Our project HET (Hold Everyone Together) is based on the importance of providing every student but mostly disadvantaged students inclusive opportunities to join society and to become more competent as unique individuals. Our team is composed of five educational institutions from different countries (Serbia, Turkey, Greece, Poland, and Romania) with more than 3700 students aged between 14-19 and 150 teachers with different experiences, knowledge and beliefs but with common goals.We intend to apply 21st century skills to improve our students’ social and interpersonal competencies, show them different ways to learn and think, encourage them to work collaboratively with others in a coherent way, understand themselves better and develop their entrepreneurial, social, language and digital competences. Through our project we believe all of our students but mostly disadvantaged ones will improve their abilities and dignity on the basis of their identity. They will be aware of social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity under the common framework of European heritage.We believe that early school leaving rates will decrease as students’ academic success increases through good bounds to school and students will improve their complex problem-solving, critical thinking, decision-making skills as well as their cognitive flexibility. We hope to create an environment for students where there will be no trace of racism and discrimination.Teachers participating in the project activities will develop understanding of pedagogical styles used in Europe, share their experiences, methods and will have an opportunity to observe different teaching environments and curriculums as well. Schools’ visibility will increase through our project and will attract more students in the future.Over 3700 participants will be involved including all the representatives of school community -students, teachers, staff and families. Administration, local community, local government, NGOs, educational centres, educators from other schools will also be participants of our project in one or another way.To achieve the project goals, we will manage our project activities integrated into 12 modules which include media literacy, self-esteem, respecting diversity, being a volunteer, self-awareness, interpersonal intelligence, managing stress and anxiety, natural awareness, being creative and innovative and decision-making. These skills will be dealt with through our project with participation of all students. During LTT activities students and teachers will develop an understanding for other cultures, traditions and lifestyles which will be a motivation to learn and use foreign languages, to travel and be familiar with European cultures and countries.All the activities done during our project will be student centred and will aim to integrate all students into social community in a coherent way. Web2.0 tools will be used both in order to facilitate learning and to enhance students personal and social skills. We will structure all learning environments in a way to encourage teamwork thus promoting cooperative approach in education. Students will be motivated to work in groups, to plan their own work, make a good division of work, help friends in need and evaluate their own work.The assessment will be covered during all periods of project and various assessment tools will be used to evaluate the assessment of the project and its goals before, during and after the project. We will use internal and external assessment approaches as well as diagnostic, formative and summative assessment tools. In order to reach as more people as possible, the project results will be disseminated widely. Different means of communication will be used and project outcomes will be disseminated in all native languages of partner schools and in English also.All project results and outcomes will be published on schools’ websites and social media publicly as well on eTwinning and Erasmus+ Project Results platforms.The e-book we plan to create will include all products of the project. And we also plan to have this e-book printed as brochures and distribute them to other schools, institutions and local communities. At the very end of the project each school will organize en exhibition for the products of the project. With this project, students will be familiar to different cultures, traditions and lifestyles and they will understand and respect them while developing international friendships and communication skills in English. It is mostly important for disadvantaged individuals to raise social and global behaviors for integrity and development of Europe as well. We hope this project will be the very first step for many future strategic partnerships and communication among teachers and students will be lifelong. We also believe that our project will increase the loyalty of students and teachers to the school, improve cooperation in schools and make our schools more visible.

Learning with cartoons and animations: Our school is a state school which has been opened since 2008. It’s got 17 classrooms,538 students ( between 10-14 age ) and 24 teachers. There is a computer room and web in our school. The computer room has electronic equipment. In our staff,our English teachers and computer teachers took part actively in this project. Kocaeli Metropolis Municipality gave tablets to All our students (in 6th,7th,8th grades ) . By this project,we used these tablets as educative tools with software. We improved our education quality by using these students’ digital abilities. In our project,we prepared animations about lessons and cultural topics:1-we discovered digital abilities of the students who were in different grades.2- teachers developed their attitude to digital learning for the lessons. 3- we stored digital education tool to use it in every education level as course materials. 4-students learned to use digital tools. 5- we shared experiences and learned more cultures by cooperating our partners. 6-teachers improved themselves to teach language, and students developed their language skills by digital skills.The number of participants and profile: There were seven partner schools. There were ten students in each school cartoon and animation teams. There were schools from different educational grades, the students was chosen from different ages from 10 to 14.Methodology was used: International cooperation was done with partners in the program. Animation software training was taken in order to improve the digital skills of the participants. This training was given at the first meeting. Participants of this course guided the ones that didn’t participate to the mobility through peer learning. Short stories were written and language skills were improved by finding out the culture of the country that had been visited at the first place. Then, cultural cartoons and animations were done. Animations were done by using the same method on a topic that was given according to the curriculum of the host school. Students used the tablets to learn the lessons. These students who could use these ICT devices improved the digital integration. Teachers who were lack of digital skills had positive attitudes to digital subjects. In our school we had a project about science and technology. And students used animation programmers to do their homework and project works. Some students made presentations by using this animation that they did. they integrated it to all lessons.they learned different cultures and traditions. they introduced their own cultures so they had a cultural harmony during this meeting. thanks to this project they had chance to practice English with foreign people.So their English marks increased. they started to use applications to keep in touch with their foreign friends by speaking English. they were eager to go abroad. they improved their self-confidence and represented their countries abroad. These videos were posted via youtube and facebook channel. We had planned that 5 students and 2 teachers would join to the Short-Term Learning/Teaching/Training Activities in the application form. According to the application form, 42 participants had been planed for 6 meetings. We had more participants than the planned at the end of the project. Totally 48 participants from our school (31 students and 17 teachers) joined to the meetings. Two kinds of animations about subject and culture were done in each meeting. 490 animations were planned in the application form but more than 500 animations were done. The animations were stored and used as lesson materials. Animations were shared via our youtube channel (Learning with Cartoons and Animations) and opened to international access. Also, all animations were shared by Twinspace that a portal in the E-twinning. And they were shared on all schools’ web pages. Information about our project was shared on EBA that is a web page of Turkish Ministry of Education has our animations. There was a lot of news about our project as local area. Visits to Municipality, Governorship and Ministry of Education were made. Participants visited historical and cultural places, museums and official places in each meeting.

"In ""Schools on the Move"" project our prior aim is to provide awareness of much healthier lifesytles in in terms of nutritional management, balanced diet,gastronomy, and sport activities for our schools and environment. Our motto is developing, applying good practices for healthy life at schools by experiencing. As young people are becoming more obese or overweight because of malnutrition and sedentary life styles all over the world and Europe this project is very essential for our students to understand the importance of healthy life style by balanced diet, and sports activities. Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal /excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. They are major risk factors for a number of chronic diseases, like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Acording to the surveys at least 2.8 million people each year die ( apart from considering the 2019 EU year of Rare Diseases) as a result of obesity.In Turkey the situation is also getting serious. 13,7% men and 20,9 % women in Turkey are obese. In total rate is 17%. According to the Health Ministry’s National Nutrition and Health Survey 1 out of every 5 people in Turkey are obese. We did the same survey with participant countries , we took their ranking of obesity according to the WHO and their national surveys. The results are worrying for all the participant countries taking place in the project.This project involving (TR, GR, PT, RO, ) aims to improve and promote students’ awareness towards healthier lifestyle by taking into account of eating habits and sports activities. As fast food is eaten widely all across Europe and other countries especially by the teanagers and leading sedentary and lazy lives and getting more unfit, more obese, and with an increasing tendency to become ill. In this project our prior aim is to promote healthier lifestyle by understanding nourisment information and healthy dishes for young people in every partner school. In this way each school will will gain information and experience of healthy life style from the experiences during the project and afterwards.School canteens will also adjust their foods and menus according to the project results. Students will analyse the nutrition facts about the food that they are eating, build up healthier alternatives based on their shared national favorites. While the project is ongoing they will photograph, describe and present in e book of national dishes and sport. The studentswill discover international fitness-circle based on the favorite sports/fitness exercises of the participating countries and students. The newly created exercises and their presentation in photos and descriptions created by their age group (book) and on the web shall get students interested in starting exercising."

"The project ""Create, Share, Learn"" wants to promote the idea of constructionism in school using open and low cost technology. The aim is to make schools places where the idea and philosophy of Educational Makerspace (EM) and Tinkering (TI) spread new and innovative methodologies in didactics, foster pupils' creativity and improve pupils' inclusion. Educational makerspaces (EM) and Tinkering (TI) have the potential to revolutionize the way we approach teaching and learning. The maker movement in education is built upon the foundation of constructionism, which is the philosophy of hands-on learning through building things.The main objectives of the project is to create an ideal environment of an educational makerspace and to create a network of schools developing the philosophy of Educational Makerspaces. It involves students and teachers from primary to secondary lower and higher school.The first step to reach these goals was teachers' exploration and training in maker education, to properly understand educational makerspaces.Once adcquired this philosophy of learning, they acted as guides to inquiry-based approaches to the development of knowledge and thinking processes in order to carry on the aim of this project, that is to allow students collaborate to meet the challenge, being both actively engaged in learning and teaching new concepts to each other. The adult teacher observes from the outside, facilitating the acquisition of concepts by building a specific project. Each activity was carried on preserving the true aspect of maker education, and the processes were learner driven rather than teacher driven. Teachers set the tools at their disposal and arranged them in such a way to stimulate students' questioning, playful curiosity, and deeper thinking.The collaboration with local educational Makerspaces, played an important role, sharing experiences and thus contributing in improving each other. All the activities related to the above topics, were realised in preparation and during the LTTAs. The first learning activity focused on Educational Makerspace, transformations of the learning space. Teachers and students visited a local Fablab and learned all the makings of different technologies. Students started working on circuits, on 3D Printer, on robotics and started to create and tinker artifacts using low cost material. The focus was planning and implementing according to the Project Based Learning and Costructionism principles.The learning activity carried on during this short-term exchange of pupils was the base on which all the project and the cooperation between schools were built. Partners school got a common background and a common framework to build further activities with students related to: -Media literacy-Coding on Raspberry PI -3D Printing and breaker space-Robotics-Media creationTeachers met periodically online and in the project meetings during the LTTAs, to plan the above learning activities, to meet the project goals. During covid-19 emergency, the project was carried on virtually and teachers kept planning, facing unexpected challenges and finding solutions to realise virtually the two remaining mobilities. The main results and benefits of the projects have been: to learn how to plan starting from real issuesto learn what an Educational Makerspace is and what are its pedagogical and organizational guidelines;to defy what educational resources and what technologies you can find in an Educational Makerspace;to share each partners best practices in ICT/STEAM education;to involve students in the planning of the activities;to define the best tools to collaborate and share activities done with students.to enhance the of the use of ICT/STEAM in teachingto develop digital citizenshipto equip with new lifelong learning skillsto allow students to work cooperatively with international students.In terms of long- term benefits the project will have an enduring impact on the whole schools, as more teachers and students may benefit in the future from sharing and implementing the good practices in ICT education and the philosophy of Educational makerspace disseminated by this project. Moreover, the digital tools and devices purchased by each school thanks to the project grant, are now part of the schools digital equipment and learning resources at disposal of teachers and students to keep implementing these good practices.technology. These purchases allowed to equip each school with their own Fablab and Tinkering labs, with 3D Printers, different kinds of robots( Mbot, Ozobot etc., Micro:bits and Little bits, Raspberry PI, Makey Makey etc. All the above reusults contributed and will contribute to one of the project main aim which is the improvement of the democratization of the access to technology."

The project title is 'Tales of Three Cultures' , it is a two-year project in which three schools from Greece, Romania and Turkey participate. The three schools are currently cooperating on an eTwinning project entitled The Speaking Club, which provided the inspiration for this project. The participants responded to the need to maximize the benefits that arose from the eTwinning project, to delve into aspects of cultural heritage and to develop Key Competences (Communicating in a foreign language , Digital competence , Social and civic competences , Cultural awareness and expression ) (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=LEGISSUM:c11090&from=EL) . The aim is to collaboratively write an activity book through which aspects of the culture of each country will be presented. The project involves short-term exchanges of students in order to know the culture of each country through the teaching of collaborative web tools as well as through informal and non-formal education (visits to museums, playing games, participating in dancing and music events). Four students and two accompanying teachers will participate in the exchanges from each school. In addition, throughout the project various events will take place locally in which a larger number of students will participate. The methodology that will pertain to the project is interdisciplinary, learner-centered and holistic. Emphasis will be given to group-work to the delopment of skills related to oral and written production of language and to presentation skills. The expected results will be tangible and intangible. The tangible results include the activity book about the teaching of cultural heritage and the non-tangible the adoption of good practices, the development of skills, the acquisition of experience in transnational cooperation, the cultivation of respect to cultural diversity. The participants in the project will act as multipliers and they will implement a dissemination plan to the wider society, contributing to the sustainability of the project and its long-term impact.