In our Erasmus+ KA229-Project “ERASMUS FOR FUTURE“, schools from five different countries are going to deal with the topic climate change together. This topic is equally important for all the people involved. Nevertheless, the schools come from five very different parts of Europe, including different geographical, climatic and economic conditions, and thus have their very own approaches to this topic. The project’s goal is, on the one hand, to sharpen our students’ and our communities’ awareness concerning climate change including a willingness to get involved on a political and personal level. On the other hand, we want to show our participating students European diversity, and, very importantly, the relevance of European and global co-operation as this challenge can only be tackled by common international collaboration. Within the framework of the interdisciplinary project work the students involved are going to gain and enhance various competences e. g. on the intercultural, digital and linguistic level.Secondary schools from Denmark, Spain, Rumania, Turkey and Germany will take part in the project. These partner schools were chosen as participants because of their students’ common age and their geographical location in order to ensure a broad European variety (see above). Students from the age of 14 to 16 will patriciate in the project. During the project’s time span of 24 months they will work in school clubs on the topics of the project’s particular parts. Three meetings will be held to ensure the exchange of their work results and to enable further common work on the project. These meetings will be joined by 5 to 8 students from each country and 2-3 mentoring teachers. There will be two more meetings of the mentoring teachers, one to prepare the project with regards to content and organisation, the other to evaluate it. The project is divided into three thematic parts: in the first part of the project the students are going to collect information about the causes and consequences of climate change. On the one hand the students from the different schools will deal with the same tasks as they will all explore the situation in their home-country or region with regards to climate-damaging conduct and country specific perceptible and anticipated consequences of climate change. On the other hand each team will do research on different aspects of climate change, e.g. concerning main polluters and global consequences. Their results will be provided on posters which will be presented in an exhibition during the first meeting and subsequently during all other meetings of the project so that all schools and school communities can benefit from it. In the second part the students will deal with the question which political actions, meant to confront climate change, are possible and advisable. They come in contact with politicians in their communities, but also on a regional and national level, and investigate which strategies and interests exist, for example with regards to a reduction of climate-damaging emissions. The second meeting will be organised and performed as a simulation game with the title “International climate conference”. Mixed groups with students from all the participating countries working together are going to represent five nations, which are affected by climate change on very different levels (USA, China, the Netherlands, Bangladesh) and which consequently promote oppositional interests. The mixed groups will be formed in advance of the second meeting which enables the students to prepare thoroughly their role as representatives of one of the nations mentioned above. In order to do so they will communicate via eTwinning. In the last part of the project the students reflect on manageable measures that will boost climate protection at their schools and in their communities. They will engage in activities to promote such measures at their schools. Their efforts will be filmed and presented during the last meeting. The results of all the project parts will be made accessible and usable for all the students of the five schools as well as for other interested people via the public Twinspace and the Erasmus+ project platform, in particular the poster exhibition with all its collateral material and the simulation game “International climate conference”. Another lasting benefit is ensured by the establishment of climate friendly measures at the five different schools. These measures will be filmed and thus can form an example for other schools. Sustainability and climate protection are going to be implemented into the overall concepts of all five schools in order to turn them into climate friendly schools. We want to achieve an enhancement of our students’ key skills through their participation in this project oriented and interdisciplinary learning experience in a genuine thematic context.

ContextLow school participation; risk of absenteeism and school drop-out; low pupils implication in the activities of good practice exchange for improving pupils/ teachers well-being, by reducing stress/releasing negative emotions (according to the UE tendencies).ObjectivesO1- the decrease with 2% of the absenteeism rate and of the risk of dropout among students from the 4 schools, in the next 2 yearsO2- the accomplishment of the good practice exchange in using the emotional freedom techniques in curricular and extracurricular activities, during the 4 mobilities.O3- the teachers and students authorization for the successful using of the promotion methods of well-being and stress release; the multiplication of these abilities among pupils and teachers.O4- the increase of cooperation and collaboration between partner schools in the EU for preventing and fighting against absenteeism and school drop-out, by implementing at least one e-Twinning project, afterwards, with similar objectives; Number and profile of participants- 24 students involved in mobility, in each travel (6 students/school; 96 total students). These will be directly involved in the educational activities from the 4 schools, according to the calendar and graphic of the activities.- Minimum 100 students/50 teachers involved in e-Twinning collaboration activities;- Minimum 24 teachers involved in pupils mobility activities;- Minimum 25% of the students’ parents from the 4 schools, involved in the activities for the increase of well-being in the educational environment and the stress reduction.- at least 10 community members and 10 representatives of the local authorities for the facilitation of the international camp organisation.Description of activities1. Establishment of the project team (management/implementation)2. Election of the selection committee for pupils and teachers participants at the mobilities.3. The selection of the pupils and teachers for the good practice exchanges in the 4 schools4. Signing the participation/learning agreement between pupils and school and between teachers and school. 5. The organisation of the mobility training activities (linguistics, pedagogical, intercultural)6. The accomplishment of the mobility and good practice activities: to which take part 6 pupils and 2 teachers from each school. 7. The multiplication of the activities during mobility and in the school of origin (practising EFT) 8. The multiplication of the activities during mobility and in complementary activities on the eTwinning platform.9. Dissemination activities about the results of the project10. Monitoring the impact of the project at institutional level (absents monitoring and risk of school drop-out plan)11.Periodically design and review of the activities regarding the improvement of pupils well-being and reduction of stress in school environment.12. Permanent monitoring and evaluation of all the activities carried-out in the project1013. Intermediate/final reports to ANCDEFPMethodology to be used in carrying out the project- 4 good practice exchange activities in the 4 partner schools for developing well-being, reducing stress and increasing the emotional comfort in the school environment (the last good practice exchange activity is the international camp in Romania).- minimum 8 educational activities on the eTwinning platform to which minimum 20 pupils/5 teachers from each school will take part.- minimum 4 educational activities organised in the 4 schools, based on the activities developed on the eTwinning platform.- the involvement of four new schools from other two countries in the eTwinning partnership for the multiplication of the activities and the increase of interest for international cooperation. Results and impact - 96 pupils from the 4 schools involved in the direct activities for the developing of wellbeing and the reduction of stress, things that lead to preventing and combating absenteeism and school drop-out.- 32 teachers involved in the coordination of the activities with pupils during mobilities, that will cooperate for creating wellbeing in the learning environment.- minimum 100 pupils/ 50 teachers from schools at home that will develop educational activities on the eTwinning platform, but also in the school environment.- the increase of cooperation and collaboration for removing negative emotions, for stress reduction and for the increase of school participation.The potential longer term benefitsStimulating the international cooperation for the developing of some efficient activities for reducing stress and negative emotions, things that lead to reduction of absenteeism and school drop-out.