"This partnership starts from a common issue of all attending schools: school students have difficulties in connecting knowledge from different curriculum subjects with their communities specific regarding: cultural heritage, economical specific and geographical particularities.Causes of this phenomenon:1) the general character of teaching tools (consisting in school manuals and other didactic materials: didactic movies, local maps, educational platforms ) that are created for general use without taking into consideration regional communities specific;2) the small amount of school classes that can be used for relate school content with regional specific;3)the small interactions between students from different schools focused on valuing cultural heritage and regional specific;4)the grouth of extermist adepts among young people starting from early ages recrouted by media channels; 5)the lack of an institutional plan to cultivate European values such as respect and tolerance by promoting cultural heritage from different European countries.Effects1) Pupils learn without the help of common situations specific to their regions;2)The inability to connect knowledge from different subjects to common situations;3)A closed attitude towards different cultures and different traditions( not knowing, not wanting to know), in young people's circles that can lead in the future to the lack of tolerance and other social issues;4) A closed attitude of young people towards their own traditional heritage ( traditions are the oposit of modernism, so for young people it is not cool to promote traditions);5) A small number of school activities that promotes traditional heritage and European values regarding tolerance and respect for other cultures, a small impact on school students within isolated groups that are involved by small groups of teachers.Project's goal: Establishing a global strategy for schools (that are involved in the project) for valuing local specific to all subjects, for creating new teaching resources that uses regional specific and promoting European values of tolerance, acceptance in valuing traditional heritage.Target group:-32 teachers that are willing to adapt their content to regional specific;-40 pupils, age 12-13-14-15 years old, from regions and schools involved.Objectives:1) At the end of the project the teachers involved in this partnership will have a new set of working materials consisting in lessons scenarios, educational movies, interactive tests on educational platforms, adapted working sheets, portfolio's content on specific topics;2) The growth of the number of working materials adapted to regional specific from pupils portfolios; 3) The increase of cultural awareness from the level existing at the beginning of the project to project completion;4) The increasement of the number of teachers involved into international cooperation exchanges from every school;5) The increasement of modern didactic techniques implementation into classes as common practice .Project meetings:C1) Interactive teaching starts from my community Meeting main activities:1)lessons assistance, 2)local cooperation with schools trainers on modern teaching techniques,3)Visit to The Railway Museum of Dej, 4)Tolerance and respect- lessons for a better life- workshop, 5)We are different but we can be united- workshop to present regional specific of the schools involved; 6)How to create a Kahoot test; 7)Workshop- how to create school materials using tablets.C2) Students portfolios - active learning techniquesThe main goal is to experiment good practice exchange consisting in materials for students personal portfolio as a learning resource. During this meeting considering the fact that students will show their personal portfolio developed in classrooms learning resoruces for students will be developed.C3)Local manufactures and local museums a wonderful resource for learningMeeting's main activity is the documentaries contest for students, on local traditional manufactories and their development over time. All the other activities are learning activities that exploits local specific and leads to a better understanding of school content. C4)""How we tell our stories"" is a reunion that invites all attending groups of students and teachers to demonstrate how popular traditions are a ways of expressing cultural heritage.C5) Popular calendar around EuropeMeeting's main activity is the presentations about popular traditions around the year long. All the other activities are conceived to demonstrate how to exploit traditional heritage in didactic activities.Tangible results:1)""Our community into school curriculum""-A brochure with lessons scenario on regional specific2)""http://www.NewCurriculum21.com""-a platform with didactic materials3)Project scientific magazine "" Teaching challenges""4)""http://www.AboutUs.com""-students platform5)events that encourages the interactions with local community."

"Preparing stageThe aim of preparing stage is to collect knowledge about curricula’s content and about educational system of teaching math, physics, chemistry, biology, language and communication in regions of attending schools. The outcome of this action is a common study that presents curricula’ contents, evaluation items, evaluation instruments, the level of difficulty, teaching techniques and the way that a content is used. Curricula’s content was posted on ""etwinning"" platform, by attending teachers. Working methods were sustained in the first project meeting by every school’s representative using filmed materials for those that are not in their own school, and by observations in classes. Every school prepared a study regarding their evaluation process. The study contains an analysis at every discipline involved, after this step teachers decided together regarding the topic involved. Schools developed a material about how curricula’ contents are used in their training sessions. Also teachers debated about their training needs involving common project actions. Project platform contains an analysis regarding every country specific and a detailed report regarding teaching activities in schools involved.Implementation stage. This stage involves the preparation of trans-curricular teaching materials in order to value pupil’s knowledge. It also involves the development of common strategies to add value to trans-curricular teaching techniques at regional level by organizing contests and trans-curricular learning events during international reunions.Teachers agreed, using the preliminary study, which trans-curricular topic will they choose. Every school choose to develop 3-5 topics and they developed working materials. Working materials consist in: lessons scenario, evaluation sheets, ppt, presentations, educational boards, working sheets, experimental materials, field trips documents. In international meetings those materials were debated and improved. In this way project final products are developed using the materials from all attending schools. In an international work-shop first conclusions were debated with training professors from Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. Regarding pupils involvement, they are present in 4 international reunions. During meetings preparations, pupils developed their researches on the topic described in meetings sections, they created educational games and quiz for small contests, scientific articles, theatrical performances. Pupils worked for producing project materials under teachers guidance. The scientific content they needed was closely related to school contents so that they could develop small researches, studies, essays (a study on the economical benefits of endemic plants from Volos, a study about how food supplements influence the quality of human life or an essay regarding project activities organized in the school they come from). Dissemination stage Partners involved organized schools competitions using the model of Romanian Olympiad on subjects from schools curricula. The contests were developed at first at regional and international level by the schools involved in the project and their local partners. The contest helped schools to involve local educational community in project activities and to exploit project materials.Special conferences were organized to promote project final conclusions and products. During the dissemination meetings project teams promoted lessons scenarios, trans-curricular tests, exientific experiments and project local events. The main promotions activities were made with the help of regional advisory forums for teachers of different subjects. Project products were presented in specific reunions such as ”Made for Europe”( contest rules ask for project completion before a product can be presented in the contest). Project's steps:1. teachers made a documented briefing about the educational system of their country regarding law, curricula specific, ways of teaching and teaching resources, final exams items and results.2. teachers have met, show their works and conclusions and with the help of university specialists develop an questionnaire that can show which are the week points for any school regarding establishing links between different subjects.3. Applying the questionnaire for schools involved and deciding what can be changed and how the change should be done.4. Adopting effective measures that helped to promote trans-curricular teaching in the schools involved. The debates were made in an international management team's meeting. 5. Applying the changes and developing ways and resources for new interactive teaching methods. 6. Working session for presenting new materials and teaching techniques, debates with university specialists, assessing impact on pupils knowledge.7. Advertising project products in multiplier events like international symposiums, local conferences, disseminating sessions."