"Project „My country, your country"" is designed for students aged 4 - 11 years. This project is concentrated on the knowledge of pupils about Europe But we want to achieve more goals in this project. We suppose pupils improve communication skills in English, computer skills and general education competences. Pupils will learn about own country and talk about European countries and it is important for young people, pupils and students to know homeland and Europe very good, to know better geographical facts, natural beauties, historic sights, traditions and festivals, famous personalities of own country and Europe. This way pupils will become more aware and proud of the place where they live.In this project students will get to know better a part of Europe through partnership countries and also own country in various attractive and interesting way.We will work especially on 5 main topics: Geographical facts, Beauties of Europe, Sights, Traditions and festivals and Famous personalities of Europe. We will search information in internet about geography of Europe, we will talk with our grandparents, visit museums, organize excursions in our regions and countries, we will cook traditional meals. We will organize some festivals and traditions at schools to know better culture of European countries and respect them.Several international results will be the outcomes of our great cooperation created personally during meetings and also on-line. Students create e-Guide book ""Beauties of Europe"" as the summary of presentations about geographical facts, holiday resorts, historic sights. There we will publish also the summary of excursions, because each school will realize local excursions and in the meetings we will take part in 1 - 2 excursions in each partnership country. This way we will know other European countries personally. During meetings all participants, especially pippils will present films and presentations to the topics created at school. Then they will work together in workshops creating collages and exhibitions of student´s artworks, posters, handmade projects to each topic. We will create international collages from exchanged material at own schools and public places after meetings to spread results of our work and gained knowledge. We willalsodo on-line quizes to involve more students into this project. This is atractive way how students can know Europe with interesting way. In Slovakia we will organize international program ""Traditions are our heritage"", as the parade of folk and traditional costumes, songs, dances of European countries. We will realize several on-line activities to involve more pupils into our project. We will make the Calendar full of pictures, children artworks, short texts of the topics of project. Traditional Christmas cookery book will be created on-line as the next international result. We will try to cook and taste meals by recipes of partner countries. Our first Fairy Tales in electronic and paper form will be created on-line as the result and support of writing skills, creativity and fantasy of our pupils. International short-term exchanges of pupils and short-term joint staff training events will be realized in the meetings. These meetings are very significant part because here students will present their outcomes from local activities and all presentations and films created for the meeting. Teachers will talk about innovative teaching methods, impact of international project on the education at their schools. What more, each school will organize at least 1 lesson of Geography, History, Literature, Art, languages lessons using innovative and interactive methods and programs and all participants will take part in these lessons actively. We´ll create DVD and brochure - Teaching methods in European schools - as the results of seminars and lessons. But not only personal meetings but also virtual mobilities will be important part of this project because we would like many students have chance to cooperate and work together, meet and know each other. We will talk, sing and dance together via videoconferences.We will work also in Twinspace of our eTwinnig project with the title ""We live in Europe"" to organize here various online contests, quizzes and questionnares or we will chat here and write our opinions and view. All on-line activities will be realized here.We´d like to achieve more objectives in our project. This project supports students in education not only Geography and History, but also English and another partnership languages, improves computer skills of students, supports their healthy self-confidence, strengthen their national awareness and broaden the vision of European cultural heritage.Pupils will learn to work in an international teams and respect the culture and lifestyle in other European countries. They will understand what the European identity means and will know the importance of the inter-cultural education for them and their future."

"Water is essential for life as well as a vital resource for the economy. Water plays an essential part in regulating our climate. Water and climate are and always have been linked. For these reasons, freshwater is a finite, precious and indispensable resource for sustaining life, ensuring sustainable social welfare and economic prosperity, and a healthy ecosystem. The Love Every Drop project provided an introduction to the importance of water locally and globally and raise awareness of how simple actions can substantially reduce water consumption. The focus was for students to carry out water audits in their schools and homes, as well as of local rivers and lakes. Our aims were as the following: To make students understand the value of clean water in their local environment, to develop their knowledge about the importance of water by analyzing its role in the past, present and future, to enhance responsible attitudes and effective key competences towards the respect of water and our environment, to improve students’ language and intercultural knowledge, to make the students from the target group and the community responsible about the problem of water management, to identify solutions concerning the responsible management of environmental problems in general and water in particular, to integrate students in the European society as active participants and potential future decision makers, to promote cooperation between young people from different European countries. Subjects and Problems: 1. the main subject of the project was water preservation. The students need to explain why water has become an endangered natural resource, they found solutions and alternatives for reducing water consumption and they identified alternative water resources. 2. The second main subject was providing European cooperation between students from different countries as active citizens in a common effort to resolve a general problem which affected Europe in the years to come. Approach to achieve the objectives: The approach on this project is made through various strategies, deductive and inductive, focusing on the trainee. Majority activities were active and participative; we used modern methods and digital instruments, educational platforms, virtual work places. Starting with local geographical particularities, but concerning a common problem at a European level, the students worked in international teams with the purpose of harmonizing the suggested solutions. By using brainstorming and student‐centered methods, questioning problems, case studies and projects, the students offered concrete solutions to the identified problems. “Love Every Drop” project provided an introduction to the importance of water on both local and global basis. ""Love Every Drop"" was implemented in 6 schools , focusing on 11-14 years students where they learned from each other and which now serves as a role model for other schools. Teachers gained ideas and tools for an interdisciplinary learning programming on the theme of water. The major impact resided in the fact that the target group became aware of the necessity of a rational and sustained management of the water resources. In this way they became active participants in the process of environmental protection in general and water resources in particular. The development of the project determined the raising of awareness amongst the population when it comes to the responsible management of water. This led to the reduction of water consumption at home and at school, by rationally using the existing resources and by raising the quantity of recycled water. Our results are: A letter to local authorities as future generations and a charter of the water-conscious citizen, creation of a project website and innovative educational units. Water usage tracking chart: We used the chart to track our daily water use over two days. Water Detectives: participating schools Project's Team responsible for each month worked as water detectives. Every day they check for leaky taps. We monitored our water usage every week by reading the water meter. Exhibition of photographs of different types of irrigation and the landscape surrounding these irrigation systems. Pupils saw themselves as global citizens who can make a difference to the world. Teachers had ideas and tools for an interdisciplinary learning programming on the theme of water. The geographical area covered by the project (Slovakia, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Hungary and Lithuania) is a large area, crossing Europe both horizontally and vertically. This multi-country partnership intended to offer an added value to the project firstly thanks to the location of the partner country and secondly, to the transnational cooperation as it was planned."