"The Teachers AHEAD project is part of Key Action 2 and is part of the Strategic Partnership for innovation and foresees the development and sharing of innovative products and methods. The aspect of the dissemination of innovative results, through the planned multiplier events, is aimed at stimulating the growth of professional skills and innovating educational methodologies. According to this perspective, 5 educational institutions, 2 universities, 2 training agencies, 1 youth organization, provided with the expertise necessary to achieve the project objectives, have been involved in the implementation of the project. The objectives of the project are based on the offer and assessment of key competences and transversal skills, such as digital and citizenship, as well as civic and social skills, but are mainly set out in terms of social inclusion, as envisaged by principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights. The project aims to support long-lasting positive effects, both on the participating organizations and on the networks and individuals involved, with the aim of modernizing and strengthening education and training systems. The actions are oriented to implement and transfer innovative practices in other educational contexts, once tested and validated by the action research group of teachers and trainers involved in the project itself. The actions covered by the project include analysis and educational research, as a personalization of the disciplinary paths and as collaborative learning, and are at the same time unavoidable by an educational strategy based on the ""European Pillar of Social Rights"" in Chapter 1, points 1 - Education, training and lifelong learning and 3 - Equal opportunities, and in Chapter 3, in points 11 - Child care and support for minors and 17 - Inclusion of persons with disabilities. The strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICT), open educational resources (OER), personalized and inclusive pedagogy according to the needs of individuals, virtual and physical mobility represent the resources around which we act, also in terms of action research and as a community of speech. Particular attention is given to active citizenship and legality: being an European citizen implies the awareness of choosing and self-training as a person aware of their rights and as many duties; implies the need to confront and interact positively with the diversity and complexity of different contexts (family, educational, social), as personal growth and elective groups. The project aims to promote comparison and sharing in order to provide young students with growth models based on democracy and the coexistence of peoples, through social inclusion as a model of growth and affirmation; on the themes that the project places as priorities, it is necessary to define in the school and on the paths outside the school, opportunities for interdisciplinary training oriented to the growth and development of a European people able of self-affirming in its diversity. The project intends to promote interdisciplinary and inter-departmental collaboration methodologies aimed at improving the professional development of those who work or are active in the fields of education, training and youth, innovating and increasing the quality and range of initial and on-going training, with the prospect of experimenting innovative teaching practices based on social inclusion and on digital skills and declined in order to facilitate the recognition and validation of knowledge, skills and competences acquired through formal, informal and non-formal learning. Teachers AHEAD aims to train a group of teacher trainers experts in the use of ICT applied to inclusive education, and provided the necessary skills to identify and articulate educational paths including special interest that can be included in the school curricula, according to the following steps: 1- Use the European E-Twinning Platform and the training platform in the Moodle e-learning environment - realized as the Intellectual Output of the previous project, to prepare trainers for the exchange in professional mobility and to collect experiences in terms of inclusive digital education; 2 - To train teachers and actors involved in the mobility of innovative learning practices, such as cooperative learning, the Flipped Classroom and the EAS Technique - Learning Episodes 3-Send teachers in professional mobility in working groups with destination EU countries; 4- Organize series of training meetings to disseminate and support the educational pathways."

"Context/background of the project.The Project idea of PEAK was born in 2013; it was based on the experience of GIFT, Growing Innovations For Teaching, granted by EU. The Partnership, after setting up the first project group, developed some proposal focuses, around which building up an additional network of European partners with specific areas of expertise. Partners set up a project proposal targeting to meet the strategic objectives that the member countries of the European Union aim to pursue through the priorities set out in the Europe 2020 strategy and the four planned objectives:•to ensure that lifelong learning and mobility become a reality•improve the quality and effectiveness of education and training•promoting fairness, social cohesion and active citizenship•encourage creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training.Objectives.The project has identified the development of teaching profession at the centre of its action as a strong point for the improvement of educational systems and the consequent strengthening of students’ key competences. The project aimed to promote confrontation and sharing among all those working in the educational system and consider it necessary to provide young students with growth models based on democracy and the coexistence of peoples, through cooperation, networking and peer learning. In terms of expected results, the objectives of the project and, in particular, the development of competences identified as central issues of training expected to be achieved:1.digital skills and, in this case, the use of methodologies and technological tools to improve teaching discipline;2.the language skills as a communication tool and with particular attention to the increase of teachers able to support the CLIL methodology in the Italian classes;3.awareness of European citizenship, so that participating schools take the commitment to include specific modules or targeted learning pathways, both within the curriculum and in the study plans of the teachers involved in disciplinary specificities.Number and profile of participating organisations.The IPS ""Albe Steiner"" of Turin, Applicant Partner, took care of the administrative activities, of the official relations with the Italian agency INDIRE; dealing with quality protocols and mobility certifications- EuroPass.ANFIS, a teachers’ training professional Association, certified by MIUR, has been the coordinator of training courses for pre-mobility. ACMOS - youth association, skilled on active citizenship, within the LIBERA Piemonte network, with a leading role in the educational proposal on the issues of legality.ALCANTARA Group, based in Cordoba, oversaw the communication aspects through social media; developing workshops and seminars on the theme of cyber bullying. BURGAS FREE UNIVERSITY (BFU), is a Bulgarian private University, specialized in teaching languages and ICT – based teaching. The technical institute ""L. EINAUDI ""of Verona has established a network of schools in the area, contributing to the spreading and dissemination of innovative practices promoted by the project.The Rakovski High School in Burgas has dynamically participated at the mobilites, encouraging the dissemination of the objectives and results of the project through dissemination activities in the Bulgarian territory. Leeds BECKETT University, new Partner, specialised in Language Teaching, expert on the Flipped class methodology. The SALESIAN COLLEGE, in Limerick, Ireland, a new partner of the second project-life year, active in project dissemination.EUFOR, a network of secondary schools in Sardinia, a new partner of the second project-life year, active in dissemination of results.Description of undertaken main activities.The project activities have been carried out through the comparison and sharing among teachers coming from different countries on the topics of Ciber Bullying, teaching / learning through ICT, research on distance learning approaches, on innovative methodologies such as the Flipped Class.Results and impact attained.For teachers, beneficiaries of training and mobility:1. Development of professional skills with particular regard to digital and sharing planning;2. Increase of the ability to realize an active teaching based on the use of ICT.3. Increasing awareness of the importance of enhancing good teaching practices, based on a real competence approach in a European wide network;Longer-term benefits.Promoting European citizenship in younger generations is a fundamental aspect of the historical and social context today, especially in the light of the triggering of some processes on the political and economic level within the European Union.The expansion of Erasmus enables individuals and groups of different ages to participate in exchanges, and through mutual understanding, to feel they are European citizens."