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Τhe last years it is observed that pupils and educators are facing barriers in effective participation and learning due to the lack of efficient practices and transversal skills. School boards are among the local stakeholders who deal directly with this issue. They face the need to support, inspire and even sometimes propose ways or solutions to their school staff and members in order to escape from this unpleasant condition of keeping themselves and their pupils, unintentionally, far from improvement. Thus, the core of the designed policy of all stakeholders is suggested to be the development of the basic key competences and improvement of inclusive practices of their staff. Erasmus+ programme offers great opportunities to schools for opening doors to partnerships which address issues like developing transversal skills, increasing awareness on social inclusion and enhancing digital integration in learning and teaching. The project ''My Roots become Our Wings-Travel Agency / MRBOW-TA’’ aims to increase awareness on the importance of skills and competences in today's life, through the implementation of inclusive education and digital integration. We intent to show how international cooperation through Strategic partnership can improve the basic key competences, with special focus on the one of initiative and entrepreneurship in the framework of inclusive practices, for the development of pupils and educators into (more) independent lifelong learners. In relation to this, all 6 partners (Cyprus, Romania, Lithuania, Austria, Poland, Italy) with 159 teachers and 2063 pupils during the project, intend to show the power of KA2 collaboration on improving key competences for developing entrepreneurship, removing the barriers to social inclusion and providing ways of turning schools into learning communities. Several methods and tools will be used for the realization of the aims and the objectives of the project: (a) Pupils are travel agents who aim to increase awareness on local and European identity/citizenship and cultural heritage through the use of transversal skills, digital integration and inclusive practices. Teachers guide and support pupils while at the same time they are involved in self-improvement procedure. (b) Teachers and pupils will work using collaborative methods with tools of formal and non-formal learning. Non formal learning: simulations, role play, problem solving, case studies, debating. Formal learning: They will make use of media and technology, implement skills and competences from maths, mother tongue and foreign language, social and civic, and sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. Objectives: - To develop basic and transversal skills, such as entrepreneurship, digital skills and multilingualism in all fields of learning and teaching, using innovative and pupils centered pedagogical formal and non-formal approaches; - To improve the level of key competences and skills, with particular regard to their relevance for the nowadays life and their contribution to a cohesive society; - To promote digital technology as an entrepreneurial tool for enhancing independency in lifelong learning and social inclusion (in local, national and European society); - To develop participants social and personal skills; - To help young Europeans and educators in the planning and implementing of practices for tackling social exclusion; - To increase awareness about the power of Erasmus+ programmes for supporting the development of transversal skills. During and by the end of the project we will ensure the visibility and dissemination of E+ KA2 projects through many products and platforms. We will create a blog, upload videos, produce teaching games and booklets (recipe books, dialogue books), photo albums etc. We will also produce a joint learning outcome which will be an Index for improving teaching and learning in practice. This LO will be disseminated to the wider LL Community and will support the power of such collaborations. The expected impact on participants: Going through this project, we believe that all participants will get the opportunity to change their attitudes and beliefs towards major issues, such as inclusion, cultural diversity and tolerance in education. They will all gain knowledge, in order to develop empathy in diversity and increase self-reflection in favor of solidarity in an ongoing transformed society. As a direct impact we expect more openness in the attitude of the participants that will help them understand their status of living and thinking in a more complex way, how they can improve their opportunities as teachers and pupils who have to deal with new unexpected situations every day. Participants will develop their competence on social skills, media technology and entrepreneurial thinking. Moreover, they will develop a sense of being independent active learners, regarding their self and professional development and the social inclusion practices they use.
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