People willing to become active European citizens need knowledge, skills and the right attitudes concerning democratic structures and active participation. For all these reasons we created a partnership from different schools and countries and we joined our forces in order to learn the human values. A Lifelong Learning Programme supposes intercultural dialogue, as partners from different countries and cultures were involved. Any discrimination national or religious was excluded. This program offered the occasion of a better acquaintance between countries, their residents, as well as, the way of promotion of intercultural education against the racism and xenophobia.Intercultural dialogue is the basis for real and lasting understanding and respect, which can only be built up through the acquisition of knowledge about other cultures. In our intercultural dialogue we tried to combat ignorance, prejudice, racism and xenophobia.The main concepts of the project was the sensitization to the idea of “other people” and reflection on one's own intercultural identity. The concepts were expressed through the topics of migration, cultural diversity, stereotypes, prejudice,tolerance, traditions, human and children rights, respect and self awareness. The final products MY CULTURAL IMPRESSIONS notebook and short films are living witnesses of progress achieved by the project. The students involved in the project did use languages, ICT, theatre, cinema, music, photo, arts, culture, local dances, traditions and local customs, as vehicles for research and to communicate the results of their work.The schools involved created the portfolios which include photos, paintings, video, theatre , etc. and shared them in project website and digital newspaper. A new learning environment which is attractive to teachers, students and the whole school was gradually created, favoring innovation and creativity in the field of teaching. At the meetings we worked together, become more aware of our own national identity and at the same time we learned about and appreciating to other cultures. At a more global level, this project offered a new perspective of culture and values. Our project represented a necessary approach to address the question, how cultural diversity and values can contribute to dialogue in Europe. How European citizens of different religious, cultural and political backgrounds can live together and enter into dialogue of mutual respect and understanding. The project examined their belonging to Europe while discussing their outward cultural identity, thus opening the debate to include issue of migration, racism, integration, mutual understanding, tolerance and acceptance of everyone in Europe. We are currently witnessing a new generation of young people who are redefining their cultural identity in a changing Europe. Many children of migrants were born in/out Europe, went to school in Europe and tired to work and create a family in Europe.Nine European meetings took place during the development of the project and allowed the European dimension of activities to be reinforced. Teachers and students were able to benefit from these exchanges and meetings, thus creating a true opportunity for intercultural exchanges and dialogue. The project aimed to raise awareness amongst EUROPEAN citizens and particularly among young people on the importance of using intercultural dialogue as a tool for promoting an active European citizenship. The target group included students and teachers. The foreseen activities were discussion, survey, case study,workshops, promotion of ICH/TCH,seminar, digital newspaper, international folk dance and song team.The objectives were:To raise awareness of the importance of intercultural dialogue, especially among young people, which aims to contribute to foster an active European citizenship – cosmopolitan and with respect for cultural diversity.To enhance interest and respect for the originality and variety of other cultural, national and religious groups.To confront younger generations with differences in culture, opinions and behavior and to look for ways to cope with these issues in an open manner without judging each other.The motto of our project was: Nice to meet you!Subjects: Migration,Early Leaving School, Racism, Stereotypes, Tolerance, Acceptance of differences.The project method was an educational enterprise in which children solved a practical problem. The students first chose the project, and then they discussed what they need to know for solving the problem and learned the required techniques and concepts. Finally they executed the chosen project by themselves.Time for reflection was provided during all phases of project learning, gave students the opportunity to evaluate their progress.The phases of approach: Discussion and sensitization, organization and realization of activities, collecting information, synthesis and process of information, evaluation.

"Historically, human mobility has taken place since the beginning of time, but it has been during the last century when this phenomenon began to be considered a challenge. Most European countries have moved from immigrant countries to migration countries. These processes of significant changes in the ethno-cultural composition are sometimes confronted with rejection among native groups. Diversity is a fact and a need that has been experienced in all European countries. Therefore, cultural integration is one of the most important developments in the European Union. In some parts of the world, immigrants are subject to arbitrary and discriminatory treatment by authorities and other members of society. Intercultural communication is necessary to ensure social adaptation, to develop pluralism and consciousness of living together in order to get more respect and solidarity between different cultures and to eliminate prejudices as soon as in Europe.Our goal is the study of migration in Europe, particularly of people belonging to ethnic minorities living in our countries and local areas, sharing this information with our European partners. Thus, we shall concentrate on the issues faced by immigrants as prejudice and discrimination in society, the problems of their children at school and their struggle to participate in the culture of the place where they live in the period of social integration. Moreover, our project aims to teach our students ""Immigration"" and the values of different cultures and ethnic identities. What we seek with this project is to interest students about immigrants and make them aware of the presence of other cultures and know that by working collaboratively and cooperatively with partner schools, they can understand and appreciate the cultural differences.The project aims to open among European teachers and students a common reflection on the theme of migration and integration, based on the recovering, by means of direct sources and interviews, the historic memory of the people who were migrants and of those who hosted migrants in the past, and by comparing what is happening in the present, again listening to both side of the story, the migrants, and the natives. By studying closely the movement of migration we aim to develop an understanding of the intercultural dimension in European societies. In today’s expanded Europe, given the increasing ease with which people can cross borders and find work outside their own country, it seems vital that our students be able to tolerate the views of those whose origins and background are different from their own. We will work on the measures taken throughout Europe to overcome stereotypes and prejudices and ensure that immigrants arriving are as well integrated as possible. The question of identity is of key importance in any discussion involving closer integration of the immigrant population. Is it desirable for immigrants to strive to remain loyal to their origins or should they aim to assimilate the culture, language and traditions of their adopted land? How do indigenous populations react to the influx of EU nationals in large numbers? What problems has this migration created and how are they dealing with it?We will also deal with the problems immigrants experience during the process of their psychological and sociocultural adaptation to the host culture ;Coping With Culture Shock, Cultural Clashes and Cultural ,Getting Past Language and Communication Barriers and Coping with Homesickness and Alienation.We will do seminars to emphasize these problems . Each school will create project groups made of students and the groups will have interviews with the immigrants. In each study visit,one of the interviewed immigrant will be invited .The immigrant will share his experience before and after the migration. The movies about migration will be watched. Then the students will be asked to discuss their feelings and thoughts about the migration which is also the subject of the movies. An authority from agencies working on migration issues will be invited to the meetings. Case studies analyzing specific aspects of the personal experience of migration and a dictionary with the meanings and definitions of key words about migration and integration will be done.The project methodolgy is based on the concept of interdisciplinary teaching as a means to enhance the quality of education. Our partners represent contrasting social and economic backgrounds, and a diverse collection of communities from across Europe. Our target group are pupils, parents, collegues, pedagogical staff, boards of schools and the public.We believe that our project is compatible with EU youth policy in attempt to develop young people’s spirit of entrepreneurship. The increased environmental and common cultural wealth awareness in participants as well as in local communities, will contribute to young people to develop their personalities."

"As mentioned before, we were motivated to apply for this project because we wanted to examine one of the biggest issues the European Union was and is struggling with at the moment: the so-called ""refugee crisis"". On the political scale, European politicians are trying to solve the challenge by a mechanism that forces some countries to welcome refugees. However, this is not the only problem that comes along with this challenge. Also, countries like Germany and Sweden, who have been quite open as lots of migrants fled to Europe in 2015 are still facing challenges of all sorts, ranging from strong right-wing opposition to extremism caused by the inlux of these immigrants, but also because integrating a huge number of people from a different cultural background causes difficulties, no matter where in the world. Other countries, like Greece or Italy, are facing similar problems, especially right-wing and populist opposition to these migrants, but also seem to be left alone in this crisis due to European policies and their geographical situation. All of these countries were part of this project. Spain has a similar problem to Italy, as it is very close to Morocco, Belgium has a similar situation to Germany, as it has a long history of integrating foreign people to their society and a quite multicultural society. All these countries combined, there was a great mix of ways of how of to deal with people from a different cultural background. As we see it, we did all learn from each other, but also helped each other as we have similar and different challenges in each of our countries. However, this issue can only be tackled on an intercultural European scale, which is why we applied for this project. In this project, we compared and exchanged ideas and ways of coping with the issues above (i.e. How to deal with minorities?) in order to help our countries, but also other countries in Europe, to find solutions for this crisis. We see it as a way of showing best-practices on the one hand, but also to show what doesn't work on the other and how to manage these challenges. This project aimed at a general lack of awareness of the other cultures, prejudices and stereotypes against them which can lead to social exclusion. In many countries all over Europe we can see a huge number of children born and raised in countries that are not home to their parents. Due to the fact that a lot of children do not learn the language of the target society properly, as they only speak foreign languages at home and do not grow up in communities that speak the language of the target society, a number of these children lack behind academically.In this project, we aimed at connecting with these students and give them the opportunity to learn outside the regular learning environment by including them into our project. We created an atmosphere where participants were able to recognize prejudgemental and discriminatory behaviour among themselves which in turn formed them into critical thinkers and helped establish a non-exclusional school environment. Students participated on a highly active level during the whole process of the project in order to make them identify with its goals and to have life-long learning effects. We mixed the group of participants, e.g. had students from different cultural and social backgrounds, so that we had a wide spectrum of ideas and a realistic profile of European involvement, as we think that Europe is also not one-dimensional but mulit-facetted. This is something the students learned in this project. We sendt a minimum amount of four students to each LTT. The activities are a mixture of activities that aimed at raising cultural awareness in a European context in generel and activities that aimed at the achievement of our project's objectives in particular (e.g. interviewing migrants). We worked on one of the following subjects: - Migrants' issues - Romas or other minorities - Tolerance, respect and EU Citizenship - Ethnic, racial, cultural and religious diversity - Understanding prejudices and stereotype - Globalization: Loss of cultural identity? We had each of the following activities and results: 1 Presentation 2 Seminar 3 Round table discussion 4 Questionnaire on the subject 5 Guest speaker/s 6 Workshop Creativity (poster contest) 7 Workshop Game (e.g. ice-breakers) 8 International party 9 Trip to a local museum 10 Trip to a cultural site (e.g. UNESCO world heritage) 11 Culture in a box: Each partner school received information on customs, traditions and cultures of another partner. Then a team had to present another country with the information given by the other country. This increased the intercultural exchange and also raise self-awareness among students. 12 Poster on similarities and differences between the host and the guest nation"

The motivation for our project is to address one of the biggest challenges the European Union is confronted with in the aftermath of the refugee crisis of 2015: the integration and inclusion of newcomers in European societies. All of the partners in this partnership are facing similar challenges (i.e. dealing with strong right-wing opposition and extremism, receiving asylum seekers, integrating a large number of people from different cultural backgrounds, making education more in line of the specific needs of refugee children, etc.). In this project we will discover how countries integrate newcomers from different cultural backgrounds and focus on education in particular as a vehicle for social inclusion. We want our students to explore the differences and similarities in the approaches of the partner countries and compare the ways in which newcomers are supported in finding their way to (higher) education/labour market, which opportunities are offered, to share good practises and discuss which difficulties are encountered. We feel it is important to learn from each other, but also to help each other as we face similar and different challenges in each of our countries. We are convinced it is crucial to combat prejudice and xenophobia by educating our students and helping them develop into active, responsible young European citizens, living and working together in a diverse and multicultural society. We strongly believe in the importance education: passing on knowledge and democratic values, developing skills and attitudes, is key. This project will contribute to our students' intercultural learning and will have lasting effect on our schools.The project will help students:- realise that differences can also mean opportunities;- see how people from other cultures have had and still have an impact on our society and how this changes our image of diversity;- identify and empathise with others;- become aware of judgemental and discriminatory thinking and behaviour;- become aware of the effects of their own behaviour on others;- see that immigration and welcoming refugees has always been a decisive factor in our histories; - realise that each and every one of us can make a change, i.e. fight intolerance;- be more tolerant towards other people and cultures in general;- gain knowledge of the different education systems and how each partner country welcomes and introduces newcomers;- gain insight in the opportunities and obstacles newcomers meet in the different partner countries; - acknowledge that speaking different tongues is an asset and offers access to other cultures;- improve their language skills;- improve their ICT skills;- be more creative.There will be 6 short-term exchanges of groups of pupils, hosted by each of the partners during the course of the project. Each partner will send 2 teachers and 5 students (with the exception of Germany, they will send only one teacher) on every exchange. Each host country will therefore receive a group of 25 students and 9 teachers. The participating students will range from 14-18 years old and are in general, technical or vocational education, in accordance with the age groups and level of education of the partner schools. We will select students based on their interests, motivation and commitment. We will strive to include students from different cultural backgrounds (e.g. ethnic or other minority groups), from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, or with learning disabilities (e.g. related to language). In every exchange we will work on one overreaching theme: the integration and inclusion of newcomers through education. For each exchange, the same project activities will be scheduled. However, they will be focussed on the specific context and circumstances of the host country:1. Presentations2. Guest speaker & seminar3. Round table discussion 4. Questionnaire5. Creativity Workshop 6. Workshop Game 7. International party8. Excursion 9. Trip to a local cultural site10. Culture in a box & posterThe concrete project results (presentations, questionnaire, end products of the creativity workshop, posters, etc.) will be shared on eTwinning, the partner schools’ websites/magazines and the project’s Facebook page. The project aims at both raising cultural awareness, combatting prejudice and xenophobia in a European context in general (e.g. intercultural learning) and at the achievement of the more specific objectives (e.g. exploring similarities and differences in our countries' approaches to the integration of newcomers). We are confident these goals will be met by all participants and that the project will have a positive and long lasting impact on students, teachers, parents, the school and by extension external school partners, local authorities etc.

We have set off an international project journey with six partner schools from Turkey,Bulgaria,Hungary,Poland,Italy,Spain.120 students and 110 teachers will have opportunities to work in an international voluntary platform actively during the mobilities of the project and the transnational project meetings. Firstly, we aim to involve Low-skilled pupils taking voluntary service and taking part in voluntary services and serve volunteering and donated work which consist of the activities in different ways such as in Social, environmental, cultural, educational and healthy life fields. We would like the pupils to have volunteering spirit which is one of the ways of providing social changings by taking initiative without expecting a benefit .We also aim to create an awareness of the importance of learning by experience and the values of volunteering. We will have a chance to get knowledge about different volunteering implementations and policy of EU countries . We will give a message to societies that the best service is sincere one without a benefit.We'd like to teach that helping others will ensure to help ourselves,too.We will develop humanistic approaches by creating empathy,sensibility,good intention and wishes in the way of being good European citizens. Our volunteers will serve volunteering on social service field and get knowledge about the methods of it.All partners will be responsible for different fields of volunteering. As Environmentally, We would like to have a new generation to be a friend to nature , save their environment and be aware of the global threats for nature. We plan to encourage people to do recycling. As Culturally, We intend to make cultural integration of the students who are immigrant and have cultural conflict with the society .We will provide to introduce different cultures in cultural diversity,create mutual understanding, love, respect, tolerance among different cultures and beliefs ,work together internationally to break the prejudices, barriers, stereotypes of the people to different cultures and life styles by volunteering. As Socially,We will serve volunteering work and organise charity work with official reports like a concert, handcrafts bazaar and donation for the poor, the elderly people,homeless, disabled people,the orphans and,the street animals, the children having insufficient education in rural in order to develop the sense of solidarity. On Healthy life,We are also volunteers to encourage people to have a healthy and qualified life supporting people to do sports, have a balanced nutrition and give up bad and harmful habits for our lives. As Educationally,We would like to promote our students’ and the staff’s foreign language and ICT skills a higher level. We would like to give language courses to provide warmer dialogue among the pupils, parents, teachers. We intend to reduce early school leaving by giving courses to low-skilled pupils by skillful voluntary pupils as a peer education. İn addition,the low-skilled pupils will teach their language to the participants and it promotes their school performance,social skills and basic skills in a high level.We will focus on educating and raising awareness of the local people about cultural, social, environmental problems by being given seminars to them. Our project activities and outputs are innonative,transferable,comprehensive,inhouse and suitable for European Dimension. Project Toy, song,t-shirt,calendar, project school booklet,final booklet, 6 languages handbooks are some results. We will implement some methods such as group work ,Lecture method, audio- visual presentation,observing,interviewing,brainstorming ,small group discussions, Public events, round table discussion , workshop,courses,seminars, survey ,life long learning We will look at these problems through the same window in a great international cooperation with the participation of the teachers, students, parents and local institutions, civil society associations.Target groups such as low-skilled pupils,immigrants,socio-ecomomical disadvantaged people will also be involved in the project.The pupils will grow up as problem solver, creative, open- minded, helpful, selfconfident, enterprising, peaceful, responsible,respectful as new generation of ours and EU 's citizens.They will also get a chance to develop their communication ,social,language and ICT skills and Key competencies. This project also promotes the sense of European identity, awareness of multilingual and cultural diversity. We will disseminate our project through Project Web Page,Etwinning,school website and social media and other channels. Our experiences and qualifications in European dimension will make benefits in the labour market and education life in EU and be a good investment for our future. We expect a long term friendship with the partners .