DIWO. Do It With Others, Do It With Opera, is the name of the Erasmus+ project inspired by the successful educational project LOVA (The Opera, a Vehicle for Learning) that has been taking place in Spain since the last thirteen years with more than 11,000 students involved.DIWO is an educational project that invites a classroom to turn into a company that creates, produces and performs its own original opera.Society and education systems sometimes create trends and patterns that block the development of skills or key competences instead of fostering them. LOVA in Spain has provided hundreds of teachers with an educational tool to break that tendency. The use of LOVA and its integration into the curriculum has allowed teachers to develop trust, release responsibility and empowerment, learning through challenges, creating emotional and unstructured situations where learning can thrive.DIWO is the way to extend a succesful project into Europe, with the support of partners who make it bigger and meaningful in new contexts. In DIWO the creation of an opera is not an artistic goal but a platform for all of these practices to become meaningful and make sense. The success of the project will be the result of cooperation and learning between pairs of teachers and institutions that have already implemented it (through LÓVA in Spain) and teachers, educational centers, students and European institutions that are experiencing it for the first time.The objectives are:- Extend the success of a national educational project to students from European centers, as well as in Spain. - Bring to the international level a model of training and peer learning that allows the growth and consolidation of how to integrate the arts into the curriculum.- Foster the exchange of experiences between schools as well as between schools and arts institutions.- Generate resources like a video based tutorial collection with group activities, dynamics, challenges and games that are extremely successful and highly demanded by teachers, at all levels, who want to pay special attention to inclusion in the classroom.- Share the educational potential of DIWO as a tool that creates a desire for learning and the willingness to actively participate in the community.- Help turning the opera into a metaphor of life and, instead of simply learning about it, invite students to create it while fostering respect and team work as a means to overcome collective challenges and discover and value everyone’s contribution to the community.Activities:- Teacher training course in October 2020.- Project implementation during the school year 2020-21 in 7 schools from 5 countries.- Adding more schools during year 21-22.- Creation of a short film of the process and a DIWO Methodology Guide.- 4 transnational meetings.- Dissemination events.DIWO is based, on one hand, in the methodology that LOVA has been developing and implementing since 2007, which includes teacher training sessions, a first implementation of the project in the classroom, peer-to-peer follow up, documentation of the process, assessment and a new cycle that starts with the second year of implementation of the project. On the other hand, DIWO includes a new aspect connected with the assessment and exchange of the different ways arts institutionscollaborate with schools by country, which is very much influenced by a number of factors.During the first year, 150 students from 5 countries and 7 schools are going to participate directly in DIWO. Schools will own the project and will have found ways to make it work better for their interests and pedagogical approaches. Schools and Art institutions will have exchanged different ways of connecting culture and education. They will have new ideas to improve their collaboration in the future and will have created a small and informal European network. The second year, we will evaluate the project, its impact and its dissemination, reaching more teachers and students.Long term benefits: - The main benefit is the meaningful experience the students participating will keep for the rest of their lives.- Teachers will have learned more about the pedagogical relationship and their role in the classroom.- Schools will have run an intense pilot experience where they can gather ideas to keep offering all of their students a space where artistic creation becomes a powerful educational tool- Cultural and Art institutions will become closer to schools, learning and discovering how much they can offer for the production of art and cultural consumption and habits.- Improvement of the educational resources available in Europe to foster inclusion in the classroom through participation in team activities.- Improvement of teacher training models.DIWO offers an innovative way to learn and grow through the Opera.

The background of the project is the need to make full use of digital learning at school. Until now, some aspects of it have been introduced in the participating schools but only sporadically and randomly. In the digital methodologies introduced, students have shown more interest in the lessons and learn much faster than the traditional ones.Hence the motivation of the project which aims at introducing in a systematic way tools and methodologies of digital learning in the school curriculum of the participating schools.The project aims at creating a virtual space (Hub) in which the participating schools can share their experiences not only with each other but also with the public outside the school. On the one hand, the digital hub will be the tool to integrate and coordinate the educational and training actions together with eTwinning and other platforms (eg Google Education). On the other hand, the digital hub will be both a way of exchanging experiences between the participating countries and a common resource in which to cooperate in order to build new learning experience.The project includes six schools from the following countries: Italy (applicant school), Greece, Romania, Poland, Latvia and Turkey. The project is aimed to students between 14 and 19 years old.The planned project activities are different. First of all there will be a warm up stage in which there will be the introduction of SELFIE (Self-reflection on Effective Learning by Fostering the use of Innovative Educational Technologies) as a tool for analyzing and evaluating the digital status of the participating schools in order to have a common framework. Then the systematic use of the eTwinning platform in order to cooperate and monitor the progress of the project in preparation for international mobilities. Still in the warm-up stage, the creation of the digital school hub will be analysed in detail.The project is divided into 6 stages, as many as the international mobilities provided. At each stage the participating schools will use the digital teaching scheduled so that teachers will have to carry out it together with groups of students. At the end of it there will be an international meeting in one of the countries of the partner schools in which the participating schools will share the results and carry out critical assessments on the digital teaching introduced. The six stages include the following learning methods: organizing a digital school trip, flipped classroom, problem based learning, project based learning, augmented reality, social Hackathon.Each stage will be preceded by the establishment of a working group composed of teachers and students who will be always different in order to spread the various digital learning methods as widely as possible in each participating school.After each meeting, the country of venue will write a newsletter and submit to the others an online evaluation test (one for students, one for teachers) about the quality of the meeting.As a general result, digital learning strategies will be introduced into the official study plan of each participating schools.The results will be both the increase in teachers' professional skills and the growth of motivations and learning outcomes for students.The organization of the final social Hackathon will be an important stage to verify the results of the project and will be an opportunity to disseminate and extend the project outside the school. In this final event students will have to create digital solutions for some social companies and associations of the territory.

"The project aims at first, to improve media and literacy skills among 410 students through implementation of workshops in Media, Information and Literacy provided in 6 schools and 5 public libraries, thanks to 23 teachers trained (additionally to partners’ trainers) and 10 librarians. Workshops will enhance their critical mind and give them the ability to identify the reliability of information. Students become informed and inspired “cyber-citizens” who are able to use the media independently. The project also responds to the need to reduce the vulnerability to hateful content and disinformation online by learning about social networks and how to deconstruct conspiracy theories in creating their own educational and interactive materials, mainly articles, videos and podcasts. This practical approach will bring them additional soft skills: speaking out, trust and confidence in itself, to build and defend a point of view, etc. All the produced contents will be gathered in a digital platform with an open access to all MLE practitioners in Europe which will contribute to increase the access to Media, Information and Literacy materials. The methodology and materials developed will be disseminated especially through the transnational event. IO2 aims to enhance the ability to teach MLE for practitioners by implementing robust and sustainable MLE practitioner training models in each delivery country. They will learn to identify, analyse and respond effectively to hate speech; understand the issues of digital identity for students and the media world as well as their use by students; learn Media, Information and Literacy basis and how to develop critical mind of students. A handbook will be co-create by MLE expert partners (IO1). Additional trainings materials will be created to support the delivery of Training of Trainers. To achieve these objectives, the project partners will pool their collective expertise in this area to produce, or support students to produce, a range of unique, scalable resources. Moreover, to ensure these resources are tuned to their beneficiaries’ needs and best cater for their intended target audience, we will involve students and their educators in their production. These resources will include:A cutting-edge media literacy handbook (IO1) that uses impactful pedagogical principles to underpin engaging activities. The handbook will gather pedagogical support to facilitate Trainings of Trainers (ToT) sessions (IO2) and workshops for students in Media and Information Literacy (IO3) as well as a list of the best pedagogical resources on media education, available in open source (handbook, podcasts, mini-series, fact sheets, etc.). With the insights of trainers and students, the material will be improved for dissemination purpose. Digital outputs, in particular web-magazines produced by students during the workshops (IO3), based on their media literacy knowledge and skills including: video content; written articles and podcasts. Indeed, the best pedagogical approach to media education is for learners to practise the journalistic approach (checking sources, expressing facts and not opinions, arranging ideas). This is why ReNews will invite the students to produce web-magazines by themselves; during this ""journalistic adventure"", students will be led to understand how to decipher and report information with impartiality. In addition a website (IO4) will offer free access to these resources allowing their dissemination to all teachers and more broadly professionals in the socio-educational field."

"""Counting on EU"" has been designed to identify and share with other European schools useful tools for teaching scientific subjects, declared by the European Commission as key skills for personal fulfillment, active citizenship, social inclusion and employability in the knowledge society of the 21st century. The project “Counting on EU” involves partners with different expertise and experiences, different backgrounds and different targets, to guarantee opportunities for discussion and growth to all participants and a wider impact at local and also a transnational level. The “competence-building process” will be produced thanks to the synergies that will be established in this share-and-exchange initiative. The project idea has been developed by comparing the specific needs of the partner schools: Central Foundation Girls School from the United Kingdom, Özel Sancaktepe Teknolojive Insan Koleji Lisesi from Turkey, Taki Daskalo school from Macedonia and Istituto Istruzione Superiore “Benedetto Radice” from Italy. The need to introduce and test methodologies that can improve the attractiveness of STEM training courses, managing to include students as much as possible in the learning process, and providing tools appropriate to the needs of students with SEN was a common need, present transversally in each school’s improvement and internationalization plan.""Counting on EU"" will create foresee the organization of 4 LTTA mobilities, involving students aged between 15 and 18, lasting 7 days, one in each of the countries involved, that will see each host school proposing workshops and laboratories on different topics, in order to spread greater knowledge on the applications of technologies and on the professional opportunities offered in economic sectors that are also very different from each other: music, robotics, biology, art and culture. The choice was made on the basis of the training offers of each partner school, but also in order to meet the attitudes and interests of a larger number of young students.The main project output will be the creation of 4 Video-Lessons, designed and produced by students during each exchange in order to share the knowledge acquired with their peers in a dynamic way and to reach a larger audience of peers, including students from other EU countries thanks to the eTwinning platform and to the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.In the medium to long term, ""Counting on EU"" will act as a driving force, allowing schools to increase their digital potential and their use of innovative teaching methods for learning and teaching. Furthermore, thanks to the wider use of the eTwinning platform, each school will be able to develop new virtual exchanges, working on different topics and developing new transnational innovation projects related to education."