"The project comes from the importance of reducing the environmental impact of the lifestyle of the European population, and from the desire to activate awareness in young people regarding the wealth of their own territory.The main purpose is to introduce them to the concepts of ""slow"" tourism and to actually put these principals into practice by visiting the territories of each partner. We also want to spread the outdoor culture, with the aim of triggering virtuous behavior regarding the use of one's free time.The students, after acquiring the necessary skills in video editing, will use technology as a tool to promote the above.In addition, they will actively work for the protection of the territory as they will check pathways condition and will report it through developing an app to map points that need maintenance.The project will directly involve 24 students aged between 16 and 19 from three secondary schools belonging to complementary backgrounds:-IIS ""Q.Sella"" of Biella, in Italy, located in an alpine province;-IES Belén of Malaga, Spain, located in a Mediterranean tourist area;-Bahcelievler Aydin Dogan MTAL of Istanbul, Turkey, in an urbanized context.The three partner schools offer technical and vocational training courses in the field of information technology and media.The first planned activities consist of preparatory courses. These will take place at the Biella school, and will be focused on the topics that will be addressed during the project:-the principles of sustainable development and of the impact of tourism;-video shooting and video editing;-coding of an app;-outdoor and sports experiences.In the following months, the schools will carry on the work simultaneously, with periodic online meetings. The provided activities will be: a detailed study of the philosophy and the practices of ""slow"" tourism, the creation of a logo, a peer-education on video editing.We also plan three exchanges, one per each partner school, designed to apply the knowledge and the skills acquired in the previous period. In practice, we will walk the territories of schools on foot, exploring them from a naturalistic, cultural, sporting and artistic point of view.During the excursions, information and digital material (video shooting, photographs) will be collected and, subsequently, will be processed to produce the digital outputs. The development of the beta version of the app will be carried out especially in the period between the exchanges. Finally, students will hold some public presentation events.After the theoretical training phase, a ""learning by doing"" methodology, aimed at the active participation of pupils, will be adopted. The students will put their digital knowledge into practice and will experience the principles of sustainable tourism firsthand. They will work in groups and peer-education will be encouraged. We will use eTwinnings to foster collaboration among partner schools.We intend to produce several outputs:-a research on sustainability and slow tourism;-a ""tourist guide for slow travelers"";-a series of ""logbook"" videos in which students can describe the experience and the visited places with a young perspective;-the report that highlights the critical points of the pathways, that can be delivered to local authorities;-the app’s beta version with the feature to report the problems encountered on the paths and to promote the maintenance interventions.Furthermore, we expect a strengthening in the theoretical and practical learning of all the issues involved in the project and a development of the key competences (communication, entrepreneurship, foreign languages, digital technologies, social and civic competences).Finally, we believe the project could produce the long-term follow-ups below:-The participants will be more informed on environmental matter and will be able to make more critical and aware future choices. We hope they will consider their territory as an integral part of a wider community, the Europe, and will be involved developing it.-Computer and digital skills will constitute an important technical background that can be used in the job market.-The app’s beta version can be implemented by each partner school and maybe used by the local authorities as a tool to support upkeep interventions.-The eTwinning use and the established contacts will help partner schools to be involved more and more effectively in the European and Erasmus+ context.-The collaboration started with local authorities is an opportunity to network and to offer support mutually.-The technological tools got for the project will be useful to going on teaching related subjects."

"Context/background of the project: The Teaching Improvement Partnership Project (TIP Project) led by Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board and involving partners from the Czech Republic, the UK, Portugal and Turkey identified the training and equipping of teachers/trainers in relation to Education Employment Partnership activity as a way to improve teaching. It addressed 'Europe 2020' whilst also impacting on skills mismatches, promoting apprenticeships enterprise/self employment and contributing to economic development. It impacted on inequalities for those from minority backgrounds, those with disabilities and other underrepresented groups such as young women.This project addressed in particular specific communication from the European Commission such as ""Improving Competences for the 21st Century, an Agenda for European Co-operation on Schools”, the Bruges communique 2010 and Copenhagen process empowering people, internationalising VET and fostering innovation creativity and entrepreneurship and EU 2020 particularly improving teaching and reducing social exclusion. The aim of this programme is to further strengthen key competences in VET by enhancing the knowledge and skills of staff through training and by promoting work-based learning in all its forms in the curriculum, with special attention to apprenticeships. We aim to make the teacher training element empower the motivation of underrepresented groups of students in particular who often face disadvantage and social exclusion.Objectives: The objectives were to exchange best practice across the partner countries and to deliver 5 modules of teacher training activities including certified training through GRETB. This will upskill staff in partner countries including knowledge such as labour market information and the impact on vocational students' career choices. Staff were our primary focus. Through 5 training events up to 80 staff from partner countries visited hosting countries and learnt from the practice there. It was through observation/shadowing/lecture/workshop/discussion, practical methods and teaching methodologies. These were vocational teachers, strategists and a small number of business ambassadors all involved in education employment partnership delivery and development. Delegates cascaded information and learning in their own country. The project developed a resource directory for partner countries, a curriculum unit and a set of case studies showcasing excellent teaching practice across the partners identified through training events and employer involvement. Partner websites published all updated and edited materials readily available for classroom use. The project delivered the upskilling and development of staff, the showcasing of powerful resources through the exchange of practice, the potential of a more innovative curriculum through training which will address inequality and recognise diversity, and consequently the improvement of life and career opportunities with the sharing of good practice being the desired outcome.Number and profile of participating organisations:- 5 organisations formed the transnational project partnership which was innovative as the group was rich in educational diversity and vocational expertise.- The lead partner GTI is part of the Galway, Roscommon Education and Training Board. GTI has a wealth of experience in managing both KA1 and KA2 projects and were delighted to be awarded with the VET Erasmus+ Charter in 2015. We have ten course departments and over 50 individual programmes on offer. All students complete a mandatory vocational work placement. - SES 13-19 Ltd is based in the West Midlands (UK) and works with over 100 VET organisations. They work with providers of secondary and vocational education to enhance the curriculum to improve student’s readiness for employment and the world of work.- ISS-COP is based in the Czech Republic- Aydin Dogan:- Municipio Sao Joao Da Madeira: Description of undertaken main activities:- The TIP Project involved 5 international partners and delivered 5 LTTA events- The training courses are transferable across national boundaries- Project outputs were created including resource directories, case studies, a project website and curriculum materials.- A strategy paper called the Way Forward was also produced suggesting strategic developments for each of the partners Results and impact attained:- 80 international delegates have taken part in the 5 training activities - Project outputs are accessible on the project website - www.tipproject.eu - Project delegates are implementing what they have learnt.If relevant, longer-term benefits:The project results have provided some insight into the importance of work based learning for schools and discussions have started with employers as to ascertain what skills and qualities are deemed relevant. The project resources have relevance beyond national boundaries."

The Get Involved! (GIVE) KA229 Erasmus+ project is led by the high school Evariste Galois from Sartrouville, France. It is a secondary comprehensive school with demonstrated experience in international cooperation. It is currently coordinating the “Water & Earth Day” KA229 project and planning the sixth edition of the “Days of Evariste” (organised since 2016) which will be about the crucial notion of commitment.It is around this universal theme and common objectives that we have designed the GIVE project with our students and partners. They are all schools welcoming students from diverse backgrounds and offering various courses and trainings: IES Matias Ramon Martinez from Burguillos del Cerro in Spain (a comprehensive middle school also providing professional training in catering professions), Dr Ivan Panov high school from Berkovitsa, Bulgaria (general education and courses in hotel management and food services), San Severino comprehensive school in Partinico, Sicily, International school Ill Liceum in Gdynia, Poland, and Bahcelievler Aydin Dogan vocational school in Istanbul, Turkey (training in journalism and media professions).Our priority is to make students aware of the values they share by getting involved. We would like our students to become responsible citizens, aware of the global issues and challenges that they are confronted with, and conscious of the role they have to play as 21st-century citizens. We wish they stand up not only against climate change, but also against inequalities, in favour of peace and justice, and human rights.In each school, an Erasmus+ club or workshop will be open to all volunteering students. Between mobilities, we will organise collaborative activities via the eTwinning platform: we will write, shoot, edit and subtitle a film about getting involved; we will create a collection of short stories for children, which will be first printed and then read but also performed in front of pupils from the local primary schools of each partner; we will organise an Erasmus+ film festival dedicated to the notion of getting involved, in cooperation with the national drama centre of Sartrouville, and open to other French schools; we will participate in a fund-raising charity race and awareness actions; we will create an active charity.Seven mobilities are planned: one at each partner’s school and two at the coordinator’s. Each mobility will be open to four or five students and two staff members. A total of 160 students will take part in mobilities. The criteria for selecting the students will be transparent and non- discriminatory. Teachers will make sure they provide particular guidance and support to students facing economic, learning or academic difficulties, or students with special needs or other health problems, whose participation will be encouraged.We aim at making the GIVE project a platform for equal opportunities and an opportunity to fight school dropout by empowering each student. Students will develop civil and social skills, digital and graphic skills, language and communication skills, organisation and project management skills. This project will allow students to expand their knowledge, discover other cultures, broaden their horizons, open their minds, cooperate and get involved in environmental and solidarity actions alongside charities or NGOs.The GIVE project will enhance the local, regional, national and European influence and reputation of the partners. The output will be shared on eTwinning, on social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), on each school’s website, on the scolawebTV website (or its European equivalents), on the webmedia or Youtube channels when possible. The Erasmus+ results platform will be used to share the outcome of the project on the European scale.The project will also improve the professional skills of our teaching staff and deepen their approach of project-based pedagogy. The last activities of the GIVE project will consider how it could live on, through the student association that will be created on the last mobility in Sartrouville, or through the organisation of a second edition of the Erasmus+ film festival on a different topic in 2023.