"The Project proposes the facilitation of the experience exchange and the development of some common methods for improving the institutional ability of the partners to involve pupils and parents in ecological and recycling activities, to form to them pro-ecological behavior, to help parents understand the integral role outdoor time plays in the health and well-being of our kids and our environment and help them find new ways to make children play and learn outdoors. It also aims to raise the level of the education of the teachers taking part in the project through gaining and sharing the experience, learning new methods and techniques and making them use the different approaches in education. We’ll help our children to discover by themselves the importance of recycling and incite them, encourage them to take concrete initiatives in their everyday life. This project can give children a chance to use their imagination to design products that do not harm the environment or increase waste. The education for environmental protection is considered a priority of the European states policies, but it is also an important need of the institutions involved in the project.The target group of the project consists of 60 teachers and 500 children enrolled in six partner institutions and their parents. The project’s corporation is made up of the following partners:- Gradinita cu Program Prelungit ""Floarea Soarelui"", Romania – coordinator- Create Partnership Trust, UK- Kindergarten “Ivanic Grad”, Croatia- Istituto Comprensivo Orsino Orsini, Italy- Gorukle Aksemsettin ILKOKULU, Turkey- Timi Public Kindergarten,CyprusIn order to achieve the project's goals we'll organize activities such as games, exhibitions, artistic and knowledge contests, experiments, trips, meeting with specialists, field researches, sports competitions which will use recycled objects and will be integrated in the school activities, outdoors ecological activities. The activities and the theme of the project will be developed within all the school subjects. The activities will use recyclable materials and will aim to share environmental knowledge, to discover the fact that ecology and environmental protection can be fun and can be integrated in a great number of activities. The pupils will be involved into researches, visits and will draw the conclusions which are essential.The project activities will be divided during the two years of the project as it follows: -in the first year we are going to approach the following themes: environment factors: water, air, soil; energy and household waste recycling; and the living world: forest, animals, vegetation. The children will acquire the necessary knowledge for a better understanding of the secrets of nature, of the way nature works and what we should to protect it.-in the second year we are going to plan a series of outdoor ecological activities, trips and sports competition. In order to consolidate the information acquired during the first year and to form lifelong habits, we are going to organize activities to celebrate the main Environmental Events in the Global Eco Calendar. Different training activities for the teachers (webinars, workshops, attending activities carried on by the project partners, training courses) will help them enrich their knowledge, show them a new perspective of modern ways of teaching and improve the strategies they have used until now.The achieved results will be:-the project website-""Erasmus corner"" in each school-project logo-multilingual dictionary for children-postcards/decorations on a typical tradition of the country from recyclable materials-exhibitions organized in the partner institutions/ public institutions-theater performances, sports competitions and contests based on or using recycled objects-an eco-calendar displaying aspects of project activities-a best-practice manual with outdoor ecological games and successful activities organized for celebrating Environmental Events from the Global Eco Calendar-didactic materials from recycled objects-Methodological Guide ""My Recycling Factory""which will contain the materials, methods and techniques applied in manufacturing toys, crafts and didactic materials necessary for implementing the proposed activities.-6 brochures for parentsThe participation in the project will contribute to the development of the involved schools in all levels: children and parents, teachers, institutional ability, on a long term as we intend to continue implementing the best practice activities gained during the project. The methodological guide and the best practice manual, as didactic auxiliaries, will guide our future activity. We plan to continue taking care of the garden made during the project and to keep improving the playground with recyclable elements.The project's results will remain available on the project website and eTwinning and anyone interested will have free access."

"Childhood is the most flexible, vulnerable period in human life. This is the time when present and future behaviour is shaped including the ones considering healthy lifestyle. It is determined by: physical activeness, prevention and correction of body posture, safety and both hygienic and nutritional habits. The results of numerous observations of our pupils, diagnosis of their psycho-motoric development, talks with their parents as well as analysis of reports about children’s health in partners’ countries seems to confirm these detrimental states. Therefore, we have decided to unite our efforts, share experience from previous projects which we participated in, exchange know-how and create an international group consisting of teachers from Poland, Spain, Romania, Slovenia, Latvia, Cyprus and the United Kingdom. All of us are professionals in areas that are within our interests. Each of us specialises in a realm that the others would like to develop their skills in, exchange „good practices”. Our main aims:Starting a close cooperation among schools/pre-schools to exchange experience/share good practice and to work out new educational methodologies and techniques that would serve shaping the key competences, being a guarantee of children's successful and free participation in a democratic society in the future.Number and profile of participants:7 countries from EU, preschools and primary schools, all of them experienced in ICT, ecological education, healthy lifestyle, democratic education and/or teaching foreign languages. Teachers - BA/MA graduates, sometimes with additional qualifications (therapy, special pedagogics, language skills, ICT literacy), mostly experience in EU projects, some as participants and some as coordinators; some of the partners are eco schools; living in small villages and big cities; Children - aged 3-6 (pre-school), also with special educational needs because of various conditions (social, health, economic, racial and cultural aspects); Parents - a very diversified group - economically, socially, racially and with various cultural background; some experienced in being participants of EU projects;Activities:Our project activities will offer a specific training methodology for teachers and parents to acquire, promote and deliver to children basic nutrition education and healthy lifestyle competencies. We are planning to organise a lot of activities for children and their families to make them more familiar with healthy lifestyle (workshops, picnics, family contests). There are also activities connected with democratic education and ICT as these are the key competences of the future. To make the content more understandable for children all schools/groups are going to choose a toy that will accompany children and visit partners abroad. Teachers will improve their professional profile thanks to study visits while they will exchange good practices in all areas of our interest.Everyone interested in our ideas will have an access to a cookery blog and multimedia digital platform where we are going to share all results from lesson plans to the best recipes from all partner countries.Results:Apart of hard results mentioned above, there are numerous soft ones. We are going to improve teaching skills in terms of organisation of classes and creation of educational resources promoting healthy lifestyle (new forms, methods and techniques).Our staff will develop their ICT abilities used in educational process as well as their language skills. Students will operate the IWBs easily. Children will also become aware of diversity of countries, nations and languages in Europe. Everyone will learn the importance of their choices both in terms of school life and their health. We hope that our activities will help parents change their lifestyle to support healthy and balanced development of their children. The last but not the least, each of us will be more determined to continue the international cooperation for the sake of the whole community.Impact:At all levels starting with local up to the international, we will promote Erasmus+ initiatives foremost showing how positive they are for communities. Dissemination of project results and products, encouraging other schools towards starting and developing projects by sharing our experience, will be held via online websites like the blog or multimedia digital platform but also by arranging ""open classes"" for other teachers from other schools and picnics for families.We are sure that the project activities will contribute to permanent changes in our private and professional lives."

"The project ""Math - Fun, Education and Communication"", within school cooperation of the Erasmus + program of the KA229 action, is planned for 24 months from 01/11/2019. until 31.10.2021.The applying institution is Przedszkole Miejskie nr 206 z Oddziałami Integracyjnymi w ŁodziKindergarten No. 206 with Integration Units in Lodz, PolandThe main goal of the project is:Development of the key competences of the future during the project, assuring successful and free participation in European society, using active methods, mathematical education combined with ICT and bilingual education and thus having impact on the development of teachers as well as their pupils.The multifaceted nature of activities will focus on the objectives: 1. Supporting teachers in acquiring new skills and professional competences through the implementation of tasks in the project.2. Developing mathematical and foreign language competences of children at the early education stage. 3. Reinforcing methods, techniques and forms of work, aimed at children at early education stage using STEAM tools. 4. Improving the quality of work of partner organizations at the early education stage in the area of developing basic competences including mathematics and key competences.The project involves 6 partners from 6 countries: Poland, Italy, Portugal, Estonia, Bulgaria, and Cyprus. The participants of the project will be over 50 kindergarten and school teachers at the early education stage, whose work involves the idea of developing key competences in early child education. Their activities are addressed to 427 children and 140 parents indirectly involved in the project.The project is based on the experience of partner organizations in the field of mathematics education, STEAM tools development, foreign language education, implementation of small projects and international cooperation, the project will be supported by research in mathematical competences of children and the study of expectations and results addressed to teachers.6 mobilities will be organized within the project , all devoted to teachers and their gaining new skills and professional experience in the field of developing children’s mathematical competences. During the mobilities the following elements will be implemented:- open sessions/classes with pupils from the host institution – 36 / project by subject:(C1) The first concepts - introductory methods and work with the youngest children(C2) Cause and effect - how to consolidate knowledge through games and linking phenomena; (C3) Match and compare –how to trigger mathematical thinking;(C4) How to tell stories about numbers using various activities; (C5) Mathematics in practice – how to teach for the future; (C6) Building passion, interests and relationships in the team through coding and STEAM - training in extra content (working with SEN children, teachers-parents collaboration, multicultural society problems, individualizing educational process, local environment resources in education, cyber safety),-visits to other institutions and meetings developing the skill of communicating in English to explore the education system of the host country and the region, - exchange of experiences, feedback after the classes, discussions on methodical and organizational content, including the project management. The project will create a database of supporting teaching materials/ lesson plans of classes (72/ project). There will be 6 mathematical events, 6 exhibitions, open lessons, conferences promoting good practices and Erasmus and eTwinning projects.An interesting form of project activities combining teachers’ and students’ activities will be ""Mathematical Pranks"" - activities with children carried out by small projects method and whose topics will be given by partners in the form of tasks, puzzles, rebuses. Their answers/effects will be presented on TwinSpace platform in various forms including online class/group meetings on the platform.The results of the project will include a developed publication ""Mathematics - Inspirations, Ideas, Practice"" available on the Platform for Sharing the Erasmus + Program results, lesson plans, tasks and puzzles, partners’ websites containing the coverage of project events, lessons, projects implemented with children, TwinSpace platform itself created to implement the project and being a recording, sharing and disseminating tool of project activities and results."