"""Helping and Learning Without Borders"" is a two-year project inspired by a ""Learning To Learn"" training (funded under Erasmus+ KA101 project) and created in cooperation between six secondary schools from six countries: Poland, Finland, Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal. Its aim is to answer a growing global desire to find out what we need to change in our educational systems to make the difference; the difference between producing pupils who simply pass or fail exams and producing independent lifelong learners who can thrive in the fast moving, knowledge based economy of the 21st century. With this project and its focus on Personal Learning and Thinking Skills and volunteering we want to give our schools an opportunity to redress the imbalance between the content driven testing culture we now have and a creative, active approach to learning. Thanks to the project, the involved schools will learn how to help young people to become better learners, both in school and out by cultivating habits and attitudes that enable young people to face difficulty and uncertainty calmly, confidently, and creatively. We want to do it mainly by:- exploring and introducing Personal Learning and Thinking Skills framework to our schools, - using innovative methodologies based on the latest discoveries in neuroscience: Project Based Learning and Cooperative Learning, while working on the topics of the environment protection, - involving our students into voluntary service. Every participant school will engage all the students willing to participate (at least 18) aged 15-18 and at least 3 teachers to help with the realization of the project. These teachers and pupils will take part in all kinds of events and activities that will be prepared at hosting schools for the local community and the participants from other countries. They will be involved in updating the eTwinning Twinspace, blogging and managing the YouTube channel, festivals, charity actions, handcraft workshops and markets, forestation, art galleries, creating the Project Eco-Bag, preparing and disseminating the PLTS posters, volunteering. At least 18 student participants and 3 -5 teachers from each school will take part in mobilities abroad and will get involved in project activities in a partner school.We will set a volunteer pupils group in each partner school and they will serve a regular voluntary community service during the project.We will create Learning Communities in our schools - all participating teachers will position themselves as part of the learning community, not as the expert in the room, they will share their knowledge and skills with other teachers through open door approach, during their lessons, they will describe and reflect on their thinking and learning and use language that supports learners (Learnish). They will focus as much on the process of learning as the content and allow students to lead. Each country will choose one area to explore from the PLTS framework: independent enquierers, creative thinkers, reflective learners, team workers, self managers or effective participators. The project participants will learn what all the areas mean practically and then become the ambassadors of Learning To Learn approach in their schools.In our project we want to concentrate on three main aspects: water, earth and air as the key elements in our environment, and then we want to deal with ways to protect it. As these aspects are part of the curriculum they will be dealt with in school lessons, with particular focus on the development of critical and cause and effect thinking. At our LTTA meetings we will work together with our partners on these issues with the use of Project Based Learning and Cooperative Learning approach.We will open the project's YouTube channel and blog related to Helping, Learning to Learn, Environment Protection and Healthy life. We will use it to promote learning for life, active citizenship, pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour, and volunteering.In the long-term, we expect the project to have the following impacts on all the present and future STUDENTS:- Better emotional and social wellbeing- Development of Learning To Learn competence- Considerable increase in Key competences, social skills, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship- A big improvement of linguistic skills, - Enjoying maths and science- A bigger awareness of global and environmental issues and the influence we have on our planet- Improvements on the sense of solidarity, cooperation, team spirit, communication skills-Gaining Volunteering work spiritThis all will make them well-equipped to deal with the complex demands of 21st century living and working.The project will reduce the early-school leaving. The teachers will adapt the style of teaching to the changing world and will feel less lonely in their classrooms thanks to being a part of the Professional Learning Community."

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"Project ""Creating spaces for creativity - SPACES"" will be implemented by six partners from five countries: Foundation of Education Development SPATIA (NGO, Poland), IX Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Wisławy Szymborskiej w Sosnowcu (school, Poland), Malatya Bilim Ve Sanat Merkezi (educational centre, Turkey), Edmund Rice College (school, Ireland), Escola Básica e Secundária Padre Manuel Álvares (school, Portugal), CulturePolis (NGO, Greece).Its main objective is supporting the development of creativity of students and teachers / educators through the exchange and dissemination of good practices and the creation of 3 intellectual outputs by 6 partners of the cross-sector consortium in the period from 01/04/2021 - 31/03/2023.Detailed objectives:- building a network of cooperation between 6 organizations diverse in terms of culture, competence, sector and experience, which will allow for the synergy effect;- strengthening cooperation between project partners, including between organizations operating in the field of formal, informal and non-formal education;- increasing students' knowledge of how to learn creatively;- increasing educators and teachers' knowledge of how to teach creatively;- increasing students' awareness of appreciating culture and nature as sources of inspiration for work and study;- developing the results of intellectual work that will contribute to the creation of a friendly, learning space in educational institutions.The project consortium will work out 3 intellectual outputs:1) How to learn creatively? - handbook for secondary schools students2) How to teach creatively? - handbook for teachers and educators3) How to build creative space? - teaching materials, recommendations.In the project there are also planned short staff joint training events and dissemination workshop in all participating countries. The project aims to contribute to the use of innovative tools and novel didactic methods in education (formal and informal), thus improving its overall quality and relevance. Achieving this goal will involve international experience and various profiles of involved institutions. The project aims to contribute to the creation of a friendly space for the development of creative thinking skills and quick adaptation through the exchange of experiences and good practices in this area between non-governmental organizations, educational institutions and organizations from the cultural and creative sector that deals with formal, informal and non-formal education. The aim of the consortium is also to develop international recommendations and solutions that will contribute to a permanent increase in the skills of independent, reflective and creative thinking among young people (secondary school students), who will soon enter the labor market and will face the choice of a career path. It will be possible thanks to supporting educators and youth workers in using the tools and methods of creative learning.Modernization and internationalization processes will strengthen the capacity building. The project's idea supports innovation and new educational solutions through international partnerships and inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. The project assumes that the created course will be universal, and the results of intellectual work will be available in English and in the partners' national languages. Thanks to the involvement of partners from different countries and various organizations, the results of the project will have an international dimension and can be used not only in the countries of the project partners, but also by educators from other EU countries. International cooperation will ensure the multicultural nature of the exchange of good practices, taking into account the experiences in the field of formal, informal and non-formal education of organizations from different regions of Europe."