"Since special education students do not have enough social interaction with their peers or adults because of their disabilities, their social skills are not as developed as their other peers.For this reason, students' social skills should be supported by schools. Social skills; is the ability of people to be successful in their social relations. Its content is very wide and begins to take shape in childhood. Understanding the individual's self and others, empathizing, meeting, starting to talk, solving the problem, avoiding conflict, cooperating, respecting the rights of others are important social skills. Social skills training can be given in schools or children can learn this by observing adult behavior in a social environment. Research has shown that there is an increase in social skills through creative drama, music, dance, handicraft and art.The coordinator school and Sıtkı Zaralı primary school conducted 3 eTwinning projects related to special education students together. In these 3 projects with special education students; drama, game, painting, creative drama etc. techniques were used. During the use of these techniques, it was observed that the students communicated with others that they had never been in contact before, and they started to express themselves better and their self-confidence increased. It is the inspiration and driving force to prepare this project.The project is based on the use of different methods to improve the social skills of special education students and the exchange of these methods between schools / countries.Each partner school will give social skills training to special education students in their chosen way during 24 months and share knowledge, practice and methods with other partner schools. In the transnational meetings, the host country will demonstrate the practical method that will be applied to the project teams in the form of workshops. In transnational meetings, the project teams coming to the special education students of the host country will carry out workshops with their own methods. As a result, students will have the chance to work in 5 different workshops and with different teachers from Europe. Halit Narin music, art and dance therapy and Sıtkı Zaralı creative drama from Turkey; Agrupamento de Escolas do Cerco ceramics and creative drama from Portugal; Narva Pähklimäe Gümnaasium music and art from Estonia; Panevezio ""Vyturio"" progimnazija forum theater from Lithuania; School of Art of Peristeri from Greece will work on art therapy.Teacher observation form will be created to evaluate the social skills of students and will be filled out by their teachers at the beginning and end of the project. Thus, as a result of the studies will be evaluated objectively about which skills are increased or not increased.During the project, 5 transnational mobilities will be organized and 10 participant teacher will be attended except the host institution. These teachers were selected by considering how they will work in the project. Participating teachers are innovative and collaborative teachers who speak English and have experience in working with special education students.At the end of the project, it is expected that the social skills of special education students will increase, and that they will be more actively involved in school life and social life. This project will provide to create a peaceful and collaborative school environment and to be inclusive of all students because of the change in the point of view of special education students and their needs due to the special education students working with other volunteer peers. Attending workshops with teachers from European Countries will enable students to meet and interact with other cultures.Participating teachers will observe and experience different techniques in the framework of EU cooperation, which will broaden their horizons and perspectives; professional repertoires will be enriched.Parents will be able to participate more actively in social life due to their children who have increased their social skills, and will get rid of feelings of exclusion and loneliness. Through the dissemination activities of the project, it will help to break prejudices by raising awareness about special education in wide population.Increasing the quality of education provided by schools through the sharing of project results will make schools the preferred schools by parents and students. It will encourage schools to increase and diversify their activities for special education students. It will enable to develop their strategies more inclusive with including needs of special education needs. The sharing of project activities and results on their web pages, twitter, eTwinning, facebook and project web site will make schools a good model in their region and on a national scale. This will also create a demand and confidence impact on EU funded projects."

"This project was established with school partnerships ofTurkey, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Macedoniaand Greece. According to the report on exposure to bulimia prepared by the World HealthOrganization, these countries are at the top of their list. First Ranked is Lithuania and third is Turkey.Other countries also appear to be at the top of the bully in various age groups (Currie et al., 2008,WHO). The most obvious causes of peer violence and violence are school problems and failures,absenteeism and school leaving, escape from home or school, witnessing violence at home, violenceat home, fragmented families, low socioeconomic status of parents, parental indifference, low selfesteemand insecurity . In addition, it has been proven by studies that lead to the traditional bully inthe Siber bullying (Erdur-Barker-Kavşut 2007; Li).Schools with common problems have established partnerships to solve problems related to violence,to share effective practices with others on the spot, and to solve the problem of violence together.The fact that the staff at the partner schools were not sufficient and effective in solving this problemwas effective in the preparation of this project. The inability of the staff to efficiently implementstrategies to cope with the problems is also the reason for the preparation of the project. In addition,the staff has given life to the project with the willingness and willingness to increase the knowledgeand experience to solve this problem. With this project, the professional qualities of the teachers inthese schools will be increased, the problem of peer bullying and violence will be solved and theproblem of early schooling will be removed. The goal of eliminating early school dropouts is to serveboth the purpose of the Erasmus + program and to prioritize the EU 2020 strategy.The main objectives and concrete results of the project are as follows:Developng peer bullying and violence prevention methods in Europe and Turkey.Teachers can easily find the most appropriate ways to communicate both victims and bully students,Increasing the number of effective teachers in the solution field by transferring our experiences withour partners,To learn the solutions applied in different countries and to discover the skills and key skills of ourpartners who are experiencing the same problem,To strengthen the teaching skills of school administrators and teachers to prevent violence,To ensure that the students who have suffered the violence are recruited to adopt common values,To ensure gender inequalities and disadvantaged groups end up with their problems byimplementing integrated approachesTo ensure be to reach to schoolls who are in need of our ""Happy School"" practice, which includesboth course content and school physical arrangements,Having an idea about the ""Read More"" practice that our Italian partner uses in tackling Peer violenceand violence,To monitor the ""olweus"" system that our Lithuanian partners have received from Norway, and stillimplementing.Our partner, who is specialized in CyberBullying, one of the biggest problems of our age, is to benefitfrom the practices of Poland, Through the ""Lifelong Learning"" project, it is aimed to monitor the practices of Greece, which findssolution by directing the students who are suffering peer bullying and violence to social and sportsactivities,Being able to avoid the handicaps that might occur by passing the strong sides of all these goodexamples through the filter with the works that will last 2 years,By collecting the data we will obtain from all our partners in a common pool, writing a program thatwill be given together in the international validity,Making our program more accessible with Google Play and Appstore apps,To create a booklet for school administrators and teachers,To ensure the social integration of the target group with planned activities.Our new program, which will be internationally validated with 6 partners at the end of this project, willbe implemented in these 6 countries and will guide all European countries."

"<< Background >>As we are teachers from 7 different countries, we discussed an important topic for us about how low the motivation of students is. Then we decided that it was better to look for the positive examples-familiar to the children. We want to find those people who are living values of our communities. People who give hope to others.Through methods interesting for students and local communities we will look for and choose the living values of world. We will show their importance in motivating young people to engage actively in school and public life. The project content activities aim to social, civil, intercultural competences and critical thinking against pollution , to promoting the acquisition of skills and competences. We would like to change the passive thinking ""I do not depend on anything"" and through this project to prepare future educated but also active European citizens.<< Objectives >>- Increase our capacity to operate at transnational level;- Share our ideas to find the Living Values and to present them as positive examples;- Educate individuals with good character- Give pupils the opportunity to express their values through behavior- Ensure the parallel functioning of character and values education in the family and school - Increase the awareness about values education- Facilitate personal contact and interaction;- Increase the feeling of European citizenship;- Raise awareness about environmental issues;- Raise awareness about other cultures and traditions.<< Implementation >>Each member of the project teams will be assigned tasks and together they will carry out the project activities and some of them will become common final products.- Website , logo ad motto of the project- Research work: pupils together with their teacher will find the most important persons brought positive changes to our local communities or countries. These are our living values, past or present. - Designing posters with important persons, those living values of our local community or at national level. There will be an exhibition in each school. - Writing articles about local living values, past or present that brought their contribution to the local community or school. The articles will be collected and a digital magazine will be created by the Romanian school.- Quiz contest- Great personalities of our community/country.- Creating a digital map with the partner countries on which videos about our schools will be inserted. - Writing a common poem about “love”. Each country will write one verse and send it to the Greece school. At the end; these parts will become one single poem.- Teaching “a song of Peace” by Teresa Jennings and recording our pupils’ voices. This way we will teach them PEACE. The recordings will e sent to the Polish school that will create the full video, the common product. - Watching movies, called” Wonder” (directed by Stephen Chbosky-2017 , ) and "" BFG"" (after Roald Dahl story) writing comments. By doing this they will learn FRIENDSHIP & EMPATHY. We will create a Twin Space and the comments will be written by the pupils on this platform. The Lithuanian school will be responsible with it. - “Our responsibilities to live in a better world” – the pupils will write an essay and the essays will be sent to the Bulgarian school to create an eBook. We will teach them RESPONSIBILITY. - Planting trees- each school will plant trees in the school garden at the beginning of the project, the pupils will watch them grow and take care of them and at the end we will take pictures and make a collage with our grown trees. Flowers will also be planted in flower pots and create Green classrooms. Campaign for cleaning our environment- once in two months we will clean the parks around the schools and the surroundings. We will celebrate Environment Day on each 5th June .We will teach ECO-RESPONSIBILITY. - A photo contest will take place , with the theme ""Our treasure, the Nature"".Once in a term will be checked the stage of activities development, the respecting of the calendar of activities and the correct management of the time spent for each activity.<< Results >>We will exchange the results of all activities in different ways: online, exhibitions, we will share them also on our project's website and we will also have skype videoconferences. Host countries will prepare for the LTTs and will plan the activities to be carried out during the meeting by creating detailed program. All schools will realise the agreed activities and produce results and products of the project. During the project meeting materials will be exchanged between the participating countries. The tasks will be distributed equally to the partners.We will have an website which will be the space where we will share all project results.Each country will have a summary about own culture made by the students and the teachers .We will develop the activities related to each country, active citizenship, Eco activities sports and games, social skills. . In case it is possible, different people from the educative community could intervene to talk about these countries.We will have contact activities among the students (they will exchange postcards or letters, videos,etc.)Expositions will be made with the tasks done (videos, skype connections)The final results will be summarized on a DVD using web2 tools.We will lead an investigation about the partner countries as a way to break stereotypes: what we “know”, and what is true. We will look for similarities in some customs, celebrations, food, historical events.We will strengthen the relations of the schools with local communities and local authorities, We will acquire active European citizens-civic skills and competences, strengthen the capacity of schools to engage in international activities with the participation of pupils, We will choose the Living Values modern World together.Impact:. They will learn new things about other European cultures. Schools: they will increase their skills to work on international projects.- We will attract additional energy to our schools from volunteers from local communities;- They will become Eco-responsible by getting involved in the activity of planting trees and flowers. - We will expand our knowledge and skills through this exchange in which we will introduce the project participants to new educational and cultural institutions in other European countries."