"Project ""Don't throw your waste away - make ART not pollution"" aims to raise awareness of waste management issues among students, parents and members of the local community. The project was created as a reaction to our students' dissatisfaction with pollution of natural localities around the city in which they live. The project also resulted from the success of smaller one-off events focused on environmental problems, which were evaluated very positively by students and teachers, and by the motivation of teachers to unite and pool these individual activities into a comprehensive, longer-term project. With our project we want to provide students with practical education in the field of environmental education focused primarily on waste management, recycling and upcycling. The aim of the project is not only to present the issue, but to change the thinking of the individual through practical experience in waste collection, recycling and upcycling. Another aim of the project is to compare waste policies at the location of the participating schools, which is in Přelouč and the areas of Ankara. We want Czech and Turkish students to be inspired by each other to increase their civic engagement in protecting the locality they live in and to motivate their family and the wider community to do so.The project participants are mainly students aged 12-19 years, who actively approach to environmental protection and are interested in environmental protection in their free time. We also expect the involvement of students who have not been active in the area of ​​environmental problems, but who will be inspired by their more active classmates during the project. Within the school, the participants are teachers who have been involved in environmental issues and have experience in organizing smaller one-off events aimed at protecting the environment. Last but not least, the project also includes volunteers from the ranks of non-teaching staff, parents and residents of the cities. For local activities we expect twenty to thirty students to be involved, twelve students and three members of the teaching staff will participate in the foreign exchange.For the purposes of the project we will use different ways to actively involve not only the students but also the wider social environment. These include, for example, interviews with citizens, raising awareness through interaction with the social environment, art performances, and regular cleaning of selected locations. The climax of the project is the artistic workshop, which will offer the possibility of upcycling of the found material - waste, which will gain new meaning thanks to its further use. Czech and Turkish students will participate in the creation of art artefacts as part of the international exchange that have been carried out. The presentation of these works of art will provide feedback to students, their parents and citizens to realize the possibilities of re-use of discarded waste.Participation in the project will bring, above all, the opportunity for the schools involved to cooperate more with the local community and to influence the issues concerning the school's environment. We believe that the students of the participating schools will continue to think about waste management after the end of the project, adjust their behavior and inspire their families and their immediate surroundings to desirable behavior. We see the continuation of the project mainly in the possibility of repeated cleaning and interventions to locations in our towns and their surroundings."

"The project ""No stereotypes!"" is a bilateral project of a school partnership, the participating schools are secondary schools from the Czech Republic (Karviná) and Turkey (Antalya). The project focuses on similarities and differences between our cultures, our traditions, customs, ways of life and on social inclusion. The project aims at giving the students and teachers an opportunity to deal with similarities and differences of cultures, with intercultural dialogue, human rights issues, and form and develop common European values and good life attitudes. The project aims at improving and developing key competences of the students and teachers, particularly those coming from disadvantageous groups. We are focusing particularly on communication, language, social, creative and IT competences.The motivation of the project is to support intercultural dialogue between students and teachers from two secondary schools from totally different cultural environment (Christian and Muslim country), support tolerance, respect towards human rights and freedoms of people as well as rise awareness about other cultures and traditions.The project includes both local activities and mobilities (learning/teaching/training activities). The participants of the project will develop particularly the following competences:a) Communication and language – workshops and groupwork will be organised in mixed Czech-Turkish groups so that the students could develop their communication skills in the English language. During mobilities we presume accommodation of the students in host families which will also help to develop their communication and language competence, together with the social ones. Students and teachers will also develop their communication skills in native language during local activities, preparing presentations about their school, town, country, traditions etc. The participants will also extend their vocabulary with words connected with culture, history, European issues etc. b) social – students and teachers come from different economic, geographical and social background which will allow them better realise and understand conditions and problems of their partners and will make them more aware of similarities and differences of cutures, traditions, customs or religion in both countries. Among the students there will also be those who come from disadvantageous groups so participants will develop their social competences by cooperation in a team with members from different background. Some of the activities will be also focused on the topics of intolerance and radicalisation of young people which will allow the students and teachers to exchange their ideas about solutions of this situation.c) digital – participants will also develop their digital competences using various IT tools. They will communicate via emails, messenger, Skype etc., participate in video-conferences on eTwinning portal and will work out the results of the project using IT tools (webpage, online dissemination materials, common magazines on eTwinning etc.). For our project we will also open a closed facebook group and a public facebook page where we will share some results. During local activities they will shoot interviews with local people about stereotypes towards other cultures so they will use their mobile phones and video-cameras and will use movie maker or other programs to create a video-document from the activity.d) Increasing cultural awareness – participants will improve their cultural competences during activities and workshops focused on similarities and differences, on traditions and feasts in both countries etc. held during mobilities, during cultural excursions both locally and during mobilities etc. They will also work on cultural presentations and will learn about traditions, feasts, typical meals and dances of the partner country.We will also produce concrete results during our project:- project posters (How we see our partners, Similarities and differences, Traditions and feasts ec.)- powerpoint presentations- photobook- video-document from interviews with local people- newslettersOur project will last one year and during the year we are going to organise 2 short-term joint staff training events and 2 learning, teaching and training activities (LLT activities), each school will organise one short-term joint staff training events and one learning, teaching and training activity. The short-term joint staff training events will last 4 days excluding travel, LTT activities will last 6 days excluding travel. Each short-term joint staff training event will be attended by 3 teachers and each LTT activity will be attended by 9 students + 3 teachers from each partner school."

"This project has been chosen as we are aware of the influence between languages and cultures which are strongly connected with our students learning process and the effectiveness and quality of their labor and their future. Our students need to understand how languages diversify over time and can be influenced by others by loanwords and reborrowing words.Starting with neighboring countries we will try to include as many countries and languages as we can.The participants of the project are three public schools from neighboring countries, different but with common characteristics and good reputation. All three plan to develop the social skills and knowledge of their students and provide them with opportunities to evolve themselves to become productive European citizens. The Orthodox patriarchate in Istanbul, university professors, local authorities and community centers contribute to this ultimate aim.In order to increase our students motivation, to improve their ways to socialize and involve them to the use of ICT, they will participate in presentations, competitions, drama performances and collaborative creative writing accomplishments. We would like to strengthen their sense of initiative by teaching them to transform ideas into actions, thus developing skills and abilities necessary for the world of labor, i.e. through their work for the e-journal. This is the reason we are keen to develop learning materials and tools which will support study at home as well as promote distance learning, i.e. web-quests, multilingual lexicon providing them with tools for lifelong learning.For the dissemination of the project outcomes and all the learning materials produced on the topic of the project we will set up notice boards, construct a website, organize multilingual exhibitions, produce audiovisual materials, prepare presentations and print stamps on t-shirts and posters.Teachers will improve their professional skills in the area of education and project management as well as in evaluating methods, as they will be enabled to work collaboratively, developing and evaluating methodologies and educational material, producing questionnaires, writing reports and attending webinars. Students will learn about the historical and geographical background of the participating countries and feel independent and confident if they decide to study or work in another European country and their families will realize the importance of collaborating in learning process and overcoming the difficulties, developing a better understanding for the importance of a united Europe in times of globalization.The ""learning by doing"" method will be used, and evaluation will take place throughout the life of the project.The website of the program will be active even after the end of the project and will be continuously enriched, good practices will be incorporated in our lessons for future students and new projects could start by adding other partners too, who will bring new experiences. Furthermore the culture of our students will be affected orienting them in international collaboration schemes.We firmly believe that this will be a lifetime opportunity for those who may never have a chance to meet with people abroad, collaborate using a foreign language or even to visit another European country."

Our project aims to focus on students’ self-esteem and cultural understanding in order to enable them to successfully complete their school careers in diverse and heterogeneous environments. Students with multicultural backgrounds have insights into several cultures and speak various languages. However, often they feel alienated in the country they live in because they do not know its culture and traditions well. Students whose abilities in main subjects are below average often unlock unknown potential in creative tasks. Expressive arts are a great leveller and students from all walks of life can access arts of some kind. The main objective of the project is to strengthen students' self-esteem and intercultural awareness by undertaking (inter)cultural activities in order to be able to engage and actively participate in our multicultural societies. In particular, the following objectives will be included: 1: Social inclusion 2: social and educational value of European cultural heritage 3: supporting schools to tackle early school leavings and disadvantage.By presenting their own cultural background in arts, architecture, dance, drama and music students reflect on their own cultural and historical heritage. By learning about these aspects in other European countries they find how European countries and their histories are related. In creating products such as common art, fusion music and dance collaborately, the students get to know the high value of these arts themselves and of the great opportunities of working transnationally. By producing enriching art the students see how they can contribute successfully which will have a positive influence on their building of academic skills and on their performance at and interest in school in general. Thus, they experience school not only as a place of academic performance but as place to express themselves and build positive relationships with others.In the project we will use different NATIONAL and EUROPEAN TOOLS. One of the necessary European Tool in the project will be MOBILITY TOOL+. It will be used in the earliest phase of the project. Mobility Tool will provide us support in the management of activities related to mobility within Erasmus +. In the project, we intend to use the eTwinning website as it promotes cooperation and networking of schools in Europe through information and communication technologies (ICT), offering advice, ideas and tools that allow schools to easily develop partnerships and start cooperation projects in different areas. eTwinning is going to be fundamental in this project.We refer to 5 target groups: 1. Pupils in the project team aged 14-17 / 2. Teachers in the project team / 3. Teachers in the school and from other schools, who will be able to use project outcomes and resources / 4. Pupils in the school and from other schools, who will take part in local and follow-up activities during the time of the project and afterwards / 5. Local institutions at each meetingAt the first meeting which is the joint staff event each partner will select a member for a “quality control group”, which will be responsible for monitoring quality throughout the project and, at all meetings, will summarize the results and suggest possible improvements / amendments whenever needed. The internal quality management will be based on a report that each partner will submit twice a year. Delivery and achievement will be checked against the work plan milestones as part of all project meetings / workshops. The content quality will be assessed by the end users in a sequence of peer-review assessment resulting in the final products at the end of the project funded period. The different stages of the development will be assessed during the meetings and training activities.The guideline for enriching classes through multiculturalism compiled at the very first meeting and reviewed at the last meeting will be used for development of all partner schools. The guideline willraise awareness of the need to positively enhance multiculturalism long-term at all schools. After the meeting the guideline will be presented to all staff at each school by a teacher involved in the project. It will be encouraged to make use of these guidelines to develop the respective school. The film produced can be used at schools in the future. It can be an inspiration for work in different arts classes. A multicultural activity conducted by the multicultural ambassadors trained at the last meeting will be implemented at all schools. Thus, all the communities at the partner schools will benefit from the project after its completion. We'll plan dissemination at all stages: the starting phase, during the flow of the project and at the end. Mostly we plan to focus on the products, methods, tools, good practices and experiences leading to messages on findings, recommendations and warnings.

Teachers who respond to hate against individual differences and who face violence with children have found that there is a need for a systematic study in this area, even if they intervene individually.In this context, we conducted a needs analysis study with the participation of our students in order to determine the perspectives of our partners and students towards differences. The Needs Analysis Report found that 55% of our students were biased against the differences of individuals belonging to fragile groups. Serious risks such as the tendency to violence, early school leaving and confusion in children belonging to vulnerable groups exposed to social exclusion are observed. Children who are pushed out of school because of social exclusion are quite unlikely to be employed in a qualified jobin adult life. In this respect, our project will serve to achieve the goal of the ‘Prevention of School Leaving’ in the EU Development Program.Thanks to our project, it is aimed primarily to change the perception, thoughts and attitudes of the students and teachers participating in LTT activities during mobility. Our participants will be more familiar with the concept of different cultures and different individuals with their LTT activities, both in terms of professional and individual development, gaining versatility and developing their foreign languages. In this way, our participants will be enriched in terms of quality, equipment and knowledge, learning new methods of teaching, changing behavioral patterns and thinking structures, and will have the chance to see and learn European culture and values in place by visiting a European country. The fact that our participants, who have met with different cultures and values, will transfer them to their institutions will increase the awareness of EU values in our schools and in our country and increase their awareness. Thanks to the LTT activities, our teachers will play an active role in the solution of adaptation, behavior and exclusion problems of children belonging to vulnerable groups in schools, and will contribute to the positive change in the acceptance process of other children. This change will have a positive impact on building a peaceful society and school that will contribute to the prevention of social exclusion. In this way, a movement of change, including teachers, students, school management and parents, will be initiated. Thanks to that, the schooling rates of children belonging to fragile groups will increase, cultural conflicts will decrease, tolerance in society will prevail.The aim of our project is to provide solutions to the problems arising from discrimination among the next generations, to raise awareness among disadvantaged students, to bring disadvantaged students into society and to change attitudes towards students and parents who have negative emotion towards disadvantaged children.Thanks to our project, students are expected to become active and successful individuals in social life. Our project has been designed on 5 LTTs written with our partners. 5 students and 2 companion teachers will participate in each LTT activity. The age range of the students is 14-18 years.After the project is approved, the participants will be selected quickly and the participants will be informed about the content of the project, how and where the mobility will take place, and information and preparatory meetings on foreign partners. A risk analysis report will be prepared and will take necessary measures by evaluating the problems that participants may face. Priority will be given to the individuals who will participate in the LTTs, the project's purpose, the dissemination activities of the project, preparations to be made before the project, and the project schedule will be shared.The Evaluation Form and Dissemination Plan Form, which will be designed every 6 months during the project period, will allow us to measure to what extent the objectives are met. It will contribute to the vision, strategic development and training objectives of our institutions. The project will enhance the professional and personal development of teachers involved in mobility. For students, ensuring social inclusion through drama will ensure full participation and social integration for children from vulnerable groups. Children in the fragile group will come to school in peace and happiness as an individual with equal rights without being exposed to peer violence and discrimination through prevention of social exclusion. Each partner is very committed to dissemination the impact of the project activities, outcomes and results can be maximised by an active dissemination and exploitation plan at local, regional, national and European level. Partners will ensure that the lessons learnt frmo their collaboration and the sharing of good practice, together with the project results are at the focus of their dissemination activities.