"The project team comprises of both teachers and students from Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Turkey. Our common denominator is our mutual concern about the drastic changes in the natural environment, the challenges the world is currently facing, the unimaginable scope of degradation and deprivation of the environment and its extended effects on human welfare and all other life on Earth. Worried about the current state of nature and having carried out a comprehensive analysis, we have identified our target group needs and have decided to collaborate on a European level towards teaching students to explore their ecological and nature knowledge and striving to find effective solution to combat the unsettling legacy. The project „What’s up Mr Bug?- Insects As the Wonder of Ecosystem” is a cross-curricular project which aims at developing students’ key competences, STEAM and ICT skills and motivating students to take sustainable ecological actions for the future generations and themselves. This project promotes the development of skills and key competences through innovative practices based on collaboration and holistic approaches to teaching and learning, such as learning by doing, peer-learning, out-door activities and team cooperation. The active learning in STEAM subjects leads to a substantial boost in creativity, innovation and imagination. Moreover, by participating in STEAM activities, students are more prepared for the challenges they may face in their future jobs and careers. Engagement in the cross-curricular and interdisciplinary projects enables the students to think outside the box and to make connections between different disciplines. Another objectives include developing in-depth knowledge and understanding for other European cultures, improving communicative skills in a foreign language. An integral part of the project is constituted by promoting the integration of students with disabilities ,special needs and different cultural background (gender, religion, ethnic origins). The project also aims at taking advantage of an eTwinning portal optimally by means of conducting more online projects, participating in numerous seminars, conferences and webinars. It is worth pointing out that most of our schools are already experienced to a varying degree in the field of environmental issues and both wish to share their know-how and experience with others and aim at fostering them in their curriculum. We intend to implement innovative approaches to meet the educational purposes outlined in the project’s goals. They include venturing to out-of-school (eg. forest ecosystems) and out-of-class (eg. school horticulture) environments to teach basic concepts about environment and ecology. These areas can be thought of as open-air laboratories to show students the relationship between the natural cycles. We plan to hold workshops and organize field trips in natural areas in order to ensure that students develop both cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills. The education processes taking place out in the open enrich the students with an interdisciplinary perspective by bringing together different disciplines (biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, geography, history) and enabling to use different sensory organs in relation to a particular discipline. The project is about to promote the non-school natural areas considered as a part of teaching curriculum ,and both teachers and students will be encouraged to participate in such activities. Furthermore, the project assumes that students will prepare plentiful educational materials including songs, films, presentation and stories pertaining to the topics. They will also make use of numerous ICT tools including eTwinning portal tools,Kahoot, Ouizziz quizzes,models of living creatures,padlets, e-posters, e-books ,presentations for the local community. All the materials produced in the project will be made available to other partners thus enabling them to compare the cultures, the countries and understand better what the European identity is. The final results of the project will comprise a project’s logo, an e-book ""Wonders of Nature”,a photo competition,an e-exhibition ""The World of Insect"",a teachers/students' kit including a set of educational materials,the film ""Nature-ecosystems” and numerous leaflets pertinent to the project’s aims and content.The final products will be offered in many languages (national ones and English). All in all, participating in a project pertaining to the environment with a strong emphasis on the insect-related issues, a topic very important to the future of mankind, will significantly raise the students’ awareness of the ecological issues,impinge on their everyday actions and routines, eliminate negative and detrimental habits and help transform the mindset not only of the project’s participants but also of the local communities, which will also to a larger extent be affected by the project and its planned events."