The project is the reaction to the necessity of development students´ key competences via active learning. It provides an exchange of good practices in the field of experience-based learning and cooperative learning. The contents of the project was devoted to the topics of 1) culture and arts, 2) environment with activities focused on pollution of water sources in the Central Europe, mainly rivers flowing thorough the town where the school is situated, it means Danube, Moravia, Elbe, Chrudimka, 2) business learning connected with application of mathematics and digital skills, 4) sports like a tool to strengthening of fellowship and fair play. The target group were students of secondary vocational schools. From the total number of 200 students, 101 were direct participants of activities performed by means of Olympic Games. The rest took part in the further project activities as organisational team or audience. Within the project four international meetings were be organised. They lasted 2 days (3 days with travel day) and they were held like European Olympic Games in disciplines due to the main project topics like a triathlon. Within a CULTURAL OLYMPIC GAMES triathlon was organised in disciplines e-quiz Know the famous art work, food art and artistic representation of historical event or famous personality. We created project logo and used it on T-shirts. ENVIRONMENTAL OLYMPIC GAMES were organised like triathlon in water analysis, geocaching and recycling. BUSINESS OLYMPIC GAMES were held like triathlon in the e-quiz about brands, branding, slogans and logos; trading game and creating an advertising campaign and Pitching. SPORT OLYMPIC GAMES took place like triathlon in floorball with limitations, badminton in regional costumes, relay race in masks. We donated the project shirts and collected shirts to socially excluded citizens, each partner school in their local environment. The next target group were teachers of academic subjects, professional chemical, fire protecting, economic subjects and also subjects focused on services, of f them 20 teachers directly took part in these activities, 16 teachers were part of organisational team and 25 other teachers are using good practice procedures. Within the project, the workshops of 34 engaged teachers were organised in Bratislava and Vienna. They served like a field for the exchange of good practices and experiences, evaluation of targets and impact of the project, assessment of utilization the project budget and dissemination of results. The students gained the key competencies via performance of project activities which will enable him/her to utilize educational the whole life educational options, to develop his/her personality whole life, to gain competencies in order to adapt with different social and working situations, to work in teams, to learn to be an active solver of life situations, to learn to decide independently. To live and work with various people, to solve conflicts with respect to of plural values, mutual understanding, tolerance and peace, to respect and tolerate differences of other people, to cooperate with them, not to dominate other people, to behave to others with responsibility, to be authentic personality what he/she wants and this personality manages his/her own life, to be individual, to find the sense of the life, own happiness and identity. They will enable to have ability of self-reflection, autoregulation of behaviour, critical thinking and personal responsibility. The partnership developed school cooperation from cities that are situated near some of the European rivers. The objective was to build the partnership among school, which have the different studying fields, mainly chemistry, business and services. The project offers the platform for exchange of good practices and experiences. Thanks to school network we can share experiences from the innovative teaching methods. Within the project due to the networking, the assumption for long-term and successful partnership and increasing the volume of international school cooperation with different focus in the name of European philosophy to connect different groups of people was created.

The title of our project 'The Danube knows no borders' reflects the everyday experience of people living in the Danube region. Multicultural roots and a common historical background join the countries located in the Danube region, and our present life is also connected in several ways as a result of the opening of borders and the free movement of labour provided by EU citizenship. Despite the many benefits, this situation also poses challenges; both aspects are well worth analyzing and discussing, especially with young people. The project participants are four secondary schools: Obchodna akademia I. Karvasa Bratislava; Bundeshandelsakademie und Bundeshandelsschule Neusiedl/See; Schulen des bfi Wien; Haller János Általános Iskola, Szakközépiskola és Szakiskola Mosonmagyaróvár. Each project partner will delegate 10 students between the ages of 14-19 and 2-4 teachers in the project teams. Some of our objectives are: comparing the school systems, economic circumstances, life styles, and traditions of the multicultural Danube region in the form of a structured inter-regional and cross-border cooperation; combating stereotypes and prejudice, raising awareness of tolerance and acceptance; innovative learning; exchanging good practices; improving students' language skills; fostering the key competences that are vital on the European labour market; promoting learning methods adequate for disadvantaged students. The project aims to establish a long-term positive impact at personal, local and regional levels. Since the project takes place in a relatively small region, the project work might be more particular achieving a relevant outcome that can be transferred to our everyday life. When choosing the project partners, personal contacts played an important role. The partners will bring their know-how in bilingual education, their entrepreneurial thinking. The partnership was established during preparatory meetings (Bratislava, Mosonmagyaróvár, Neusiedl 2013-14) where we got acquainted with the partner schools, discussed the needs of the target groups and defined the framework of the project. Regarding project activities, four transnational project meetings are planned during the 24 months, one in each semester, where our project groups will meet in one of the partner schools. After each meeting the teachers will come together to evaluate the previous work and they report on their further plans. The participants will carry out several tasks and take part in different events: excursions, workshops, presentations, portfolios, flyers, interviews, visiting firms, carrying out evaluations, peer learning, individual and cooperative research work, field work, visiting minorities. Permanent contact will be kept via Emails, skype, facebook between the project meetings. There will be an end-presentation involving all participants and institutions, local and regional authorities, policy makers and business representatives. The project results are expected to promote innovative and creative teaching-learning approaches that are appropriate for personalized learning, which is adequate for those with low basic skills. Also, the project results are intended to highlight the positive aspects of a multicultural and multilingual region as a potential benefit for local and regional entrepreneurs and policy makers. These results are hoped to go beyond the duration of the project in terms of keeping further contact, the dissemination of project materials and documents and a possible future project based on the experience and know-how of this one. The participating students are expected to improve their language skills and communicative competence to become confident language users, will acquire know-how and develop skills during the different tasks, they will improve their digital competence, expand their views, get acquainted with the neighbouring countries. They will experience how to work effectively with people from other cultures and people with disadvantages. Teachers will have the opportunity to revise their teaching practice, to find out new, non-formal methods which can be integrated into their future pedagogical work. In order to maintain sustainability we intend to organize teacher training seminars, integrate results in the pedagogical framework of our schools, use the newly acquired good practices.