Music is a universal language and has been used in many ways to bring together people and nations. At present European countries are witnessing a revival in musical talent shows on TV. This shows us that there is still a demand for Young Talents to express themselves in Music. Our project tries to improve their musical, social and digitals skills.* United Schools in Music (USM) is multilingual. We will encourage language learning through the use of four languages with our project dictionary.* USM is a motivator. Because of the possibility of travelling, large scale performances, media coverage and our project DVD students will be attracted to play in a school band. * USM is united. The project actively brings together students from very different parts of Europe and encourages communication in all project languages. We will also include students with low study skills in our project. Teamwork across borders and the use of online Tools, like e-Twinning will increase a variety of skills. * USM is visible and audible. Due to its outcomes (a DVD, online repository for sheet music, website and multilingal participants presentation) the project's ideal and performances can be easily disseminated and therefore reach and touch many other students, schools and communities. We will also produce a set of project results, tailored for the use inside schools: We will compose a project song. All students are invited to bring in their creativity and music talent. We will put special emphasis on the lyrics. They should encourage the students to express their thoughts about culture, livestyle and social issues. This project song and background information will be recorded and published via Internet and DVD. We will also produce multilingual participants presentations with detailed Information about the participating countries/schools including general information, school system, history, music and arts, social life, etc. We will bring all sheet music, including music and video samples of our project participants online. This repository will be taylored for school bands and their needs. The concept of encouraging students with low study skills is nowadays more important than ever. We will gain experience on hot to include these students inside the project. All project results, photos, videos and lessons learned will be published on e-Twinning and Erasmus Plus project result platform, school websites and local press. Our project addresses the topicscreativity and culture: Meeting other project participants from different countries, composing and recording Songs, using different languages is one of the best creativity Boosts we can offer our Young students and teachersEarly school leaving, combaiting failure in education. We will try our best to better understand students with low study skills in order to correct failures in education, open their minds for an open Europe and thus Prevent them from leaving school (too) early.Our objectives support our selected priorities:Especially students with low study skills are in danger of leaving School (too) early. Our Concept will help us to better support these special students in future. Using modern ICT-Tools in a multinational project in a real environment is the best way to really understand the meaning and use of innovative practices in a digital era. All project participants will be suported to learn basic skills during the project. From technical to social, even language skills will be aquiring and developed. All the results will be sustain remarkable for all project participants and the school members during the project and after project end.

"The project ""Cospace Robotic"" is a new, innovative approach to the awareness and establishing robot technology in schools.It involved 3 partners from Austria, Germany and UK. .All partners have a long tradition and experience concerning their general technical knowledge and robotic technology. The Methodology of the project is modern, by using modern tools, such as e-Twinning and EST for discussion, sharing content and ideas. The Cospace Platform is a new way of programming robots in a virtual environment and use this very same code for real robots as well.The discussions and results have been published. Teaching and learning materials have been provided in an interactive way, raised on a level of teenage and adult thinking. A main focus of the project was students with low study skills, students coming from a difficult financial environment, students with low self-confidence, migration background and other social problems. Although this sometimes applies only to a little part of the class we try to integrate them with the others to establish a strong social bond in the class in order to lead them to a successful graduation in school. Because of the intense communication and the visits all participants can learn the daily school schedule from other countries and learn from the partners. The language skills of the participants increased and improved. The use of modern ways of communication (eTwinning, Skype, etc.) has been practiced. The students with low study skills gained a lot from the group dynamic and now they are motivated to do better performance. Because of that the chances of a possible early dropout will be strongly decreased and the chances of a successful career will be increased. The schools gained experience in Robot technology and the European partnership. This project is an example for good international co-operation within ERASMUS+. ERASMUS+ will get more famous in schools, communities and policy makers. It contributes indirectly to the integration of Europe and the understanding between the nations."

"In order to take part in the international competition in industry with success, there is a demand of qualified and international experienced skilled workers in the industries of the EU, all member countries, all regions and especially in all firms. A better competition can be achieved through an increase of productivity and quality at less costs with automatized processes. This can easily be done with computer-based methods of production like mechanical engineering, electronics and information technology. Besides the technical qualifications the so called „soft“ factors are getting more important. These „soft“ factors are for example language-skills and social, methodical and personal competences. This project is interdisciplinary and is covering all the before mentioned requirements.The Project is coordinated by HTL Weiz (Austria), an experience technical high school in the field of electrical and mechanical engineering and project management. IES ""BERNAT GUINOVART"" (Spain) and LYCEE GENERAL ET TECHNOLOGIQUE VOILLAUME (France) are both experienced technical schools. IPSIA Leon Battista Alberti (Italy) and Antalya Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi (Turkey) are strongly interested in electronic or mechanical lab equipment. All students in the project are between 14 and 18 years old.We will have five students meetings at all five partner countries, as well as two management meetings at the beginning and the end of the project. Our project tries to improve the social, technical and digital skills of all Project participants* Our Project is multilingual. We will encourage language learning through the use of five languages with our project dictionary.* Our Project is a motivator. Because of the possibility of travelling, large scale performances, media coverage and our lab experiments students will be attracted to become well educated engineers/technicians.* Our Project is united. The project actively brings together students from very different parts of Europe and encourages communication in all project languages. We will also include students with low study skills in our project. Teamwork across borders and the use of online Tools, like e-Twinning will increase a variety of skills.* Our Project is visible and audible. Due to its outcomes the project's results can be easily disseminated and therefore reach and touch many other students, schools and communities. We will also produce a set of project results, tailored for the use inside schools: We will produce technical lab experiments including proper documentation. We will also produce multilingual participants presentations with detailed Information about the participating countries/schools including general information, school system, history, music and arts, social life, etc. which will be used throughout our partner schools. They will also be available for the public.The concept of encouraging students with low study skills is nowadays more important than ever. We will gain experience on how to include these students inside the project.All project results, photos, videos and lessons learned will be published on e-Twinning and Erasmus Plus project result platform, school websites and local press.Our project addresses the topics:ICT - new technologies - digital competences: modern Lab experiments are one of the most useful applications of ICT in near future and one of the best ways to attract students to learn new technologiesEarly school leaving, combating failure in education. We will try our best to better understand students with low study skills in order to correct failures in education, open their minds for an open Europe and thus Prevent them from leaving school (too) early.Having a look at the main targets of Europe 2020, this project provides a huge contribution to a better occupation and less unemployment of the teenagers, a smaller rate of school-dropouts concerning the education-sector and indirectly to a decrease of poverty and social discrimination.Without this Project most of our students and some of the teachers would have no possibility to meet each other (physically) in different countries and therefore Exchange ideas and learn from each other in terms of creativity and culture.Without this Project definitely no School or teacher involved in this proposal would have produced the Project outcomes addressed in this proposal."

"The project ""Green Car Share"" is a new, innovative approach to the awareness and the common idea of sharing resources in urban traffic. The project was focused on the setup and a long-term run of car sharing groups using alternative energy. The project wants to prove that the use of car sharing groups using alternative energy is convenient, financially attractive and supports „green goals“. Our aims are * more efficient use of cars* increase the amount of persons in a car* use of renewal energy and reduce urban traffic.It involves 4 partners from 3 countries (Austria, Slovenia and Croatia) The partners from Slovenia, Croatia and the HTL Weiz have a long tradition and experience concerning their technical knowledge. The HAK Weiz shows their strengths in economy and information technology and they can lead the other partners in this area. The discussions and results have been published. The final point will be the yearly ""Eco-Race"" - a car competition, where lowest energy consumption makes the winner. Our project results are:* to setup and run a one year field test using cars with alternative energy* a multilingual Survey about mobility behaviour* to setup a project website on eTwinning for internal and external communication. * to setup a business plan to operate a car sharing model and run virtual firms. * to run a yearly public car competition (lowest energy consumption) in order to raise public awareness.* a concept of encouraging students with low study skills* a multimedia and multilingual dictionary and partner presentationsA main focus of the project are students with low study skills, students coming from a difficult financial environment, students with low self-confidence, migration background and other social problems. Although this sometimes applies only to a little part of the class we try to integrate them with the others to establish a strong social bond in the class in order to lead them to a successful graduation. The schools gained experience out of the test trial and the European partnership. Therefore the European Image of the schools will be improved. Furthermore this makes the school more attractive for students, teachers and companies. This project is an example for good international co-operation within ERASMUS+. ERASMUS+ will get more famous in schools, communities and policy makers. It contributes indirectly to the integration of Europe and the understanding between the nations."

"The project ""CAM station, automation of a production line"" is technically demanding and expected to achieve a very broad impact. To develop and strengthen the professional competence is the central challenge for any vocational school. This is not an end in itself but a result of the need for well-qualified and possibly internationally experienced workers that the businesses have. In addition, today’s work-sharing and internationally competing industry must operate cost-effectively. Attaining this in the required product quality can only be achieved through the use of state-of-the-art production techniques.The realisation of a computer-aided manufacturing cell (CAM) is the backbone of this project. At this manufacturing station a gantry robot picks a part and places it on a conveyor belt , which begins to move. Based on various sensors, the components are detected, sorted by actuators and supplied to another processing station depending on the requirements. This requires the use of various disciplines such as: metal engineering, electrical engineering, pneumatic and software engineering. Since the task is complex, it was reduced didactically to the needs and opportunities of vocational schools. Besides technical know-how, knowledge of foreign languages and ICT skills play an important role. This aspect is covered by creating a multilingual and multimedia glossary and the development of a project website. Finally, there is the need to support and integrate slow-learning students, who are at risk in their vocational education, so that the negative downward spiral described in Chapter D can be reversed into a positive causal chain. Methodical, social and personal competences are strengthened so that they are reflected in the strongest possible professional competence. This allows self-reliant and self-confident skilled workers to find well-paying secure jobs in modern factories. This consideration was based on the Europe 2020 strategy. All involved parties, but especially teachers benefit from the strengths of the respective schools. The specialists provide in virtual transnational working groups, transnational project meetings and the planned learning, teaching and training activities for an international knowledge transfer and thus lay the foundation for a successful course of events and high quality project results.The four participating schools will be integrated hierarchically into an organization matrix according to their particular skills and strengths. We use a project management structure that has been successfully used in the industry. It is so widely-used because it ensures clear professional and disciplinary responsibility and counteracts atomization of responsibilities. Carrying out a successful project requires not only clear goals, a thoughtful schedule, clear responsibilities and an adequate budget. These success conditions must of course be present, but have to be monitored by regular controlling. By using this control loop corrective action can be taken early in case of deviations from the desired. In spite of everything, we must never forget the most important thing, the individual. Only motivated and self-reliant employees can bring a complex project to success. Therefore professional, intercultural and above all personal exchange is required, which is realized by the aforementioned learning and teaching meetings. All in all, 144 mobilities with 204 plus x participants are planned in this complex project.The project achieves various effects and provides lasting benefits. All involved students, especially slow-learning students and teachers gain a higher linguistic and technical language competence , reduce prejudices and practice in tolerance. By communicating via modern media, ICT competences are strengthened. The technical competence is deepened through mutual learning of the specialists. Last but not least the international profile of the schools is raised in any case."