"This project has been chosen as we are aware of the influence between languages and cultures which are strongly connected with our students learning process and the effectiveness and quality of their labor and their future. Our students need to understand how languages diversify over time and can be influenced by others by loanwords and reborrowing words.Starting with neighboring countries we will try to include as many countries and languages as we can.The participants of the project are three public schools from neighboring countries, different but with common characteristics and good reputation. All three plan to develop the social skills and knowledge of their students and provide them with opportunities to evolve themselves to become productive European citizens. The Orthodox patriarchate in Istanbul, university professors, local authorities and community centers contribute to this ultimate aim.In order to increase our students motivation, to improve their ways to socialize and involve them to the use of ICT, they will participate in presentations, competitions, drama performances and collaborative creative writing accomplishments. We would like to strengthen their sense of initiative by teaching them to transform ideas into actions, thus developing skills and abilities necessary for the world of labor, i.e. through their work for the e-journal. This is the reason we are keen to develop learning materials and tools which will support study at home as well as promote distance learning, i.e. web-quests, multilingual lexicon providing them with tools for lifelong learning.For the dissemination of the project outcomes and all the learning materials produced on the topic of the project we will set up notice boards, construct a website, organize multilingual exhibitions, produce audiovisual materials, prepare presentations and print stamps on t-shirts and posters.Teachers will improve their professional skills in the area of education and project management as well as in evaluating methods, as they will be enabled to work collaboratively, developing and evaluating methodologies and educational material, producing questionnaires, writing reports and attending webinars. Students will learn about the historical and geographical background of the participating countries and feel independent and confident if they decide to study or work in another European country and their families will realize the importance of collaborating in learning process and overcoming the difficulties, developing a better understanding for the importance of a united Europe in times of globalization.The ""learning by doing"" method will be used, and evaluation will take place throughout the life of the project.The website of the program will be active even after the end of the project and will be continuously enriched, good practices will be incorporated in our lessons for future students and new projects could start by adding other partners too, who will bring new experiences. Furthermore the culture of our students will be affected orienting them in international collaboration schemes.We firmly believe that this will be a lifetime opportunity for those who may never have a chance to meet with people abroad, collaborate using a foreign language or even to visit another European country."

ContextThere are two main points we are about to unite. First of all is to unite people from different cultures, different backgrounds and with different interests and languages, so that they understand each other more, accept the differences and learn from them. Second of all is to unite the Ss with their Ts to gain more understanding for teacher's work and more respect. We want Ss to understand the mechanics of teaching and show them advantades and problems of teaching, engaging them into preparing lesson plans and running lessons. So the project is just to bring people together and make them learn from each other. This way, we want to unite good Ss with those facing challenges, teachers with parents – this will help all of them understand more each other, respect the differences and feel more valuable. We hope to achieve the following objectives:O1. improve cultural awareness and acceptance of social, ethnic and cultural diversityO2. improve communication and collaboration among actors in the schoolO3. improve transferrable skills – data selection and manipulation, ICT, critical thinkingO4. improve language competenceO5. increase students’ self-confidence and creativityO6. increase the respect for the teaching professionO7. enable the exchange of experience and good practices among teachersParticipantsThe project was thought to be addressed to all the students aged 12-15 – generally over 500 students altogether. There will be about 80 students facing different kinds of challenges. Direct participants will be 60 students and 40 teachers.ActivitiesThe most important role in the project is played by the students exchanges, where the Ss will have posibility to swap the roles with Ts and become teachers themselves to teach the other students about their geography, history, music, legends, hobbies or the school system and they will have an opportunity to discuss the differences and similarities – all of those will be included in the reports.There is also scheduled a short-term meeting of staff at the end of the project, to share the practices that will help working with multicultural classes or with groups with socially challenged students. The result will be a Guide called 'Good Practises Our Way', including activities and solutions to the issues bothering schools in Europe.C1 - Poland - NOV 2018 – History and Music in our countriesC2 - Greece - APRIL 2019 – Introducing Legends and presenting HobbiesC3 - Portugal - OCT 2019 – Geography of our countries and games we playC4 - Romania - MAR 2020 – People we are proud of and Our HabitsC5 – Turkey – MAY 2020 – joint staff training eventOutcomes:1. Teachers- connections among the teachers, exchange the ideas and experience, further coopearation;- enrichment of teachers' atelier;- tightened relationship with the students, easier understanding of Ss' problems;- improved language skills;- improved organisation skills;2. Students:- increased motivation to work;- understanding the specifics of teachers' work;- become more cooperative and creative;- increased self-confidence and self-esteem;- improved language skills;- raised awareness of European cultural heritage;- better relationship with their teachers;- improved tolerance and acceptance for other people and cultures;- improved critical thinking;3. School- wider educational offer- greater recognition in the community- better contact with parents due to created ways of communication4. Local community- a possibility to cooperate and have influence on the things going on at school- cooperation between schools and local companies or fundationsOutputs: - Legends, songs, lesson plans, presentations gathered into a collection of works.- Digital diaries made by students at the end of each mobility- A Guide 'Good Practicses Our Way', which is a collection of good ideas, lesson plans and activities to use in the classroom (especially those with challenged students)- Documents: certificates, reports etcImpactThe project has the biggest impact on relations among the Ts, Ts and parents. That will have result in better understanding and dialogue, the parents will be more involved in the school life and education of their children. Thus, there will be better atmosphere and respect for all sides of school community.The project will also have great impact on the Ss themselves, it will raise their motivation to work and make them more confident while using their language skills. They will become more tolerant for other cultures and people with different kinds of problems. They develop a bigger interest for school work and school activities. They will understand the specifics of teaching more and at the same time, know how to learn in the future. The Ss will tighten their partnership with Ts to create better atmosphere during lessons. They will accept the differences between the cultures and they will learn to benefit from them. The Ss will improve their school performance