"The present project proposal ""Folk "", which was born thanks to the collaboration of the Institute of Higher Education - Cariati, in partnership with the Etimesgut Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel Anatolian High School of Ankara (Turkey), Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho I(Portugal),II Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Adama Asnyka(Poland) provides 4 exchanges of 5 day (+2 travel) for12 students from each partner school aged between 15 and 17 years (classes II and III).The mobility activities aim to establish a synergy and a collaboration between young people with different ones cultural and linguistic backgrounds, to achieve the creation of a blog that tells history, traditions, folklore and food and wine of the places of belonging of all the groups participating in the exchange. In this space, the students will be able to tell and describe the excellence of their places of origin also promoting the tourism promotion of its territory. This type of activity aims to break down the cultural barriers born of stereotypes and misunderstandings, stimulating learners to open up and to understanding respect for others and the wealth that is hidden in diversity.The blog will be entirely designed by the students, not only from a content point of view, but also for what concerns the graphic (font, colors, logo, etc.). It will be written in English, but translations into the languages ​​of all participating countries will also be prepared. The main objectives of the proposal are:- encourage the exchange of good practices between schools operating in different countries;-promote cultural difference as a source of creativity and wealth, encouraging students todialogue and intercultural respect;- strengthen the language skills of students and teachers;- strengthen transversal skills (problem solving, team working, effective communication), inespecially the development of critical thinking;- acquire further knowledge in the digital and editorial field;- each school will be able to acquire new skills in the management of Erasmus + projects.The staff involved in the project will ensure that during the 24 months, the activities develop in a way fluid, facing any critical issues and problems. Monitoring tools are provided such as questionnaires and forms relating to student performance, as a means of preparing reports and understand the progress of the proposal until the end of the activities, when the staff will present the ""Folking"" results. These will be processed, not only based on reports, but also on the stock of the reference indicators established by the experts. These include:- increase in certifications in English (at least 40% of participants);- increase in IT certifications (at least 20% of participants);- improvement in school performance;- increase in the network of contacts of schools;- improvement of the teachers' performance following the acquisition of innovative methodological-learning know-how;increased participation of schools involved in new Erasmus + projects.The project foresees a diffusion plan addressed both within the partnership, in order to involve students, families and teachers, but also a dissemination aimed at promoting the project in an audiencewider. This will happen, thanks to the press, radio and TV, to the distribution of brochures, to the creation of a facebook page and to specific sections on the websites of the various schools, but above all thanks to the blog which will represent not only a window on the project but also on the territories involved."

"Our project ""EVERY CHILD IS SPECIAL"" has been developed in order to increase the quality of education of the BEP (Individualized Education Program) students in our partner schools and the competence of our teachers in this regard. The most important issue that we agree on with our partners is learning and discover of innovative methods that can meet the variable needs and demands of our students with special needs at the highest level. According to our aim, our project activities are determined in four different categories, each will be held in different countries. These categories are determined according to the areas where countries are strong in practice.1) Students with Visual Impairment (Turkey)2) Students with Auditory Problems (North Macedonia)3) Students with Physical Disabilities (Romania)4) Students with Learning Disabilities and lack of Attention (Greece)Teachers who will see school technics, technical opportunities, education in arts and sports in different countries for students with special needs , also have the opportunity to apply these experiences in their schools. It is one of our most important objectives to provide our educational, intellectual and cultural development by transforming these experiences into knowledge and learning opportunities for a quality education. For this purpose, technology class, art class and sports hall in our schools will be developed for the high benefit of our students.Instead of a boring and outdated curriculum, it is the most important place in strategic planning that our students will be educated with an innovative and supportive curriculum learned from their experts.. With this project, many achievements will be gain in social, cultural and pedagogical terms.. While creating our activities in our project, workshops, exhibitions and games are especially designed to strengthen students' participation.Theoretical trainings make up the second main focus of our project. We have developed the materials with a holistic approach, considering all other environmental factors that affect the education of the family, school and student. During the project, the training groups consisting of academics of the Special Education and Social Work department of Hacettepe University – our project partner – will provide a training in each country that is suitable for the subject of the international meeting. After the project, they will also continue to support the whole group. Additionally, regarding to this theoretical trainings, each country will organize family trainings. Academic Skills Group, Teacher Support Group and Family Support Group trainings will be conducted for this purpose. It is envisaged that this support will be transformed into a cycle that covers not only Individual Education Programs (IEP) but also the monitoring and evaluation process. After the activities we will implement during the project, the Academic Skills Group will be an observation and support group that will measure the competencies of our teachers about IEP. In order to ensure that this cycle operates in a healthy way, the level of achievement of the targeted IEP’s objectives will be evaluated and IEPs will be reconstructed as a result of this evaluation. It is predicted that participant’s success in IEP will increase, which it will directly promote students' self-confidence and productivity. The seminars and workshops that we will make on this subject will be recorded as videos and shared with other schools, and also they will be posted on the websites of the project and schools too.Hacettepe University School Social Work Practice and Research Center (HOSMER) is a center that develops and implements many national and international innovative projects in the field of school social work. In our project, the director of this center acts as the coordinator of project partner (Hacettepe University), strengthening the quality of our practices. This, together with our partner schools, facilitates our goals for disseminating the results of our project and institutionalizing the school social work. For this reason, we pay special attention to disseminating the results of our project, increasing its efficiency and evaluation. In this project, E-books and DVDs containing each country's own activity plans and project results will be duplicated and distributed. In addition, after the project, the participants will share their experiences on IEP in neighboring schools with their colleagues. We believe that our project, which we have created to ensure that our IEP students receive education with the most accurate approaches, will be an example project for other schools.."

"The aim of our project, the participants of which come from various parts and regions of Europe, is to prevent the omnipresent intolerance. By instilling the attitude of empathy, tolerance and respect towards other people into young people’s minds, we wish to motivate them to participate in social life more, to be active citizens, to promote the increase of tolerance towards other cultures, ideas and world outlook, and to enhance the international dialogue. The thoroughly planned activities will allow the students to be acquainted with the “otherness” of people, see how it feels to be in their place, and to implement the acquired knowledge and use it to create the educational tools in the struggle against intolerance.The motivation for this project arises from the observation of young people’s behavior towards others who may look different, have different religious beliefs or who may be refugees or emigrants. Students’ opinions are mostly based on stereotypes existing in our societies. Through our project we would like our students to become acquainted with another – the proper - way of thinking, and to show them the lifestyles of people living in remote parts of the world. The cooperation among the students from various countries based on common workshops, lectures, debates and teamwork will help in breaking the stereotypes. During discussions, games and activities the cosmopolitan aspect of our learners will be strengthened. The participants of the project should realize that despite the different lifestyles, we all understand the idea of tolerance in the same way. In the long term, such experiences ought to be practiced by the participants in order to promote mutual respect and to avoid discrimination. During the project, the students will be encouraged to look for places or people who have experienced some kind of intolerance or discrimination in their life. We wish to show young people, who live in peace and democracy now, how thin the line is between human rights and freedom or nationalism, between xenophobia and war. Not only will the participants acquire skills and abilities from this project but also will raise their awareness that tolerance and freedom are not always natural things and that we often have to nurture and care for them.The project will focus on young people at the age of 14-18 years old. Participant students will be enthusiastic, friendly ,creative, be eager and outgoing. They can be boys or girls. They should have at least A2 level English. Totally there are 64 students who will join the international activities but the project wants other students at school to play a more active role in national activities. There are 32 accompanying person. The accompanying persons should have English speaking competence. Our transnational activities are; Cooking (Demonstration and teaching host countries common food), each country will prepare one traditional food, Food festival,Traditional Dance(Demonstration and teaching), Language application, duolingo Teaching common words and phrases: 30 survival phrases in host countries language), walking exhibition-Graffiti related to tolerance,• Presentation about examples of extreme intolerance , Quiz ""What do you know about ....?"" - it refers to other countries,• A discussion about stereotypes, Traditional Games(Demonstration and teaching host countries ), Playing and learning street games, hand Craft(Demonstration and teaching host countries art),art festival ( Every countries will show one traditional art), Theatre performance related to the topic of tolerance and intolerance - workshops, Presentation and demonstration host countries music, Introducing a traditional instrument from every country, music quizzes, recreational activity preparing play list or jingle or karaoke, Preparing and conducting Oxford Debates about the issue of tolerance and discrimination, the presentations of HIP HOP songs. Besides this transnational activities we have also national activities such as organizing seminars about the ""Learning from the Past"" , museum visiting, Preparation traditional recipes book, preparing leaflet. The following methods will be used: research, case study, evaluation method, debates, questionnaire, portfolio, teamwork,brainstorming, mind maps, discussions, decision tree, role play, drama,analysis method,interview,exhibition(drawing graffiti about tolerance)The transnational meetings and short term students exchange will provide us some advantages such as improving the language skills, learning different ways of living and thinking in different cultures, and being more tolerant towards differences, traditions and values of other societies. Students will learn accept criticism and recognize their strengths and weaknesses."

The project “Storytelling” that originates from the collaboration of the High School – Cariati, with the High School Etimesgut Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel Anatolian that is located in Ankara (Turkey), the Liceul Tehnologic located in Ticleni (Romania), the EPALM Institute located in Metsovou (Greece) and the Institute Szkoła Podstawowa nr 16 im. F. Chopina (Poland), considers 5 exchanges that will last for 5 days (+ 2 traveling days) for 24 students of each partner with an age range from 15 to 17 years old (5th and 6th classes).Mobility actvities aim at beginning both a synergy and collaboration among youngsters with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, in order to reach the creation of a blog that tells history, traditions and food and wine of the belonging’s places of all the groups that will take part in this exchange. Students will tell and describe the excellences of their places of origin, promoting the tourist promotion of their own territory too. This type of activity aims at cutting down the cultural barriers that come from some stereotypes and misunderstandings, in order to stimulate the pupils to open themselves up and to understand both what is the respect fot ‘the other’ and why being different can result to be a treasure. The blog will be completely planned by the students, not only for the contents but for the graphics (font, colours, logo, etc.) too. It will be written in english but there will be also some available translations in the languages of all the participating countries. The main objectives of the proposal will be the following ones: - to promote the exchange of good practices among the schools that operate in different countries; - to promote the cultural difference as a creativity and prosperity source, in order to move the pupils to both the dialogue and the intercultural respect; to enhance the linguistic abilities of both students and teachers; -to enhance the transverse abilities (problem solving, team working, effective communication), in particular the development of the critical thought;-to get some further digital and editorial knowledges;- each school will get further competences within the management of the Erasmus + Projects. The involved staff in this project will guarantee that the activities will develop in a very shifting way in a total period of time that will last for 24 months, because of facing possible difficulties and troubles. There will be some monitoring tools such as questionnaires and sheets that relate to the students’ performances, such as tools that will be used to do reports and to understand the performance of the proposal till the end of the activities , when the staff will introduce “Storytelling” ‘s results. These will be done not only because of the reports, but also because of the full supply of the reference index that were decided by the authorized personnel. Following features are included among these ones:- increase of English Language Certifications (at least for the 40% of the participants); -increase of IT Certifications (at least for the 20% of the participants);- improvement of school performances; - increase of the contact networks of the schools;-improvement of the performances of the teachers as a reasult of the acquisition of innovative methodology and didactics;- increase of the participation of the involved school in new Erasmus + Projects.The project foresees a plan of dissemination that is pointed towards the ‘interior’ of the partnership, in order to involve students, families and teachers and that can promote the project for a broader audience. This will happen, thanks to press, radio, tv, the dissemination of leaflets , the creation of a facebook page and some sections on the websites of the different schools, but above all thanks to the blog that will be not only a small part in this project but in the involved territories too.

Through a long period of corona pandemic, our project has become even more important. We still need all students to be happy so that future generations can contribute to a more peaceful and prosperous world. It is also one of the main goals of the EU: promoting peace and well-being for the citizens of the Union. Quality of education and school happiness are inseparable, and that happiness and well-being should not only be considered as a goal for education systems, but also as means for higher education outcomes and success in future life and work. There is a clear need for more time and space in schools, whether it is time set aside for leisure activities or the preparation of fun and engaging learning methods, or when it comes to space for students to express themselves more freely. We still hope that our project has helped the students to grow mentally, mentally, socially and emotionally. It will keep them healthy, give them exposure to learn through others, and try new things, develop their talents, whether it is in ICT, music, art or sports. It will emphasize the need for more fun and engaging learning approaches to make the teaching and learning process more fun for both students and teachers. It will highlight the need for 21st century teachers who are both equipped and supported to use innovative teaching and learning strategies.Through active participation, dances, songs, arts and crafts, sports and via new technology, teachers and students have further developed an understanding of each other's culture and traditions. They have also improved their foreign languages. It has also strengthened the feeling of being one in a united Europe. The project activities have increased the collaboration between schools and students from different European countries. The activities have made it possible for students to explore, understand, describe and compare and contrast lifestyles throughout Europe. Some of the concrete outcome of our project is creating logos and designing mascot competition, making dance videos, “Erasmus+Corner'' was made in every school to visualise our project, movies of trips were made after meetings, presentation of countries, cities, schools, A 2-year calendar was made both digital and printed, Music festivals and shows where organized, a lot of nature activity has been done such as mountain hike, swimming, tennis, horseback riding, visiting museums and Zoo, voluntary work once a year, Outdoor picnic and going to concerts. We also have done a lot of seminars on ICT on education applications for teachers and students presented in meetings such as Storybird, Padlet, Tagul, Scratch, Puppet Pals, Creaza and of course made a website for our project and Facebook and whatsApp group for communication. Very good and varied programs for our exchanges in the partner countries were also completed according to our plan. In Turkey we completed Tennis, outdoor field trip, museum, jigsaw exhibition, presentations about local artists, Marbling art, Just-dance and Nintendo Wii video game and Zumba. In Hungary we did Makerspace science lab, Robotics workshop, Karaoke, Horse Riding, outdoor field trip, Visiting Zoo, swimming and water sports in thermal spa. ICT seminar on program Scratch, presentation on cyberbullying, traditional dance, Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition. In Norway it was arranged disco with sharing of music Spotify lists, Yoga, Climbing indoor, outdoor swimming, ICT seminar on creaza and Puppet Pals, mountain hike and guided new-art tour among others. Our Irish partner school unfortunately had to withdraw before the project. We have solved this by sharing the planned activities for Ireland into the remaining partner countries and used grants to bring more participants for the other mobilities. All completed results correspond well to the priorities of the project that is finding joy and happiness through learning in creative and practical ways through sports, music, art, recreational activities and and technology. Planned activities for the meeting in Funchal, Madeira were canceled due to coronavirus but we will do the ICT activities that originally were planned for Portugal online during the upcoming school year. We will arrange google meet or zoom meetings and use video apps biteable, powtoon, animot and edmodo during the online education. This will also strengthen the sustainability of the project.