"Starting from the idea that it is not enough to educate students only in individual disciplines but to give them something more, something which could develop their skills to the extent that they will be valuable and desirable personnel in today's world, the 4 European schools revised that, soft skills cover a wider range of personality traits that need to be cultivated and nurtured from an early age. LinkedIn released a list of the five most in-demand soft skills for 2020. The ranking list: Creativity,Persuasion, Collaboration, Adaptability, Emotional intelligence. We considered necessary to refresh the teaching methods and open doors to educational innovation by taking learning outside the classroom. The SWOT analysis of the partner schools show that students are facing an increasing lack of motivation, confidence, not having vision, which is inefficient when dealing with real-life problems or situations. The students were given questionnaires so as to research how they feel about different school subjects and discover how to make improvements. The conclusions show that approximately 70% of students from the partners' schools find science subjects boring to learn. We insisted on the demand for improving our students’ soft skills, because all partners students’ Pisa assessment results should be raised.With our participation in this new KA2 project, we expect to get deeper into the analysis of the soft skills employers require in each country, why they require them and how to gain them. We believe that approaching learning and teaching in an interactive and cross-curricular manner will engage students in a fun, more motivating way of acquiring skills and competences. Through ""SSKCS"" we intend to raise students’ awareness and interest in learning and applying knowledge to real life.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: -Creation of handbook ”Survival kits” for students and teachers using soft skills which depict the activities carried out the project tasks;-Creation of some visual aids, presentations,problem solving organizer;-Practice so called employ ability skills;-Use ICT in order to design, create and exchange ideas, assignments, and products;-Facilitate and support the practical approach and assessment;Techniques: Brainstorm, zone out, be your own”devil’s advocate”, flex your communication style, define the structure, listen, manage your mindset, experiment, seek out different perspectives, ask for feedback.The ""SSKCS” project is addressed to students coming from 4 European countries and the direct target are students who are 15-18 years old. There are 4 short- term exchanges of groups of pupils (Italy,Romania,Bulgaria, Poland) planned and 3 short-term joint staff training events/Italy, Poland and Romania. The total number of participants who will attend the mobilities is of 60 students and 63 teachers .The project promotes an innovative approach that will aim at increasing students’ interest and motivation in learning and applying knowledge to real life. The activities are designed to encourage learning by doing, by discovering, thinking skills, creativity, imagination, as well as, English and ICT skills.The implementation of the project is designed to achieve the project aims using the cooperative learning method. Seven different topics will be approached during the 7 exchanges of groups of pupils and joint staff training events.Innovative materials will be created by means of exchange and cross-curricular approach, resulting in the development of the school curricula in the 4 European countries, in accordance with the feedback and methods exchanged during the meetings. By using methods such as cooperative and communicative learning, multiple intelligence theory, students will be able to approach school work in a practical manner and use acquired skills and competences in everyday life. Transferring theory in real-world, students will create their list of the most in-demand job skills and will give them opportunities to be at the edge. Interdisciplinary activities will enable the students to develop their complex thinking, find connections between different subjects, to establish group norms. The teachers will organize student-centered learning activities, provide teachers with basic competences in facilitating group process with young people both in local, national level, as well as an international level; share examples of good practice with their European colleagues, improve teaching skills and strategies by watching how other teachers approach teaching their classes, develop communication skills in EnglishStudents will take part in activities that explore a cross-curricular approach, skills, and competences. The activities will sharpen this interpersonal skill and teamwork. The materials that are going to be presented during meetings of the project or to their colleagues will be obtained by working together and will contribute to motivate students to learn in an international context."

CONTEXTAccording to reliable statistics, nearly 52% of students have admitted checking their Smartphones before even getting out of their beds. They carry them around every day, as an integral part of their existence. They cannot imagine a world without smartphones. In this case, it is not difficult to understand that a school without mobile phones is actually unattractive to them and even their teachers. With advancements in technologies and students getting computers and mobiles, institutions want to transform teaching and learning in classrooms. The comfort of remote access to learning resources and doing it in one’s own space are influencing educators to effectively use online assessment tools to evaluate students and increase student success. For all these reasons we have come together under this partnership. We are five schools across Europe, both vocational and general education who want to collaborate, to learn from each other about how to introduce such online tools in the learning process of students.OBJECTIVESThe project aims to attain the following objectives:- to promote the use of technology in education- to enable teachers to apply innovative practices in the assessment of students- to increase teachers’ and students’ confidence in using the mobile apps in the learning process- to create the opportunity for teachers and students to interact and work together- to gain / improve knowledge of mobile apps used for educational purposes- to produce changes in the regular practices in each of the partner schools.ACTIVITIESWe aim to organize 5 transnational events, 4 student exchanges. During the training event, all partners will present 2 mobile assessment apps. They will provide instructions and allocate time for the students and teachers to practise using them. Overall, there will be 10 assessment tools presented and applied during this event. They also attend a practical course on the Flipped classroom method. Next, based on the topic of the exchange, partners conduct flipped lessons and provide assessment at the end of the lesson using one of the apps presented during LTTA1.PARTICIPANTSStudents in the target group belong to the vocational or the general education branch of studies. Their age range is 15-18. They are both boys and girls, a heterogeneous group with high and low achievers alike. Some of them have average financial background, while others are at both ends of the cline. There are also students coming from disadvantaged groups. For each LTTA there will be 5 students from 5 countries. So totally at least 125 students will participate the exchange activities. The second group is that of teachers. Teachers who take part in the training event LTTA1 are teachers of English, Maths / Science and ICT (12 teachers from sending institutions and at least 3 in the receiving institution). So in an LTTA there will be at least 10 teachers. They will play a key role in the transfer of knowledge to teachers in the school who participate in the next exchanges. Also, teachers will accompany students in exchanges (an overall number of 50 teachers is targeted).IMPACTThe project offers partners the chance to observe current practices in other European schools in terms of use of mobile technology, which they can transfer into their own school both through dissemination and by applying these aspects to their own teaching. Teachers will learn from each other in formal and informal contexts, will collaborate face-to-face and online, exchange ideas, practices etc. which will improve their flexibility in terms of approaches and methods. They will create lessons and use mobile apps for assessment purposes, which will increase their digital competence and confidence. As a result, the classes become more interactive, turning into a collaborative space, while students become more engaged in them. This can only improve the relationship between teachers and students and create a positive learning environment which benefits the entire school.RESULTSWe aim to obtain students’ increased motivation, increased attractiveness and dynamics of classes, increased competence of teachers to use mobile apps in assessment and increased collaboration of students and teachers at European level, improved skills and competences such as communication, intercultural, interpersonal, critical thinking, problem-solving. The outputs include the flipped lessons and assessment instruments used by the teachers in exchanges, students’ collaborative work, analysis about the current use of mobile technology in each school and a similar report produced at the end of the project, presentations of online apps by teachers in LTTA1, creative presentations of schools using online presentation tools, videos created by hosts during the exchanges, photos, feedback forms, initial and final evaluation results applied during exchanges, initial and final questionnaire applied in the partner schools on the target group

People have always been migrating and trying to find better conditions for life. Each human being has the right to live in peace and happiness. Migration is just as old as humankind itself. It has always been here. However, nowadays it means a big challenge for Europe. As many countries face different social, economical and political problems that have resulted in unrest, violence and in some cases even wars, people are forced to leave their homes to survive. In some cases they are motivated by the vision of something better that they don´t have in their home countries. The number of migrants reaching Europe has been increasing recently. On the one hand there is EU policy and rules related to migrants, but on the other hand EU citizens are not well prepared to accept this big challenge of migration. Many people have negative attitudes to the migrants and they are afraid that their presence will have negative consequences on their lives. In general we can say that people are afraid of something that they are not familiar with and that they don´t know. They have prejudices because they are not informed well enough or they don´t select the information critically. Whether people accept or don´t accept migrants in their communities, the truth is that we cannot stop this situation about migration to Europe. We can only learn how to react on it and we have to find the ways how to live in peace and mutual understanding. This project idea was the reflection of present situation in the world. However we wanted to depict this issue from different point of view. Every day we learn from mass media about the number of migrants, about the negative consequences and reactions. We wanted to see the migrants as human beings – with their fears, worries and dreams, not as numbers or statistics. We organised interviews with them to find out about their lives and then wrote their stories to share. Within this project each partner organised 6 meetings with the migrants and made interviews with them. Each partner wrote write 6 life stories of the migrants in native tongue as well as in English and shared them with each other. OBJECTIVES- to become more tolerant and understanding towards the people of different nationalities- to analyze and learn about the situation in the home countries of the people seeking for asylum in Europe and to understand the reasons why the people are migrating- to fight prejudices and xenophobia- to increase awareness towards social, economical and political problems around the world- to improve participants linguistic skills, social and communication skills- to encourage the participants to adopt the methods of critical thinking and creative writing- to organize 6 meetings with the migrants and make interviews with them (each partner)- to write 6 life stories of the chosen migrants (each partner)- - focus on the consequences of migration and reflecting on the practice of migrant integration and inclusion in European countries;- to analyse today’s multicultural society in different countriesMAIN METHODSDiscussions, Interviews, Cooperative learning, Problem based learning, Case study, Simulation, role play, Creative writingThe target group of our project were the students from 15 to 19 years who were involved in the project directly and actively contributed to the project activities and outcomes. Beside, the other groups of people were involved indirectly – hosting families, families of migrants, participants in the workshops and lectures, general public – in dissemination activities. Directly, there were about 300 people involved in the learning activities. Indirectly, about 6000 people were involved altogether in lectures, workshops and dissemination activities.The project had a positive impact on the participants, our schools and general public. First of all, our students improved their key competencies with the emphasis on foreign languages and working in a multicultural environment. Our schools became more attractive for future students. And what is the most important, we pointed out the topic of migration from the perspective of our students and analysed the situation as it really is. MAIN ACTIVITIESWe organised three transnational meetings and six learning activities. Each school delivered trainings - lectures and workshops on the topic of migration. What is more, selected migrants were invited to our schools to be interviewed by our students. Later, our students wrote about their life stories. Due to the topic of our project we established the cooperation with NGOs and associations active in the field of migration and refugees´ issues. OUTCOMESWebsite/FB page, Logo, Videos, Presentations, Book New knowledge, skills, key competencies

The project is a cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices between 6 European schools from Poland (the coordinator), Italy, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria and Portugal. The total project duration is 24 months starting from 1 September 2018. The participants of the project are students aged 12-16 attending comprehensive or vocational schools. The project title is: UnESCo-Untold Experiences Stories of a Country.The purpose of this partnership is a real achieve the use of UNESCO values and heritage by students as actors of change. Knowing and studying UNESCO sites, discovering and telling their stories will be for students a training course that will make them improve culturally and humanly.The project to be undertaken is a synergistic action among the partner schools to develop, in teachers, students and other stakeholders, operational skills and responsible actions aimed at the application of the values and principles of UNESCO. The collaboration activity will have as its objective the knowledge of UNESCO sites, the diversity of expressions of cultural heritage, sustainable development and above all the stories, the experience of people related to that UNESCO site.The purpose of this partnership is a real achieve the use of UNESCO values and heritage by students as actors of change. Knowing and studying UNESCO sites, discovering and telling their stories will be training courses for students that will make them improve culturally and humanly, making them informed, responsible and active citizens, respecting differences and cultural diversities.Therefore, the partnership will aim to share teaching practices, help teachers to work in cooperation with other subjects and create a European network on the eTwinning platform in order to exchange teaching methods.It also aims to create a team of Erasmus students that can work to develop cross curricular practices such as diversity, seen as a common heritage of humanity that must be handed down to new generations to nurture creativity, the origin of cultural traditions that feeds on new contacts cultures.We are sure all project results will be successfully achieved including the eBook, the board game, concert, workshops and conferences, the international camp-contest for students in order to show the collaborative skills. There will be a database with materials for students and teachers created. By means of organizing an international lessons based on the project method, the motivation of learning and teaching and students' assessments will have raised, teachers and students will use the materials and gain knowledge for everyday use.Therefore, this project will be important to involve pupils failing at school, pupils with learning difficulties and those who have never been abroad before and have never experienced multiculturalism. The project’s aim is also to train the pupils to become open-minded when confronted to diversity and to other cultures of Europe. Additionally, there is the importance of experience sharing among both teachers and students. We all need international cooperation to exchange the best teaching and learning methods. Apart from a bunch of common knowledge we all share, every country uses their own unique teaching methods we would like to discover and make use of on domestic ground.

In the everchanging world of today, the media plays a central role in society. It has obtained the importance of great significance and is embedded in the everyday lives of each and one of us. We live in an age of information – information is all around us, it surrounds us every day. But how to navigate in this vast ocean of data? And do we have the means and know-how to do so? Newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and internet are the different types of media. It affects our lives because media has the power to influence our thoughts. This influence is sometimes positive and sometimes negative. The media is able to turn lies into the truth and somehow distort the truth. Media literacy and critical thinking are very important and essential skills in the 21st digital century.Media literacy is a process in which media consumers learn how to ask questions about the media in hopes of coming to a deeper understanding of it and critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas. Critical thinking might be described as the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Every one of us is a media consumer and the digital age has made it easy for anyone to create media. All media shares one thing: Someone created it and it was created for a reason. We don't always know who created something, why they made it, what were the reasons, what they want to accomplish with it, what kind of people we are dealing with and whether it's credible. This makes media literacy tricky to learn and teach. Understanding that reason is the basic of media literacy. Therefore now more than ever it is essential to teach our youth to analyze and synthesize the information provided by the media. It is important to supply them with the tools and knowledge needed for receiving and adopting the information. The aim of the project is to create essential tools and develop approaches to broaden students' media literacy and make them more confident and be critical thinkers and acquire the necessary skills in using media.The initial change begins from the teachers. The schools are equipped with technologies, but there is a lack of ready-made materials to use in the classroom, especially the ones to practice critical thinking. The well prepared, structured and visualized environment is fundamental for effective work with teenagers. That's why the idea is to provide teachers of all types of secondary schools with the tools which will be developed within the project activities as the kind of prevention and protection of teenagers from negative impact of mass media. The main objectives for the students:• develop the students´ knowledge, values, a range of critical thinking, • develop the students´ communication and information management skills• to realize that one issue can be seen from different points of view,• to analyze information, • to distinguish the truth from lies and manipulation even if it is difficult,• to broaden their horizons,• to be able to transmit to their peers,• to be more confident in everyday situationsThe main objectives for the teachers:• co-operate on creating, piloting and presenting 45 lesson plans on the specific topics• to publish the materials (lesson plans, worksheets, notes, polls feedback) and discuss them on the project website• to create a publication (in both paper and electronic forms) with the best practicesThe innovative approach of the project develops critical thinking and media literacy among young people in 9 European countries.The partnership consists of 7 secondary schools of various types from 9 European programme countries (Czech Republic, Croatia, Romania, Greece, Estonia, Spain, Italy) and 2 associations from Slovakia and Turkey, which co-operate with secondary schools on the projects in promoting media education in the form of informal education for young people.Main activities:3 Transnational project meetings (Estonia, Romania, Slovakia)3 Short-term joint staff training events (Estonia, Greece, Italy)3 Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils (Croatia, Spain, Czech Republic)Multiplier event (Czech Republic)Each of the partners has • established the project team of teachers/trainers and students• organized the competition for the project logo at their institution • contributed to the project website • provided the space for the project presentation on their own websites• created 5 lesson plans • shared materials for publishing• has taken part in the project meetings in the countries of partner schools.• organized 2 opinion polls• participated in the studies (Newspapers, PC Games)• participated in a workshops and at the final conference as a multiplier event.