"The Erasmus + project ""Cultivating Languages ​​and Youth Entrepreneurs"" brought together partners from Estonia, Greece, Italy and Latvia. The coordinator was Aloja Ausekla Secondary School from Latvia. The project was aimed for secondary school students. 100 participants, both students and teachers, took part in transnational learning activities and 3 transnational project meetings. More students and teachers were involved in the local project activities, thus benefiting from the project.This project was based on the promotion of a European dimension in partner schools, especially since it was the first Erasmus+ project for all. This project gave students and teachers an opportunity to acquire and improve foreign language skills, learn about entrepreneurship, ICT and promote awareness and tolerance for social and intercultural inclusion. Another major project theme was reducing food waste. Participation in activities promoted the ability to collaborate and team spirit. The partner schools and the educators involved have expressed a desire to continue their cooperation. This was an opportunity for both the school and the teachers to learn project management and the use of ICT in it. The project motivated the practical use of foreign language skills as well as learning new words and phrases, especially for students in host families.The project promoted cross-curricular links across topics such as language, business English, entrepreneurship, ICT and food production and waste, biology, geography, history, social sciences, music. Pupils and educators took part in a series of activities to improve their knowledge of the issues covered, as well as to improve their foreign language skills, intercultural understanding and tolerance, thanks to the opportunity to cooperate in the context of European Union.Students prepared questionnaires and surveyed more than 100 respondents to find out about the habits of local households in terms of purchasing food and reducing waste. The results were compared between partner schools and posted on school website.The participants also had the opportunity to find out what partner schools are doing about the issue, to look at the Greek school garden, to compost, During the study trip in Greece, the students planted something typical from their country in the international garden of the project. During the presentations, the participants explained or showed more about the plant, its use.During the project, the partner schools also got to know the eTwinning platform and created a project site there.The project gave an idea of ​​employment in the partner school countries, regions, prospects, unemployment as well as traditional jobs as well as jobs related to the environment and tourism, business. The participants learned about the role of foreign languages ​​in different companies and sectors.The participants made presentations about the project activities, told at school meetings, wrote articles for school and municipal websites and newspapers."

<< Objectives >>By the collaboration of schools in Latvia, Estonia, Italy and Turkey, we intend to learn from each other and share our good practices in teaching foreign languages, especially with the use of literature. We are working on development of certain lesson plans and materials based on literary works to provide varied methods and content to students learning at upper and advanced levels. We also want to promote inclusion both with teachers and students.<< Implementation >>First, we will be exchanging experience and good practices, observing and learning from each other. Then we will be collaborating to create new materials. This will be achieved with meetings, classes, approbation of materials, both online and in partner organisations. Finally, we will evaluate the activities and the results before sharing the product with other teachers online.<< Results >>As the result, the cooperation will produce a set of materials and lesson plans for foreign language classes, in particular English aiming at C1 level. The materials will help teachers use literary works in their language classes. In addition, the materials will help explore and work with the issue of inclusion. Apart from the tangible result, the partner schools will develop their professional experience in teaching foreign languages.

This project involves 5 organizations from 3 countries: cultural associations and schools. It intends to promote basic and transversal skills/competences, promote the empowerment, participation and the active citizenship of young people. The main target group for this project is young people aged 15-19, at the peak of their ability to develop and interiorise new skills and competences that will be fundamental to their future. This target group will allow to address three very relevant European needs: Reduce the early school leaving rates, responding to the ET2020 strategic framework “the rate of early leavers from education and training aged 18-24 should be below 10%” Reduce the number of adult workers with lower skills and competences, responding to what is stated in the 2015 Joint Report of the Council and the Commission for the implementation of the ET2020 strategic framework “one in four adults in Europe is caught in a low-skills trap — one that limits access to the labour market while simultaneously closing avenues to further education or training” Reduce the number of NEETs through identifying and quickly acting with those at bigger risk. Taking into account both the mentioned needs and the target group, the project directly aims to: Develop and enhance different skills and competences: communication, languages (namely English) critical thinking, interpersonal and intercultural competences, creativity and innovation, tolerance and respect for human rights, feelings of European citizenship Form adults that will view lifelong learning as an important and useful path to follow Form adults that will actively participate in their community life and that understand how acting locally might produce and have strong impacts in the European and World stages Form adults that understand international mobility as an opportunity for personal growth and improvement Contribute to the inclusion of all youngsters (special needs, disabilities or socioeconomical) Project outputs, multiplier events and learning/training activities are: OUTPUTS Letter of recommendation Art in Education – produced by youngsters/youth workers and school staff for local and European authorities Art Camp toolkit – produced firstly for the youth worker’s training and improved throughout the project length, it will support those implementing an Art Camp Local Festival (local contest with cultural heritage as main theme and developing theatre, dance and music performances, promoted by both schools and associations, each participating team will have 20 youngsters) LEARNING/TRAINING ACTIVITIES International youth workers training – to capacitate the youth workers with the needed toolkit to organize each local Art Camp Festival Blended Mobility – learn about local cultural identity and heritage, and common European groundArt and performing arts in education – production of the Letter of recommendation. Reflecting in international group about the learning they did and the new competences and skills. MULTIPLIER EVENT I Forum for the Arts in Youth and Education – final conference/Art Camp International Show with local/national authorities on youth and education The main impacts are: YOUTH WORKERS / SCHOOL STAFF (participating in the short term training)More competent in interpersonal relations in international context Improved teamwork skills, namely international teamwork Greater communication competences Development of transversal skills Language skills More competent in knowledge/skills/attitudes cementing strategies with youngsters YOUNGSTERS (participating in Art Camp/blended mobility) More skilled and competent in: communication, languages (namely English) critical thinking, interpersonal and intercultural competences, creativity and innovation, New positive behaviours: tolerance and respect for human rights, feelings of European citizenship Understanding lifelong learning as an important and useful path to follow Active participating citizens Inclusive youngsters Understanding the importance of acting locally to produce impacts in the European and World stages More willing to participate in international mobility Understand international mobility and intercultural relations as an opportunity for personal growth and improvement Acquired liking for all art forms, specially performing arts PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS (including youth workers/school staff)Improved and enlarged scope of work developed (nationally and internationally) Implementation of innovative responses to mitigate existing issues (school abandonment, school result, NEET related issues, youth unemployment) Expansion of the local network for youth related issues Experience in international project management Improved teamwork skills, namely international teamwork Willingness to implement new projects and develop new and different responses Expansion of international network Motivated skilled staff with a sense of innovation

<< Objectives >>The main objective of the RAISE project is to design and develop a 3D Virtual World Learning Environment (VWLE) using the potential of a gamification-based approach in which school students will engage in activities that will enhance their levels of environmental knowledge and awareness. Environmental education for sustainable futures could increasingly engage students in public life and participation, helping them to face socio-ecological crises caused by human activity.<< Implementation >>We are going to implement PM activities (WP1), (2.1) Survey research (2.2) Scenario & education material, (3.1-3.3) Development of the 3D VWLE Alpha version, (3.4.) System Documentation; (4.1-4.3) Piloting and regional results, (4.4) Documentation of piloting results, and of course multiplier events to get in touch with the target groups and the wider public, and TPMs in order to get the partners in face-to-face teamwork.<< Results >>The results of the project are (2.1) Documentation of Survey results (2.2)Educational material (2.3)Scenarios (3.1)3d VWLE (3 versions) (3.2) User Manual (3.3) System documentation (3.4) Demonstrating Videos (4.1) Documentation of piloting results (4.2) Multiplier Events brief reports. RAISE will manage to raise EK&A to students, and at the same time disseminate the project in such a way that teachers and students will engage in environmental education goals.

"""Mission: Europe"" project arises from IES Pérez Galdós experience during over six years in carrying our long-term mobilities for students within the frame of different European Projects. Its main aim is to foster the Spanish language as a means of communication in Europe while offering students from other European countries, who are studying Spanish as an L2 or L3, the chance to improve their Spanish language knowledge and to learn about Spanish culture. We also focus on the cultural asset of having this type of mobility in countries where CLIL or EMILE are being implemented, like in our school, and where our students may use Spanish as a lingua franca for communication while improving their level of other foreign languages such as French, Italian or English (or even learn an L3 such as Portuguese or Finnish). Furthermore, we consider that the long-term mobility concept provides per se a huge opportunity for personal growth and learning for both students and teachers who participate in it while having a tremendous impact on the hosting institutions.Within our project our travelling teachers and students will become natives of the target language of the project 8Spanish in this case, for IES Pérez Galdós participants) and they'll be able to share their knowledge of Spanish language and culture.Students and teachers who will visit us for two months will be French and Italian language natives, and in the case of Portugal and Finland, if not native at least they'll have an excellent level of English, either because they've been trained in CLIL or because they've had a good EFL training. Furthermore, we expect students participating in the mobilities to assume the roles of becoming peer trainers, by giving lectures and workshops to students of other educational levels in their mother tongue or in English (Portugal and Finland) about the situation of specific values in their countries. We have chosen the topics of gender equality, environmental awareness, human rights, coexistence and mediation, health education and responsible consumerism. Finally, the long-term teaching mobilities will be carried out simultaneously to the long-term learning mobilities of students."