"""AstroSTEM is Cool” has been constructed with the coordination of Slovakia and with the partnership of Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy and Poland. The target group of the project is the students of 10-14 aged and teachers of STEM fields. As we are face to face with the benefits and difficulties of an economy that is based on both globalization and knowledge in the 21st century, scientific and technological innovations have become more and more important. In order to be successful in this society that is based on knowledge and technology, it is necessary to raise students’ skills of STEM higher and higher. In total, 120 mobilities will be performed during the project with 4 students and 2 teachers from each school. The project activities are totally focused on Astronomy and STEM. Methods of workshops, researching, producing and examining are generally used; creativity, cooperation, critical thinking and solving problem are frontal. Expected results of the project are: Students’ skills of integrating interdisciplines knowledge and skills and practising them in order to solve real problems, their spirit of potential in innovation, enterpreneurship and innovation will come out.Students’ learning experience about STEM and astronomy will help them prepare for their studies and career in future.Students will think critically by looking at problems in a new way and linking learning across subjects and disciplines.Teachers’ professional capacity, cooperation between stakeholders and schools will strenghten.Partner schools will plan practising STEM education in a suitable way for students’ needs and their interests in school level totelitarinally and effectively.Students will learn how science effects us in our daily life, they'll learn incredible world of the space, maths, technology and engineering. Students gain motivation for having career about science, maths and technology, develop friendships with the students from different countries, develop their skills of solving problem creatively. Participants learn practical applications of robot technologies and space researches. Teachers improve their professionalities as a result of exchanging knowledge with their colleagues in European partner schools. Exchange of best practices in European level and experience of sharing knowledge will gain participant teachers innovative pedagogic approaches in STEM+Astronomy field. Thus; teaching quality in science field of partner schools will increase with more equipped personnel. Partner schools will have richer curriculum and more qualified personnel about STEM+Astronomy fields. AstroStem Club will go on with the activities at partner schools. Partner schools will organize traditional STEM fair and STEM career day every year. So; students’ knowledge and skills will be sustainable, students who will register in school in the following years will also gain STEM skills."

"The B.R.E.A.D. project was carried out in France as coordinator, and partners in Romania, Poland, Slovakia and Turkey. The duration of the project was 36 months, then it was postpone for an extra 4 months due to the Covid-19 outbreak. We discussed the development of basic skills in this project, which is one of the strategic goals of Europe 2020. In this way, we contributed to both the goals of Europe 2020 and the development of students who have disadvantaged conditions and have difficulties in learning basic skills. We aimed to develop basic skills by using the theme of ""bread"", which forms the forms of civilization, and to raise a new generation that has reading, writing, speaking, listening skills in both mother tongue and foreign languages; we wanted they can use ITC, learn for life, think independently and multidimensionally, make correct decisions. We strived for students to discover their own talents, create their future entrepreneurially, develop a European identity and create a European profile, and be sensitive to social issues. We wanted to strengthen the European dimension in education, increase mobility between countries, establish new cooperation, and try to improve the quality of our intuition and our students by observing and comparing education systems, policies and best practices. We all had many similarities with disadvantaged students, low grades and learning disabilities. We have all tried to act together and develop activities and good practices related to the basic educational skills students need. The students prepared some presentations, visited the bread bakeries and interviewed with the bakers and farmers, and prepared a short movie named ""Journey of grains to our table”, searched and learned the history of bread for e-book, types of European breads, bread-theme poems, expressions, proverbs, folk songs and folk dance, prepared a statistic of the consumption of bread in Europe.The students joined the discussions themed bread waste, observed the duration of mold growth and staling of bread, made a model of bakery and flour mill from waste materials and exhibited, constituted a student council, created slogans, posters and postcards about “starvation-famine”, published a notice and sent them after exhibiting in order to show support and sensibility of European kids.At the meetings, the students read poems themed “bread”, sang folk songs and performed folk dances. They carried out all these events by using ICT tools and some of the techniques and methods of experiment, observation, search, design, freedom of expression, group work, workshop, learning tolerant, analyzing, creative and critical thinking, innovation workshop.Owing to this project, the students gained some long lasting skills for their life and tried tobecome individuals who are self-confident, creative, productive, communicative, innovator, qualified, up-and-coming and could take the right decisions, solve the problems and improved their European identity.Each partner school planned to create innovative, productive, new activities and methods.Our project enabled the participants to learn and improve a foreign language, develop their communication and ITC skills, share the professional competence via innovative and creative methods; the institutions to; develop cooperation and communication with the other intuitions and organizations, have a creative and innovative team, create an image and prestige, determine quality strategies; the target groups to; improve their basic skills on both the mother tongue and foreign language such as speaking, writing, listening and reading and math’s and science skills, be informed about entrepreneurship, learn to use ICT, solve the problems they face, have an ability of making a decision, learn social values, meet European identity, get a sense of social responsibility, approach tolerantly; the stakeholders to; make new cooperation with our schools, have a desire for moral and material support in the future. All partners did their best to popularize the project in different ways. We used the e-twinning project, social network sites, Youtube, local and national press. We also prepared an Erasmus + corner and posters, documents, the logos we used in promotions, Erasmus + Results Platform, and cooperated with municipals, local stakeholders and UNICEF representatives."