CONTEXTWaste is an issue that affects us all. We all produce waste: on average, each of the 500 million people living in the EU throws away around half a tonne of household rubbish every year. This is on top of huge amounts of waste generated from activities such as manufacturing and construction, while water supply and energy production generate another 95 million tonnes. Altogether, the European Union produces up to 3 billion tonnes of waste every year. This partnership will involve 3 main directions: 1. Making an objective analysis of the current policies and situation related to waste management in each country, thus being able to identify common and differentiating aspects, which will enable us to organize the project activities and adapt the methodologies accordingly. 2. Activities with students to promote reduction of garbage, re-use of existing objects and avoidance of overconsumption, and recycling materials to turn them into useful or aesthetic objects. 3. All the way through the project, we will be working on a guide to waste management in schools and households that our schools can implement and share at the end of the project. Therefore, the third aim is to create a school-based system of eco waste management for the creation of which we will collaborate with the municipality and NGOS.OBJECTIVESThe project addresses a general problem that has been focused on at the level of EU, but which has not found all the solutions. While we will not solve all the problems related to waste management or eliminate its effects on the environment, we intend to make a conscious effort to educate young people into becoming more environmentally responsible citizens.The project specific objectives are:1. to promote responsible and active citizenship among students2. to develop the students’ environmental consciousness3. to give students and teachers the chance to analyse current practices in waste management and make positive changes4. to turn the schools into ECO-friendly schools through the implementation of the waste management programme5. to improve intercultural awareness, promote tolerance, mutual respect and understanding6. to develop students’ creativity, critical thinking and team work skillsACTIVITIESIn order to achieve these aims, we plan 5 transnational events, intertwined with local activities on specific topics:C1 – Waste management policies – statistics, regulatory acts, laws (joint-staff training)C2 – REDUCE – Effects on the environment of bad disposal methods C3 – REUSE – Campaign to promote reuse of materialsC4 – RECYCLE and RECREATE – Discover the mine in the wasteC5 – Development and implementation of school-based waste management systems (joint-staff training)PARTICIPANTSWe will have an overall number of 96 students in the partnership who are going to attend all the 3 student exchanges (C2-C4). For the 2 joint-staff training events, we will select from each school 2 people with the relevant experience for the topics, besides the coordinator who will attend both meetings. Overall, we will have a number of 24 teacher mobilities in C1 and C5.RESULTSOur project is meant to produce a series of intangible results, which consist of beneficiaries’ acquired knowledge, skills, attitudes and environmental awareness; we will promote a culture of care for the environment that all partners will embrace and abide by. Some of the tangible results include: initial and final evaluation forms completed by target groups, research and presentations about local and national policies regarding waste management, an e-magazine of environmental projects of the schools, students’ eco-diaries, surveys of local community members, art installations, e-brochure with DIY arts and crafts from recycled materials, Stop Waste Campaigns, Waste Management (WM) Programme for schoolsIMPACTFor all partner institutions, this Erasmus+ project is going to bring benefits at all levels. For project partners with previous Erasmus+ experience, this project will continue to foster the European and international dimension of the schools. By using eTwinning intensively in the project, we will also be able to identify new opportunities for collaborations on the same topics and will also extend our network of European schools.Inexperienced partners will increase their project management capacity, thus improving their exchange management and organizational skills.We all increase the student and teacher mobility and make improvements at the level of the institutionsOur institutions become more environmentally friendly, focusing on ways to improve waste management. If this is done properly, then the project will produce changes in students’ attitudes to the environment in the medium and long term. This will be carried on into their personal lives and we expect to produce changes in the community too. In this way schools will confirm their key role in the education of future generations of adults.

"Education have the key role for the future success of todays pupils. The Europe 2020 Strategy calls for efforts to reduce number of school drop outs. According to Eurostat (2011), pupils with disabilities in the European Union were nearly three times as likely to leave education early. In Education 2030 Framework, Goal 4 aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”. The Inclusive education is already part of educational policy in EU. The idea of its philosophy is to orient the education to the individual needs of the student, and not vice versa - the student to adjust to school. Inclusive education allows students of all backgrounds, general and with special needs, to learn and grow side by side, in the same classroom, to the benefit of all. But are we, today's General Education Teachers, prepared to face Inclusion in the classroom? Last months, with the outbreak of Coronavirus being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, people worldwide are facing a major challenge. The schools in EU are closed. The education sector is responding to quarantine with a sudden shift to online learning. But are we, both teachers and students, ready for that shift? Just as students are new to distance learning, most teachers are also novices in being distance coaches. The project aims the increasing of quality and the efficiency of teaching and learning by giving equal opportunities to all type of students, in mixed classes, implementing Inclusive education, eLearning and ICT.Participants: students 13-18 year old and teachers different subjects from 5 secondary schools in Bulgaria, Estonia, Portugal, Italy and Serbia. One of the project's added value is reaching pupils from special needs/disadvantaged groups in our schools and in other schools in our countries. The project objectives are:1)To give teachers the opportunities to collaborate and share methods to create guidelines and materials for Inclusive Education Framework, to apply it into daily teaching;2) To give teachers opportunity to collaborate to create guidelines and materials for eLearning at school;3) To train 5 teams of students to understand how e-platform and e-tools can differentiate learning process. To can identify and share similarities & differences in the practices of our countries in Inclusive education;4) To develop digital skills for both students and teachers, to create digital related content by using ICT. The project results are Quantitative: baseline survey in the 5 schools; publicTwinSpace; comic strip""We learn best when we learn together"" (students share real stories); teachers guide ""How to Transform General Education Materials into Inclusive Education Materials?""; toolkit ""e-Pedagogy for Distance Learning and for the Classroom""; A set of 5 video tutorials ""Three steps to build a truly inclusive classroom""; 5 local workshops; 4 online trainings; online discussion ""Three steps to build a truly inclusive classroom"" Qualitative: developed digital skills; better understanding the benefits of Inclusive education for students with and without disability/special needs; improved schools policies for inclusive education or unexpected vacation issue; developed teaching skills for Inclusive Classroom and Distance Learning. The methodology to be used in carrying out the project is in relation with real life issues and Intercultural education and includes blended activities for teachers and students like: researches; surveys and workshops; Forum theater; online and onsite trainings; eTwinning collaboration; teaching material creation; e-pedagogy; eAssessment tools creating; interactive methods and such from non-formal education, pear learning etc. We are planning 1 short-term joint staff training event for teachers and 3 short-term exchange of group of pupils for students. All LTTAs are designed as blended mobility, combined online mobility on TwinSpace (online traing or discussion) and Face2Face mobility at one of the partner schools.Tsar Simeon Veliki school created evaluation plan to evaluate the quality of project's activities and expected results. For monitoring and evaluation we will use Quantitative and Qualitative indicators. The project will have long-term benefits at any level: students, teachers, institution and other stakeholders. Some of the benefits are: Teachers will familiarise with new teaching methods for Inclusive classroom. Successful inclusive education happens primarily through accepting, understanding, and attending to student differences and diversity. They will know how to implement distance learning for period of time and what are the benefits of using eLearning tools to suport teaching and learning in the classroom.The goal and the objectives of our project are crucial for all schools nowadays. That is why we think that many schools could benefit from ourresearches and project outputs."

The Project includes 5 schools from Italy, Spain, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey. The main motivation of the present project is to help pupils incorporate healthy habits and widen their vision about healthy lifestyles in the European community. Having a healthy lifestyle is connected with eating healthy, doing physical exercises, being in harmony with the nature, learning to deal with our emotions, promoting wellbeing, building healthy relationships and social support. Through the present project we approach and analyze the topic from all perspectives which were mentioned above.The partner schools have large numbers of pupils who refuse to take part in the PE classes and the amount of overweight pupils is increasing every year. Participants will develop healthy eating habits and learn how physical exercise influences our mental and psychological well-being. The project’s main aim is to develop awareness about different EU healthy lifestyles among 125 students from 5 schools during 24 months of project. In order to reach the main aim we set the following objectives:to widen participants’ knowledge and skills connected with having healthy and balanced diet -to encourage participants to lead a healthy lifestyle -to offer participants possibilities for learning in a multicultural environment -to enhance the international exchange of good practices The direct beneficiaries of our project will be 175 participants (125 students, 50 teachers). At the partnership level, we will involve 250 students (12-14 years old), 80 teachers, and approximately 200 local participants (parents, school staff, representatives of the local communities, stakeholders, guests, etc.). The common working language is English.The planned activities will give participants the opportunity to explore together the nature surrounding them, the influence of their actions on the environment and how nature affects their mental and physical health. Sport will be used as a way to communicate health information to pupils, but also to help in human relationships and team building. By organising friendly competitions, goal setting and team climate will be supported. The project clubs, international meetings face to face and the eTwinning project will provide pupils with the opportunity to develop friendship with one another. International friendship will be the source of inspiration, role models, opportunities for growth and personal development. Activities related to the topic developed during the international meetings will be introduced by each partner in their school as activities organized at the project clubs and also integrated with teaching. The activities will be in reation to the local context of each school. Pupils will be engaged in interactive activities that will enhance their ability to summarize the information, creativity, practical knowledge, critical thinking and IT competences, and healthy habits. The activities will encourage them to be more active by joining sport competitions, friendly team sports, eco-sports. Pupils’ connection with the environment will be promoted also by activities that will be organized outdoors. The activities’ aim is to show pupils that education is also possible outside school. There are study visits,trips, as well as meetings with guest speakers from different organizations that encourage having a healthy lifestyle. The project activities use the learning by doing process which will develop team work, cooperation and social cohesion. As a result of this project ,all participants and schools will broaden their idea of having a healthy lifestyle in different European countries and improve the quality of Learning. This experience will contribute in the longterm because it supports understanding the importance and impact that the lifestyle has on people, what should to be done in order to be healthy and active. The activities increase self-awareness and the idea that every person is responsible for a healthy lifestyle.The activities will help them to be active by joining sport competitions, eco-sports. Pupils’ connection with the environment will be promoted by activities that will be organized outdoors. The activities’ aim is to show pupils that education is also possible outside school. There are planned study visits as well as meetings with guest speakers from different organizations that encourage having a healthy lifestyle. The activities use the learning by doing process which will develop team work, cooperation, sense of belonging and social cohesion. As a result of this project all participants and schools will realize of having a healthy lifestyle in Europe and improve the quality of the educational process. This experience will contribute in the long-term because it supports understanding the importance that lifestyle has on people and how to be healthy and active. The activities will increase self-awareness and the idea that each person is responsible for a healthy lifestyle

Our project «Realizing Excluded Students By Smart Strategies» motivated by the need to advance social inclusion went well with 5 schools: Italy, Poland, Romania, Turkey, and we France, the coordinating country.For us, it was about achieving inclusion goals through the practice of new methods and educational, co-operative and inclusive strategies, in schools and during leisure activities.This project focused on students with special needs from each partner school, based on common issues that have a major impact on academic success, disability in social inclusion; disability in basic skills; lack of parental support; poor socio-economic conditions.The needs analysis was carried out in these schools, taking into account the teachers' point of view and applying a basic study that assesses these four barriers. It was for us to promote the inclusion of students from the ULIS (Local Unit for School Inclusion), and secondary school students who have gaps in basic skills, risk of dropping out, who have special needs, helping them integrate into mainstream education and society; applying new strategies to overcome social exclusion, basic skills deficiencies and drop-out; use new methods in the field of social and emotional development as part of the special needs program helping them integrate into mainstream education and society; applying new strategies to overcome social exclusion, basic skills deficiencies and drop-out; use new methods in the field of social and emotional development as part of the special needs program. The ultimate goal is to provide teachers with different teaching methods and share innovative practices.We defined 5 new methods to use in our project. We were able to experience only 4. Cooperative learning in Turkey in February 2019, Peer Tutoring in Italy in May 2019, Team Teaching in October 2019 in Poland, and Personalization in France in February 2020. Given the pandemic, we were not able to travel to Romania to experiment with project learning. However, each in isolation was able to work on it and we briefly discussed it during our video meeting in June 2021.Each partner applied one of these methods in their school environment, observed and evaluated the results. During the meetings, these results were observed, discussed by all partners and communicated to all.At the end of our project: 4 strategies were applied and evaluated. Based on observations and indicators of success, partners continued to use these strategies and methods in their schools.We were able to develop these new strategies for these schools in order to increase their capacity to prevent school dropout through an international collaborative partnership based on different innovative practices in each school. The project has been able to find methods to encourage the inclusion of disadvantaged students in school projects too often reserved for good college students, their inclusion in community activities and we hope in the labour market.We have used new links between formal and informal learning to offer our students solutions to problems of departure and real opportunities for their behavior.Therefore, despite the strikes and the pandemic that disrupted our project, every effort has been made to ensure that the expected results are effective.Through our project, we planned to create both short-term and long-term results, tangible and intangible. This is to have the greatest possible impact on future projects and decision-making processes:Encourage students to overcome the lack of self-esteem, the establishment of the website that will allow for continuous access to general information about project activities, progress and results, writing reports in journals, on-site signage or brochures to inform others about the project history and key results. It also has an impact on the arrangement of an event multiplier, communication, cognitive skills of at-risk students, and the effective culture of a partnership between educators, coaches, and community organizations. Only a few countries were able to implement everything.