The project was created to grow up competences of pupils and teachers in the field of learning, learning and teaching methods, cooperation, as well as increasing their awareness of ecology, modern technologies, participation and enterpreneurship and European citizenship. Being part of an international project means for all of the participating schools, pupils and staff to widen their ideas and knowledges, to gain new experiences and skills as well as the possibility to learn from each other. The European identity of all participants will strengthen thanks to taking part in international school exchanges, where teachers will learn through job shadowing during the exchange and pupils will learn while participating in classes.Thanks to this project the participants will develop competences and knowledge in the branch of foreign languages, economy, media, ICT and social sphere. The project called “Let's learn together” will have several topics to deal with. The project will connect job shadowing (teachers will participate lessons during each of the mobilities) as well as cooperation among the pupils who will attend lessons as well and learn to know the school system of each of the partner countries. They also will present their coutries to the pupils of the partner schools and cooperate with the pupils.The participants will develope ICT skills, increase their language skills, social, cultural and ecological awareness and teamwork.Participants should develop skills and competences in these areas by creating power-point presentations, quizzes, worksheets, questionnaires related to these topics and take part in workshops, discussions and excursions dealing with ecology and health. As a result, short videos will come into existence, describing how young people from 3 European countries deal with the specific topics. All project results will be presented in the project web-site, social medias and eTwinning. The eTwinning platform will also be used to publish the created materials and methodologies. The projectwill involve participants (students and teachers from four partner schools and partner organisations) as well as indirect participants (local community, other students and pupils, local authorities, children and parents).To achieve our objectives we will implement various approaches and introduce non-formal and experimental pedagogical methods. We will adapt a “hands on approach” (learning by doing) which will make learning more interesting and engaging for participants. Students will be taught how tocreate their own worksheets and quizzes, organise public events, cultural events and workshops. Thanks to the visits of differents organisations and istitutions they will get acquainted with their work, meet and interview new people. The impact on the project participants and target groups includes enhancing their learning and teaching with new methodologies, activities and tools. Thanks to the real life experience students will gain new insides into their education and future possibilities, which will increase their confidence.They will acquire new skills, develop new attitudes and be more interested in the world around them. At the international Learning/Teaching Activities (LTA) students will present all the work done about the topics, attend workshops and foreign businesses. They will work collaboratively in internationalteams adapting personalised learning. The final products will be the methodology guidline, worksheets and durther educational materials, a learning platform with educational resources and samples of student work, presentations, videos, photos etc. The project results will be evaluated and disseminated asplanned in the project.Long-term benefits of the project is the added value to students skills and the educational materials which will be avilable to public. Development of useful ICT skills and communication and language competences is another essential long-term benefit. All results and outcomes will be used to refresh, update and modify the school curricula to suit the needs of todays students growing up in the European background. This will lead to enhancing transnational cooperation and the dissemination of good practice. Last but not least realisation of learning mobilities, which will be commonly validated and recognised, represents an essential long-term benefit.

Learning with cartoons and animations: Our school is a state school which has been opened since 2008. It’s got 17 classrooms,538 students ( between 10-14 age ) and 24 teachers. There is a computer room and web in our school. The computer room has electronic equipment. In our staff,our English teachers and computer teachers took part actively in this project. Kocaeli Metropolis Municipality gave tablets to All our students (in 6th,7th,8th grades ) . By this project,we used these tablets as educative tools with software. We improved our education quality by using these students’ digital abilities. In our project,we prepared animations about lessons and cultural topics:1-we discovered digital abilities of the students who were in different grades.2- teachers developed their attitude to digital learning for the lessons. 3- we stored digital education tool to use it in every education level as course materials. 4-students learned to use digital tools. 5- we shared experiences and learned more cultures by cooperating our partners. 6-teachers improved themselves to teach language, and students developed their language skills by digital skills.The number of participants and profile: There were seven partner schools. There were ten students in each school cartoon and animation teams. There were schools from different educational grades, the students was chosen from different ages from 10 to 14.Methodology was used: International cooperation was done with partners in the program. Animation software training was taken in order to improve the digital skills of the participants. This training was given at the first meeting. Participants of this course guided the ones that didn’t participate to the mobility through peer learning. Short stories were written and language skills were improved by finding out the culture of the country that had been visited at the first place. Then, cultural cartoons and animations were done. Animations were done by using the same method on a topic that was given according to the curriculum of the host school. Students used the tablets to learn the lessons. These students who could use these ICT devices improved the digital integration. Teachers who were lack of digital skills had positive attitudes to digital subjects. In our school we had a project about science and technology. And students used animation programmers to do their homework and project works. Some students made presentations by using this animation that they did. they integrated it to all lessons.they learned different cultures and traditions. they introduced their own cultures so they had a cultural harmony during this meeting. thanks to this project they had chance to practice English with foreign people.So their English marks increased. they started to use applications to keep in touch with their foreign friends by speaking English. they were eager to go abroad. they improved their self-confidence and represented their countries abroad. These videos were posted via youtube and facebook channel. We had planned that 5 students and 2 teachers would join to the Short-Term Learning/Teaching/Training Activities in the application form. According to the application form, 42 participants had been planed for 6 meetings. We had more participants than the planned at the end of the project. Totally 48 participants from our school (31 students and 17 teachers) joined to the meetings. Two kinds of animations about subject and culture were done in each meeting. 490 animations were planned in the application form but more than 500 animations were done. The animations were stored and used as lesson materials. Animations were shared via our youtube channel (Learning with Cartoons and Animations) and opened to international access. Also, all animations were shared by Twinspace that a portal in the E-twinning. And they were shared on all schools’ web pages. Information about our project was shared on EBA that is a web page of Turkish Ministry of Education has our animations. There was a lot of news about our project as local area. Visits to Municipality, Governorship and Ministry of Education were made. Participants visited historical and cultural places, museums and official places in each meeting.

This project followed a Comenius Regio project which was realized in the years 2012-2014. The project partners wanted to continue successful cooperation which was started thanks to that project and wanted to develop European dimension of their work and education. Both regions are located in structurally weak areas and suffer from low infrastructure. This project helped to innovated educational methods in local schools and kindergartens as well as the cooperation in community life. The topic of this project was Water as a phenomenon in the life of mankind and a common component of European pre-primary and primary education. Water plays an important role in both regions and its uniqueness, scarcity, insularity as well as danger or utility in everyday life and educational concepts were subjects of this project. The project had ten partner organisations, five at each side, in every participating country, there was one municipality office, two educational organisations and two non-school organisation active in education. Compared to the previous project, there was one new partner organisation in Germany as well as in the Czech Republic. The project had about 2500 direct and indirect participants. The direct participants included workers of partner organisations, the indirect participants were citizens from local communities in both participating regions and other indirect participants at whom the dissemination was aimed.The project activities included educational activities aimed at water as a phenomenon, during these activities, partial results came into existence and were presented on the project website and on the E-twinning platform. Educational institution prepared their own materials and worksheets and finally all materials were collected to form the final products of this project. An important project activity represents creating an educational footpath, which is also considered as a long-term result of this project and will enhance the attractiveness of both regions for tourists in the future. Besides that six transnational meetings were realised during the project life cycle.The project had three main products - a children book with pictures and poems, a set of methodology worksheets and colouring worksheets related to water and finally an educational foot-path around the local water areas. The project was based on methods of experiential teaching, non-formal learning and transition pedagogy and long-life learning. A specific topic of this project was also inclusion, as both regions have citizens from disadvantaged social classes and this project was aimed at better integration of these social groups into community life. All results and outcomes were used to refresh, update and modify the school curricula to suit the needs of today pupils growing up in the European background. The experience and skills gained during further education courses were reflected in the educational programmes of all participating kindergartens and schools. Long-term benefits of this project also include improving the level of key competences and professional skills of all participants, enhancing transnational cooperation and the dissemination of good practice.