“Especial Friends For Especial Students” is a project coordinated by Sweden in partnership with Poland, Turkey, Lithuania and Italy, on a span of 24 months. It is an undeniable fact that alternative types of therapy are sometimes the best way to achieve improvement in the case of children facing certain problems, like in the case of children diagnosed to be in the autistic spectrum, suffering from attention deficit, behavioral issues, developmental, speech and learning impediments, but also psychiatric setbacks. One of the most widely accepted ways of dealing with these issues is finding support in animal assisted therapy.The targeted objectives are:To aid learning issues related to reading, speech, mathematics and social skills for the individuals in need of specific educational help (mentally, emotionally, cognitive, behaviorally and physically);To increase the level of teachers` competences regarding the European dimension by acknowledging the importance of accepting animals into the educative aspect;To insert animal – supported educational programs into the frame curriculum, where the taught discipline allows it;The number of teachers taking part in learning, teaching and training activities (LTTA) will be of five from each school. Special education teachers, teachers working with students with disabilities, psychiatrists and staff applying animal assisted education in the future will be absolutely needed for the transnational meeting sessions. 80 mobilities (20 mobilities per school) will be assigned to this project for the next two years.The targeted activities of this project are:Partner school presentations, also their cities and countries;Discussions and interviews with therapists and parents of students with disabilities;Dog- assisted therapy;Equine assisted interventions;Dolphin assisted therapy;Classroom educational activities integrating animal assistanceDeveloping teaching and learning activities using birds, rabbits and fishes;Designing applicable and fruitful lesson plans based on animal assisted activities;Exchanges of good practices.The methods used for working with the partners:Therapy programs;Observation;Team-work;Sharing examples of good practice;Teaching using innovative and modern approaches;Interviews; Seminars;Surveys.The applicable targeted outcomes are:For the students that will come in contact with animals such as equines, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, birds and fishes:Self-regulation of feelings and emotions, increase of the self-worth and self-esteem attitude, imply a sense of calm, comfort and safety, divert attention from stressful situations related to depression or anxiety;Expanding the abilities to listen, understand and pay attention of students with special needs;A better positive social attitude of the students will be easily observedThe beneficiary students will make good use of the opportunities offered by this project through enhancing their motivation, coordination, fine motor skills, social interaction and communication with peers and adults with the help of animal assisted activities;Special needs students will benefit from cognitive, emotional, physical and social points of view from using animal assisted education;The educators will focus on using the best ways of including the animal assisted interventions into the educational environment while carrying out different activities;The extracurricular dimension targeted by the activities of this project take into consideration the buildup of academic, emotional development, civic engagement and equitable opportunities aspects.

"Nowadays many teachers have noticed the students' need for a more up-to-date, dynamic and interactive acquisition of skills and competences, especially in the STEAM field. The latest results of national and international tests (PISA, TIMSS) in all partner countries have shown it is necessary to improve students' Math competences. The European Schoolnet (EUN) also claims that STEAM skills are becoming an increasingly important part of basic literacy in today’s knowledge-oriented society, while, on the other hand, the EU needs more scientists and science aware citizens. The primary objective of ""MA(R)TH - MATH, MUSIC AND ART WILL KEEP YOU SMART"" project is to use the interdisciplinary approach and connect Math (a subject with generally lower students' motivation) with Music and Art (subjects with generally higher students' motivation) to enhance their key competences in those fields. The second objective is to strengthen teachers' profile and raise the level of their professional competences so as to develop innovative teaching methods, take initiative in leadership in education and build capacity to work in transnational projects. Through cooperation with local institutions teachers are to strengthen their own and their students' civic awareness. The third objective is to include ICT knowledge and the working language of the project - English - in project activities so that both students and teachers also increase their digital, linguistic and communication competence.Finally, the same importance is assigned to the objectives of enhancing creativity, integrating students with fewer opportunities in project activities and promoting equality, as well as promoting other European values such as greater understanding of cultural diversity and a positive attitude towards students' and teachers' mobility for education and EU funded projects.MA(R)TH project will be presented to approximately 4100 students, teachers and staff, then parents in partner schools from 6 countries (Lithuania, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Macedonia and Croatia) and their local communities. Each school coordinator will form a team of teachers of the subjects the project is based on and students who will carry out the planned project tasks. Students' age is 13-18 and they belong to different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Other participants will be members of local community and experts connected with the topics of Math, Music, Art and ICT. Parents and members of local government will support the implementation of the project. MA(R)TH activities will include creating presentations, doing interviews, quizzes, questionnaires, writing texts, learning scenarios, drawing pictures, taking photos, composing music, making videos, participating in and holding teacher- student and student-student workshops, taking part in online meetings. Some of the topics to cover will be: fractions and music, Fibonacci series in painting, fractals, math in architecture etc.The project will have a website and a Twinspace where participants will share all created materials.Twinspace chat and online meeting option will also be used for collaboration. Virtual cooperation will be combined with 5 short-term exchanges of groups of pupils and 1 short-term joint staff training event. The short-term joint staff training event to be carried out during the first mobility will provide teachers with necessary competences on how to apply the interdisciplinary approach and use the new ICT tools (GeoGebra, Chrome Music Lab, create and maintain a website) and enable them to share good practices, their know-how, to connect and implement the rest of the project activities successfully.During the 5 exchanges involving students, they will continue to study different aspects of Math - Music - Art connection, develop their ICT and English skills, creativity and critical thinking, participate in workshops, study visits and share intercultural diversity. We believe the most important outcomes will be the fulfillment of the above set objectives.Concrete results students will produce at the end of MA(R)TH project are a depliant, a GeoGebra e-book containing tasks, students' work, presentations, pictures, workshop learning scenarios and video materials, an e-photo album and a calendar. Impacts will include increased quality of education seen in improved key STEAM competences and basic ICT and language skills of students as well as in strengthened teachers' profile.All participants will also develop greater respect towards diversity and understand the need to promote EU values.Long-term benefits will be the following: increased capacity of partner schools for organizing future EU projects, increased cooperation among members of school teams as well as between schools and local community, new interdisciplinary innovative activities that can be included in school curricula and the availability of all produced materials on Twinspace for future use and upgrade by all eTwinning members."

"Our project team is composed of 5 countries.Italy,Spain,Romania,Lithuania,Turkey located into different parts of Europe.It involves 5 educational institutions with around 2000 participants, including 180 children with special needs, experienced teachers.Our project focuses on Secondary school students,(13-17ages) who will communicate via ICT, by means of our eTwinning common platform,and work together to put forward their ideas and to compromise.Environmental issues are main problems of all countries.We focused on creating a new generation to protect nature.According to Europe 2030 strategy, like an European countries we have had similar ways of teaching and develop similar transversal competencies built on the different bases of our national cultures,our methods of teaching,working and soft skill competencies.To implement our goals,we will work together in different countries involved in the partnership,within these 4 stages:1.Protected Ecosystem 2.Recycling 3.Responsible Water Consumption 4.Renewable Energies.Before starting the project, we conducted a survey and swot analysis among all students of our partner schools to determine the level of this knowledge it is at the level of Italian school %45 the Spanish school 52%, the Turkish school %,40 the Romanian school 45%, the Lithuanian school%40.Our surveys have shown us that nearly %60 of students don’t know how to protect environment.We think that we should focus on how to protect environment.At the end of the project,after two years of activity,the same survey will be served and comparing the results of these two surveys will allow us to determine the increase in knowledge in students in each of the partner schools in the field of ecology and state that the project goal has been achieved,as confirmed.When writing the project, our main goal is to make students more environmentally conscious,and to find solutions how we can solve them, to expand the colleagues’methodological toolbox using cooperation among subjects,learning modern methodological strategies and trying them in practice.In adittion to this,we believe that English is one of the most important subjects to teach, because our students must live in a global world.We think English cannot be done in an isolated way:it must be related to important subjects in that global world such as ecology.Acording to Swot analyzes and Surveys in partner schools:%75 of children know the rules of grammar but they have difficulty in speaking English.We will improve our educational practices in order to get better the four basic skills(speaking, reading, listening and writing)in English incorporating them into the Linguistic Project.That this way of working, sharing good practices from different countries,can lead teachers to improve their professional skills and the ability to introduce a variety of unconventional methods and ways to teach.The methodology to be used is designed to engage students using languages familiar to and interesting to them, and keeping with encouraging them to speak.It will strengthen the international cooperation through sharing good teaching learning practices.New methodological materials for learning/ teaching in this area will be innovative and it will encourage the environmental awaraness.The material will be widely disseminated so they are available to the general public to Europe.With this project,our task is to involve the students to an active research in the collection of information and scientific data observing and investigating nature,global warming responsible and water consumption,studying how renewable energy resources are exploited.The project will get better integration of all schools into EU base on the education.Our aim is to achieve the objectives of the Project by cooperating and working actively together with local institutions, teachers, parents and children..The main activities carried on will be:surveys and questionnaires,presentations by experts,different visits to places related to all the topics,World ""Important Day"" Celebrations,making different manual works(Terrarium,water filter,solar panel,furniture clothes bags from waste materials) e magazine,e newpaper about environmental protection.Common webpage to upload and download materials.youtube channel.Using different ways to evaluate the project results and its impact on the school communities.We want to offer our students the opportunity of having a qualified education, improving our methods of teaching, sharing good practises,developed by different partners of this project.Therefore, we are completely sure we will be able to get environmentally responsible citizens who are going to use different formats and ways to get to the information and this will be very useful for the future.We are concentrated on the environmental problems and solutions must be added to national educational cirriculums.The disseminitation of the project will spread our aims to all locals,national and international."

Erasmus+ emphasizes that foreign languages have a prominent role among the skills that will help equip people better for the labor market and make the most of available opportunities. Starting from this point of view, Creative Drama and Games in English Language Teaching Project focus on teaching English to secondary school students in enjoyable and effective ways. The project will last 24 months. The partner countries are; Romania, Turkey, Portugal, Lithuania and North Macedonia. There will be 6 mobilities. 4 students and 2 teachers from each country will participate in the mobilities.The objectives of the project are;* To increase the levels of the students to the upper level via English lesson activities * To lessen the anxiety levels of the students against the English language via English lesson activities * To encourage students to gain more self-confidence via creative drama *To increase the speaking skills of the students via creative dramaThere are 5 different groups that will take part in project activities. These are students, teachers, other school staff, parents and local participants. Each school will form a group of 50 students for the project activities. Totally, at least 300 students will take place in the project. These students will be chosen from the students with fewer opportunities. These students have economic obstacles, cultural differences, social obstacles, educational difficulties, geographical obstacles or they are refugees. Their age is between 11-16. These students are the main participants of the project as they will take part in all dramas and they will enjoy the games in English lessons. These students also will take part in eTwinning projects. Each school will prepare a commission of teachers to manage the project. In the commission, at least one English teacher and one ICT teacher have to take place. The headmaster and one assistant headmaster will be involved in the commission as directors. Contact persons of each country are responsible for managing the project. English teachers are responsible for carrying out the project activities which are English lesson games and Creative Drama activities. The other teachers who do not take place into the commission will be informed about the project and they will join the dissemination activities of the project. Other school staff will take place in dissemination activities. Each school will host a drama which will be performed by the students. All parents and local participants will be invited to watch this drama. As products of the project;6 books which will include at least 192 English lesson games, 6 dramas which will be written by the students and a new curriculum with Creative Drama and games inside will be published. English teachers can access these products freely. The project will be based on two basic planned activities. These are games and Creative Drama activities. For games, every school will produce at least two games related to the monthly themes every month. Totally, 190 games will be produced. English lessons with games will help to increase the levels of the students to the upper level and to lessen the anxiety levels of the students. In the project, 6 Dramas will be produced as teamwork. Students will write the scenarios of the dramas together and they will take part in performing this Drama. Creative Drama activities will help to encourage students to gain more self-confidence via creative drama and to increase the speaking skills of the students via creative drama.Two Methodologies to be used in carrying out the project; Total Physical Response in games and the communicative approach in creative drama activities.Total Physical Response (TPR) Total Physical Response (TPR) is a method of teaching language or vocabulary concepts by using physical movement to react to verbal input. The communicative approach is based on the idea that learning a language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning. The results of the project are;*The English levels of the students will have increased one level higher,*At least 144 students from all schools will have experienced in having a role in a drama and their anxiety level will lessen.*Students who will take place in dramas and games will have gained more self-confidence*English speaking skills of students will have been improved.*6 books and 6 dramas will have been published and will have been shared by other teachers.*At least 190 English lesson games will have been published and will have been shared by other teachers. As Impact envisaged and finally the potential longer-term benefits, the English levels of the students will increase to the upper level. At least 144 students will take place in drama and at least 300 students will get benefit from the Project. English teachers all over the World can Access the e-books, the scenarios, and videos of the creative dramas and the curricula with the games and creative drama activities.

"The project ""Cross-disciplinary activities for sustainable life"" unites five schools: Narva Kesklinna Gümnaasium (Estonia), Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves, Valadares, Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal), Pales pamatskola (Latvia), Panevezio Saltinio progimnazija (Lithuania) and Tarsus Borsa Istanbul Sehit Umut Sami Sensoy Anadolu Lisesi (Turkey). The main motivation for the project is connected with our wish to make the learning process in our schools more practical and close to real life. In international partnership we plan to collect and develop cross-disciplinary tasks for sustainable life which we will be able to use with our students for helping them see the application of their knowledge received at school and feel responsibility for the planet. At the moment the world is facing a very difficult time, which demonstrates us how connected we all are, how our steps influence other people and how careful and thoughtful we should be in order to be healthy and live in a healthy environment. The project objectives are:1. To make learning in our schools more exciting and practical with the help of cross-disciplinary activities for sustainable life: at least 16 new tasks will be worked out.2. To ensure that the tasks we have worked out suit students of different cultures and backgrounds: all the tasks will be tested by the partner schools in international teams.3. To reduce the risk of early school leaving and disadvantage by providing the students with competences they can use outside the school and become more successful and happy in life.4. To increase use of eTwinning opportunities by the partner schools for providing cross-disciplinary virtual activities to students during and after the present project.The final output is a toolbox of cross-disciplinary activities for sustainable life for the students in the age 12-15. The toolbox can be used by other teachers in the EU.Some examples that we are planning to develop: organisation of green workshops; making a project model ""Green town""; calculating the risks and making forecasts on the topic of the world pollution and ecological dangers; international camp ""ECO-design""; virtual museum exhibition ""Green world"", etc. In the project we plan to work locally and internationally.The international mobilities are divided into short-term joint staff training events (2 during the project) and exchanges of groups of students (3 during the project).The project participants are:1. Teams of teachers: they will collect, develop and test cross-disciplinary activities for sustainable life with the students. Each school has selected their project teams at the stage of the project preparation.2. Students of each partner school. There will be four students involved in each mobility and virtual work in eTwinning. The age of students is 12 - 15. There will be different students in each mobility, so that the project can provide international learning experience to more students.Narva Kesklinna Gümnaasium is the project coordinator. Latvian school is responsible for coordination of eTwinning activities, Lithuanian - for monitoring and evaluation of the project activities and results, Turkish - for dissemination of the project activities and results, Portuguese - for sustainability of the project results. Estonian and Portuguese partner schools worked together in the previous Erasmus+ strategic partnership project ""Challenging conflicts at school"". The partners from Turkey were involved because one of their coordinators has long term experience cooperation with Narva school and the new school would like to join the partnership. Latvian and Lithuanian schools were found via partner search in eTwinning. All of the partners started their communication on the present project in 2018 preparing the project application for the last year. Since the project didn't get support, during this year we worked on its improvement and stayed in touch.We expect this project to have a deep impact on the participating schools: the teachers will receive cross-disciplinary activities for sustainable life to use with their students in the age of 12-15. It will make make learning in our schools more exciting and practical; the school teams (teachers and students) will improve their international cooperation competences; the schools will develop as organisations, implementing new ideas and partners' best practices. They will receive experience and be able to work with intercultural groups of students. The students will be more motivated and we will reduce the risk of early school leaving and disadvantage by providing the students with competences they can use outside the school and become more successful and happy in life; the synergy created in the project will make all the participating schools stronger offering diverse expertise (all the project partners have their specific competences); the planned activities are directly connected with curricula of participating schools."