Schools as Learning Communities in Europe aims to establish and scale up a network for the implementation and exchange of Sucessful Educational Actions (SEAs) in Europe. SEAs have demonstrated the improvement of school results, coexistence and social cohesion in all the places where they have been implemented. These actions have been implemented in very diverse contexts (rural and urban, with high and low socioeconomic index, impoverished areas, etc.) in different countries. With this network, schools in Spain, Cyprus, Italy and the United Kingdom will lead an international exchange of Success Educational Actions and will create the basis for deepening and strengthening the scientific knowledge applied to the improvement of education systems in Europe.The basic objectives of the project are:-To promote the development, transfer and implementation of Successful Educational Actions and the transformation of Schools into Learning Communities with the collaboration of universities and regional educational authorities.-Implement Successful Educational Actions in European schools-Establish the first network of schools as Learning Communities in Europe.-Provide a structure, materials and skills in participating countries to implement SEAs in a sustainable way.To this end, it was created a consortium of 9 partners, including 5 schools (belonging to all the participating countries), 2 universities and 2 regional governments.The main activities that have been carried out with the project funds have been:1. Intellectual object. The realization of 10 training modules that are available free and open access on the project web page: http://seas4all.eu/outcomes-2/. These modules are available in English, Italian, Greek and Spanish. They have served for the internal training of the participating schools and for the scale, self-education and sustainability of the project once the financing has finished.2. Multiplier Event. An International Conference has been organized at the end of the project which has brought together more than 700 people from different European countries. This conference has presented the final results of the project and the training modules developed during the project. In addition to face-to-face assistance, the conference has been broadcast live and its videos have had 570 downloads since then.With the management and implementation budget of the project, several activities have been carried out, which we summarize below:Preparation activities:-Creation of the Logo and the web of the project.-Development review and translation of evaluation tools.-Production of Brochure.http: //seas4all.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SEAs4All-Brochure.pdfImplementation and follow-up activitiesDescribed in section 5 of this report, presentation meetings, training of teaching teams and regional government advisors were carried out in all countries. After this phase all the partners began with the implementation of at least 2 Success Educational Actions or the follow-up of in the case of the universities and the regional governments.Dissemination activitiesDescribed in Section 6 of this report, numerous dissemination events were held in each of the countries.Results and impacts achieved:The project has improved the educational results, coexistence and social cohesion of the 5 schools and their communities involved in the project (as evidenced in section 6 of this report, Annex 6.13). It has created scale capabilities with the 2 Universities, the 2 governments involved and the intellectual object and multiplier event produced. It has extended the SEAs benefit to 14 new schools (2 in Italy, 6 in Cyprus and 6 in the UK). Finally, it has extended the project to a new territory since the Ministry of Portugal has begun to promote the implementation of SEAs in 10 schools.The benefits of the long-term project are the consolidation of the good academic results, coexistence and social cohesion, in schools that are part of the network but above all the presentation of aan​educational intervention that can improve the education system of any country.

CONTEXTThe EU is facing several severe crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the subsequent socio-economic crisis, the refugee crisis, and tensions between some of its Member States and third countries. To successfully deal with any crisis, ultimate victory is proof that Europe can successfully overcome any cultural or other differences between its people to become socially cohesive and resilient to meet current and new threats and challenges. Cultural diplomacy can be the vehicle leading to this victory, as it has the unique advantage of helping people to adapt more quickly to the demands of rapid change and the increased speed of change. Cultural diplomacy entails a type of public diplomacy and soft power that refers to the exchange of ideas, information, art, language, and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding and cooperation. The goal of cultural diplomacy is for people coming from a foreign nation to develop a rich understanding of one nation's ideals and institutions so as to build broad support for social, economic, and political goals. Cultural diplomacy is a course of action based on the exchange of ideas, values, traditions, and other aspects of culture or identity, to strengthen relationships and socio-cultural cooperation, to promote national interests and beyond.PROJECT OBJECTIVESThe first goal of the project is to enable children to become cultural diplomats so as to act as agents of change in order to build a socially cohesive and resilient Europe capable of meeting new threats and challenges. The achievement of the goal is based on the approach of cultural diplomacy, and the use of new technologies and innovative and creative methodologies, such as collaborative art-making, collaborative storytelling and poetry, and digital-cultural pedagogies. Another important goal of this project is to promote children's and teachers' training to improve their skills to become agents of the cultural diplomacy approach, in order to achieve the first goal of the project.PARTICIPANTSFour schools, two Universities focusing on teachers' preparation, two NGOs focusing on professional development, active citizenship, and other social goals across 4 participating countries: Cyprus, Spain, Greece, and Malta.ACTIVITIES AND RESULTSThe EURODIPLOMATS project will produce a methodological tool for the cultural-diplomacy approach according to a comparative analysis that will result from both teachers' and children's needs analyses in the participating countries, but also on the basis of the state-of-the-art analysis in each participating country. According to this methodological tool, the consortium will produce a Toolkit of Resources and Activities that will promote the objective of the project; that is children to become cultural diplomats to act as agents of change for a Europe of social cohesion and resilience which is ready to meet new threats and challenges. This Toolkit will be tested through workshops carried out with teachers and children 9-15 and then finalised. Partners will translate their own activities into their languages. As the project envisages the development of teachers' and children's competencies to work accordingly, a Teacher's Handbook and a Children's Handbook will be also produced in the English language, while including multimedia in the consortium languages. It is notable that a Group of Experts that will be created for the purposes of this project will contribute to the whole of both developing the methodological tool and the Toolkit of Resources and Activities, but also the Teachers' and the Children's Handbooks process by sharing their ideas and expertise, but also their evaluative feedback. A short transnational joint-staff training event will be carried out in Greece in order to provide the opportunity for teachers to be trained to use the project outcomes. All the project's products will be promoted through international and national multiplier events that will have the form of conferences organised by the consortium. The project's results will be disseminated through venues such as websites, social media, EU platforms, newsletters, publications, etc.TARGET GROUPSThe target groups in the life of the project comprise of children aged 9-15 and teachers working with children of that age. Apart from these direct target groups, the beneficiaries include also indirect target groups such as schools, children's associations, and organisations, policymakers, and educational stakeholders making decisions about school curricula, parents, children's curriculum developers, teachers training institutions, universities with pedagogical departments. BENEFITPromote, through cultural diplomacy, social cohesion, and resilience in Europe in order to become able to meet new challenges and threats. Raise children’s voices and active involvement in education via the innovative methodology of cultural diplomacy.