"Context and objectives: This project was designed to improve students' critical thinking, their awareness of being an active citizen. By taking actively part in the project the students were able to heighten their self-competence and improve their natural science, technical and digital competences. These goals were achieved when students dealt with different topics around the field ""bicycle"".The practical approach went beyond the usual methods used in school and the students learned by experiencing how knowledge can be directly applied, e.g. in bicycle maintenance. With their commitment to improvements in the bicycle infrastructure, they experienced how they can help shape policy. The project consisted of 4 sub-topics to be worked on by all students together for 6 months each:1. Bike mobility in European cities•visit to an exhibition on global cycling•investigation and comparison of bicycle traffic in exemplary European cities•researching the influence of urban planning on bicycle-friendliness, advantages and disadvantages of different modes of transport.•investigation of increasing car traffic•creation of plans by using digital tools like maps and drawing programmestransnational meeting in Germany 2. Bike maintenance•learning basic methods of bicycle maintenance and repair in theory and practice.•studying basic methods of bike maintenance in theory as well as in practice. •creating video tutorials about bike maintenance•Participation in a bicycle fair with, among other things, repair instructions for visitors•“Pit stop"" campaign: spontaneous short maintenance for cycling citizens•teaching fellow students and elementary pupils how to repair and look after their bikes •excursion to local bike shopstransnational meeting in Italy 3. Transport situation in hometown•analysing the transport situation in their own towns •collection of suggestions for improvement from members of the school family as well as citizens of the city•development of improvement proposals for safe and fast cycling.•meeting with the decision-makers for cycling in the city administration.•presentation of the project in the city's bicycle forum•meeting with local police on road safety•setting up a ""do it yourself"" repair station at the school's bicycle parking area transnational meeting in the Netherlands 4. Motivation•planning and implementing activities to motivate the school family to use bicycles regularly.•producing creative, motivational photos and videos•redesigning the school's own bicycle parking areatransnational meeting in Lithuania Participants: - Maria-Ward-Schule Aschaffenburg (Germany) - Kelmes Jono Graiciuno gimnazija (Lithuania), - OMO Scholengroep Bergen op Zoom e.o.(Netherlands), - I.I.S.S. EINAUDI-CASAREGIS-GALILEI (Italy)Project leaders: Ulrike Reidl (Germany), Ineta Lesciauskiene(Lithuania), Arnold van der Werff (Netherlands), Manuela Beltrami(Italy)20 subject teachers (6 from each school)120 students from the participating schools58 students on transnational learning activities Methodology:All our activities were implemented through a wide range of innovative teaching methods inside and outside the school, including:critical thinking, digital literacy, collaboration and teamwork, communication skills, personal and social responsibility and metacognition. Continuous assessment and improvement were a given.Results achieved: - increased participation of young people in society. - healthier lifestyles for the target groups - use and dissemination of innovative teaching methods - increased personal technological and digital competences and skills"

In our project named „A project on sustainability: think global, act local!“ students of all three partner schools dealt with chances and positve long-term effects of sustainable development. The practicability of sustainable and environmentally friendly measures as regards teh increase in production of renewable energies was significant in our project. In order to reach our goal to realize more sustainablility at European schools, we handled the topic on the theoretical and practical level. We chose the interdisciplinary approach to reach our goal successfully on the transnational way which was a challenge as the topic is rather complex. As an utmost priority to make the necessity of the increase in production of renewables visible we started the interdisciplinary approach by exchanging subject content, methods and materials according to the following project structure.First of all we developed students‘ awareness for the necessity of the production of alternative and renewable energies by making them project worst case scenerios and express these scenarios in an artistic manner. For this purpose the Greek and German school performed two complex art exhibitons inviting parents and staff. This exhibition served the idea of making a drastic step into the realization of environmentally friendly production necessary.These exhibitions lead us to our next step which was to develop scienticfic concepts making the prodction and use of renewable energies a realistic global way to support environment. Consequently, the Italian and German school developed solar-driven modules and vehicles and ways to develop biodegradable plastic and ways to recycle rubbish effectively.

"The project ""New Paths in Math - innovative methods in mathematics for engineering students"" was carried out for a period of 25 months in five secondary schools from Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Cyprus and Portugal. The common feature of the participating schools was that we provide education to future technicians and engineers for electronics and IT companies. The idea of the project arose from the need to develop new tools and materials for teaching mathematics and science using the interests and skills of our students.The main goal of the project was to improve students' mathematical competence, increase their motivation to learn, encourage to further education and prepare them to enter the labour market. During the project, we aimed to build a correlation between mathematics and vocational subjects, use students' electronic and IT knowledge and passion, and provide them with access to various forms of learning and development.The students had the opportunity to participate in many workshops, took part in extracurricular classes, taught each other in a new multicultural environment, acquired new social skills and developed their language skills. The project evaluation results clearly show that the project aims have been fully achieved.The students, aged 15-19, were involved in all project activities, willingly shared their experience with peers in cooperating schools, suggested interesting initiatives and implemented them in a very professional manner. Various presentations, infographics, interesting Padlets and brochures were created. The students have become more open to other cultures, learned about their peers' problems in other countries and together got rid of cultural stereotypes. Each school hosted one short-term exchange groups of students and in total students took part in 64 mobilities.Not only were the traveling to another country and staying in an unknown family a challenge but also hosting a peer from abroad at home. Each participating student had the opportunity to learn about the traditions and culture of another country as well as to show their home city and daily life. There was time for discussions about the future of the common Europe, about the challenges facing them in adult life and for talking about future plans. Undoubtedly, the young people have become more conscious citizens of the European community and ambassadors of EU ideas.The precondition for implementing successfully the project was to train the teaching staff so that they could use the new teaching methods. In each project group, there were at least two mathematics teachers as well as science and vocational teachers. There were three short-term joint staff training events and three international transnational project meetings.All short employee trainings supported the professional development of teachers and allowed to prepare high-level teaching materials that can be used for several years in teaching mathematics, science and vocational subjects.Brochures and a mini-compendium have been created for math teachers. Together, we have developed lesson plans using modern technology and Geogebra applets that can be used and adapted freely. In addition, we've prepared math games and quizzes together. We creatively cooperated and everyone tried to to put into the work as much effort as possible in order to accomplish the project objectives.The mathematics teachers could look at their subject with the eyes of electronics and IT teachers. All materials have been collected and described in the form of an e-book, which will be available not only to our five schools but also to all interested parties. Together, using different channels and tools, we will try to make them known to as many teachers as possible across Europe. In our opinion, this project is a huge success and we want to share its deliverables.Teachers, as well as students, developed their digital skills, learned how to work in an international environment, and improved their language competences. Together, we have created a group of people who want to continue to develop and work on improving the quality of education in our schools. We have gained the experience that makes us even more open to new challenges and opportunities. During the implementation of the project and immediately after its completion, some teachers took up new challenges in which they will use the skills acquired in the ""New Paths in Math"" project. We are implementing new Erasmus + projects and pedagogical innovations in our schools and use the acquired knowledge and skills in everyday work with young people."