"In recent years, children are growing up with different technology such as computer, cell phones, tablet etc., but they don't know how those devices work. The project that we have prepared under the name of ""Code Your Life"" aims to teach children to understand the logic behind these technologies. In this way, children will be not only consuming technology but also control it and becoming an active part of the digital age. Currently, all technology work with certain algorithms and they solve problems by logical thinking. For this purpose, we really need to teach children algorithmic thinking to breaking down a problem into several steps to reach a result. Because algorithm are like road maps for accomplishing a given, well-defined task. In this way, children can be more proactive in carrying out daily routines and they can program their life or their future easily. The most important aim of this project is essentially to teach children how to program and especially the new generation. The project will give them the confidence to create their own designs and plans. Everyone has ideas but only those who know program can make ideas a reality. We hope this project will give encouragement to them to be more innovative. Like learning a language early in life, they should learn to program early in life, in this way they can gain a deeper understanding of the logic behind programming.The importance of programming has become a great subject of increasing international awareness. A majority of countries approve mandatory computer programming education in schools because of the technology and programming as a common language. The project will promote children to share their feelings, experiences, and skills with each other in creating their own future together. As a result, learning programming will give some talents to the children such as systematic thinking, problem solving, understanding the relationship between events and creative thinking.The project is designed to raise awareness and increase the knowledge of algorithmic thinking which is thought to be one of the key abilities that children should achieve in information and communication technology education at school and in their daily life. We plan to teach a number of activities on algorithm which children can do in their daily life and activities on coding which children can practice using algorithmic thinking. For instance, children will write algorithms about emergencies such as what they should do in case of an earthquake or they will write algorithms about their daily life habits such as how they cross a road in traffic to relate algorithmic thinking to everyday activities or they fix a puzzle that has been solved incorrectly to identify errors and disordered blocks in a program. After learning algorithmic thinking, they will start to write codes to create some materials/animations such as designing greetings cards for special days, animating some stories, building some lesson games. The project ""Code your Life"" is a partnership encompassing 4 countries. France, Turkey, United Kingdom and Spain. The ages of the children involved in this project are between 10 and 13 years old. Most of the partners have experiences on ICT projects. The things which bring us together is our eagerness and interest for the subject of the project. We believe that we can foster our children's curiosity, creativity and logical thinking for a better future for them by providing tools for problem solving. By taking an active role during the whole process, they will have the opportunity for learning by doing and acting an enjoyable environment. We aim to: - Increase the ability of children how to follow a method to solve a problem,- Increase the ability of children how to analyse errors when they attempt to solve a problem,- Increase the ability of children how to use technology understanding the logic behind it,- Encourage children that they can create their own designs and plans,- Explain children that they can control technology which is surrounding them and becoming an active part of the digital age,- Improve knowledge of the same subjects related to the other European partner countries,- Show teachers how to change educational environment more attractive and enjoyable,- Show teachers how to use different types of coding platforms sharing experience with other participants,- Collect and create educational materials to use in classes.- Increase motivation and enthusiasm of lifelong learning mind setThe above will be addressed with the help of websites, videos, films, magazines, talks/seminars by training centres, and visit to related university departments, science fair and local authorities. Our expectation from the results of the project that we prepared under the name of ""Code Your Life"" is having a positive effect on the target group and provide all the people that can make use of this project to be more conscious and well informed."

"Improving European education, “enhancing the performance of education systems”, working towards a more sustainable Union, have been set as two of the key targets in Europe’s strategy “ to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy” by 2020. In this scenario the 7 members of the project “A sustainable future, from the Ideal City to the Sustainable City” were committed to developing the quality of education, to providing all the students with the competences necessary to reach their potential, to succeed in a global and changing community and at the same time promoting sustainable education in the curriculum subjects.The objectives of the project derived from the above listed current challenges of education in Europe and in the singular countries, from the limits of some of the actual didactic procedures and from the needs outlined by the single institutions.The common thread that ran through the project was sustainable education (whose concepts have a great appeal on young learners) which can connect them to their community inspiring active citizenship, preparing pupils to be responsible citizens that will use entrepreneurial values and approaches to solve major sustainability problems; citizens who will build healthier communities while addressing the challenges of the 21st century. At the same time, exploring their countries also from a historical point of view through the analysis of the characteristics of the Ideal City of the past times, and the transformation of their living environment, the young learners were encouraged to rediscover their own culture, history and traditions to better understand the urban, socio-economic changes of their own countries getting the chance to discover what the European citizens have in common and differs them.The project activities led students to explore the Ideal City of the past times to identify those aspects of good government that could be applied to the Sustainable City of the future; from the investigation of their urban background and the needs about their living spaces expressed by the different groups interviewed, students developed and planned visions of a future community; they jointly planned, designed, re-invented their urban backgrounds to realize a scale model of the“ Sustainable city of the future”, model that was presented to the decision makers together with their Manifesto, a resolution calling for a common effort and real teamwork for the future of our Planet, a document that also aims to spread the Global Goals of the Agenda 2030.The project contributed to enhance the European dimension of school education developing greater interest in all the dynamics related to the international planning and managing; it helped to make School Action Plans and curricula more international rising the standards of proficiency in core subjects. The partnership enriched the ordinary school curricula with embedded modules and practices on Entrepreneurship, ESD, STEM subjects and Clil modules; contents dealt with through international comparative perspectives; new approaches to encourage students to develop a set of cognitive, affective, behavioral and critical skills that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.The students enhanced their cultural awareness, intercultural dialogue being better prepared to become members of a connected and cooperative global community; they experienced and practiced active citizenship strengthening the ""sense of belonging"" to the social, cultural and environmental context of their territory.The project empowered teachers’ high quality professional development strengthening didactic practices to improve outcomes for learners. Thanks to the exchange and sharing of good practices, staff members developed innovative student's centred, teaching methods and approaches transferable in different contexts that can produce long term effects on education programmes.The project greatly contributed to empower the level of management of the schools in their various members increasing organizational flexibility, improving delivery expertise which supports school-wide global learning enhancement.The involvement of families, local authorities, world of work in a continuous correspondence of cultural enrichment, gave everyone the opportunity to enforce the dialogue and the collaboration with the school institutions fostering joint responsibilities in the educational process.The cross-cultural dialogue enhanced cooperation at all levels, greater understanding and appreciation of diversity; everyone involved had the opportunity to get to know and appreciate different cultural realities creating an open-minded attitude toward the distinct and richly varied global society, a positive signal in the national and international context that seems to give rise to fear, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of intolerance."