"CONTEXTThe widespread use of qualified inclusive education has become an important goal in many EU countries. They have embraced and adapted their support services to improve their quality of inclusive education. As in many European countries, support services are required. Among these support services in inclusive education, resource room (RR) model is also widely used in schools. However, the teachers who are not in the special education area who provide services in this application need support in giving education at all levels according to the potentials of students with special needs (SEN). It is necessary to go through a number of improvements in the nature of both the teachers, the programs to be implemented. OBJECTIVESThe UDL4U project aims to increase the quality of support education services by planning activities such as organizing workshops to determine needs and problems; organizing the mobility to see the applications in place by partner countries in the project; developing a number of standard development activities that can measure the quality of RR model; developing the general education teacher (GET) training program, named GETInvolved, based on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles; organizing an international congress. We anticipate that the vocational qualifications of teachers who provide RR model will be improved through education and training program through the UDL4U project. All teachers providing supportive education services will learn new methods, techniques and approaches to provide education to European standards for children with different and special needs.They will also have the opportunity to learn innovative teaching methods such as creative drama as well as scientific-based applications used in the field of special education. By learning the UDL principles, students will learn to offer effective learning opportunities at every level. PARTICIPANTSIn UDL4U project there will be 8 Institutions.Coordinator IRIPS from FR, 3 Local authorities for education,Directorate of educations from Rezekne LV,Antalya TR and Rodopi GR.Akdeniz University is higher education authority.Duraliler and Gulveren school from TR and Jankow school from PL are the partners of the UDL4U project. Although the beneficiaries of the project are GETs who are applying the RR model, the main beneficiaries will be SEN students and their families.Teachers-staff who work with SEN students in the RR. Representatives of civil society organizations, public institutions and organizations, representatives of local authorities,decision makers and related associations, local, national and international media and NGO members, local universities participants with fewer opportunities.OUTCOMES-''UDL'' GET involved Cirriculum module (IO1)-''UDL"" GET involved practice Book (IO2)-resource room (RR) model-''UDL'' Webinar-A template for an Individual Support Plan(ISP)-A questionnaire to identify individual strengths and weaknesses for inclusive educationACTIVITIES-TPMsThere will be 4 transnational project meeting to plan,review and evaluate the project activities with the 3 participants from each partner.1.TPM in TR, 2.TPM in PL, 3.TPM in GR ,4.TPM in LV.-LTTsThe content of GET Involved training of Trainers(C1) will be entirely focused on improving the ability of teachers to meet student needs. In addition to face-to-face training In Bastia, this development will be achieved through on-site observations of good practices, e-learning opportunities (e-module, online courses, forum etc.), confererences.3(Three) participants from each partner.-Local TrainingsAfter C1 ToT in Bastia,Trained teachers will transfer these qualifications to other teachers locally so that it is possible to grow the effectiveness by local trainings with 500 local participants in Bastia,Antalya,Rezekne,Rodopi and Jankow.-IOs-IO1""The Get Involved Vet Module"" -IO2 ""Get Involved Practice book"" -MEsThere will be Congress-Conferances with 8 different Multiplier events in Bastia,Antalya,Rezekne,Rodopi and Jankow with the participation of 30 participants for each partners"" target group.Totally 240 participants for MEs.IMPACTUDL4U has local, national and international impacts and a dissemination plan is presented for dissemination of the impactsThe most important effect expected in the project is that the teachers have to gain proficiency through the developed GET Involved program and to offer effective teaching by applying the UDL principles to the SEN students.It will reduce early school leavers by develop new form of SEN education in the school context.LONGER TERM BENEFITSThe UDL4U project will respond to the Europe 2020 priorities in the area of education and training, youth and early school leaving in the context of SEN education.Thanks to the intellectual outputs and activities,It will serve to reach 2020 and further European strategic targets in the field of general education and SEN education."

Through this project, we proposed that students became aware both of the need and of the civic duty to be involved. In this respect, we followed the development of participatory culture of the students, who got the consciousness of belonging to the European community. We started from the idea that the information and the knowledge many young people have about the rights and duties as European citizens were incomplete. It was, therefore, necessary to create a dynamic of learning to live together. We believed it was fundamental to raise awareness about the need for active citizenship, especially in this crisis environment, where other values seemed to be of greater importance. Personal survival interests should be compatible with civic behavior. Reviving the feeling that young people belong to the society they live was an urgent task for us, a task which asked for a modernized approach to the concept of active citizenship.This project was structured for 2 years. Through this project participants from 7 countries (high schools) got the chance of having a better understanding of European identity and they were able to emphasize the given points which were:1. To develop the confidence of our students, their potential for civic engagement and well-being, in order to discourage early school leaving by including a new and innovative subject in the existing curriculum2. To develop a sense of European identity, to promote European citizenship based on common values, obtained by participative culture in order to reflect on the common responsibility for the future of Europe 3. To encourage students and the community to become more open to reality and to the European events 4. To determine students and teachers to make better use of ICT and build an on line learning community to be extended to other educational topics5.To enhance the tolerance and find the way of intercultural understanding in order to eliminate discrimination among the nations and to look for more similarities than differences between us 6. To improve transition between the different systems of education.The Romanian school was the coordinator of the project, but all schools participated in the creation and the design of the project products.The coordinator established the activities and the sub-activities and created the Gantt table. The management team developed a plan for monitoring and evaluation, communication procedures established between partners, and within each team in each country. Also, the persons responsible for the dissemination determined the details of its implementation.During the project, various activities were held. Besides attending classes online, there were meetings of the management team, blended mobility of school learners and short-term exchanges of groups of pupils during which there were established and organized activities. Study visits for students and study meetings for teachers were organised. During short-term joint staff training events, teachers shared best practices and were part of the workshops where they were initiated into the use of different learning platforms.The project had a diary, a product that was in two ways: one in an electronic format, which included all forms from the integrated lessons in curriculum, teaching materials or pictures taken on these occasions, as well as forms from the extracurricular activities conducted within the project (eg., visits, flash-mob); another traveling log , to move from one country to another, containing impressions from partners (students and teachers) about the workshops in which they were involved during the project meetings.One of the final products was the glossary of terms specific for the project. There we can find the definitions of several terms/ structures that have recently appeared in the reality of today's language, for example: effective citizens, participatory culture, and illiteracy.The project products fall into OER category, so they can be very easily accessed. Online courses may become optional courses in the future and, most important, they can be adapted for secondary school children. After the successful outcome of the International Symposium, which was the most important way of dissemination, we plan to make it into a tradition in the organizing country.

The Strategic Framework for Education and Training (ET 2020) for Europe has at its core the important target of reducing the number of young people leaving school early that become Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET). According the EU statistics about young people and NEETs the countries involved in this project are all facing similar problems related to the youth’s disengagement from education, labour market and, in worst cases, from society. In 2011, 14 million young people 18-29 years in Europe were NEET - this problem is still an issue. In all four countries the situation of young people being excluded from education many through social disadvantage is an on-going problem. A radical new approach is required to create longer-term solutions. The project is based on a combined approach of early intervention, parental education coupled with active participation by young people falling into the risk category of becoming NEET to tackle this issue head-on developing a unique, innovative and inspiring project. This 3-year project aims to look at the causes, influences and barriers to education that result in so many young people becoming NEET. The many strands to this project aim strategically to explore what viable alternatives there are nationally and internationally to traditional learning models that contribute to the challenge faced by many young people in both the primary and secondary sector but also to the parenting behind these young people. The project will focus on engagement with schools, pupils, their families and local organisations working at grass roots to support pupils and their families to explore how collaboratively we can support pupils to remain in school/educational setting. We will also work with local businesses to scope how we can support young people in the world of work through better work experience models. To support these aims, objectives, and training activities we will develop seven Intellectual Outputs: • Baseline assessment • Early Identification Tool • Phase 1 of the World of Work Toolkit • Phase 2 of the World of Work Toolkit • Good Practice guidelines • Research & Analysis report • Good practice guidance There will be one multiplier event in Cardiff to promote the aims of the project and widen participation in the using resources and methodology developed. Pupils and staff from Wales and from partner regions will deliver workshops. Delegates will learn of the good practice and will be encouraged to become involved in this project through in order to widen the participation across Europe. There will be FOUR short exchange programmes for pupils – with opportunities for them to share experiences, develop pupil voice and develop as global citizens through inter-cultural dialogue. There will be THREE short-term joint staff training events for staff to share experience and develop approaches to working with pupils at risk of becoming NEETS. There will also be opportunities to work shadow while on the short-term study visits. The participants in this project include: 9 Schools 4 Local Authorities/Regional Authorities 1 social enterprise/non formal education – Non Governmental Organisation We will also involve local organisations who work at grass roots level with young people who are potential NEETS and local businesses, but not listed as partner organisations. As a direct result of this project, we expect to see increased engagement by pupils and their parents in education. The result from which will be raising in standards and a reduction in the number of pupils becoming NEET.

"CONTEXT/BACKGROUNDToday's world map shows us an increasing intermingling of various cultures that have to or want tolive together. More often than not, these colourful maps are often clouded by inherent conflicts and threats of imminent war. It is why we believe that the sooner we act, the better chance we will stand to prevent such conflicts from breaking out. The reason why we chose to make this a priority of our project is the fact that this entire phenomenon is also visible from early stages of life, at ages when children should try to see the beauty of life, should learn acceptance and tolerance and should be free from prejudices.The basic behaviour that students generally resort to at their age to show disrespect and lack of tolerance is bullying, a phenomenon which has increased steadily and affected an increasingly worrying number of students in the past years.OBJECTIVESThe overall purpose of the project is to combat the unsound mentalities existing inside communities which are built on disrespect and intolerance against certain groups of people by raising students awareness of the terrible effects of these behaviours on the development of a human being and by combating hate speech and hate behaviour inside schools.The objectives we have established are meant as steps that need to be undertaken in order to attain the purpose:1. to promote inter-cultural dialogue between different countries and socio-cultural categories2. to reduce violence, school dropout and inequality by promoting values such as tolerance, acceptance of alterity and inter- and intra-cultural respect3. to actively involve students in activities that presuppose working in multicultural teams.4. to discourage the tendency to stereotyping and prejudice based on isolated cases of misbehaviour.5. to enhance the quality of the relationship among students of different cultural backgrounds and develop their social and communication skills6. to encourage the learning of different languages and cultures from the European space.7.to reduce the phenomenon of early drop-outs by eliminating incidents of bullying and increasing the self-confidence of participants8.provide knowledge regarding bullying, its impact, and its prevention, and provide guidelines for symptoms of victims, bystanders and actors and correlation factors9. to promote inter-cultural dialogue between different countries and socio-cultural categories10. to reduce violence, school dropout and inequality by promoting values such as tolerance, acceptance of alterity and inter- and intra-cultural respectNUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS2000 students in the schools with ages ranging from 13-17 will benefit indirectly. Out of these, 5 students for each LTT ,totally 150 participant students will participate in the short-term exchanges. some of them are at risk of social exclusion, facing economic difficulties or have behaviour problems. The selection will happen before each meeting according to a previously estabished methodology. 200 teachers involved directly and indirectly. There will be 1(one) accompanying person for each LTT meeting with the students. İn Total,5 For each LTT, There wıll be 30 mobility for accopmanying persons.The project team in each school will comprise at least 1 school counsellor, 1 English teacher, 1 Arts teacher, 1 Music teacher and 1 PE teacher.DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES & METHODOLOGY TO BE USED- Project management (ongoing): Design and implementation of methodologies to be applied - selection of participants, communication, reporting; Financial management and acquisitions; Risk management and control; Evaluation of activities and results.- LTTAs: ""The role of teachers in combating bullying. Developing a programme to include victims of discrimination and bullying-Forms of bullying - verbal, physical, social or emotional//Sports to Stop Violence -Photographs&films to stop violence""-Arts&crafts to stop violence-Music&dance to stop violent-Photographs&films to stop violence"",Cyber bullying, literature and poem to stop bullying.RESULTS AND IMPACT-booklet which includes outcomes-programme for assistance of bullies and bullied devised and implemented at the end-students, staff, local communities will become aware of the phenomenon and implications of bullying and develop better intercultural relationships-the cases of bullying are reduced-the schools become part of a network and can assist each other in dealing with bullying-values like tolerance and respect are promoted among participants and indirect beneficiaries.LONG-TERM BENEFITS-The project envisions building on the personal and social development of learners, contributing on a long-term basis to the 'establishment’ of ethical, rightful and respectful citizens.-programme will be implemented according to sustainability plan-booklet will be available online for free use by other schools-number of bullying cases is reduced-synergy among different cultures is established"

"Our project title ""Reach for the ************"" alludes to the twelve stars on the revered European Union flag, that we are all united, some more than others in a political sense but in the field of education we are all strong and equal partners who rejoice in collaboration, global citizenship and cultural understanding. The title also suggest that all our learners should be aiming higher, be aspirational and reach for those goals in life, those stars of success and positivity.In our hectic school environment, frantic societies and evolving digital age, we believe that the well-being of our students is deteriorating rapidly. They are constantly facing pressures from exams, social media, families and peer groups. Schools must understand the important role they play in promoting and protecting the well-being of their students which in turn will make for a happy and balanced atmosphere and ethos and a healthy child. Students are more likely to succeed when calm and content and less likely to leave education prematurely. The teaching profession is in crisis too with teachers leaving in droves due to stress and declining job satisfaction. A relaxed and enthusiastic teacher equals a motivated and achieving pupil. Creative learning has also suffered over the past few years due to the overloaded curriculum in our regimented school systems of constant testing and data. We would like our students to explore strategies to enhance their own well-being and that of their peers in our partner schools through various creative ways which will give them the tools to cope in school and in the outside world which will motivate them to aim higher in life. The funding will help towards project materials, well-being training, workshops with creative practitioners and invaluable exchange visits which will change students' lives for the better. We wish to improve pupil well-being through debate, pupil voice and educational visits. This would be implemented through a cross-partner survey, debate in lessons, and a youth forum where representatives from each school discuss youth problems in all 4 countries and possible coping strategies/solutions. These objectives would be linked to innovative practice in a digital area through creating online surveys, a twitter page, a Google or Edmodo classroom and filming and will help students (especially those at a disadvantage) to improve their motivation and to continue their education in an exciting environment instead of leaving school early. Students will learn more complex debating skills and become more confident communicators in their own language and possibly in other languages such as Italian, Turkish and Romanian. We want to promote better self-esteem by exploring positive role models and local and national levels in our respective countries through arts, languages, humanities, sport and science. Enhancing well-being through creative skills is another objective by learning how to make short films focusing on youth issues and career advice for young learners that discuss the importance of physical and mental health and having future career goals in life. In all, the students will be at the heart of improving their own well-being sharing their knowledge, advice and ideas with partner students through debates, surveys, creative activities, face-to-face meetings and dissemination to fellow peers. This will give them the onus of owning their own project. Teachers will be mainly facilitators whose own morale will improve as a result of increased motivation. They will share and explore different pedagogies from every country which will be disseminated, practised and possibly implemented at their own schools and to schools in their wider community. To help achieve the project's objectives, students will not only be guided by teachers but by professional experts from external agencies who will motivate them further. Friendships will be formed between pupils and staff with each other. Students will use technologies to connect with others, to share resources and to enhance their creativity through making films and presentations. Learners will be between 13-15, the age when poor well-being in puberty can result in disastrous consequences for the future. All pupils and staff involved will complete baseline assessments at different stages of the project and an evaluation impact review at the end which will assess if the objectives have been met and how learner and their teachers have progressed and changed for the better. We will then analyse these results in the final evaluation meeting. If the objectives have been met well-being, aspiration and the desire to continue in education should be evident Those stars will be shining brightly in our united hands as happy, confident European citizens."