The need for Digital skills has never been greater. Employers continue to report difficulties in recruitment of qualified staff, while all young people benefit from the critical thinking and other transferable skills characteristic of STEM subjects, whether or not they are destined for STEM careers. The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing our world. We are moving to a new age of connected devices. We are living in a new connected world. Not only smart devices like smartphones and tablets are getting connected but many others in our everyday lives. They are changing industries as we know them. Automotive, Health, Energy, Connected homes. Just a few of the sectors where we are seeing lots of change. The big players Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM, CISCO and many others are making alliances, acquiring new companies and creating new teams involved with IoT. They spending millions of dollars ? Because IoT is very hot future trend.There is overwhelming evidence that the UK’s and indeed Europe’s digital tech sector is critical to its economic growth.The objective of ICT research under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) was to improve the competitiveness of European industry – as well as to enable Europe to master and shape the future developments of these technologies so that the demands of its society and economy are met. The European Commission recently launched a call for proposals on IoT large scale pilots in the areas of wearables, assisted living, connected vehicles, smart cities, smart agriculture and water management supported by Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. During the short term exchanges of groups of pupils: improving skills in foreign languages; problem solving skills; critical thinking skills; digital skills; STEM Skills; ICT; entrepreneurial skills and employability skills; improving knowledge of other Education systems ; culture; habits, etc.Accompanying persons for short-term exchanges of groups of pupils: improving professional development and languages skills.

The need for Digital skills has never been greater. Employers continue to report difficulties in recruitment of qualified staff, while all young people benefit from the critical thinking and other transferable skills characteristic of STEM subjects, whether or not they are destined for STEM careers. The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing our world. We are moving to a new age of connected devices. We are living in a new connected world. Not only smart devices like smartphones and tablets are getting connected but many others in our everyday lives. They are changing industries as we know them. Automotive, Health, Energy, Connected homes are just a few of the sectors where we are seeing lots of change. The big players Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM, CISCO and many others are making alliances, acquiring new companies and creating new teams involved with IoT. They spending millions of dollars? Why? Because IoT is very hot future trend.There is overwhelming evidence that the UK’s and indeed Europe’s digital tech sector is critical to its economic growth. The objective of ICT research under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) was to improve the competitiveness of European industry – as well as to enable Europe to master and shape the future developments of these technologies so that the demands of its society and economy are met. The European Commission recently launched a call for proposals on IoT large scale pilots in the areas of wearables, assisted living, connected vehicles, smart cities, smart agriculture and water management supported by Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The Internet of Things is the emerging technology offering the greatest opportunities to create new business and revenues, according to CompTIA's second annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report, released in June 2019.We believe our project can help our students address some of the key skills challenges that Europe is currently facing. In the context of our project we are looking to promote these skills gaps to girls and encourage more girls to look to these contemporary careers and realise they are #notjustforboys. We will involve 84 students from 3 countries. Our project has a great variety of possibilities for dissemination. The broad interest aroused by any innovation among the maker movement, spread by all the countries of the world, favours the projection of our activities. We believe, through our partnership, we can use our intended projects to develop our students’ skills to make them better digital citizens, workers, makers, entrepreneurs and gamers to enhance their employability; and to help them become economically active. Activities range from completing iDEA (https://idea.org.uk/) all completed bronze and some silver level. All students carried out activities that introduced The Invention Cycle. Groups worked in mixed ability teams to access, use new technology, and created a framework for approaching an engineering or design process. They were introduced to new technology to begin to plan their projects. They developed and demonstrated skills in innovation, teamwork, communication, decision making and budgeting. The mixed International teams developed their projects further, developed their pitch and presentation skills and produced prototypes. They took part in activities that included: tinkering; introduction to 3D modelling and printing; introduction to prototyping with Little Bits and Strawbees; programmed and problem solved using Robots: Little Bits; Lego WeDo 2.0; Lego EV3; Robobo; mBot; microbit; microbot. They were introduced to Cloud Computing and the Internet of things. They developed skills in coding and computational thinking, used web 2.0 tools to collaborate, e.g. padlet. The pupils produced resources collaboratively for dissemination on a web site that we designed about this Erasmus project 'In the Cloud' http://bit.ly/36c6XoY and staff and pupils prepared resources for e-Twinning (http://bit.ly/2Psprf9) for VISH (http://vishub.org/)and we are going to disseminate the results on the http://www.scientix.eu/ platform as the staff involved in each country are Scientix Ambassadors for their countries. We have disseminated on social media which can be found on eTwinning site, Twitter @IOT_Erasmusplus (where in Mar 2019 alone we made 7922 twitter impressions had 80 profile visits) and we have collected all tweets on Wakelet (http://bit.ly/3534GM9). We believe our project has impacted over 2,000 pupils across Europe and a lot of what we produced is now embedded into each school's curriculum. We believe this project fully addresses the Gatsby Benchmarks which are a framework of 8 guidelines that define the best careers provision in schools and colleges in the UK, particularly: 2. Learning from career and labour market information; 4. Linking curriculum learning to careers; 5. Encounters with employers and employees and 6. Experiences of workplaces.

"The two participating schools have as the most important objectives of the curriculum the teaching of science and technology as well as foreign languages. While employment opportunities in Europe have been affected by economic conditions, the demand for qualified science and technology workers, with good language skills, remains high. Therefore, the participating schools aim to train students to become active citizens both in their community and at European level. Students need to develop the necessary skills to take advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.Several studies have highlighted an alarming decline of youth interest in science and technology. Despite the actions taken to reverse this trend, the signs of improvement are still modest. Unless more effective initiatives are taken, Europe's ability to innovate and research can be seriously affected. Therefore, the European Commission has developed a new way to implement the ""know -how "" and best practices leading to a radical change in the interest of young people in science and technology. The report "" Rocard on Science education"" suggests that this lack of interest of young people in science is due to the way they are taught in school .The need to improve science education has a crucial role in "" Lisbon Strategy "" and "" Rocard Report. "" Schools participating in this project have promoted and helped to improve education in science and technology through new forms of education, introducing inquiry in schools and the creation of networks of teachers involved should promote and encourage the learning of science and technology.For these reasons , the project has the following objectives :1 - the learning of science and technology as a basis for the gateway to employment and social inclusion. These skills are increasingly important and the demand for skilled workers in Europe remains high.2 - to increase each student achievements and progress in the way of their involvement in learning.3 - to propose an informal, personalized and collaborative learning , increasing the availability of open educational resources that will be generated in the Vish platform.4 - to improve generic skills of students, including digital and language competence.5 - students will be offered with new and innovative approaches to learning, involving them directly influencing creativity , initiative, teamwork and responsibility for their own work .6 - promoting cooperation between European countries to improve dialogue between cultures, increase employment opportunities and expand the range of job offers .7 - promote the use of tools that allow recognition of competences acquired in non-formal learning involved in this project, as the use of Europass by participants .To achieve the objectives of the plan proposed activities is as follows:. - Use inquiry-based teaching to enhance interest in science and technology.. - exchange good practices implemented in each of the centers through virtual communication channels , networks , meetings and mobilities that improve language skills and digital .. - increase the use of ICT in schools through virtual learning for students and pedagogical support for teachers.During the two -year project expected results are:The mobility of students , which will provide the opportunity to improve language skills , knowledge of other European educational systems , communication skills , improving generic skills , implementation of new methods of learning , ICT skills, European dimension in schools , the ability of problem solving and critical thinking. etc . The most important result is the set of virtual tours conducted in Vish platform in English and Spanish . These resources will be available for use throughout the world since it is an open platform use. Also as part of the spread , courses for teachers will be made to publicize the results of the project and participate in conferences , seminars, training of trainers and conferences to ensure the dissemination of the results obtained."