"Studies and analysis of various scientific research indicate that preschool education lacks of variety of teaching strategies and approaches. The preschool teachers tend to develop unfounded fears of new teaching strategies and try to avoid crossing ""safe circle"" of traditional teaching ways. That means poorer attitude to the preschool education as a less important to the pupils than basic school education.The project „Puppets mission: childhood without borders“ is based on a philosophy of holistic education and aims to encourage preschool teachers to integrate new, less used teaching strategies to the practical process of education. Incorporation the cultural knowledge and preschool experience from project partner schools of Lithuania, the Netherlands, Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Romania and Portugal will be accomplished. The project involves 9 partners from eight European countries:• Kindergarten „Žilvitis“, Lithuania (Kaunas dist.);• Sbo de Bolder, Netherlands (Franeker);• Istituto Comprensivo ""Giuseppe Lombardo Radice"", Italy (Siracusa);• OOU Goce Delcev, Macedonia (Kavadarci);• Scoala Gimnaziala Ioan Bancescu Adancata, Romania (Suceava);• Kindergartens Latinka and Izvorche, Bulgaria (Shumen);• Agrupamento de Escolas de Albufeira Poente Jardins de Infância da Guia e Vale de Parra, Portugal (Albufeira);• CEIP San Antonio Spain, (Elche).The main target groups: 3 - 7 years old preschoolers and preschool teachers. The other beneficiaries of the project: primary teachers, staff of the schools, parents and local communities, experts and practitioners of preschool education, trainers and local, national authorities. The total number participants of the project ""Puppets mission: childhood without borders"" is 849 people (735 children from 3 to 7 years old and 164 teachers, teaching staff and principles) from eight European countries. 223 children involved to the project are with fewer opportunities. 175 children are from poor families, having social and economical obstacles; 6 children are mentally and physically disabled.Duration of the project: two years. This time is enough to incorporate and try new teaching strategies for preschoolers.The main goals of the project, responding to the European priorities: - improving and promoting new teaching strategies and skills for better quality of preschool education; - sharing cultural diversities in preschool education; - encouraging teachers of introducing innovations; - strengthening the professional skills of the preschool teachers. The project is focused on improving widely used in the education of preschoolers teaching strategies like play, drama, experiments, music and promoting such underutilized teaching ways like ICT approaches in preschool education. As the main target group is 3 - 7 years old children, cultural activities are the main tool and content of the implementation of the project - adaptation and integration innovative teaching technologies to the process of education. During the transnational project meetings/training activities every country shares the experience of the teaching strategy of the hosting country. Also the implementation these strategies into the practice during cultural events will be discussed. The seminars and „open“ educational activities on the exact teaching strategy of hosting country will be carried out.The participants will also cooperate in exchanging and developing teaching methods and materials, in creating intellectual output website „Preschool teaching strategies“ as a basis for a long-lasting communication and in enlarging the teaching techniques in the preschool education. This website will provide information about teaching strategies for the preschool teachers and other interested people. This product will include educational practice in the adaptation and integration of new teaching strategies of eight partner countries."

Act it! Film it! Share it! is a two-year project which brings together schools from Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of North Macedonia and Denmark. We aim at celebrating our diverse cultural heritage, theatre in particular, across Europe and implementing digital media and web tools in teaching and learning through performing arts. Our schools support the intent of the European Commission and local cultural institutions to encourage more people to discover and engage with Europe's cultural heritage, and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space and thus contribute to sustainability of 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. We promote eSafety and the use of eTwinning opportinities to share ideas and disseminate our outcomes. Thus the strategic partnership will develop a paralel eTwinning project to benefit from all e-tools it provides for communication, joint activities, assessment of project progress and dissemination.The project leaders have designed various national and international project activities. The participant students and teachers will learn together and from each other but they will also learn from local professionals and benefit from their competences and expertise.We will develop our project around two main pillars: theatre and ICT. Our project participants (students aged 13-19, staff, parents and wider community) will learn about national and international cultural heritage and use ICT to elaborate products. They will collaborate on topics like history of theatre and types of world theatre, writing joint scenarios, putting up plays, making masks and costumes, filming and livestreaming performances, use of online apps to edit voice and images, add sound effects, making film trailers conveying meaningful messages on moral values and tolerance. Students who participate in national activities and international Learning/Training activities such as workshops, interactive games, festivals, will bring gained knowledge and competences back to their own school communities and act as trainers to peers and younger learners from other educational institutions. Through the Professional Development element teachers involved will gain plenty of ideas for using drama techniques and implementation of digital media and online tools in making and editing products. Through our planned activities our partnership will guarantee a more modern, dynamic, committed and professional environment inside our schools involving teachers who are ready to integrate good practices and new methods into daily teaching activities.All our participant schools are united around the idea of building bridges among our nations, promoting understanding of different cultures (both European and migrants') and interacting with peers from other countries. We strongly believe that in a world of globalisation we should teach adolescents how to value national cultural heritage. We think that working on projects on an international basis adds value to their concrete results and outcomes and provide participants with new chances to share and compare knowledge and skills with peers whom they are normally not able to communicate with.Our main objectives are:-Introduction of national cultural heritage through theatrical arts – involvement of adolescents in drama-based activities, development of their aesthetic taste-Effective integration of digital technologies in teaching through drama - introduction of eSafety and digital literacy, incorporation of meaningful messages in digital project products-Development of participants’ soft skills through use of theatre and ICT-Professional Development of staff – exchange of materials, support of young teachers, especially those unexperienced in international cooperation and project management.We will develop final products such as eBook “Cultural heritage through Erasmus + - Drama in the partner countries”, Professional Development Portfolio with a collection of drama techniques, DVDs with drama performances, calendars, collages and albums, trailers with meaningful messages on tolerance, multiculturality, etc. The partnership will benefit from each other schools' capacity and experience gained during themed Erasmus + KA1 in-service training courses on ICT and Drama, eTwinning seminar on eSafety at the Future Classroom Lab, Brussels, and relevant Erasmus + KA2 strategic partnerships, so as cooperation with the Royal Shakespeare Company on a previous LLP project.Our strategic partnerships will also involve associated partners from the public or private sector who will contribute to the sustainability of our cooperative project.

With the project “DEBATING-CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS” will be promoted debates and along with drawing the attention of the students to recent social issues in order to build a future of United Europe. The aims of the project are encouraging young people in leading a dialog, listening to each other and being tolerant in communication with others. The key project’s aim, along with uniting five schools from five different countries, is to create capable, well-informed, searching and active society. The participants will learn to express openly their standpoint, defend sensibly and convincingly own position and acting tolerant with people who has different viewpoint. The practical lectures will help them to develop oratory skills, master presentation, critical thinking and communication skills in order to help them for better presentation in a job interview. During this project will meet each other persons with different interests, life experiences and views provoking them to think. When you a surrounded with bright young people eager to know, speak and be heard you feel dynamic together with them. There is a place for everyone. There will be a challenge for getting out of comfort zone and joining environment where everyone wants to speak, participate in society and change something. The communication skills and personal qualities develop while participating in debates, where the competitive atmosphere inspires the students to upgrade day by day in friendly environment, too. The experience is useful and valuable. Essential in this project is learning to defend own thesis, to commit to other’s thesis and to prove his/her opinion. Will be prepared “A handbook How to Create a Debating Club and Debate at school” in order to help debaters without training. At the training meetings will be cleared up the admissible means and methods in debating, organize meetings and discussions with MEPs in the partner countries and shared experience and impressions from local Parliaments’ work. All this will lead to forming citizenship with desire for coping along with social apathy. In this project will be involved students with special educational needs where they won’t feel unworthy, burden to society or isolated. Teachers will be trained to be mediators in conflict solving, mentors and trainers, because the debates aim training the participants to find information independently, systematizing it and devising arguments from it.With the implemented activities the project participants are going to learn to be tolerant and accept different viewpoints; also will learn culture of communication and ethics, which is extremely important in occasions of seeing aggression and lack of tolerance between young people. There will be cooperation with local students’ parliaments, NGOs, schools in the region, formal and informal institutions for disseminating the results and products of the project. The students will write essays on “I- Citizen of United Europe and a Future MEP” and the best essays besides being awarded will be published in a project collection. Enclosed certification program will motivate the students making them responsible citizens and boosting their self-confidence. Students will be able to work in 2030 when we take into account project’s results. They will have the certificates as evidence for employers on the labor market about the competences acquired in this project which will enrich beneficiaries’ portfolio.

The project APPS ASAP devised by common partners, has to be considered in the context of our schools’ ambition to integrate educational Apps and new technologies with the use of English into the teaching practice which is a key factor in developing the European dimension, furthering interculturality and enabling teachers and students to meet new colleagues and students from other countries. The main aim for all participants, is to enhance the digital competence with a deeper understanding of how technologies can be exploited to improve everyday life contributing to widen our knowledge in different subjects while integrating students who come from different cultural backgrounds.We also want more international cooperation, interdisciplinary and innovation through the use of Apps in teaching and learning. Our main objectives are: - increase and enhance the skills of teachers and students in the use of new technologies and strengthen their linguistic and digital competences; - improve and increase skills in organizing, planning and achieving common activities with institutions of other nations;- compare teachers and students work to the work of other teachers and new approaches; -gain practical skills in collecting materials, making presentations and creating web pages; - better understanding of foreign languages and other cultures;-make education more attractive in line with individual needs and expectations;- improve the skills of the staff and strengthen the teaching and learning quality;- prepare and develop assessment tools that provide necessary feedback for the teaching practice and work on social activities that ensure collaborative teaching and learning;- get new experience which we cannot get at our home country such as studying and visiting different Institutions and establish good networks among participants as a basis for future projects;- develop a sense of belonging to the local, national and European community; -have new approaches to better support competiveness and employment at regional and local level;-be satisfied from being part of an international Erasmus+ project team; -gain environmental awareness saving paper, to protect the environmentIn this project will take part 250 participants, students and teachers coming from Italy, Croatia, Macedonia, Lithuania and Romania. Their profile is varied as three schools are vocational (secondary school), one is a gymnasium (secondary school)and one is a primary/lower secondary school.Our main activities are:1.Make our project concrete by choosing activities incorporated in our interdisciplinary learning and discuss with the school staff on how the programme can enhance our curriculum.2.Use of e Twinning to choose structured courses according to the planned objectives3.To work and link up with other European schools online using e- Twinning4.Prepare the mobility activities: trip, accommodation and meals, with the help of the organizers.5.To collect evidence on language skills of EU mobility participants before mobility6. To promote activities during stay abroad aimed at a better teaching and learning. 7.To Take videos and photos to record the teachers’ experiences to showcase their result8. Access online materials to improve the language level9.To disseminate activities at different levels (institutional, local, regional, national and international) Methods: We are planning to use several learner-centered methods and interdisciplinary approaches to achieve our goals.Developing cooperative learning as a method will help students take part in the project while providing them with a wide range of creative activities, tasks and workshops. In a multi-cultural educational program, when students work toward a common goal, cooperative learning approaches are effective in increasing motivation for working together and learning from each other. Students learn how to solve problems, acquire reasoning skills and they can also develop and improve their interpersonal skills. The project tasks are structured so that students need each other to accomplish their common tasks and they also feel some kind of responsibility and independence. Our main approach is to create a natural, interactive, teaching context in which students work together discussing problems, explaining, encouraging and supporting each other to think creatively. The main impact of the partnership on the participating institutions is the ability to build a community of teachers and students from different countries who have a strong commitment and a sense of ownership in the project.The project shall have a positive impact on the local community as well. Parents, local associations and bodies within a wider community will be involved and informed of the project that shall also have a positive impact on the environment because of our measures to counteract paper waste that goes beyond the project itself.

CONTEXTIrresponsible consumption of water can lead to a crisis that will affect billions of people in the future. With this reality in mind, we have taken on the mission to change the way in which people relate to water and we want to start inoculating this into the young minds of today that will become the adults of tomorrow. We want our pupils to turn the topic upside down and inside out, to learn about water as it used to be regarded by our ancestors, water and the way in which we consume it today and the effects of irresponsible consumption for the future of mankind. We want them to become active defenders and promoters of responsible water usage, to initiate local campaigns “Save the water for your children”, to analyse people’s behaviour towards water in their local communities and share them with our partners. Also, throughout the project, we want to investigate and come up with a plan to turn our schools into water-friendly schools and present it to local authorities, so that we can really make a difference in the end. OBJECTIVESO1. Increase knowledge about water from different perspectives – scientific, cultural, literary, artistic on most of the studentsO2. Raise students’ awareness of the importance of water for the humankind on most of the studentsO3. Help students identify general problems about water shortage and personalize them to their local contextO4. Foster students’ civic engagement in community problems related to ecology and strengthen the role of the school in the local communityO5. Develop students’ soft skills, creativity and cultural awarenessO6. Improve language skills O7. Improve water-friendly habits within the school facilities and amongst students/ families, helping this aim to expand.MAIN ACTIVITIESC1 – Water in the past - Art through literature, folktales, musicC2 – Water and health – Biology, PE perspectivesC3 – The Science of water – Geography, Maths, ScienceC4 – Water and the future – excessive consumption, pollution. Eco-campaignsC5 – Making our schools sustainable water consumers (joint-staff training event)Between the transnational events, students work on the topic of the exchanges, applying surveys and analyzing the, creating poems, paintings, posters, initiating local campaigns to raise awareness about water depletion to improve their school premises and turn it into a water-friendly school. They present all their work in online conferences on eTwinning.PARTICIPANTSPupils will be the main actors in local and transnational activities. The age range of the participants in exchanges is 12-15.96 students will be selected to participate in C1-C4, 6 students from each sending school/exchange. These pupils will be accompanied by 2 teachers.The profile of the accompanying teachers is related to the topic of each exchange.For C5, participants are 3 teachers from each school (a total of 12 teachers). These are the school principals, the coordinators and one project member who coordinates the Water Friendly School (WFS) plan and its sustainability.RESULTSThey create posters of the project, films about local water supplies, create maps of water sports facilities in their area, apply surveys and questionnaires on members of the local community to measure the consumption of water and observe the purpose of water consumption in households before and after the project, to measure its impact. They are involved in organization of local campaigns to raise people’s awareness about the effects of irresponsible water use, produce written advertisements, etc. Together with teachers, they identify inefficient water use in their schools, so that they can come up with solutions to make the school water-friendly.During exchanges, they attend lessons about water, are involved in physical activities (e.g. water sports), create artwork, songs and posters in multicultural groups, will go on field trips to take water samples and measure its drinkability.Toward the end of the project, teachers and students create a plan to turn the school into water-friendly environments.These plans will be presented by teachers during C5 in the final version, which will be presented to local authorities. and expanded to other schools through the already mentioned platforms.IMPACTSchools will gain a good reputation by involving the pupils and teachers in community problems and trying to raise awareness about local issues that can affect the quality of life.Schools will also set an example of eco-friendliness that we expect other schools to follow.The water problems are only one part of the environmental issues we are confronted with, so we can continue developing projects on these issues.Our institutions will become more welcoming to students, as we will be in the spotlight on the duration of the project.The fact that we have implemented an Erasmus+ project is like a quality label that we will take pride in.