"The project ""Using Sport and Languages for a European Mind in a Healthy Body"" enables the sustainable networking of the two partner schools IES Jorge Guillén in Torrox and the Hittorf-Gymnasium in Recklinghausen, which have been working together within the framework of cooperating exchange programs for several years.The project focuses on sport as a central link in young people’s lives. As a subject of public interest, competitive sports with its protagonists being omnipresent in modern societies have a strong influence on the education of values of young people. In addition, situations which require communication in sports and movement-related interactions are essential, creating authentic foreign-language conversations. The project is to be made tangible for students of Year 9 and 10 or 4 ° ESO. The group is accompanied by foreign language and bilingual teachers, who are responsible for the coordination, planning, implementation, consultation and selection of the participants.The cornerstones of the project are five related stays abroad of which four are combined as blocks of two. The first exchange block discusses the respective sports culture with its specific regional characteristics. The focus is put on the communication-promoting effect of sport in cooperative movement situations to enforce the sense of community. Rules and value systems of sports are experienced, reflected and transferred to the democratic structures of the European community of values. The current training of sport assistants at the Hittorf-Gymnasium as an important element of school health education is eventually to be taken over by the IES Jorge Guillén to enable and motivate students to take over responsible and coordinating tasks in school and sports clubs.The concrete health culture of the two participating parties is the focus of the second exchange block and serves to raise awareness of the debate on health-related topics and to develop reflected health awareness. Above all, the main focus is on the observation and analysis of health promoting and health restricting influences in both parties.The learning content is taken up with the final planning, organisation and implementation of a ""Europaturnier"" (European Tournament) during the last exchange and experiences made in the course of the project are being applied. The tournament thus equally serves as the conclusion and evaluation of the sports assistant course.For a well-structured preparation and evaluation of the exchange visits, the eTwinning platform is used as a means of organising and communicating. This way, cooperation processes are optimised in order to promote the continuous development of the project and to facilitate the exchange of materials.The development of a healthy and united Europe is the long-term and leading aim of the project. This idea will be made tangible through the actual experiences made during the project and passed on to the next generation. In addition to the strengthening of the school partnership, the sports aid concept is used primarily to evelop school health education and also promoting the involvement of young people in local sports clubs. They serve as multipliers of the project by passing on the guiding idea."

The main purpose of this partnership is to develop students' transversal skills in order to promote leadership abilities in school.To accomplish our goal, we decided to use different scientific activities as tools for teaching, learning, training. Our target groups include students aged 13-17. We believe that our innovative educational approaches will facilitate the transition from traditional teaching to new and modern teaching (student-centered activities and teacher as facilitator).Our partnership includes schools from Turkey, Italy, Spain, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Romania.Thus, partner organizations share common interests and desire to strengthen cross-curricular connections, use different ICT tools in teaching-learning, promote cross-curricular development, community work, and study trips.This partnership is built on the common value of all partner schools, whose role in the project is crucial.The different profiles of our organizations contributed to the correct division of tasks, bringing an important contribution to our effort to provide a modern education with innovative tools that will reduce the gap between the low curricular opportunities of the school and the juvenile needs of young people for their career development.The concrete objectives of our partnership are:- to develop a more effective communication through the use of foreign languages;- to share innovative teaching methods and our partners' best practices to modernize education;- to stimulate the will for transnational cooperation and the internationalization of education;- to promote social inclusion;- to train a group of young people who will share the knowledge of their abilities through positive actions, to other colleagues;- to clearly outline the strategies, vision and impact of scientific activities as innovative educational approaches;- to encourage ethnic, religious and national relations.With the evolution of technology, the learning process of our days has also changed. That is why the activities that will be carried out in the project and especially in the virtual mobility on the eTwinning platform will use the ICT tools and the CLIL tool. Online social networks will bring a significant contribution to the educational process as target groups will have permanent access to new types of information and knowledge.With their help, the feeling of European citizenship will intensify - teachers and students will learn to work virtually in transnational teams.Here are a few of the planned activities: students' English presentations during experimental activities, cultural performances and competitive activities. In our short-term exchange activities, all participants will take part in training sessions, web workshops, workshops, community activities and cultural events.Participants will have the opportunity to find out more about democratic practices, conflict resolution, communication skills, critical thinking, tolerance and respect for diversity, leadership skills, teamwork and social entrepreneurship.To achieve our goals, we will apply the project method, questioning, experimentation. These innovative methods will enhance the crucial aspects of education for democracy: citizenship, diversity, mediation, human appreciation, digital literacy.For the short-term results, we mention: Encouraging and promoting critical, creative thinking, developing English language skills, improving oral presentations and relaxing for demanding activities.All the partners from this partnership, throughout the duration of the project, will try to transform our international collaboration into a fruitful experience.Long-term benefits include a variety of important issues: implementation of good practices shared by partners in the day-to-day activities, reinforcement of the Europss certificate in school, cooperation with partner organizations, enhancement of positive abilities as a model among pupils, mediation of pupil - teacher - parent interactions through the capacity of the Students' Council. Therefore, all partners hope that this project will become reality and that our efforts will bring a positive contribution to the development of education through the most important factors of our globalized future.