This project was created after the contact seminar that took place in Stockholm (dec 19). During the seminar, the representants of Sweden, Latvia and Estonia realised that their preschools had a concrete need of developing their pedagogical methods within ICT. Those three preschools have worked with IT-tools in different ways, but they never used IT as a way to teach other subjects. The three preschools decided to create an international collaboration to improve their own methods by opening up to an international perspective and approach. Through previous contacts and e-Twinning, they found two more preschools in Italy and Turkey which had the same need.With over 600 children, 150 teachers and school members, this project will give the possibility to many preschool staff to exchange the best practice and spread the results through Europe in order to improve the sense of belonging to the same community and to have a wider range to try new methods and get results that can be applied anywhere in Europe. The quality of the results will be given by the fact that the new pedagogical methods will be tested and evaluated in different areas of Europe. This will lead to a more objective analysis which is not only related to a specific school in Europe, but it will be related to the combination of different results according to different preschools. When analysing the results, it will be possible to write guidelines that can be applied by any teacher in Europe.We chose to develop this topic since there is a pedagogical need to be better at using ICT for learning and teaching in each of the preschools. Moreover, the new national curricula of the countries that are involved in the project require that the preschools have to develop new methods for early childhood and care focusing on ICT. This was established to give the children the possibility to get ready to become the next generation's citizens and develop their IT-skills .The national curricula want the preschools to work with innovative practices in a digital era since there is a lack of new methods that stimulate the children to try new techniques to learn and study. At the same time, we want our children and teachers to see ICT as a resource, not only as a game, that needs to be used to learn,study and teach. We will find better methods to work with Internet, images and ethics in order to make the children more aware about the use of the digital tools in the present and in the next future.In order to get good results and to make the project alive, the preschool have already agreed on which activities that need to be held before, during and after the all period that the project is active. There will be weekly briefings and skype meetings to get updates about the project. All the tasks are already preassigned from the coordinator so that each school knows about the expectations and the requirements that need to be followed in order to make goals. The coordinator will make sure that everybody feels welcome to ask questions, but at the same time, will follow up each school separately. During the learning activities where three members of the school staff from each preschool will meet there will be the possibility to both discuss in seminar groups, but even to try on the place new It-tools, techniques and write guidelines and a leaflet. Those activities are very helpful since the teachers need to reflect back on their own approaches, to make them better, draw parallels with the international preschools and find the best practice that will be presented to other schools in a close future.There will be five international meeting that are already planned. Each school will be responsible for the planning of at least one meeting, but sometimes, some schools will lead part of the activities during the meeting. This is something very important that will make the preschools very active in the whole process. We will organise conferences for the staff members during the meetings abroad. Moreover, we will have conferences at the end of the program in order to spread information about the Erasmus project, our project, the leaflet and the guidelines that we produced.The results that will obtain will be very clear: Through an international exchange and the possibility to analyse the reaction of the different preschool children to our methodologies and technologies, we will be able to guide other schools or teachers that want to work with ICT but do not know how to improve their pedagogical methods. We will understand how to create new and better pedagogical strategies to learn and teach with critical thinking so that the children can use technology to study different subjects being aware of the use of the Internet, the images and the amount of screentime that is necessary on a daily basis.

"As part of the actions promoted by the Erasmus + Programme for the exchange between schools, it is intended to propose the application for the project ""Virtually_Virtuosi"", which will take place presumably from September 2020 to August 2022, 24 months.The partnership consists of 3 Italian and 3 European schools (Portugal, Sweden, Turkey), which intend to promote innovative good practices according to the following horizontal priorities of the Programme- Consolidate the profile of the teaching profession by supporting teachers in the development of innovative teaching and assessment methods, in particular, to promote competence-based teaching and learning, primarily digital, intercultural and citizenship-based learning.- Strengthen the development of key competences (in line with the 2018 Council Recommendation for lifelong learning) by promoting inter-curricular collaboration, creativity and innovative learning approaches and environments, helping teachers in the delivery of competence based teaching and in the development of assessment and validation of key competences.The project will be articulated in several direct mobility actions - transnational meetings and in-presence training events - and indirect mobility actions using platforms, mainly eTwinning and in the case of socials.Teachers and pupils from all schools of the partnership will be involved, according to the shared selection criteria that will participate in- Direct mobility: transnational meetings - LTTA, 3 days- Virtual Mobility: eTwinning classes, seminars, conference callThe numbers and characteristics of the participants are defined by the project team according to the following criteria- Transnational meetings: teachers from each of the partner schools, chosen according to their availability, motivation and role in the project (e.g. digital animators, eTwinning teachers, specific instrumental functions on European design), school leaders. Students will be involved in three LTTAs (Italy, Portugal, Turkey)The focus of the project is based on the innovation of learning environments, with particular reference to the type of resources and didactical strategies suitable for learners in an intergenerational perspective. It is internationally known that the revolution that has taken place in recent years regarding new ways of learning concerns above all the places of learning: from technological classrooms, Classroom 3.0 for example, to BYOD - Bring Your Own Device classrooms, to upturned classrooms, up to pilot experiences that have seen the integrated use of methods and approaches, through the pedagogical support of Media Literacy.The ""V_V"" project aims to provide all the beneficiaries with the opportunity to compare good practices in place in their schools and propose new ones, to be tested during the two years of the project, in order to make them exportable, even beyond the planned 24 months. Digital Animators will be involved in Italian schools and in European schools local experts in the use of ICT to coordinate the launch and consolidation of pilot experiences, which will then be shared, exported and collected in a permanent digital archive of effective practices.The training of teachers will also be fundamental, both for those who will participate in direct mobility and for those who will be virtually connected with partner schools. The training will be on the field - job shadowing activities - and blended, using chat rooms, platforms and all the resources that the partners will make available to each other, in order to consolidate distance learning experiences, to be used not only in extraordinary contexts like the current one.The students' mobility will be both virtual and direct, focusing on laboratory activities both in presence and at a distance, using eTwinning, already known in the partner schools, as well as a communication tool during the drafting of the ""V_V"" project.An eTwinning team will be created that will have relevant roles and tasks in promoting virtual teaching/learning activities, as examples of good practices.During the 24 months of life of the ""V_V"" project the partners will - They will create the project site, opening a virtual space inside it that will archive materials and proposals, accessible and exportable, a fundamental resource for a constant and updated dissemination.- New eTwinning classes will be activated, also with the contribution of local experts, eTwinning Ambassadors- They will participate in training/informative events- They will use socials and any other interactive means to communicate in real time, monitoring the state of the art of the project, with Conference Call, virtual work groups, digital archives,- They will share the organization of the meetings in presence, monitoring risks, supporting each other."