The project grounded on the partners’ recognition of the need to promote integration and inclusion of all their students, especially migrant and SEN students - more at risk of early school leaving. The choice of priorities/topics was strictly connected to the conviction that inclusion and integration are the actual foundation of a future multicultural and equal society and not only a set of emergency procedures. The partner schools followed different approaches which were shared, evaluated and eventually integrated. Documentation of ongoing activities and related lesson plans were always available on Twinspace. Three low secondary schools from Germany, Italy and Greece and two primary schools from Poland and Cyprus participated in the project and many students presenting a migrant or SEN background were involved. New practices were implemented to promote language learning, basic skills empowering, intercultural competence in order to improve social inclusion/integration; each school was responsible for planning specific activities, providing training and lesson plans. First activities: focused on the concept of culture and its main features. Students shared information about their own country, city, school etc. on Twinspace. Second set of activities: aimed at enabling students to communicate using other means than verbal language: facial expression, body language, drama, masks, dance, music, painting were experienced and results shared during the Cyprus LTTA and further deepened in workshops. Next activities: focused on sport as a chance to integrate/include young people with different abilities and backgrounds - as well as embedding a set of fundamental values (respect, engagement, team building, resilience). Various kinds of sports activities were carried out in the schools, as well as meetings with athletes with some kind of physical disability who had excelled in their sports discipline. During MIRRORS Olympic Games in Poland, mixed teams of students from the partner countries were engaged in games and sports competitions. Last set of activities: aimed at reflecting on migration, considered from a historical, international, national and local point of view and not just as a contemporary emergency. Results were shared during the LTTA in Italy, where the students were also involved in a number of workshops based on art, drama, body percussion. The activities continued until the end of the school year. Results/impact attained: Creation of motivating/supportive learning environments that included all students and empowered their cognitive, social, emotional and intercultural skills; Improvement of the students’ digital skills (ICT/Web used to communicate, work, learn); Promotion of the students’ intra-cultural and intercultural awareness/knowledge; Practical experience of the EU founding values (pluralism, tolerance, non-discrimination, solidarity, justice and equality) and of Erasmus+ Projects' impact on school good practices; Sharing of teaching/learning units/lessons and evaluation grids/rubrics that were planned/implemented in the partner schools; Physical deliverables: Project Logo, Twinspace, Newsletters, Erasmus+ Corners, regular journals/logbooks/videos about ongoing activities, descriptive PPT/videos presenting the students’ activities/results; teaching/learning plans and evaluation grids/rubrics. Longer-term benefits: Good practices are now becoming part of the partner schools’ curriculum, repository and daily activities, improving the educational and learning spectrum; Increased integration of ICT tools/web apps within educational, teaching-learning practice; Overall improved competences of teachers involved in the project (communicative competence in English, team working, collaboration, exchange of information on the different school systems/ regulation and of different teaching experiences /expertise); Improved competence in preparing, implementing, assessing EU Projects; Contacts among students and teachers live on after the project end, giving them lifelong occasions to belong to a wider, more inclusive world. Schools will keep on promoting similar experiences in the future.

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