ROUTHThe main aspect of our project is making citizens think critically. This is representative for a person with self-guidance, self-discipline, a person who reaches the highest level in intellectuality, if he persists in this way. Individuals, who obtain critical and consistent thinking, are being more empathic, reasonable and rational. We want to give them the opportunity, to find out for themselves, as junior citizens who have creative and critical thinking, who realize their capabilities and roles in modern democracy, all the processes of that political system, that affects their lives. Our purpose is to make them understand that they hold their future to their hands, and that they should not allow anyone to manipulate them. A new network of active younger Citizens will emerge from their efforts. OurYoungers will commune every topic of that network in a forum that will be built by them.Our target group of students, aging from 13 to 18 years old,300 in number, will involve every specialization available in each school, both sexes, and mostly youngers who belong to disadvantaged groups.Our intention is to implement a project, that will have a lifetime impact on them, so students will be the core of every activity that we design.Our planning involves 35 teachers from every school. Their role will be to turn the results of our project into long-term practices for our students, at all levels. Teacher’s roles will be coordination and guidance for our students. They will act as an intangible resource for the students.Our objectives are:-Development of thinking critically, how to become a leader, communicational and social skill development.- Activate our youngers to community life issues.-Put the foundation of free thinking and acting-Emerge values such as respecting each other, being tolerant, democratic and active as a citizen.-to forward intercultural learning-Development of cooperation and idea exchanging among students across EuropeMain activitiesThe main core of our project will be the four exchanges. During these meetings, students will debate in real time dialogues, presenting their augments, as well as their counterarguments, that they derived from their research, that involved data analysis, situation assessment, performing interviews and role-play participation. The research that will be performed by every team of students , will ensure that the meetings will produce the expected results and that proper information exchange will be made.There are 5 exchanges with the following topics:C1- Immigrating issueC2 – Democracy and human rights violationC3 – Discrimination and it’s forms.C4 – Social motivationC5 - Joint StaffMethods used:Prior to each exchange, the groups of students will process each topic that will be presented there.There will be an established and scientific data collection methodology that will provide everything that is necessary, in order to present correctly the situation that is of their duty. To achieve this, each team is required to perform interviewing, contact personnel of several NGO’s that participate in related actions , data collection and analysis, assessment and decision making. Every research work will be presented by the students, as the exchange occurs. They will compare their data with the data of the other countries and come to conclusions. They will take part in several debates and think tank activities that will boost their ways of thinking critically. They will get in contact with local politicians and local services stuff, in order to analyze and discuss those issues.ImpactEach student will become autonomous and will enhance the ability to think critically. He or she will learn about rights and obligations in the European and local environment, will increase civic involvement, will form an intercultural conscience. Finally the project will shape students and make them better professionally, personally and interpersonally .Students will learn to respect other cultures, civilizations, they will teach and be taught tolerance as well as respecting the fellow human. They will realize that being active citizens is a one way road, if we want Europe to succeed.Material assets, such as records of each debate, researches, each presentation and activities that make students think critically, will be communed in the best possible way.We expect to expand the impact of our project via the on line platform, the dissemination meetings and the tangible assets, exhibited on a large scale of physical spaces. Our intangible assets, will be posted in any on line spaceThis project, is designed to be beneficiary not only for the students and teachers involved, but for the local community, authorities and ngo’s that will be a part of it.Teaching stuff will enrich its material and will improve communicational skills. They will develop their team working abilities and organize themselves much better.

<< Objectives >>With the project, we aim to establish initiative that fosters self-care and healthy mindset of students in digital era. Our objective is to encourage students to take responsibility and live healthier by building up their competences for a healthy lifestyle especially students with fewer opportunities. The learning experience comprises inclusion, formal and non-formal education methods. We will focus on: inclusive sport, healthy lifestyle and healthy food, respect for nature, and environment.<< Implementation >>During the project, activities for teachers and later for students will promote inclusion and learning, such as workshops, role plays, intercultural evenings and trust-building. In addition, through the aforementioned activities, participants will acquire new knowledge about environmental sustainability and carry out sports activities in the open area, through which will be promoted a healthy lifestyle and teamwork. Activities will focus on four different topics, facilitated by teachers.<< Results >>One of the most desired post-project impacts is students’ behavioural change towards healthy eating and living lifestyle. A set of activities and materials that will provide teachers with inspiring ideas, motivation, enhanced practice and relevant skills needed to foster competence — the ability to cope actively with complex situations like healthy lifestyle, outdoor sport activities, causes and effects of obesity. Project brochures for healthy lifestyle and wellbeing of students, newsletters.

“Empowerment in Action” is a student and teacher based two-year project. According to the statement of Marianne Thyssen, the Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility given at the Autumn 2018 Economic Forecast of the EU Commission, the economic recovery of recent years can be made permanent and can be benefited only by investing more in our societies, in our people including the generations to come. The main objective of this partnership is to develop students' skills and employability and to develop teachers' ability to teach students these skills. The national coordinators of each school discussed this future project with their students and teachers during the planning phase and we realized all the schools more or less face similar challenges. The students commented that they felt unready for the labour market. They were also unsure of what skills are required at the next level of education or for various professions in the labour market. Another problem they face is the difficulty of making decision on whaich career choice to make. On the other hand, teachers wanted to know how can they teach skills in classes and how can they assess the acquisition of skills. The project has two primary objectives regarding students and teachers:a) To enable students to acquire hard and soft skills that can encourage each student to participate effectively and constructively in the workplace and socially at local, national and international level. b) To strengthen the teachers' ability to teach skills by using and adopting innovative and effective methods and tools in order to facilitate students’ access to the labour market and improve adaptation to future labour market developments.The target groups and stakeholders of this project are the students and the teachers that participate directly in the project; the other students and teachers of the participating schools; the local business communities such as experts from employment bureaus, chambers of commerce, companies; other schools as local stakeholders; universities; bureaus for education; families; and the students and teachers from other schools in Europe..The expected results are tangible and non-tangible. The tangible results are: the e-book (the final product); the toolbox of skills; the project related videos created by the students, the toolbox for teaching and assessment of skills; a collection of lesson plans prepared according to the innovative lesson plan model ;a promotional poster, brochure, video and the project logo; the project website; the teachers' wikispace platform; the e-twinning group; the twinspace project on e-twinning; an innovative product or service based on students' coding experience; the students' professional portfolios; the learning diaries; questionnaires in the beginning and at the end of the project. Referring to the non-tangible results, we expect the students will become more creative and gain experience in communication and collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, meta cognition, personal learning strategies, citizenship, life (and career) skills, personal and social responsibility, cultural awareness and expression, interpersonal and intercultural skills. Thus, the students will become more motivated to stay at school and continue with a higher education. We also expect a significant number of teachers to adopt innovative, effective and new methods and tools in teaching.During the two years we will have 2 transnational meetings and 4 learning/teaching/training activities. The first will be for planning and preparation purposes while the last one will be organized for the evaluation and the sustainability of the project. In each transnational meeting, workshops for innovative teaching methods will be included in the agenda of the meeting.In the long term we aim at recognition of our e-book, the toolbox for teaching and assessment of skills and innovative lesson plan model as teaching materials. The project will also contribute to a well-qualified and highly motivated workforce in Europe while employers will be able to access the workforce with the skills they need. We would like to be an example for similar educational organizations and, if possible, we want to help our colleagues, all school stakeholders and NAs in promoting the Erasmus+ projects about teaching and assessing skills.

Training firms are a new strategy and a promising strategy to prepare our students for labor market in school. Every country has specific and individualized ways of using this tool. As it is relatively new it is ready to be optimized and used to its full capabilities. So with this project, we boost the educational system of training firms and we also boost our students.By sharing best practice teachers will be inspired and supported to level up. Students will level up by doing business with foreign training firm, organizing fairs, participating in these fairs, train others and being trained in other training firms.This intense relationship between students in different international training firms will make international business more visible, clear and understandable. Students will be more engaged, more active, more interested in doing tasks and more innovative.The more virtual companies get alive and personal, the better the outputs and the highest benefits of this system can be achieved. So in this Erasmus Project, there are just schools running training firms, so we can really focus on the specific topic. The partners are from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovakia.The results we will produce:* training companies' websites will be available in at least two languages* catalogs for each training companies will be available in at least two languages, so they fit properly for international business* fairs will be organized at each hosting school* fair stands. each training company is going to participate with a fair stand.* videos of each meeting * leaning videos will be produced to train the newcomers in the company, so they are taught how a task is done correctly * photobook covering the whole projectAs all participating teachers are teaching in training firms, they can use their experience in the following years of teaching. They will be inspired and aware of all the advantages and enriching opportunities this training firm concept is opening doors. So they will increase their level of teaching and all students in the following years will benefit from this project experiences.So we reach our final objective to prepare our students best for working life. They should be best trained for the labor market.

The project was initiated to respond to the needs of our students to acquire and improve their know-how in terms of becoming skillful in using technology (computers, lap tops, mobile phones) for the purpose of education in the classroom, using various mobile applications as well as other open sources, skills which they will use even after the school years, no matter what careers they may choose to follow. We want to make students break the barrier between passive consumption of technology and using technology only for entertainment purposes, to the active usage of all available appliances for educational and informative purpose, inside and outside the classroom. OBJECTIVESThe aim of the project is to provide the necessary framework for teachers and students to work together, share ideas and good practices and learn how to engage students in using their technology knowledge for the purpose of education and up-grading. O1: at least 70 percent of the students in the target group will become familiar with the effective use of technology in classO2: at least 50 percent of students will contribute to the search of new ICT tool for different subjectsO3: at least 80 percent of participants will improve knowledge of foreign culturesO4: at least 70 percent of participants will improve communication skills in English O5: all participants will develop tolerance, mutual respect and intercultural understandingO6: all project team members and students will improve organizational and team work skills. MAIN ACTIVITIESC1 - Portugal- Mar 2020 – Open educationC2 - Hungary - May 2020 – Digital mediaC3 - Macedonia - Oct 2020 – Learning by DoingC4 - Serbia - April 2021 – Fun assessmentC5 – Turkey - Oct 2021 – Career PortfoliosTARGET GROUPThe project addressed the age group of 15-18 year olds in our schools, who are old enough to process this type and amount of information and use it to their own advantage in the process of education, inside and outside the classroom. The students come from a variety of cultural backgrounds and a significant percentage of them are faced with. and strive to overcome all kinds of obstacles - economic, cultural, financial etc. The participants will be based on their digital skills, language skills and school results. Additional support will be given to students facing any of the above mentioned obstacles. There will be 90 students who attend the LTTAs - 16 per country, in the five meetings planned, with an additional number of about 30 students from the host institution for whom a grant is not given but who will attend the activities.The project also addresses teachers of IT and teachers of foreign languages who will thus improve their material base and ensure the sustainability of the project results. The first and last meeting includes 15 teachers, and the other three meetings include 10 teachers from each participating country. METHODOLOGYThe project involves 5 main stages: initiation (identification of needs and partners), planning (action plan, methodologies, resources), implementation (organization of activities before, during and after the transnational events), evaluation (throughout the entire project, in steps, but also at the end of the project), finalization (reporting, elaboration of impact study, sustainability plan). RESULTS- 1 e-book of good practices- initial and final questionnaires based on which we will elaborate the impact study- website, Facebook page, eTwinning account, Facebook discussion group, Whatsapp group- LTTA minutes and evaluation reports- Europass mobility documents, CVs, language portfolios- certificates of attendance- intermediary and final reports- improvement of students' and teachers' skills IMPACTStudents will acquire digital skills, improved professional and language skills, communication, interaction, intercultural dialogueTeachers improve leadership skills, organizational skills and problem-solving abilities, level of English and professional skillSchools will develop better cohesion among members of staff, positive image at local level, and improvement of Erasmus+ project management skills LONG-TERM BENEFITS- institutions will acquire a resource e-book which will be used by future generations- English teachers, as well as other teachers will use the project results in regular class work or in optional classes- partners may develop future Erasmus+ initiatives together.