"Mosaic Art: Each Mosaic Has A Story To Tell. In today’s highly economized educational systems where score-based policy tendencies are prevalent, the need for activities that can instill and foster creativity in students is more apparent than ever. Creativity, loosely defined as production of novel and useful ideas, drives all innovations and is intimately linked to the culture. It is plausible that people who are exposed to different cultures possess different content knowledge sets, thus having access to a greater pool of ideas and concepts, which contributes to their creativity significantly. In this spirit, we proposed our project “Mosaic Art: Each Mosaic Has a Story to Tell” in which the timeless mosaic art acts as a bridge for providing a multicultural interaction environment where participants can interact with other cultures to widen their knowledge and enhance their creativity.Mosaic art is a colorful part of the common culture shared throughout the Mediterranean basin and sections of the European continent. They can be found on the walls and domes of mosques, churches, temples and theaters, on the floors of public baths, forums and streets, and in the individual residences of the affluent. With a history going back over four millennia, mosaics have developed into a popular craft and art. Today's artisans and crafters create beautiful works of art in buildings, parks, kitchens, subway stations, and almost everywhere when durability and low maintenance are desired. Mosaics are treasure-troves for inspiring artists, architects, historians, archeologists, sociologists and even mathematicians of the future. To appreciate this fact, it is necessary to examine the evolution of mosaic art in a historical context. This project will take the participants on a journey through the history of mosaics over Anatolia and Europe. The phases of the journey are ordered in chronological order in which the development of the art can be inspected along the political, religious and social issues that have influenced its evolution. Thus, it is not only about mosaic art per se, but also about the development of a common European Culture viewed through the perspective of an enduring form of art. The project is expected to contribute significantly to the knowledge of the participants on mythology, history and sociology as well as their sophistication to appreciate fine arts.""Mosaic Art: Each Mosaic Has a Story to Tell"" is a 2-year project which has been created with the participation and contribution of schools having the same interests and goals from Turkey, Poland, Italy, Portugal, and Romania. The project includes short-term exchanges of groups of pupils with 4 students who are aged between 14-18 and 2 accompanying teachers from each country. The students are supposed to have sufficient command of English and have artistic tendencies. Everything else being equal, priority will be given to the students from lower income groups. At each step, there will be site trips and museum visits. These visits will be followed by a demonstration of the techniques by a local crafter, and completion of the mosaics by the students. Therefore, each partner is expected to bring a different aspect of the mosaic art to the table, regarding artistic content, techniques employed, materials used and historical period involved, through these visits and hands-on work. The teaching will be provided by using brainstorming, conferences, cooperative learning, discussion, think-pair-share activity, visualization, oral explanation and guided exploration strategies. By developing an eTwinning project besides the Erasmus+ one, we aim to provide a partnership through active communication tools and a platform to disseminate our outcomes on all three stages: before, during and after Erasmus +. Local press, school magazines, social media and leaflets will also be used in order to reach a wider audience. We believe that this project will help to improve ICT and language skills of students, as well as teachers.Art does help with the mental, emotional, and psychological development, enhances the sense of creativity and helps to reach someone's full potential. Therefore, dealing with art besides compulsory education paves the way to healthier, happier, more productive and stronger communities, which will form a better world for the next generations. All our partner schools aim to build bridges among our nations, to promote understanding of different cultures, to interact with peers from other countries and to teach adolescents about the development of a common European Culture, viewed through the perspective of an enduring form of art. We believe that working on projects on an international basis adds value to their concrete results and outcomes and provide participants with new opportunities to share and compare knowledge and skills with peers whom they are normally not able to communicate with."

<< Objectives >>Consumer education is promoted by the highest European recommendations however consumer education is still not a priority in European school delivery. Green Taste will tackle the shortages developing, testing, and including Digital Consumer Education in European upper secondary schools’ learning programs and European teachers’ curricula;Green Taste will directly target: upper secondary school teachers and students, school leader, consumer and digital information educational providers, trainers<< Implementation >>Over the course of 32 months, Green Taste will:Designing, developing and delivering -a teachers’ training course on Consumer Education and digital information literacy, providing a Toolkit for sustainability of the learning modules;-an e-Learning for school students enabling behavioural changes for individual preferences, consumption habits, and lifestyles through consumer education;-a guideline to design the inclusion of consumer education in European teachers curricula and trainings<< Results >>School teachers will gain methodologies be equipped with innovative tools to include consumer education and digital information skills in European upper secondary schools.Coordinated by ISS Apicio (IT), the Green Taste Consortium brings together 7 institutions from Italy / Fact-checking Factory, Portugal / DECO and AESA, Poland / Zespoll Szkoll and Sowka who are experienced actors in consumer education, green and digital skills