"<< Background >>Each invididual does not choose in which country to be born, but we were all born with the same opportunities, and how we respect nature depends only on us. From our desire for a better and clean life, from the effort to leave traces in our life path, which show the development of our personal qualities, but also the growth of our spirit through voluntary act .Through this project we want to teach our students that we will achieve this only if we have self-knowledge and a tendency to experiment - you need to know who you are, what you are good at, what your values ​​are, what are your powers on nature, on our common earth. 2019 and 2020 were among the warmest years ever recorded and carbon dioxide levels and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue increasing despite Coronavirus demanded a stop in many polluting activities.Climate changes due to pollution are affecting every country on every continent. They are disrupting national economies and affecting people's lives. Although the big powers of the world meet to take decisions in order to lower greenhouse gas emissions, their resolutions are far from being realized now and are only temporary. Climate changes are not on pause.The UN proposed six climate-positive actions for governments to take:Green transition: Investments must accelerate the decarbonization of our economy.Green jobs and sustainable and inclusive growth.Green economy through a transition that is fair to all and leaves no one behind.Invest in sustainable solutions: fossil fuel subsidies must end and polluters must pay for their pollution.Confront all climate risks.Cooperation: no country can succeed alone.The target group will consist of teachers and students from our schools and other schools, local communities and wider communities who will participate in the dissemination activities.Through this project, we will make our students take the first step not only towards their own clean future, but also towards the well-being of the community, and to do so with faith and conviction. ""Take the first step in faith. It's not important to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step"", Martin Luther King.<< Objectives >>All partner countries are touched by a common emergency: climate changes.The state of the environment depends on each one of us and directly affects our life and health. Most people deal superficially with this aspect of their lives, which increases the process of pollution and destruction of the environment, which means destroying the health of each one of us. Our purpose is to educate students to respect the environment, to develop a desire to live in a clean, healthy environment. Finding solutions to solve environmental problems and improve environmental quality are increasingly difficult goals to achieve.The latest EU environmental legislation is the 7th Environment Action Programme (EAP). But are we sure all of us are following rules?In this project, we will attract around 300 students between the ages of 14 and 19 and 25 teachers from European secondary schools to give them the opportunity to get to know each other, play, work and collaborate as an international team. Our priority is to ensure that no young person is abandoned and that everyone enjoys equal opportunities, the right to a clean world and air, equally, without discrimination or barriers and that everybody follows rules: the rules given by nature and the rules given by common sense.Our main objectives are directly related to the following pre-defined Erasmus + axes: -Inclusion and diversity in all fields of education-Addressing digital transformation through the development of digital readinesssustainability and capacity-Development of key competencesThe objectives of the project:•To use digital resources and create learning products•To learn good practices•To talk and communicate with people, trying to show them good practices with the enthusiasm and joy of youth•To create opportunities for young people to learn what trust, communication, successful leadership, problem solving and self-confidence are, things that cannot be learnt from textbooks•To accumulate life experience through contact with partners, with European material and cultural phenomena.•To disseminate project results at local, regional, national, international level to inspire the others. Participation in this project is a great opportunity for our students and teachers, because they will share experiences, learnt from each other and together, will exchange ideas and good practises, will overcome language barriers, will develop skills and competences, they will meet people from other cultures and religions and they will be better adapted.Students will develop critical and analytical thinking skills, will develop interpersonal and communication skills, teamwork, negotiation and organizational skills.They will learn values such as tolerance, respect and acceptance of people from different countries and of people who have a different culture. If they develop their social and personal skills, increase their self-confidence and self-esteem, our goals will be achieved.Teachers will have the opportunity to exchange good practices, ideas and teaching methods.The institutions will strengthen their cooperation with other European schools and gain more experience in carrying out Erasmus + projects.Schools will benefit from better relationships between teachers and students, between teachers and parents and are likely to lead to better coherence within the organization and will continue to cooperate with partner institutions through other projects that will be inspired from our project.Based on the questionnaires at the beginning and end of the project, surveys and evaluation of project activities before and after each LTT, we will assess whether the project objectives have been met. We will compare the results of the two questionnaires to obtain feedback on the achievement of our project objectives, to evaluate the involvement, interest and satisfaction of students.The questionnaires will be analyzed and discussed by the participating students and teachers.<< Implementation >>All the activities are shown in the Timetable. In particular, Turkey will show how to make a wholly recycled material dress, which will be recorded in the third part of our common video; Italy, will realize a documentary video showing consequences of unlawful common actions and show how to practically work together to help the planet and will make the final part of the video with subtitles in 6 languages.Germany will realize a booklet with instructions on methods to produce renewable energy in 6 languages. Bulgaria will realize a fashion show gathering all the dresses made by all the partners' students.Spain will realize a recipe book in 6 languages.Romania will realize a virtual album with photos of nature with captions in 6 languages.During all the LTT, students will be shown how to fill in a Europass cv. They will follow workshops on renewable energy and visit a wind mill in Germany. Tney will visit a waste to energy plant in Italy. They wil learn how to do organic meals in Romania and Spain. How to collect materials and separate them and how to create fashion dresses in Turkey and Bulgaria.In order to achieve the goals of the project, we established 1 transnational meeting for associates-coordinators and directors and 6 international meetings / LTT / 6 subprojects, which will be implemented by all the participants, communication sessions, evaluations, disseminations. The activities will take place both at home and in an international environment. Thus, the participants will acquire skills, knowledge and attitudes, which they will use both in their countries and abroad, because they will have a better understanding and awareness of both contexts, on the topics covered by our project.Students will develop critical and analytical thinking skills, will develop interpersonal and communication skills, teamwork, negotiation and organizational skills.They will learn values such as tolerance, respect and acceptance of people from different countries and of people who have a different culture.Teachers will have the opportunity to exchange good practices, ideas and teaching methods.The institutions will strengthen their cooperation with other European schools and gain more experience in carrying out Erasmus + projects.We aspect the project to produce both tangible and intangible results.Tangible results: Our main outcomes will be e-book. An e-book with all teaching materials is the final product that can be used as teaching or reference material by partner schools in the future. It will be created throughout the project, in different phases and will be a coherent unit of our work. The e-book will include: 1. Project logo -link2. Project Website -link3. The e-Twinning project 4. collection of teaching materials used during the project, students from each country 5. collection of videos containing the results of the activities. each school will upload them to their school's YouTube channel 6. collection of lesson plans prepared according to the innovative lesson plan model that develops different forms of learning outcomes 7. collection of questionnaires and evaluation / evaluation forms 8. Promotional posters, brochures, videos made throughout the project 9. Analysis of the surveys that will be completed by the participating students after each mobility 10. Webinars and online meetings 11. Online articles after each LTTA 12. Students videos in You TubeIntangible results:- communication and language results: a passage for English from a B1 to B2 level QCER in relation to the initial level- development of skills in the field of ecological volunteering- several languages on eTwinning- to facilitate the intercultural dialogue between the participating schools<< Results >>The impact envisaged is showing that a smart and conscious use of resources at local level can make the change at international level.Students and teachers will communicate using eTwinning platform before the planned visit and schedule all important details for the meeting. They will preparePowerPoint presentations, tutorials and material needed for making a calendar. Such way of communication will also improve digital competence of students andteachers.Teachers will also hold video conferences via eTwinning, Skype or Google + in order to organise all activities before the meeting takes place.In the school we will try to fulfil all planned activities from our Module using different teaching methods and learning skills. Through our planned activities studentswill broaden their horizons, develop intercultural understanding, discover cultural heritage of the country they visited and partner schools. Since all students willhave to speak in English they will also strengthen their communication skills and develop confidence in oral and written form performances. They will have tocollaborate with other students on different tasks (workshop, practical tasks, tutorials, performances) and in such way develop interpersonal skills andcompetences.Teachers will gain insight in different teaching and learning techniques as well as strategies that might be implemented in schools and awoke student’s interest innon-formal education.The students will get to know other countries, their culture, improve their language skills and maybe develop friendships for a whole life. Some of the studentsmight get involved in researching more about different cultures. Students will have more respect not just for their own culture but also for the others. The project will help students broaden their horizons not just on cultural level but also awake social awareness to people in needed. Students will exchange experiences and effective teaching techniques. They will become responsible European citizens and get actively involved in the society. Through participating in this project students will:- improve language skills and communication competence- improve their digital competence and ESL proficiency- improve their capacity of working in team- improve knowledge of social needs and cultural differences among EU countries- improve their social awareness for people in need- promote inclusion and dissemination"

"<< Objectives >>The project aims to develop in students and teachers in partner schools a positive attitude towards reducing the consumption of textile products and reducing the amount of textile waste, to reduce the amount, to ensure re-use and recycling, to protect natural resources, protect the environment, energy recovery and prevent climate change. Recycling of textile wastes can be listed as reducing pollution, reducing energy and water consumption and reducing the need for chemicals.<< Implementation >>For the implementation of the project we proposed 5 learning activities for students in which they will be encouraged to make clothing and accessories from textile waste and 3 training activities for teachers (1 online and 2 onsite) through which teachers become "" sustainability experts ”and be able to adapt and apply knowledge in their current classroom work. We will develop in partnership a methodological guide and good practices for use by teachers in designing teaching activities.<< Results >>Intangibles results:-development of skills by involving students and teachers in activities that promote the recovery of textile waste, -development of skills regarding the circular economy and circular product design, -improved skills in foreign language communication for both pupils and teachers - development of key competencies.Tangible results:- methodological guide- project platform- 100 student mobility- 43 teacher mobilities- materials / products made for the final fashion show"

"<< Objectives >>Our project aims to increase the attractiveness of our institutions as well as vocational training in general. Focusing ""Sustainability and combating climate change"" we study three controversial subject areas: ""Volcanic rock industry"", ""Volcanic regions tourism"" and ""Volcanic regions & cultural heritage"" providing to all participants the possibility to cooperate in international, multilingual teams in order to meet better than before the requirements of the increasingly international job market<< Implementation >>We meet with entrepreneurs on company tours, interview them about sustainability, recycling and renaturalization measures, contact representatives of environmental organizations to learn more about their work to protect natural habitats in volcanic regions. In this context, we analize the negative role of mass tourism and develop alternative concepts. We interview conservationalists and engineers to get an insight in sustainable materials and recognize their benefits for today's builders.<< Results >>We envisage PPT-presentations, posters, an eco-friendly tourist manual and a """"VolcoDramaDesignDiner"""". In addition short learning videos, schemes on ""padlet"" or ""miroboard"" as well as a ""wall of waste"" frieze and a project logo are designed and realized by the participants who can not only contribute their knowledge and experiences, but also their imagination and creativity. The results will be exhibited in our schools and presented digitally on our eTwinning project page."

Begining from the title of the project, we want to demonstrate through the international partnership that although nature is the one that resembles us, education distinguishes us by the fact that theoretical and technical instruction based on healthy values and common sense, will always change the life of the scholars involved by identifying common needs at european level, in order to achieve local, national and international change. Concidering that a worrying percentage of children remain unskilled or isolated in their families due to a lack of effective alternatives, the special vocational education system continues to be the only solution basedon the medical approach of disability. We, Romania, Greece, Turkey and Italy, consider it absolutely necessary to get involved in an international partnership, to disseminate information about our work with these children with mild and moderate mental deficiency, in order to raise awareness of the importance of their integration in the labour market and in social life. Our project aims toincrease the students’ motivation and involvement in their own future, to integrate them into society, after graduation of the courses. The need to carry out this project is linked to the importance of learning a trade of current interest and demanded on the European labour market, by the students with special educational needs in some european special schools. The objectives of the project derive from the educational needs identified in partener schools, society and in the European community. The key objective addresses the most important issues: the individual development of 40 children with SEN (Special Educational Needs), on the level of developing the manual skills abilities in 24 months that are necessary for the future profession of textile worker. Ensuring equal opportunities for 40 students in the European Union area, in order to maximize the personality and specific skills for tehnical profession (textile tailoring and art design). Ensuring the accessibility of educational programs through the exchange of experience between teachers working with students with SEN in the EU. In our project will participate 10 scholars with special educational needs from each partner school, 2 accompanying scholars (1 attendant per 5 scholars) from each participating country in international trips and 3 teachers representing the respective unit for transnational meetings. Taking into account that we, Romania and Greece, as partners and coordinators for the first time in a project funded by the European Union, we want to be a practical example of involvement in our educational instructive work with scholars with special educational needs. Although the textiles industry is relatively developed and there are jobs in this area, the students' motivation to get a job after graduation, will grow. Through the work shops and work sessions that we will carry out, we will learn along with our partners fromTurkey, Greece and Italy how to follow the stages of building-up a traditional fashion product, the traditional stylized blouse for both boys and girls. Students will deploy various, stimulating, practical activities based on the development of key competences, learning how to describe raw materials and auxiliaries in textiles, how to select sewing materials for different fashion products, how to check the details of the products and auxiliary materials etc. In the same time,the project team will get involvedin a management activity, wich will determine the necessary tasks in achieving a quality management. Another task is to write the job description and the attributions of each member of the managementand implementation team of the project. This will be a good opportunity to transfer good practices and knowledge between the participants. The tangible intellectual results will be all the fashion products, layouts and conclusions from the exchange of best practices, wich we will bring together in an attractive brochure and the teaching tutorials. We will try to ensure free of charge through internationalization by translating into all the languages of the partner countries to encourage good practice examples with beautiful results in changing the lives of disadvantaged people with whom we will work within this project. The impact will be positive at the European Union level, with the aim of increasing the quality of education and training of pupils with special needs in Europe by aligning the education system to the opportunities of the european market. At the end of the project, we will continue to implement the objectives with the examples of good practices purchaise din the partner countries and we will look to make other projects at european level to develop and to continue to reduce the risk that after finishingthe studies, students with special educational needs will not succeed to get a job and also the social inclusion won’t be achieved.