"The project ""Drawing the future together"" (24 months) aims to develop the creativity of children with intellectual or artistic potential, from disadvantaged social backgrounds, by carrying out non-formal education activities and contributing to the resilience and recovery of cultural and creative.In order to reduce the dropout rate, there is a need to redefine educational institutions, train the staff that operate there, seek new learning-teaching methods capable of dismantling old formal operational styles and provide means that prioritize “informal” and “non-formal” learning-teaching moments.Invest in the public expenditure related to the training of unearthed students and all school staff to develop basic and transversal skills, using innovative methods, based on cooperation between European countries, and make various resources available such as human, cultural, historical and artistic.The objectives will be, active participation in a democratic society to satisfy the need to be aware of being ""European"", cooperation between different countries to satisfy the need to come together on art, architecture, culture and education, to invest in human resources to meet the need for human progress on art and culture today, mobility to meet the need to learn about art and cultural information, develop creativity and stimulate curiosity and the meaning of research through the collection of information relating to cultural heritage.There are five schools participating in the project, Spain, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria and Lithuania, and all schools welcome pupils who are very different by their social origin, ethnicity, religion, culture. Some may be disabled or have severe learning difficulties. It is therefore essential to make the school environment as pleasant as possible for the child and this requires the integration of cultural activities due to the health crisis.The European approach to this issue will allow students to become aware of the common natural heritage and as part of the training of young citizens, this project will raise the awareness of students, their families and all the partners involved in this project. Project.The activities and exchanges that we will organize will provide our students with collective experiences in which we will ensure that they are real actors and not passive spectators. They will experience cultural diversity and the exchange of practices, the tools shared or built by the various partner teachers will help them all progress in their learning and better accept difference.The mobilities which are intended to be carried out by the teaching staff are two transnational meetings and five short-term joint staff training events.The results of the project will be widely disseminated and all these results will contribute to improving the quality of the educational process in schools, and to the creation of teaching materials.For students, fostering children's creativity and helping them solve their problems, facilitate their learning to overcome academic failure, give children the means to succeed, put children on an equal footing in learning, prepare correctly the child with a view to his learning at school, help him in his coordination and promote the development of his brain faculties, make the child discover new skills and build his self-esteem, promote the learning of new cultures, a foreign language: openness to Europe, being able to pass educational tools from one class to another.For teachers, a different approach to the subject making it possible to target several disciplinary and transversal objectives, to overcome the child's shyness and to create a relationship with him, to produce a durable material that can be readapted for future classes , facilitate access to learning, motivate children and encourage them concerning their creative concepts, concerning imagination, thus allowing students to discuss their strategies, their reasons for being and their effectiveness, learning from language and openness to other cultures, learning or improvement of TICS tools, opening the minds of teachers to other learning methods (frontal method), no longer seeing the class as a whole but seeing the child in its individuality, openness to the media, call to the local channel to present our project to the public, to parents, solutions also provided by parents in order to work working together for the well-being of the learner."

"Our Erasmus+ KA229 partnership comprises 6 schools from 6 European countries (Spain, Republic of North Macedonia, Portugal, Bulgaria, Poland and Lithuania) linked to this very ambitious project whose main objective is to develop digital competences in students, as well as the good use of Information and Communication Technologies for Education (ICTE).In recent decades, our society has undergone significant changes that require different responses in the education of future citizens. The school must prepare its students to cope with an increasingly complex society and an increasingly demanding job market, defined by international competition. In the European reference framework (""Europe 2020"" strategies) a consensus has been reached on the objectives of European education systems: our pupils must achieve at the end of their compulsory schooling fundamental competences, in order to evolve effectively in a changing society and to build a participatory and democratic future; these are THE KEY COMPETENCIES. The DIGITAL competency is one of the eight competencies and must be an essential part of the educational pathway.If most students today have access to computers, smartphones, tablets, video games, internet, social networks, etc., it is essential that school plays an educational role. At school, students must learn the proper use of ICTEs under the guidance of a competent teacher. For these reasons the inclusion of ICTEs in schools is of great importance and can be the way to present, develop and reinforce educational contents. This project aims to work on the different educational subjects through the appropriate use of ICTEs, introducing students to both digital literacy and the development of a critical attitude that enables them to make the most of the vast information circulating on networks.We will start by introducing Computational Thinking (ROBOTICS) from kindergarten as an introduction to digital competence and, at the same time, we will offer digital resources to work on the different contents of the subjects (national language, math, science, foreign language, art, etc.) that will be shown to the students as the project progresses.A major joint activity will be carried out by all partners in the first year in order to implement all the digital learning: ""A business in my school.” The aim of this activity is to spread the entrepreneurial culture among children for the purpose of awakening the entrepreneurial spirit. The creation of the logo of the company, the statutes and an electronic e-mail as a communication tool between the different cooperatives of the students of the partnership, advertising, labelling and accounting will be developed with digital tools learned by the students. The products made by the students (with recyclable materials, no plastics) will be sold at the local market or at the school. The money obtained from the sale will be donated to the NGO AFT Burkina.The other main objective of our project is to contribute to the proper use of ICTEs among students. Students are often exposed to inappropriate websites. This leads us to wonder about their ability to judge the use of technological tools. Parents and teachers have a role to play in educating children about ICTEs. Both will take the necessary steps to ensure that children are well guided through their schooling with respect to ICTs.Over the course of the two-year project, we will establish fundamental standards of use and security in the use of ICTEs and social networks. We will develop a guide for children, their parents and teachers containing standards for the proper use of ICTEs. In addition, and in order to inform students and their parents about the risks of the Internet, we will invite the gendarmerie group of each city to hold conferences on this theme.Another major joint activity will be carried out by all partners in the second year to implement what has been learned about the proper use of ICTEs: ""SHORT FILM FESTIVAL.” As a culmination, we will prepare a festival of short films made by students and parents using different mobile phone applications and under the theme ""Environmental Conservation"". This event will be organized in Spain at the end of the 2nd year on the occasion of the closure of the project. Consideration must also be given to the integration of students with educational needs. The use of digital technology allows students with learning disabilities to acquire greater autonomy and to overcome difficulties in the acquisition or automation of learning."

Six european nursery and elementary schools (Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Portugal and France) participated in this project aiming to put project based learning at the service of the acquisition by pupils of the key skills, as they are described in Europe 2020 strategy. In this context, teachers needed to become familiar with new methodologies allowing them to optimize their teaching.Therefore, teachers needed to acquire new skills in this particular field to use them in their teaching and then transmit them to newcomers joining the school staffs every year.Project objectives have been achieved and are listed below:Objective 1: Mutualization of innovative practices and implementation of new learning methodologies. Objective 2: Development of basic skills such as: -Development of the knowledge of the mother tongue particularly through comprehension of written texts and writing of reports and accounts. -Speaking and writing skills in a foreign language by writing to pupils of partner schools in French and in English, and by recording documents then sent via the internet. Objective 3: Development of transversal skillsintellectual: Pupils treat the information sent by the partner schools and must exercise their creativity to produce new documents. méthodological: The pupils use digital technologies to create documents and communicate with partner schools. Objective 4: Reinforcement of intercultural teaching. With the exponential increase of the mobility of persons from one country to another, we consider as essential to implicate pupils in project programs that will allow them to communicate with their european fellowmen. Secondary Objectives: Improvement of the communication skills through cooperation between pupils.Number/type/profile of participantsOur schools are situated in semi-urban zones except for the one in Lithuania that is in a rural zone. Between 100 and 600 children attend these schools. They are nursery and elementary schools except for the Lithuanian school whose pupils are aged 1-7. Children with special needs are included in classes and each school has a specialized teacher who teaches them in small groups for designated learning sessions. A certain homogeneity can be noted in terms of socio-cultural level and of number of pupils attending. Yet there are differences when it deals with digital equipment and with the number of people working in each school. All schools are fully provided with digital tools (video projectors, computers, tablets) except for the French school that has no computer room and will wait September 2019 to have all classrooms equipped with a video projector. All schools have a good number of people working with children except for the French school where there is only one teacher in each class, which make things complicated when teachers participate in mobilities and must be replaced. Activities achieved:Mutualized Projects: The secret life of Trees and Water, source of life, source of creation. Free choice projets: School cooperative managed by the children, Manager of a day, School newsletter, Short movie festival, Sponsorship of endangered animals, Recycling, Coding, Calendars, Local History. Connected Small projects: Waterday, Peace day, Books day, Tree day, Forest feast.Miscellaneous other projects : Creation and choice of a logo for the Project, Creation of a mascot by each country, Gathering of local legends and selection of one of them in each country, making of puppets related to these legends, creation of a giant book of legends, Creation of a poster presenting a national or local tradition, Writing of a tale inspired from the chosen legend, Creation of an e-book gathering the six legends and six tales, Creation of an e-book gathering the different traditions, Creation of “Anna’s Book”, completed after each mobility, Making of a snakes and ladders game by each school and of another common one. Communication: Creation of a website, Creation of a blog by each school, Creation of a Facebook page, of an E-twinning page and of a What’s app group.All results emanate from a Project based pedagogy. Each final product results from activities simultaneously led by teachers. The impact on the school community was very strongChildren were very receptive and much more motivated because more active and giving sense to their school work. Teachers have shown more and more interested throughout the two years and have brought some changes to their way of teaching, creating new habits in their way to prepare their teachings.