"Quest for Vanished PlacesThe aim of the project was to discover forgotten places around the school. Through meetings and discussions with contemporary witnesses, historians and chroniclers, students discovered important information about our history. Another goal was to get to know the past of the villages in which the schools are located. Based on interviews with grandparents, we managed to create a ""bridge"" that connected the generation gap and aroused the interest of students in the lives of their grandparents and the times in which they grew up. Together, the pupils created a calendar depicting 12 forgotten places with dated and contemporary photographs with brief commentary in English and the languages of the partner countries. Pupils created the Quest - a tracking game (a form of treasure hunt) that guides its ""players"" through a number of interesting places at the school site and nearby locations. Pupils first collected historical materials of the places, chose the route through the village, invented the story that would create an attractive look for children and clues that lead to the discovery of the treasure. The quest is intended for the public and long-term sustainability is ensured in all countries. At the same time, while searching for historical places, we were looking for a vanished object/place that would be suitable for restoraion. In cooperation with other organizations, we managed to enrich school vicinity and connect history with the present. While fulfilling the project goals, students developed their competences: creativity, individuality, language and IT skills. Project realization supported their social competences, feeling of citizenship and knowledge of different cultures. Pupils made a grat progress in English, even though we were not allowed to realize mobilities due to force major. Key competences were developed through common activities and reaching project goals in all European countries involved. Discovering and learning about local historical events, sharing and mutual exchange of knowledge and experience supported students´ sense of citizenship in wider European consequences."

For starters, the best is just good enough!Stop the ignorance in education towards brain research!Anyone who thinks that teaching literacy is peanuts and sophisticated method can wait for more demanding subjects later, is overlooking the fact that letters are the vehicle that transports us through our entire education. The entry sets the course!If one in five of the 15-year-old Europeans can’t properly read (- and this in countries like France, England, Germany, that are proudly teaching letters to every 6-year-old) then something is wrong!Worldwide the learning enthusiasm our species shows at the beginning of their lives, makes preschoolers running to school. And worldwide tired up to weary faces are sitting there shortly after.Why?Because letter-teaching enters the brain 'the wrong way round'.As wrong-way-drivers in a one-way-street teachers are fighting their way through the pupil’s honking, while right direction would be met by cheers and natural learning pace for a lifetime.Driving in the right direction from the start makes gifted pupils more gifted and those with learning difficulties integrated.But only a 'lived' alphabet is also loved.For loved ones people do everything. This is about the self-perpetuated learning school puts the usual end to.The alphabet sound-image-story is equivalent to an invention that generates change. The project provides the framework for the required interdisciplinarity.A systematic training develops step by step the compound of intrinsic creativity and scientific precision. This is to enable the creation of the sound-image-story of the alphabet in other countries and their languages:An educational tool that in addition brings an unprecedented printing product on the market, the context-transparency print. A mnemonic tool, which provides a fundamentally new direction and significance for both, the book market and digital means. An educational tool that helps tuition to escape from its diehard course, and get into the right seaways.In order to avoid any doubt about Europe having no time to lose at this U-turn, the use of the SOUND-IMMAGE-ALPHABET is accompanied by a broad comparative study in several schools. Besides writing and reading progress, also health, social behavior, reliability and the success in the remnant school subjects are targeted by the analyses.With education as its third largest export- and second biggest income-factor, Australia proves that there is a market sector that can compete with the energy industry! – Then what are we waiting for in post-industrial Europe?