Our Hendek District is an industrial city. There are 2 organized industrial zones with 532 factories operated by multinational companies. Industrial waste is the biggest problem of local governments. In our meetings with our students and parents, waste-based environmental education is requested as an out-of-school education program. According to the Life Window Survey for students, 83% of our students want to participate in activities to be held as an Environmental Volunteer. According to our school stakeholders, Environmental Education is our most important need.5 schools came together in this project, which will blend the experiences and education organization of the countries that are leaders in an environmental education centered on recycling, with the studies in our country and will gain a recycling-oriented environmental protection awareness starting from our students. Each school will bring the areas they specialize in to other schools and create an environmental education plan. In this sense, we need a multinational study.Our project aims:To develop the skills to select products that will leave less waste and to design innovative materials on the subject. To ensure that 5 of every 10 materials used in education and training life of our students are selected from materials that will be classified as waste, and 5 materials are selected from products that can be recycled, not waste, to gain awareness about recycling. To know the concept of recycling. To recognize the materials that can be recycled at home and in the social environment and to provide them with the ability to classify rubbish accordingly. To ensure that every student classify 100% of their waste at school and at home. To develop drama skills in environmental education. To gain design and design skills in environmental education.Creating school policies on environmental education and recycling. Having knowledge about environmental renewable energy.Our teachers and students have foreign language skills, understand the European culture and education system, and explain their culture to the European society.4 student working groups will be formed in the project. These are: Drama group, Experiment Group, Gezi Group and Workshop Design Group. Those who are successful in the Environmental Knowledge Test and volunteers will be selected among these groups.5 LTT is planned in the project.1.LTT: Agrupamento de Escolas de Pedome school will host. Each project partner country will join LTT with 4 teachers. Teacher Training on the Journey to the Future with Waste will be studied.2.LTT: Istituto Comprensivo di Lerici school will host. Each country will participate in LTT with 5 students and 3 accompanying teachers. In order to make sure that the amount of waste produced is less, I gain the skills to select the products I use and their activities will be studied.3.LTT: Kaunas Dainava Basic School school will host. Each country will participate in LTT with 5 students and 3 accompanying teachers.4.LTT: Osnovna skola Popovac school will host. Each country will participate in LTT with 5 students and 3 accompanying teachers. I will learn Recycling activities will be studied.5.LTT: Ziya Gökalp Secondary School will host. Each project partner country will join LTT with 4 teachers. My Waste is Transformed into Edible Energy. Efficiencies will be studied.Participant selection:Teacher Participant Criteria: Drama group, Experiment Group, Gezi Group and Workshop Design Group, 5 people will be selected to represent each group who participated in the Consultant Teacher Training and received the highest score from the exam at the end of the training period. Student Participant Criteria: 50 points as a result of Environmental Knowledge Test and Interest Skill Determination Inventory. For the Green TV channel to be created for the project, a social media-based practice exam will be held, and the scores from this exam will be 10 points, the project song will be created, and students will be selected for all three LTTs, with the number of works by Drama group, Experiment Group, Travel Group and Workshop Design Group. . Elections will be made in the presence of those concerned and recorded.With the project, the following effects are planned to be observed in the participants.They will be conscious about waste management.Students 'and parents' willingness to engage in environmentally focused education and activities in the school will increase their motivation levels.Knowledge about environmental energies will increaseThey will have the opportunity to get to know the universal organizations in environmental education.They will gain motivation to volunteer about the environment. They will recognize European culture.After the project is over; Project guide booklets, bulletins, reports will be available for 5 years. Environmental Protection based associations, foundations, municipalities and Sakarya University will be our solution partners.

It is a common saying that teachers are brain changers but at the same time there are numerous examples showing how little we know about or use the knowledge of brain functioning in the context of teaching and learning today. Having so much evidence that today's schools and public education in general are not brain-friendly in so many cases, we have decided to start a big discussion in the area of neuroeducation in different parts of Europe. It goes without saying that teaching is a challenging profession today. We are bombarded with new approaches, techniques and tools every day. Yet, the most important tool - student's brain has been ignored for the last decades causing different educational failures. That is why, we should do our best to inspire teachers and make them more interested in the topic of brain-friendly education that combines the knowledge of neuroscience, psychology and education, which can help them optimize both learning and teaching processes and reach the maximum potential of each individual student. It will not only improve teaching quality but will also help students improve their academic performance. Our main objective, therefore, is to provide teachers with the profound theory supplemented with plenty of practical, ready to be used methods and approaches that will make their teaching much more stimulating and enjoyable for students, who will ultimately become an active part of the educational process. With this transformation, we want to develop our students' creativity, autonomy, teamwork skills, confidence and responsibility for lifelong learning, which are crucial for their future personal and professional life. On the other hand, we want to make our teachers more innovative and self-confident in their everyday work and international cooperation. The planned activities will lead to strengthening the profiles of teaching professions and will result in more effective and enjoyable learning inside and outside the classroom, better classroom atmosphere, greater engagement and autonomy of students who will feel responsible for their own process of learning. We also intend to develop a long-lasting international cooperation between our schools and mutual support in continuing professional development of our teachers. Developing interpersonal competences as well as reducing the cultural and language barriers among our students and teachers are also important objectives we want to achieve. We truly believe that transferring the responsibility for learning from teachers to students will make the latter independent, self-reliant and intrinsically motivated to push their educational process forward, without too much dependency on their teachers. It is a long-lasting process challenging not only for students but also for teachers, who will have to alter their teaching habit of being in the centre of the classroom and start thinking outside the box to find new tools to guide and monitor the process of learning standing at the back. Therefore, all the project activities are student-centered and designed in the way that allows creativity and taking the initiative and responsibility for the results.Thanks to this project, our teachers will learn how to implement Flipped Classroom, The Escape Room, Discovery Learning, The Mystery Skype Lesson, The Learning Cafe Method, The Game-Based Learning and Problem / Project-Based Learning. What is more, they will have a chance to observe a number of lessons prepared and conducted in harmony with brain-friendly education principles. On the other hand, students will engage themselves in different educational challenges and four different eTwinning projects which will help them prepare for the foreign mobilities. They will also experience all new methods and approaches being implemented by their teachers. We want to share responsibilities for all the project activities with our students aged 9 - 15 from the very beginning. We intend to organize 99 mobilities for students and 52 for teachers from all partner schools.We are planning to engage in our activities as many students, parents and teachers of various subjects as possible and make the local authorities and whole communities familiar with the ongoing or completed actions. That is why, we intend to use different means of communication such as local press, radio, TV, social media and school websites to reach a wide audience. As a group of five countries from Cyprus, Finland, Italy, Poland and Turkey we have planned six meetings during these two years. The first teacher-oriented mobility taking place in Finland will be devoted to the theory and practice of brain-friendly education and will be a great starting point for the whole project. The next five meetings will be organized in all partner schools where our students will have a chance to meet their new friends and develop their language competence in meaningful and purposeful situations.

The Erasmus plus project ''STEAM + WEB 2.0 tools = CREATIVE MINDS'' brings together Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Turkish primary schools that give preschool education, too. All of them are non profit and public schools. According to a research of EU 2017, STEAM occupations are growing at 17%, while other occupations are growing at 9.8%. STEAM workers play a key role in the sustained growth and stability of the economy, and are a critical component. We aim to provide students successful future career. The result of the need analysis survey is that 60% of the students of the participating schools describe topics including science, math and engineering as complex and difficult to conceive and learn, in contrast they feel self- confident and find easy to engage with ICT and love computer games so we'll use the most innovative and technologial tool -web 2.0 tools- which will take their interest to the lessons and reinforce the students' STEAM skills. We aim to reduce this percentage in the final evaluation survey and ensure 75% of the students will have positive attitude towards science and maths lessons, be suucessful and enjoy the lesons, provide gender equality in STEAM professions where we aim to see more women in jobs related to STEM, ensure disadvantaged children have 21st century skills as much as the advantaged pupils have. We aim to promote children’s STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) skills by organizing discovery-learning lessons via web 2.0 tools, provide pupils to have competences such as deep-thinking, commenting skills, questioning, critical thinking, self and social awareness, foreign language skills, problem solving, guessing, learning through trial and error method, entrepreneurship, focus, productivity, persistence, courage to try new things, processing, determination, digital and cultural literacy, European awareness, self-confidence, communication, collaboration, brainstorming, exploring, creativity. Teachers using Web 2.0 tools wil bring different activities to the classrooms and STEAM education. They'll adjust and shape the classrooms and teaching materials, methods according to students of new generation. The skills the teachers will develop are ICT, digital literacy, foreign language, applying, evaluating, Eurepean awareness, critical thinking, project and team management, coaching, knowledge-sharing, innovative practices in STEAM education. Teachers will explore the new era of technology so that they'll respond to the educational needs of 21st century children. They'll update themselves. As STEAM skills are the fundamental part of basic skills, all participating partners wish to initiate perfect exchange and sharing process. The methodology in the project is that the project is based on 4 themes in game based and interactive learning: First theme is ''Learn computer science via Coding with 3d objects and characters for STEAM''. Second theme is ''Drag, design, create and prepare the ground for gender (woman-man) equality in STEAM professions.'' Third theme is ''Augmented reality for STEAM''. Forth theme is ''Interact, discover and learn with science, marths, art simulations for STEAM''. Regular communication will be done by padlet (team communication web 2.0 tool), email, eTwinning, facebook group, skype, twinspace in etwinning. There'll be four obligatory ''mid term meetings'' (between the learning, teaching activities) via Skype. There'll be project and output introductory seminars (2 times), presentations (5 times), informational and evaluation meetings within project teams in their instutions (3 times), monthly newsletters and reportings, evaluation surveys (3 times). Training, teaching and learning activities will provide added value to the realization of project objectives. The outputs are facebook and etwinning group, twinspace, padlet, stem visits, need analysis, process and success evaluation surveys, STEAM lesson in a week, teachers' talking STEAM via ''slidetalk.net'', presentations in youtube, ''code.org'' creations by students, asking STEAM questions via ''spiral.ac'', project blog, website, poster, logo, timeline, monthly reportings and newsletters, posters, cube and calendar, interactive activities, simulations, the creations to be done in LTT activities. Teachers, students, parents all over local, regional, national schools will reach the links via special network between the schools, newsletters, email, posters, local media and newspaper. European and international teachers, students, parents will obtain the outcomes via eTwinning. Teachers will replace former ways of teaching by innovative concepts strengthening pupils' STEAM skills. The quality of pupils, pedagogues, schools all over Europe and the world will be enhanced as a long term benefit. The project will be working with approximately 600 children and 40 pedagogues from 4 countries. At least 72 mobilities will be realized in the project during 4 learning, teaching, training activities.