"Understanding and being understood are essential skills for the development of human beings. By communicating we think, feel, express and receive. Through our project we want to work with our students the different ways that humans have used along our common history to convey ideas, feelings, emotions, etc through the senses, body language, music, spirituality, colour, technology, writing and many other ways.""Communication and Culture"" is an Erasmus+ project for secondary education, in which for two school years, more than 1500 students from Europe in six different schools will travel in time discovering how men and women from our European countries and cultures have had the necessity to communicate using the available resources. From secret codes, to musical or mathematics language, dealing as well with current and future ways of communication. This will help their improvement in English and digital skills and will help them improve their basic competences.An interdisciplinary project in which the school subjects of Language, History, Geography, Religion, Maths, Music and Foreign Languages have a lot to say. To carry out the activities envisaged in our project, teachers will learn new teaching methods, which will be put into practice, for example cooperative learning techniques, multiple intelligences approach, the flipped classrroom, thinking routines (also called visible thinking), problem based learning and also the implementation and integration of ICTs (information and communication technologies) in the classroom. Through seminars, a forum on eTwinning and social networks, and direct contact and cooperation, teachers will exchange good practices to help them implement these methodologies at their organizations.During these two years, we will create a giant time-line with the history of communication, a multilanguage dictionary of proverbs and sayings, record tv commercials, write newspapers and blogs, participate in competitions and contests to decrypt secret codes (based on the World Wars) or to design future means of communication. We will also connect our students via videoconferences and penpals (by email) and the students participating in the exchanges (mobilities to other countries) will learn about local communication procedures and their influence in the culture, and after arrival, will present the rest of students, teachers and families, their discoveries using a different means of communication, from powerpoint presentations to TV news broadcasts.At the end of the project, participants will have developed basic skills, both teachers and students will have improved their communicative skills using the English Language and their digital competences thorugh the use of ICT; they will also have developed social and intepersonal skills and a sense of European belonging. Schools participating will be more open-minded to the European neighbours, and apart from the participants's impacts already mentioned, they will be updated organizations, where innovative teaching methodologies will be implemented and integrated in their curriculum."

"Today’s children and families often have limited opportunities to connect with the natural environment. Louv documented how modern family life has changed dramatically in the last two decades. Children spend more time viewing television and playing video games on computers than they do being physically active outside. Giving children the chance to play and to learn outside has myriad benefits, from physical activity to creativity, emotional health, social connectedness, and cognitive development, including the specific executive function skills that are so critical to a happy, healthy childhood and a fulfilling life. The project goal is to include students in different activities in nature and to learn through nature-based forms to improve their executive function skills, physical and mental health, cognitive skills and abilities, creativity and social cohesion. OBJECTIVES The project will enable students: - to improve their executive function skills; physical and mental health, cognitive skills and abilities, creativity and social cohesion; - To develop creativity and critical thinking skills; - To develop communication and interpersonal skills; - to learn about organic gardening, organic farming and new professions related to nature; The project activities are focused on: - The use of outdoor classrooms and other educational forms based on nature - creation of natural areas at school, in the yard or neighborhood - games and activities in nature - hiking with scientific experiments, camps - The use of digital technologies (movies, videos, music) for discovery and creative presentation/showing of nature - Social cohesion and anti discrimination - students of different social status, students of different educational needs, students with syndrome “attention deficit”, hyperactivity, / ADHD /and other - create clubs ""Vitamin N"" for nature lovers with the participation of students, teachers and parents; - new occupations related to nature Except these activities, the project’s main topic is divided into 4 sub-topics distributed to the five partner countries. Therefore, there are 4 exchanges of pupils: C1, 2: ""Environment and endangered species"". Before the meeting each school will prepare posters, presentations and materials about their country; seminars and workshops on the topic “Organic farming” C3,4: “Organic gardening. Herbs” - seminars and workshops on the topic; “From our garden” – before the meeting every school will prepare posters, presentations and materials about their country; ""Nature in sounds"" - presentation of audio recordings from each school; C5,6: ""The food of my life""; seminars and workshops on the topic “Food – remedy or poison”; ""Nature in sounds and words"" - presentation of theatrical performance; C7,8: “Green entrepreneurship - future for nature and for us” - seminars and workshops on the topic; eco camps;“Food from wild nature”; С 9 NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS: 5 countries are involved in the project - Bulgaria, Italy, Turkey, Finland and Portugal,/general secondary education, some of which come from challenged social and economic backgrounds/, and students from the target group of 12 to 16 years older and teachers of science , physical education, English, entrepreneurship and ICT. - Direct participants 68 students and 36 teachers attend the LTTAs; - Indirect participants: 1400 students and 280 teachers from the partner schools, 60 of them are students with less opportunities. Ellaboration of a collection of materials: all the lessons conducted in open classrooms, seminars, presentations, movies, photos will be uploaded on the project website, the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, e-twinning, School Education Gateway and other educational platforms. Each country contributes to it with materials presented during the LTTA hosted. Dissemination Dissemination will be a continuous process. It starts in Sep 2018 and ends after the project end date. The project website and e-twinning space are created at the beginning and updated monthly or at least after every major event in the project. Follow-up and sustainability: Created green areas will benefit from other students after the end of the project. If they are created in the schoolyard they will be used by nearby residents and their children. The established clubs ""Vitamin N"" will continue to exist and organize campaigns and voluntary actions in nature. RESULTS AND IMPACT Conducted lessons in open classrooms, created green areas and club ""Vitamin N"" at school, conducted hikes will improve children’s social, psychological, academic and physical health. The conducted LTTAs will increase the knowledge and culture of the participants for nature protection and the creation of a new movement, New Nature, focused on human recovery through natural world. Teachers will have the chance to exchange good practices, teaching methods and tools , opinions and will improve English and digital skills, organisational skills."