The World of Women, Women in the WorldSuch is the topic chosen by the representatives of six countries (France, Martinique, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Romania) because we believe that school is the best place to talk about this issue and try to eradicate the prejudice that unfortunately, still exists. In all the schools, we assume the project will concern 60 pupils and 120 teachers and indirectly 3622 pupils.Through our pupils, through their understanding of equality, the respect they show to their neighbours and even through the valuing of the different roles of women, we can reach their relatives and change mindsets.The question of women’s rights and their role in these various societies seemed important and topical to the organizers who have decided to make it the main theme of their exchange project.However, the situation of women in the different countries is not identical and their rights are not equally respected everywhere. The weight of traditions is not the same either according to the European participants in this project. Working on them, comparing them will enable the pupils but also the teachers to better understand the historical, ethnological and political mechanisms that led to such and such a situation in a given country.Therefore, the merging reflections on this theme between the various partners will be an asset for the project whose goal is to bring people together, educate our pupils and their communities and turn them into European citizens.We intend to work on the different roles of women over the centuries (women and politics ; professional training and the world of employment ; the role of secularity in the development of women’s rights ; successful women and housewives) step by step.This will enable the participants and the people around them to study that topic from several angles while showing the differences that exist among the European countries that take part in the project and even among other non-European countries. The contribution of all the participant countries will definitely enrich the project results. Thus each school will choose one or two classes as steering groups and five or six teachers who will be in charge of the project. The other classes and other teachers will obviously also get involved in the activites. Younger children will be able to participate too. For instance, Portuguese schools welcome children from the age of six years old. The aim is to have all the pupils from all the schools to work on the topic and reach a common goal.Once completed, the various research tasks will be shared by all the partners, published on their websites as well as on etwinning to spread the information as widely as possible.Whether it be a simple task, the conception of a women’s calendar, photo reports showing the members’ trips abroad or even the creation of a virtual review, document sharing and common work will strengthen the links between the European partners and make them develop other essential skills for their academic trajectories, their future and their role as European citizens.However, the reflection on the issue, on the role of women in the world and on the role that society gives them must go further.It seemed necessary to all the organizers and partners to finalize it with a plastic work of art made by all the pupils from the participant countries. Artwork conceived and produced during the exchange programs. Thus, all the participant schools will get a copy of the artwork which will be displayed and seen by any visitor at the school. It will therefore remain and live on long after the end of the project.The sum of all these actions will contribute to illustrate the project beyond mere reflection.In France, the involvement of an association specialized in song writing and recording will result in the writing and recording of the project anthem. Moreover, an assessment of the project will be made by all the teachers and the administration members involved, about the theme and the lessons learnt from the experience.Those lessons could lead to convergences or even initiatives that will be transmitted to relevant authorities at the end of the project. And again, all the projects – whatever they are – will be kept in every school library so as to be used as study documents in the following years in Civic and Social Education, History, Foreign Languages, Geography or Science lessons according to the various curriculums.

What would a teenage show a peer from abroad around his/her hometown? The mall! Do our students have any personal cultural awareness? Not really... Do they know which countries belong to the European Union? UK is messing them up! This is exactly what made us feel the urgent need of applying for an Erasmus+ project aimed at the mobility of students. We absolutely want them to have a direct contact with other cultures, compare them to theirs and start thinking about the values of their own. Also, travelling out of their country may offer our students a good input to develop new ideas and build relationships for their future, especially for their job career, hopefully in a European perspective. Last but not least, all school staff members will surely benefit from exchanging information about other school systems and didactical approaches.The participants involved in this project are about 150, aged 10 - 14, coming from public schools located in Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia. Some of them might have learning difficulties or be poorly engaged in their education, so potentially early school leavers.We would like our school community to be aware of the local cultural heritage starting from food. Not only is food a necessity for nutrition, but it also incorporates many cultural values. We want our students to visit and discover the numerous economic realities around that produce specialties with passion and tradition from generation to generation; local products such as the Parmesan Cheese or the Traditional Balsamic Vinegar are known worldwide! These are PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) and/or PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) products, and it is important for our future generation to recognize, evaluate and cherish them. We also want them to realise that so many job positions are required in the food field, going from the farmer or dairyman to the cook, giving them some inspiration for their future decisions in terms of education and employment. Food is also a synonym of gathering: families and friends so often meet around a table to share a meal. But who keeps the culinary traditions? We want to put different generations together, our students and old people, and different cultures to make them work together on traditional recipes in order to create a wellbeing atmosphere for a better social cohesion. Another objective we would like to achieve is a deeper knowledge of what the European Union is for, how it started, how it is evolving and why it is so important for all the nations to cooperate and distinguish their own cultures at the same time. Diversity is the resourceful key for European citizens just like the numerous culinary good traditions! Since English will be the language of communication among the projects' partners, we will engage students in a new and useful way of learning a foreign language.The planned activities are very practical and include:- visiting a local food reality, for example a farm where the Parmesan Cheese is produced;- creating a traditional recipe book in English;- taking pictures of whatever is linked to food while walking down the streets;- prepare a typical dish from the culinary tradition with the help of old people;- creating a digital cartoon to tell every single activity of the project in English;- visiting the nearest Europe Direct info point for a workshop on Europe and the EU;- comparing different uses of the same ingredient;- analyzing GPI and PDO labels.The informal atmosphere of these activities can help students evaluate education in case they are not engaged in school; the chance to be creative in their own special way and to communicate with foreign speaking peers in a simple way will increase the students' self esteem.The participation in this project will contribute in the long-term to:- make the teachers rethink about an effective approach to raise cultural awareness in their pupils;- continue and create transnational collaborations on diverse topics;- engage students more actively in their own learning process, since the international atmosphere they have tasted in their school and the creativity required will give them a positive input to focus on their future education, be it in their country or abroad;- have the support of more donors to sustain future projects, both on site and transnational, all bearing the same aim: raise European citizens who will eventually choose to be tolerant and collaborative.

"Through this Erasmus+ project, we want to promote the acquisition and development of the skills of students and of the educational teams by offering them a framework different from the traditional educational framework and which will also be conducive to interdisciplinary works and to the approach of project.Participating in this partnership will be a motivating factor for students who do not always feel interested in learning in an open and innovative environment, promoting their autonomy and their sense of learning while responding to a form of anxiety over their future and the futur of the planet. This project will also promote team work, interdisciplinarity and the international opening of the institutions.We are four institutions from four countries, France, the Czech Republic, Spain and the Netherlands, that have come together on a common theme ""Water, A Common Good to Preserve"". While being in different contexts with different points of view, we want our students to work on the same issue : Water management in Europe, a 21st century challenge.Two classes per school (students aged 12 to 16) will be directly involved in the project, but a maximum of students and teachers and staff from the institutions will be involved.Each partner country is responsible for a water-related theme : The Netherlands ""Preserve and manage excess of water"", France ""Water and climate change"", Czech Republic ""Water and pollution"" , Spain ""Access to quality water"". The activities will focus on these four main themes, each of which being the subject of mobility in the partner country, during which 11 or 12 students from each country will meet and be accompanied by 2 to 3 supervisors.Students will work upstream mobility on the issue of the meeting, which will inform them, make them acquire knowledge and make them aware of the issues.During each mobility the following point will be planned:- A presentation and a visit of the host institution.- The enunciation of the problem in the local and national context.- A presentation of the work done upstream by the students from the different countries.- Debates where students will be put in a position to argue, so that they can become aware of the issues of water management but also the place they have in these issues as future European citizens, that they can appreciate the complexity of the problems, the difficulty of reaching a consensus. This will lead to the development of critical thinking.- Visits, meetings on the theme.- Final tasks that will reinvest the assets and lead to productions that will be brought back to the institutions and / or proposals to submit to the local bodies of institutions and local communities.Downstream from mobility, partners will continue to work on the theme.Exchanges will be done upstream, downstream and during the mobilities via a twinspace.To allow maximum dissemination, various events will be organized such as exhibitions, ""Eco-responsibility"" days, ""Erasmus Day"", and dissemination via the websites of the institutions.Through the approach to the theme of water and the topics discussed, the objective will be to train future European citizens responsible in their choice with regard to water management and strength of proposal. Questionnaires, evaluation grids will be produced to evaluate the benefits of the project and mobilities. Specific indicators will be defined to measure results and impacts on students, teachers and other supervisors as well as on schools.Participating in an international project on water management, an European or even global issue, moving from the local to the European scale will make it possible to become truly eco-responsible citizens and actors in relation to the environment in a context of global climate change.Through its partnership and country-specific issues, this project will also open schools to Europe.The project work and the international activities will lead to a change in the postures of the students and the teachers, which will allow to develop the basic skills of each of them and the quality of the lessons. The students will become enriched and curious citizens, open to Europe and to the other cultures.They will help to make students future citizens enriched, curious, open to Europe, to other cultures. Thus, they’ll be able to project themselves beyond academic deadlines, making a transfer of learning from school to life. They will give meaning to learning including languages and stimulate the development of other European-wide partnership projects in schools."

The project is a reflection of an important global issue, the solution of which could be found for a given region with the participation of at least several countries. Common issues unite people and motivate them to look for common solutions. Harmony between the human creator and the human being is needed. The primary objective of this project, which includes six schools from six different countries, is to help form an ecological attitude towards nature. The participants will focus their efforts on modern man and make him change his attitude to the habitable world because the trouble of modern man is that he has become a consumer of nature. This is a project that will raise the question for the responsibility to the next generations. Its aim is to help young people change not only their attitude towards nature, but also to make adjustments to ethics and their value systems. Therefore each partner will explore the renewable energy sources in his region or country and will present them to his project partners and all of them together at a round table will look for answers to questions like: How to save energy at home and at school, what and how to recycle, how to store energy? This is a project that aims at alarming as many people as possible in Europe. That’s why, we will make an interactive map of the renewable energy sources in the region where students live, in order to stimulate their interest in green energy. During the trainings we will visit a photovoltaic or a wind farm in the given region to find out about the benefits of this energy. This will also help form a civic position and a desire for coping with the apathy of modern man, who lives with the thought that this does not affect him and nothing depends on him. In addition, we will make sure to include students with special educational needs to find their place in the project and not to feel isolated, unworthy and a burden to society. They will gather materials for recycling and disseminate brochures. Our project will act as a call for help and as a result we expect to educate young people with an active civic position. Once the project is completed, students’ participation in civic initiatives for the promotion of renewable energy will be the proof that we have achieved our primary goal and have signaled that there is still a chance for the Earth to be saved before it is too late. The project will encourage multicultural education, tolerance and will also provoke desire in each participant to preserve nature and seek alternative energy sources. We hope this desire to be contagious and to attract more and more people to the ideas of the project. One of the best activities will be publishing students’ essays in a collection. The beginning that we set for our ‘green initiatives’ will be followed by new similar acts that will be spread like a domino. Learning, teaching and training activities will bring together pupils and teachers from different European countries, and this will help the collaboration of people belonging to different cultures. This cooperation will definitely be very useful and innovative and will help build trust and respect among all participants. After each training meeting, where students will demonstrate the acquired skills, we will give them a certificate ‘Responsible for the Future’, certifying the following skills: creativity, active citizenship, defending a position and making quick decisions, logical and creative thinking. Each creative product will receive a certificate. We will try to teach our students to think creatively and critically about issues related to alternative energy sources. Students will gain confidence that they know and can be responsible and that they are part of the future of the world. It is becoming more and more evident that conventional education can no longer provide optimal knowledge for modern society. Therefore, we will apply new, interactive practices at our training meetings which operate on a principle, different from the one so far. We would also like to apply an alternative approach to the learning process. We will cooperate with non-governmental organizations, local student parliaments, local formal and informal institutions and schools in the region to disseminate the project results and products. The sustainability of the project will be ensured by shooting films during meetings which will be available on CDs for each participant. The products from recycled materials will be distributed after project’s end, too, because we believe that perseverance and tenacity are what is needed for the successful realization of our common goal.

"The main priority of the ""Fables, mirror of life"" project is to use the fables of Europe as an educational tool in French-language teaching by introducing the practice of the flipped class in the 6 schools of the partnership. The teachers will promote the works of the major fabulists of their 6 countries: Aesop, La Fontaine, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Felix Maria Samaniego, Tomas de Iriarte, Grigore Alexandrescu and Leen Valkenier to produce 24 video capsules as well as the worksheets that they will then integrate in their teaching. The practice of the flipped class combined with other pedagogical methods such as the ""Think-pair-share"" method will allow students to work at their own pace, to have direct access to knowledge and to help each other to obtain the best results (inclusion, equity). The pedagogical approaches used and the conclusions drawn during the two years of this Erasmus+ project will be available to all teachers in partner institutions wishing to diversify their practice through the Erasmus and Twinspace platforms and seminars. The many activities carried out before, during and after the mobility of the project will give pupils the opportunity to discover an important aspect of the common European heritage: the fabulists of Europe from antiquity to the present day, their country of origin, their fables and their morals. Particular emphasis will be placed on the morality of the fables that the pupils will relate to important current topics (economic, political, social, respect for nature and the environment) and to their own lives by choosing the fables they find very useful for them. In the second case, they will write a list of good habits to adopt in order to become better in family and society.The project also attaches great importance to the creativity of the students who will be invited throughout the project to dramatize fables, produce artistic works, recite, sing and finally become fabulists, by participating in the fables competition. The two best fables invented and written by each school will be translated into English and all the languages of this partnership. The students will illustrate them.Totaling 12, these illustrated fables produced by the students of each country will then compiled into a booklet published in Romania. Then during the mobility phase in Romania, the book will be officially launched at the National Museum of Romanian Literature with the presence of an author, a publisher, a literary critic and Romanian journalists. Copies of this booklet will be distributed to students participating in the project but also to students from other schools.Finally, through the fables, through the portfolio of the students participating in the project, through the platforms such as eTwinning, the project sites etc... and through the various events open to the public, the project team will have the opportunity to show the societies of the past and of the present as mirrors, In order to build the society of tomorrow."