S/He's equal in Europe ia a project whose main aim is to promote equality in general, and gender equality in particular. It could be expressed by the phrase:Multi-cultural education broadens our knowledge of others by making us more respectful and tolerant with differences. The underlying idea of this international partnership is to work on raising the students' cultural awareness and to develop their understanding of the other needs.S/He's equal in Europe is working about two main fields:Firstly, focused in teachers' work. The partners are analysing the roles and the ways in which teachers behave in the classroom and in the school. The objective is to draw conclusions about how teachers' behaviors can transmit equality values among their pupils. For this purpose, some intelectual outputs are being created:- a guideline about teachers' proffesional coaching, - a wide range of teaching/learning materials, where activities that promote equality will be described.- a database containing a large sample of recommended readings for families, teachers and pupils.- Recommendations for the improvement the way equality is reflected in curriculums and official documents in schools.Secondly, the project is being developed in 9 schools from different countries (Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Turkey). Every school is carrying out activities to promote equality. Students from the 9 countries are participating in short-term exchanges where they can have the chance to know different cultures and languages. The underlying idea of these exchanges is that tolerance and respect come from knowledge, by promoting multiculturalism among our pupils we are promoting equality.In the same way, the participation of students in activities focused in promoting female figures are encouraging them to respect and value femenine work as well as to favour gender equality. The knowledge of enormous effort that women and other people belonging to disadvantage groups have to face to get success is making our pupils to defend them and to fight in order to erradicate any kind of discrimination.Throughout the two years this project aims to work for promoting fair attitudes of tolerance and non-discrimination. That means, the equal integration of every student, every teacher and every family, especially those who suffer from any kind of discrimination.

The results come up by the last international researches (i.e. OCSE PISA and TIMSS) put in evidence big problems in mathematic and in the basic concepts of science and of technology by European students; as a consequence, number of graduates in mathematic and related disciplines is decreasing and there are poor competencies in areas that request high levels of mathematical skills.The same researches said that the poor attitude towards mathematic and the learning processes linked to the logical thinking starts already in the first cycle of education to go on with next studies because, often, mathematic is proposed incorrectly.Many students, after the primary and secondary schools are already not interested at all in this discipline: the abstract contents limit its comprehension and to have experienced a failure even just once can develop unfeeling and prejudices regards this item and, in the time, constitute the main obstacles to learn.The globalized world of work requests to get strong basis competencies and to teach and to learn these competencies demands often the adoption of support strategies in the schools and the awareness of a global vision of student learning, of their personal and social growth.Six primary schools in 6 different countries, Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Romania and Turkey, have put in place a strategic partnership that, coordinated by the Italian school, will let the teachers of partner schools, in particular in classroom between 8-11 year old students, compare the best practices of the different schools.Target of the project is to develop mathematic effective teaching/learning methods via the development of guidelines common to all the partnership schools and the creation of games, quiz, practical examples linked to the each country practice and daily life, so that the students will be able to get mathematic and logic thinking ability, to learn having fun and to develop a positive attitude regarding mathematic; the having fun student attending this learning project will have more possibilities to get enthusiastic to experiment the success and so to get passionate for mathematic reputing it stimulating and enthusiastic.The project team work in each partner school will be coordinated by the Nuova Direzione Didattica in Vasto via e-mail communications and conference calls: in occasion of the seven international meetings, the project team of the six partner schools will be able to compare themselves directly on the best practices used in each country, to work together to define the final versions of the project results and to evaluate the activities quality, the generated effects and, if it will be the case, the solutions to improve the work done.An initial survey involving teachers, parents and students will indicate which are the major difficulties in teaching/learning mathematic and at the same time, initial logical and mathematical competencies for pupils between 8 and 11 year old in the partner schools will be evaluated; analysing the survey results and choosing the best practices in use in each school, the guideless and the games will be formulated and then published in a book with the title “Ingenious and Fun Games of Maths” and, finally, together with all the project material will be put on the project website (www.etematproject.eu) where all the interested users will be able to take a vision and download copies for free.After a period od application of the guidelines and use of the games, new logical and mathematical competencies will be again evaluated in the same classroom to define the project impact on the students; furthermore, a final survey will evaluate the degree of satisfaction of teachers, parents and pupils regarding the project results and impact-An international championship between the fifth classroom of all the partner schools will be the final project phase and will be renewed every year in the same period to all the partnership schools.This project is destined to modify the scholastic curricula and the didactical methodologies regarding mathematic in the different partners schools and, thanks to the implementation and continuous website updating and to the issue of the book, the project will maintain its effects even after its end confirming its sustainability during the time.