“Life Project for our European youths” intends to share and put together different efforts to give an answer to a reality and a need which exist in our our local, national and european environment, having become a major european strategy for 2020: to decrease the school dropout rate in 10%, motivating our youths and making them become the protagonists of their own educational trace, with organizatinal measures at school, effective didactic methodologies, formative offers and stimulating, innovative and transversal educational programmes. Fighting against school rate is a main investment for the future. In fact, most teenagers who leave their studies early must take the risk of facing unemployment, poverty and social exclusión. It is a fact that we teachers find our youngsters less and less motivated at school. The aim of the Project is to make the school become the starting and meeting point so that education fits to the real possibilities of every student, working for a comprehensive education (being the emotional competence a most important issue), sharing experiences with other european centres to strenghen, improve and stimulate the teaching work and the daily implication of the families. It is our concern to make the youths cooperate in their own educational trace, taking part in their own project for life, which sets off with secondary education, together with a two way empathy and a shared responsibility between teachers and families. The objective of the Project is to prevent early school failure and dropout, avoiding the negative consequences implied in social exclusion. It is intended to give the teenagers the chance to build their future in a positive and hopeful view, fitting their interests and skills in spite of the pessimistic atmosphere present in our society due to the current crisis. Our aims with this Project are: - To help the teenagers discover their project for life and let them know, specifically, their skills, abilities and weaknesses and help them to build their own academic life Project for a personal, vocational and proffessional development. - To organise the educational centre and the environment to ease a possitive interaction among the youngsters, theschool and their future. - To provide the families with models, strategies and resources to prevent desmotivation and early school dropout, and help them to contribute with the best project for life for their children. - To help our teenagers choose correctly when facing their own school project, having them make the right academic and proffessional itinerary fitting their possibilities. - To contribute with the proper holistic development of our youths in all different aspects: social, familiar and affective. - To stimulate a culture of effort, motivation, solidarity, responsible citizenship and empathy. - To ease the cooperation of the teachers, the families and the local institutions for a change in the perspective on the future of our students. Young people today will be adult people tomorrow. - To promote a culture for a healthy free time among teenagers, with all the available environmental resources and the implication of all the social agents. - To prevent through formal education the factors which play an important role for unemployment risk, social exclusion and cultural poverty. - To improve and create methodological strategies, positive educational practice, organizational ideas and innovative projects. To learn from other educational centres so that all the teachers get enthusiastic and motivated again, renewing their energies and maximizing their competences and educational skills. - To involve our students’ families in the education and guidance of a successful european life project on personal, educational and laboral grounds, thus preventing early school dropout, social differences and social exclusion. - To motivate and guide our youngsters so that their educational trajectory fits with their capacities, maximizing their abilities for a satisfactory personal and proffessional future. - To propose alternative and healthy free time activities together with non formal educational projects suitable for our teenagers’ implication and for social impact in the local environment. - To maximize in our students a satisfactory linguistic experience so as to have them know and value foreign students’ realities, linked by a common european identity. This will lead us to the improvement of our own educational quality at school.

For centuries, schools have been structured as places for teaching. The challenge in 21st century is restructuring schools as learning places. In the last decade the skills students need in later work and life changed a lot. That's why we have to change our education and teaching. We need a learning environment where students can learn in an active, engaging and different way. Schools are experimenting with new learning styles and methodologies. To get an open view on education, it's important that schools can learn from each other. That's why collaborative work between European schools is needed to change and innovate our teaching practices. Students will benefit from these changes and will be more motivated to learn and come to school.With the project we want to strengthen teachers in new teaching methodologies where also technology can support learning. High quality teachers are the most important factor in a students’ education. We want to prepare students for the challenges of the future and work on the 21st century skills they need. By changing the teaching strategies the motivation both from students and teachers will increase. With the new methods, students will learn and find the necessary information by themselves. The teacher gets a new role as a guide in the learning process of the students. Students learn how to deal with a problem and can make the transfer to other situations in their later life.During the project we have students meetings where the students will learn to know new teaching methods and we'll ask them to reflect on this different way of learning. Teachers will exchange good practices and share lesson plans during the teachers meetings. They discuss the results of the evaluation and reflect on the strengths and the weaknesses of each teaching method for the different subjects. We share our lesson plans and results online to disseminate them with more schools and organisations in Europe.Not only students and teachers are important participants in this project. We also want to involve the headmasters of the school. They have to support and facilitate changes in their schools. We are working together with partners outside our own schools because their contribution and good ideas can inspire us too.This project has to be a start for a changing mindset about teaching in schools. It has to be the inspiration to work further on innovation and adapting teaching methods. We will share good practices with other schools to inspire them.

The difficulties the teachers face in the schools with the recognition of students' competences and the ways they use them to study and achieve educational success, the issue of routine and decrease in motivation among teachers and students inspired teachers tostart international cooperaton. We decided to work out the tools and strategies to change the mind-set of teachers by real exchange of ideas and research while meeting to find methods and tools that could be used and modified to support the students in primary level to learn successfully by use of Key Competences and Multiple Intelligences as the foundation to efficient and effective learning. By international cooperation the organizations experienced the work as the emotions and the markers of memory. We aimed at promoting the aquisition of skills and competences as the MI recognition is the tool to more efficient organization of teaching and learning process and aquisition of knowledge by students. We observed that low motivation among students to study and get knowledge affects the teachers attitudes and their image among society. We managed to 1/modify the school curricula on the methods and tools that involve MI and Key Competence development by selecting the most relevant ideas to eliminate routine actions and create typical tasks in untypical ways,Transnational modification of the curricula gave us a chance to exchange experience, knowledge about educational systems and the teaching problems other partners face and cope with, share know-how. 2/ transnational character of project with students participants helped us to create tools that trigger courage to actions, develop strengths both teachers and students. 2/enrich the educational offer of the institutions by project activities, students' exchange, new methods of teaching. 3/create international cooperation by e-mails, blogs, meetings .The experience showed that these type of relationship is a long lasting one involving all families 4/increase the team-work skills both among students and the teachers- the students had to work in teams in their countries and during the visits in information search, realizing the tasks and evaluating in blog. They had to use communication competence, language and interpersonal skills. The teachers had a chance to work in an international environment, share experience and develop and practice language skills. This integrated the teachers. 5/all schools had number of students with various deficits and difficulties so involving them in the project tasks motivated them and gave them feeling that their skills and knowledge were also important and valuable. 6/select and process methods and tools to realize the tasks in international environment with various expertise. There were 4 partners in the project. The number of people directly involved in the project activities was about 730 and indirectly all school communities, youtube users, local governments, e-twinning users and facebook users.Activities and results: -observing teachers work, -research on MI and Key Competences level, -composing lesson plans, tests, -creating working teams of teachers with leaders- gaining competence- communication, organizational and EU project management competence, -local projects and events that involved communities and other partcipants -workshops for teachers on Key competence,Coaching, Maths experiences,Faciitation as a method of work with studnets,-Organisation of Dissemination Conferences in Poland, Hungary -the teachers visited real schools and participated in classes -juxtapositioning the working styles, -the creation of common database eg.GoogleDrive - we provided the materials and used them, The results and influence of the project:-development of professional attitde of teachers-development of language skills supported by language course with certificates,-increase of direct teachers' skills ICT, use of IT tools durng lessons, developing variuos competences when one subject, -increase in students' motivation to learn foreign language, -promotion of active ways of teaching and learning,-participation in educational events-organising conferences, attendig tranings on new methods of teaching, -promotion of institutions in local and international market, -modification of curricula and implementing research in daily work of a teacher, familiarising the parents with the results and supporting students with handful tools to learn effectively, -active role of students in teaching process, -increase of motivation to learn foreign language and competence among teachers , -big base of teaching methods and tools-booklets, CDs, brochures, films, presentations, worksheets,. -the communities open to foreigners and European culturesLong-term benefits:Practcal knowledge for the teachers, variety of tools and methods adjusted to the students needs, broad horizons and experience of teachers.