School in the Cloud (SiC) ICT has become an inherent part of our everyday lives, in particular for young people who cannot imagine living without computers, smartphones or a 24-hour access to the Internet. However, the implementation of ICT devices at school or in the schools' curricula has not kept pace with this development. This is partly due to the rapid speed of the technological progress as well as the teachers' lack of knowledge and experience to implement the latest devices. In the light of both this problem and the fact that most European countries are striving to move closer together the project School in the Cloud offers an opportunity to work on both issues. Thus, the main objective of this project is to create a virtual classroom in which six different subjects will be taught by teachers from different nations. The participating teachers and students from all partner countries will attend the virtual school and both learn and contribute new ideas. School in the Cloud pursues the goal to increase the students' motivation for learning, and improve their performance at school as well as their ICT skills and their foreign language skills. In addition, the project will promote both communication and intercultural competence. The teachers involved will also improve their ICT skills, gain experience in project management activities and in teaching in a virtual classroom. They will also promote their communication and intercultural competence. The project is implemented by six partners. The Belgian, German and Norwegian schools are vocational/technical colleges, the Italian school is a secondary business school and the Slovenian and Spanish ones primary level schools. The intended age group of the students is from about 14 to 19 years of age. All schools will choose suitable classes/schools levels to participate in the project. All partners except Norway will develop a basic course in their mothertongue (Belgium will do French). The Norwegians will develop a course on the literature of all participating countries (short stories, fairy tales, legends, poems). During the first phase of the project two partners will exchange their courses. In the second phase a second course will be added and in the third phase all schools have access to all courses. The achievement of the goals will be assessed by evaluation forms, questionaires and tests at the beginning of the project, after about one year and at the end. The courses will be done using Microsoft virtual classroom. All schools participating in the project will be taught how to use it and will be equipped with the latest version of it. The lessons will be given following the principle of Flipped Classroom. The teachers will supply all the materials and documents to the students so that they can follow the 45-minute lessons. There will be set times for students-teachers chats. Out of the set times students can also communicate with each other and the teachers via eTwinning or social media. All important documents and information will also be published on the project’s website. The classroom activities will be complemented by four Short Term Exchanges of Group of Pupils. During these meetings the students will have the chance to get to know each other. They will also attend workshops on different cultural aspects of the hosting country. Apart from the concrete results (website, project diary and an ebook on the complete implementation of the project) the project will increase the students‘ motivation to learn. Away from following 'ordinary' lessons, they can profit from virtual lessons as the courses are accessible twenty-four hours seven days a week. This gives every student the opportunity to study at times that not only are most convenient to them but also when their individual performance curve is at a peak. In addition, they can study at their personal speed and revise or repeat the lessons as often and as fast as they want. This is beneficiary for quick learners as well as for slow learners.Communicating with students from different European schools and taking part in mobilities will improve the students' foreign language skills, both in the English language and in the foreign language/s they are learning in the courses. The encounter with people from different European countries will promote their intercultural competence. All partner schools will acquire innovative practices and ICT-knowledge which will contribute to the implementation of a more modern and open way of teaching and learning. This can be a means to tackle early school leaving as motivated students show a better perfomance and are more successful at school. Students will be encouraged to develop their lifelong learning skills, in particular foreign languages and digital skills, in order to prepare them for their lives after school. The results of the project will be used to implement virtual classrooms for more different subjects and school levels.

"School bullying is defined as"" Unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance"".The values of freedom, tolerance, respect for diversity and non-discrimination are cornerstone values of European societies, but bullying at schools damages these values.Bullying issue is a key factor in early school leaving, and has serious and long-term effects. It affects mental health and the academic performance of children.The coordinating school(Slovenia) felt the necessity of implementing this project based on the needs analysis with the aim of increasing academic achievement, raising the rate of university placement, dropping out of school and achieving social inclusion, which is in accordance with EU 2020 goals and the achievement of schools' own strategic goals, so the coordinator collaborate with other 5 schools(Romania,Italy,Greece,Turkey,Germany),which have attach importance to bullying issues and have good practices about it.The target audience of the project is students, teachers, parents, school administrations, local people, neighboring schools, local authorities.In total 72 teachers who constantly strive for their own professional development and 144 students aged between 14-16 will participate in 6LTTs.Thanks to 1st LTT in Slovenia, it is aimed to enhance the awareness of bullying among the participants and to learn the indicators of bullying via hands on activities such designing t-Shirts, brochures, mottos, etc. It is targeted to gain deeper understanding about the indicators of bullying by visiting an NGO. The 2nd LTT in Greece, cyberbullying cases will be reduced thanks to improved emphatic thoughts and consciousness of the issue.When it comes to the 3rd LTT in Romania, it will improve the sense of empathy, break the barriers and stereotypes, improve the dialogue and team spirit thanks to drama. The 4th LTT in Italy will serve the purposes of combating stress, improving self-confidence, widening students' social circle, improving students' social interactions. Thanks to the 5th LTT, it will be targeted to developing the emphatic thinking. As for the last LTT in Germany, The relation between the bullies and victims will be strengthened and social inclusion will be increased thanks to social and educational activities.These objectives will be achieved through cooperative learning, outdoor/indoor learning-teaching, scaffolding, problem solving,CLIL, ICT, all of which are based on interactive teaching and student-centered methodologies. Local activities both before and after each LTT will enable us to realize LTTAs and their objectives as planned and to integrate the gainings into the school's curriculum and finally to empower the partner schools with looking from whole school approach.By dint of LTTAs and mentioned techniques and methodologies, we aim at obtaining the following in/tangible results:Reduced bullying in partner schools at least by 30% and 40% for the 1st and 2nd years of the project respectivelyTeachers and parents will learn their roles and responsibilities to deal with bullying thanks to seminarsShort films by pupils and familiesA rap song composed by pupils on befriendingPosters created by pupilsSeminars about preventing bullying for pupils, teachers and parentsAn informational brochure to be distributed to other schools to make them aware of the projectA digital book to enlighten the other European countries experiencing the same problemT-shirt designs for disseminationDigital citizenship and Peer bullying weeks to be held in partner schools every year to ensure the sustainabilitySilent Drama to raise awareness of bullyingIn long term, the peer bullying at partner schools will decrease due to the activities of the project full of friendship messages. That will create a better educational environment for all the students in the partner schools that will help preventing the early school leaving in the future. Since the common language of the project is in English, both students’ and teachers’ communicative competences will increase. Likewise, as students and teachers will use ICT in some project outputs, their digital skills will improve and this will help them use their improved digital skills in their lives, professions and new EU projects. The concrete results will be available on TwinSpace, Youtube Channel, project's website and school' websites at the disposal of everyone interested in bullying. Thanks to eTwinning project and learning events and online meeting on eTwinning, the project gainings will reach to larger audience and long-lasting. We will go on organizing an “ anti-bullying” week every year at each partner school even after the Project ends. This activity will turn into a tradition at partner schools which will promote peace and friendship for years.The e-book to be prepared as a final product will ensure the sustainability of our project and will be used as an inspiring guide by all the stakeholders."