 13-19, belonging to the eight European schools, from countries affected by the phenomenon of school drop-out – Romania, Italy (2 schools), Portugal, Spain, France, Turkey and Greece. Six partner schools (Romania, Italy, France, Greece, Turkey) were vocational, training students in the field of tourism, agriculture and/or food services, while the Spanish school was vocational in the field of Computer sciences and the Portuguese school offered academic training. Despite this, all of them were dealing with the problem of early school leaving, implementing different strategies or even concrete programmes funded by the local community (eg. Spain). The project activities were designed in such a way so as to involve students in their own learning process while, at the same time, motivating them to attend school. The project started with a survey, it continued with the implementation of workshops that boosted students’ motivation and also with practical activities within four laboratories on Language (English), Maths, Art and Cooking. In fact, all the activities were organized around the simple activity of cooking and the laboratories offered information and working methods that supported this main activity. The methods used in the project were the non-formal ones (workshops, peer-to-peer, ""The human library"", ""World cafe"" etc.) and the laboratories where, by using the theoretical knowledge, students were able to build practical skills. There were two results developed by the partnership - a collection of resources, entitled suggestively ""Boost your class!', meant to help increase students' motivation and a pedagogical kit ""Teaching through Laboratories"" offering ready-made lesson plans, materials and good practice examples in four modules - Language lab, Maths Lab, Artistic Lab and Cooking lab.By getting involved in this project, the students understood how important schooling is, they improved greatly their motivation for attending classes (the number of absences decreased by 10,51%, thus doubling the proposed goal), due to the fact that new methods were employed by teachers and also due to students' direct involvement in their own learning process. Besides these, the valuable exchange of good practices and the development of new teaching methods and materials allowed teachers to make their lessons more attractive, contributing in this way to students' success in their school life. The long-term benefits refer to integrating the results in the curriculum of the participating schools and also to their distribution to other interested schools and stakeholders (among whom NGOs, local enterprises - restaurants, catering units, school inspectorates). The partner schools aim to develop new activities and projects in the future based on the results generated by this partnership, which can take our ideas further, to a new level."

Education should be a tool to overcome inequalities from which individuals within society set out. This has been our main motivation in our latest international projects in which we have worked on conflict resolution issues. Our aim in this new project is to tackle gender inequality from different perspectives, promoting the integration of women with equal opportunities in all areas of society. To achieve this goal, the project involves four secondary schools from Spain, Turkey, Romania and Poland. It is explained in detail the number of active participants during the whole project, in each mobility and, besides, how the school communities are going to be joined.The motivation of this project arises from a survey on equality conducted by the participating schools. It has been noted in it that the answers were related to the gender of the respondents (choice of school subjects, way of occupying the leisure-time places, choice of extracurricular activities or professional careers). In addition, the partner schools have analysed the lack of visibility in our curricula, in our environments, in the students view of their teachers or the use of language. The conclusions drawn from this survey have made us see that the main priority of this project is Social Inclusion, as we think we must ensure that women can achieve equal opportunities in every realm of society. At the same time, the teachers profiles will be enhanced, improving the training of the participating professionals and, finally, through the activities planned the competences of all the participants will be strengthened.The stated objectives imply creating a Gender Equality Observatory in each school; carrying out training activities that set the grounds of a greater awareness with regard to equality and women visibility, respect and stereotypes; encouraging experiences and opportunities for students close to social exclusion and their teachers; fostering the use of foreign languages; raising the school communities’ awareness of the importance of the chosen subject; collaborating with local institutions that work on gender equality and promoting collaborative methodologies. To get all this a set of activities are suggested; they will begin with a basic training course about equality for teachers -C1- and four mobilities/short-term exchanges with students with these contents: visibility, respect, stereotypes and equality, in such a way as to favour an inclusive and egalitarian education –C2, C3, C4 y C5. Within the previous and subsequent activities as well as those done during the mobilities, workshops for students, families and teacher will be carried out, educational materials which disseminate the contents included and improve the competences of all the participants will be created, and the expected project results will also be disseminated: development of four Equality Plans adapted to the legislation and reality of each school, implementing the four Gender Equality Observatories and creation of teaching material – at least 12 Didactic Units in open format enabling the development of a subject on Equality once the project was finished.To ensure a wider reach of this project in each of the schools, we will develop an eTwinning project with a group of academically disadvantaged students at the same time. Hence, apart from disseminating all the materials developed in Twinspaces, specific workshops with similar contents for both projects will be set.The impact will be registered in the ongoing Quality Plan, with objective quantitative and qualitative indicators that show its real significance. A great impact is expected in the schools as well as locally, regionally and internationally, on the basis of the different actions that will change the functioning of the schools –above all the Observatory and the Equality Plan- and to this aim the training of the students, teachers and families, who are expected to be more involved in the school activities, will be improved. The relations among the schools and institutions nearby will be strengthened, apart from promoting the relation with other schools to disseminate the results through the use of different social networks.To ensure that the project continues, a Sustainability Plan including all the long-term actions will be written: functioning of the Gender Equality Observatories, integration of each Equality Plan and use of the teaching units, either as part of the regular subjects or creating a new specific one on equality or including them into the complementary training carried out in the schools.

Conflicts are related to any human activity, for this reason it is very important to know how to cope with it as the conflict can be something that makes us grow as human beings. This project will give their participants tools to deal with conflicts. Conflicts will be related to different common activities. Improving the environment coexistence is one of the main objectives of each school and improving it will affect directly to any field of our school communities. Learning how to cope with conflicts starts from the school but it will last forever. We truly think that the students need tools to work collaboratively, with respect to the others, with responsibility and with empathy in order to resolve any conflict they can have in their lives.The main objective of this project is to tackle early school leaving and fighting school failure by developing transversal and basic skills through innovative methodologies. These methodologies help students to cope with conflicts and they increase their motivation. Furthermore, the methodologies proposed will help students with fewer conditions and lower basic skills get support from leading students, as far as this project works with methodologies as peer-to-peer mediation. This project reflects on daily life problems of students, such as conflicts on the Internet, conflicts through collaborative work or in the work place.This project has a partnership of five schools. Each partner has a different educational reality. The five schools involved on this project have coexistence problems. Similar problems are solved in different ways and these solutions must be shared to enrich our schools. Furthermore, each school has its own experience in solving conflicts that may be new conflicts in the other schools so, if we share these experiences with others, we will facilitate school work and strengthen professional teaching competences.Teachers from each school live conflicts daily and these situations make our work tougher. Getting to know different possible solutions a conflict has is achieved by learning how to work collaboratively with the rest of the colleagues of our schools; developing long life learning activities; and sharing different conflict resolution strategies with other schools.To reach our objectives, the partnership has worked around the next topics, which are related to each school background:• People from different cultures living together: mutual enrichment and solving conflicts. • Peer-to-peer mediation. • Correct uses of Social Networks: how to cope with conflicts in the Internet. • Learn how to work collaboratively: Project method. • Collaborative work in the work place. Entrepreneurship training and conflicts. The activities proposed during these two years are focused on teachers and students. Teachers have participated in different workshops in order to experience the new methodologies proposed in the different schools which are already using them. Students have been active participants in all the process as far as they have worked on different conflict resolution. Students need to experience in different ways coexistence problems and learn the solutions they have. In general, proposed activities are: two transnational meetings, where teachers have designed the general ideas, the Quality Plan and the Sustainability Plan, teachers have made framework protocols during the project to insert the new ideas in their own schools. All these experiences have been possible because of exchanges of students and joints of staff events, but there have also been activities carried out by each school in order to prepare all these exchanges. These activities have been in English and they have been carried out through different ICT tools. They have analysed the situation of each school around all the topics treated.The methodology has been based on the collaborative work. Each partner has had its own main duty and in each school there have been different responsibilities for each member of the work team. There has been a general coordinator of the project in each school who has been helped by colleagues with different responsibilities (Quality, ICT, Communication, Europass and Budget).The general results of this project have beeen the introduction of new methodologies, developing new framework protocols in these schools and the creation of OER by our students. To sum up, the impact has improved the school environment, increased the motivation of the participants, strengthened the relations with local institutions, increased the effective introduction of ICT, encouraged to learn foreign languages and introduced the proper use of Europass.Once the project has finished, the benefits of this project will remain sustainable. The protocols will be used in each school and could be introduced in other schools, the OER will be accessible on the Internet and the partnership will keep on working through other transnational projects.

"In order to create the European Citizen Profile that values what to do for people and for the planet towards a sustainable Europe, six secondary schools from Croatia, Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey with different backgrounds, but with common interests and concerns prepared the strategic partnership ""YES"" involving students aged between 14 and 18 years old in each school.By improving working methods, exchanging methodologies and sharing good practices this partnership aims to change the risky behaviour of youngsters in their daily lifestyle (bad eating habits, sedentary life, addictions); wrong attitude against people of different race, sexual inclination or different cultures; indifference and low integration towards youth with disability and indifference about essential and priority environmental issues.This is a global project divided into six related main topics: Health and Sports; Cultural Heritage; Language, Ideals and Mentalities; E-Citizenship; Sustainable Green Cities (environmental issues); Tolerance. A diverse variety of activities related to the six topics will be promoted by the schools using informal and non-formal methods.The project will be lead and developed by two main working teams composed of teachers and students that will promote, organise and disseminate the activities in each school.Two types of learning, teaching and training activities will be included in the project: short-term joint staff training events where teachers will have training courses concerning the project theme and also study visits combining on-site visits to relevant organisations, presentations, and discussion workshops and short-term exchanges of groups of pupils that will give students the opportunity to experience international learning, reinforce their understanding of the diversity of European cultures and languages, develop new skills and competences necessary for their personal development and deepen each topic with special activities.DEOR planning for this project has been studied to give a high level of involvement inside and outside the organisations involving multiple stakeholders.The E-twinning platform will be our privileged common online database of experiences that will allow the intensive cooperation among all schools involved during and after the project as well as the dissemination of our experiences, activities and results. The specific goals are to share experiences and to adapt learning programmes and teaching strategies in the participating schools considering sport practice, outdoor physical activities, healthy lifestyle education, cultural heritage values preservation, increase of environmental awareness, development of different languages, and change of mentalities, all through inclusion and integration. We intend to improve the way of looking at diversity as a chance to improve themselves and others, discuss how different countries cope with social inclusion and equal opportunities, fostering integration and equal rights. Participants will be taught the importance of tolerance and non-discrimination, overcoming all forms of discrimination, and developing the feeling of belonging to one European community."

The completed project “Recording Our Training Experiences in Documentaries” was dedicated to the field of tourism. In this project students from different cultures and studying in different educational systems in Europe worked together. All participating schools are located in the areas where tourism has important role in each country’s economy. The project originated as a need to improve our everyday classroom work and a way to motivate the students in informal learning through new and innovative teaching methods and approaches in order to gain new skills needed in the tourist industry and at the same time to get the students engaged in extracurricular activities. The topic of the project was making footage and documentaries related to tourism and youth oriented. The project was aimed at young people who wanted to boost and benefit from their creativity, potential and ambition. It was intended to promote the benefits of IT and digital competences. The project main aim was improving ICT and digital technology skills of both the students and the teachers, to enrich their knowledge of a wider European environment through the use of IT and digital technology. ICT and digital technology were used to create youth-oriented documentary films about tourist regions of their countries with emphasis on the country's heritage, traditions, customs on one hand and things to do for young people on the other hand. Realistic ICT goals were set up, which were students-oriented in order to present their culture, tourist attractions and sights in the eye of young people. One of the objectives of the project was to improve the skills of our students, especially of weaker students with low basic skills and motivate them to acquire skills and knowledge through the process of learning from experience and peer learning. It also aimed to provide an opportunity for stronger students to achieve more and use their talents and skills out of the classroom and at the same time get a unique experience that could be gained only by participating in such a project on European level. One of the goals of the project was to motivate the students through informal learning, to stimulate students through doing and creating to achieve more The target groups of participants were young students, teachers and non-teaching staff in participating schools. All our partners were skilful in various fields like business management, tourism and catering, marketing, foreign languages, history, geography, entrepreneurship, ICT, multimedia design, recreation, hospitality service, communication and dissemination, event organization, agriculture as a source of tourist income.Before the actual project activities took place Erasmus+ Route Docs Clubs were formed at each partner school. The activities undertaken throughout the project were innovative, creative and student-oriented. Our students had a chance to prove themselves in extracurricular tasks in addition to their regular lessons. Most of the project activities were done in schools through involving them in the school curriculum and also through extra-curricular activities. The possibility to participate in various learning, teaching and training activities with European peers was an invaluable opportunity to learn from practical experience. For example, exploring a town or a city, exploring flora and fauna of our national parks, visits to different institutions to get to know how they operate, and factories to see the process of production of things important for the tourist industry.The results of our completed project are different accomplished activities that resulted in 25 documentaries that all introduce our regions and share our experiences while working together. Participating in the project enabled the students to develop their basic and transversal skills, with highlight on entrepreneurship in the tourist industry and improving ICT and digital technology skills. The project promoted the EU Citizenship, enabled all the participants to improve their European awareness and intercultural understanding by experiencing life in another country, observing and noticing cultural differences and similarities; it boosted cooperation between students from other countries. The impact of the project at the local, regional, national, European or international levels is its recognition as a promotional tourist material that can be used in high schools or other educational organizations, in tourist offices for introducing destinations chosen by youth.