Projekt Euconnectour bol realizovaný v partnerstve, ktoré pozostávalo zo 7 krajín. Školy, zapojené do projektu, sa odlišovali svojím zameraním a veľkosťou, ale mali spoločné ciele v oblasti vyučovania, profesionálneho rozvoja učiteľa i v projektovej práci. Všetky partnerské školy dlhodobo kladú dôraz na inovatívny prístup vo vzťahu učiteľ-žiak, v ktorom učiteľ motivuje žiaka a podporuje jeho kreativitu a aktívny prístup k novým poznatkom. Ďalším spoločným znakom bolo využívanie informačných technológií v procese vyučovania, skvalitňovanie jazykových zručností a skúsenosti z predchádzajúcich projektov.Cieľovou skupinou boli žiaci vo veku 15 – 18 rokov, ktorí sú otvorení novým postupom, sú iniciatívni a chápu, že v súčasnosti nestačí byť pasívnou súčasťou vyučovacieho procesu. Trvalé vedomosti a skúsenosti dosiahnu, keď sami sa stanú iniciátormi a aktívnymi spoluautormi aktivít a nápadov. Téma cestovania, cestovného ruchu spojená s poznávaním vlastnej krajiny a iných krajín a kultúr bola pre študentov zaujímavá a inšpiratívna.Hlavným projektovým výstupom je virtuálna cestovná kancelária, v ktorej školy prezentovali svoje krajiny s cieľom predstaviť ich partnerom, ale aj verejnosti. Virtuálnu cestovnú kanceláriu môžete navštíviť na projektovej webovej stránke https://euconnectour.gympos.sk. Žiaci vytvorili rôzne brožúry, krátke videá, v ktorých prezentujú svoju krajinu, spoločenskú hru, kde získali informácie o partnerských krajinách. Tvorivé zručnosti žiakov sa prejavili v tvorivom písaní na tému Som Európan, pri vytváraní fotoalbumov a prezentácií.Žiaci sa zaoberali aj spoločenskými témami a pripravili prezentácie o multikulturalizme vo svojej krajine, zorganizovali besedy o problematike imigrácie. Na besedách s turistickým sprievodcom, pracovníkmi cestovnej kancelárie a na návštevách v informačných kanceláriách sa dozvedeli o práci v oblasti cestovného ruchu. Aby sa žiaci stali ambasádormi krajiny, museli ju najprv spoznať. Preto navštívili a objavovali zaujímavé miesta, aby ich ďalej predstavili a naučili sa obhájiť suverenitu či národné dedičstvo krajiny. V projekte sa žiaci naučili pracovať v tíme, vytyčovať si ciele, vziať na seba zodpovednosť. Spoznali iné kultúry, čo im pomohlo prekonať predsudky a zistili, že v každej krajine sa ľudia stretávajú s rovnakými starosťami a radosťami. Všetky uvedené poznatky môžeme pokladať za dlhodobejšie benefity pre študentov. The project Euconnectour was pursued in the partnership consisting of 7 countries. The involved schools differed in their educational system and the size but they had common aims in the learning process, professional development of the teachers and project work. All the partner schools have placed long-term emphasis on an innovative approach in the teacher – student relationship, in which the teacher encourages students and support their creativity and the active approach to new experience. Another common goal was to use IT in the learning process, improve language skills and experience from the previous projects. The target group were students at the age 15 – 18, who are open to new practices, are enterprising and understand that being a passive part of the learning process is not sufficient. They achieve lasting knowledge and experience when they themselves are initiators and active co-authors of activities and ideas. The topic of travelling, tourism connected with learning about their own country, other countries and cultures were attractive and inspirational for students.The main project outcome is a virtual travel agency where the schools presented their countries with the aim to get partners and the public acquainted with them. The virtual travel agency has been accessible for all of them on the project website https://euconnectour.gympos.sk. The students have produced various brochures, short videos presenting their country, a trivia board game where students got information about the partner countries. The students´ creative skills have been presented in creative writing activity with the topic „I am a European“, also having produced photoalbums and presentations. The students also dealt with social topics and prepared presentations about multiculturalism in their country, organised debates about immigration. In debates with a tour guide, travel agents and on visits to information centres they learnt about work in tourism.To become ambassadors of a country, students have to know it better. Therefore they visited and explored interesting places with the aim to present them further and to learn how to defend the sovereignty and national heritage of the country. The students learnt how to work in teams, set aims, take responsibility. Learning about other cultures helped them to overcome prejudice and find out that people in each country have the same worries and joys. We find the experience longer-term benefits for them.

The aim of the project „Heritage for tomorrow – from understanding to enjoyment“ was to increase students´ interest in historical values left by our ancestors, to learn about the national cultural and natural heritage of their country as well as other European countries and to lead them to the findings that the true values are sustainable. Therefore we have to appreciate and keep them for other generations. We chose the period of the Roman Empire as the example of heritage sustainability as it left its marks in many European countries.The planned activities and project products became a part of the educational process and afterschool activities. The topic of the ancient Rome belongs to the curriculum of the school subject History, so the students prepared presentations, brochures, video, e-books about the life in the Roman Empire. They created the map of the Empire, the dictionary of Latin phrases, a quiz, 3D models of famous Roman sights, which were presented to other students. The learning/teaching process was enriched with learning-by-doing activities when students discussed with members of a historical group and learnt about the life of Roman army, its gear and armament, they could wear it and simulate gladiator fights. Another interesting activity was a discussion on Roman law led by an expert or senior students who presented the Roman Empire´s influence in this field as well.An important part of the project activities was visiting places and sights that belong to the national cultural and natural heritage and those which belong to the UNESCO World Heritage. We visited the places which are unique and reflect the national identity – open air and archeological museums.The students got familiar with the cultural heritage of their own country and during the learning/teaching/training activities in the partner countries they had opportunities to learn about their heritage and see the sights of the Roman Empire, which helped them to apply their theoretical knowledge to practice .The project products can be used in the educational process in the future for some school subjects – history, art and culture, English, IT as teaching aids and additional material as well as examples of students´ creativity, which could be a motivation for increasing students´ interest in the subject or the project topic itself.

Známa rozprávka „Soľ nad zlato“ nás inšpirovala venovať sa téme soli a zistiť, prečo mala soľ v minulosti cenu zlata, akú hodnotu má dnes, aké sú jej negatívne vplyvy na život a zdravie človeka, ale aj na životné prostredie. Pre toto zistenie je potrebné spoznať soľ ako chemickú zlúčeninu a minerálnu látku, čo je predmetom učiva prírodných vied – chémie, biológie, mineralógie. Prírodné vedy nepatria vo všeobecnosti k populárnym predmetom, preto cieľom nášho projektu je predstaviť projektové aktivity a nástroje, ktoré ich môžu obohatiť o zábavné, ale aj poučné experimenty, exkurzie, prácu v teréne a spoluprácu s odborníkmi z oblasti liečebnej výživy a dietológie, lesníctva, pôdohospodárstva, gastronómie, a tak zlepšiť vzťah študentov k týmto predmetom a spojiť ich s reálnymi životnými situáciami. Chceli by sme, aby si študenti uvedomili, ktoré jedlá (často ich obľúbené rýchle občerstvenie) majú vysoký obsah soli, ktorá sa stáva príčinou civilizačných chorôb aj medzi mladými ľuďmi. Chceme ich upozorniť na štatistiky Svetovej zdravotníckej organizácie v oblasti konzumácie soli v jednotlivých krajinách a zistiť, na akom mieste sa nachádza ich vlastná krajina. Cieľom projektu je predstaviť aj lepšiu stránku soli a spoznať jej hodnotu ako cennej komodity v minulosti, jej symbolizmus, ktorý poznali už v biblických časoch a rozprávkach, a pochopiť význam rituálov so soľou v niektorých krajinách. Študentom chceme predstaviť aj využitie soli v umení. Cieľovou skupinou projektu sú 14 – 18-roční študenti, ale aj učitelia, ktorých úlohou je ukázať, že aj téma soli môže posilniť medzipredmetovú spoluprácu, keďže v projekte budú zastúpení učitelia biológie, chémie, geografie, histórie, umenia a kultúry, informatiky, ale aj materinského a cudzích jazykov. Približne 140 – 175 študentov v každej škole bude rozvíjať kľúčové kompetencie a zručnosti modernej doby (kritické myslenie, kreativitu, komunikáciu, tímovú prácu) pri vytváraní projektových výstupov: webovej stránky, prezentácií, máp soľných baní, plagátov, brožúr, dramatizácii rozprávky, netradičného maľovania a iných tvorivých techník so soľou. Dôležitou súčasťou projektových aktivít budú stretnutia a debaty s odborníkmi, ktorí spestria učebný proces alebo mimoškolské aktivity. Veríme, že projektové aktivity pomôžu študentom si dlhodobo vytvoriť lepší vzťah k prírodným vedám a podporia ich kľúčové kompetencie. The well-known fairy tale „More than salt“ inspired us to deal with the topic of salt with the aim to find out the value of salt in the past, its value today, its negative impacts on human life and health and even on the environment. To find it out we need to learn about salt as a chemical compound and mineral matter, which are dealt with at Science subjects – chemistry, biology, mineralogy.In general, Sciences are not popular school subjects therefore the aim of the project is to present project activities and tools which could enrich them with funny and informative experiments, excursions, fieldwork and cooperation with specialists from nutrition therapy, dietology, forestry, farming, gastronomy fields, and thus to improve students´ attitude to the subjects and connect them with real-life situations.We would like students to realize what food (often their favourite fast food) has a high salt content, which causes common lifestyle diseases even among young people. We would like to draw students´ attention to the World Health Organisation´s statistics on salt consumption in different countries and learn about their own country´s ranking.The project also aims to present a better side of salt and to learn about it as a precious commodity in the past, its symbolism known in the biblical times and tales, to understand salt rituals in some countries. We will present salt in arts as well.The project is targeted at 14 – 18-year-old students as well as teachers whose role is to show that the topic of salt can strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation as there are teachers of biology, chemistry, geography, history, art and culture, IT, as well as mother and foreign languages involved. Around 140 – 175 students in each school will develop their key competences and skills of modern era (critical thinking, creativity, communication, teamwork) creating project outcomes: website, presentations, salt mines maps, posters, brochures, dramatisation of a salt fairy tale, untraditional salt painting and other salt art techniques. Meetings and debates with specialists, which will enrich the learning process, will be an important part of the project work.We believe that the project activities will help students improve their attitude to Sciences in the long-term and foster their key competences.