"Cultural heritage and national identity is important because it helps people connect with others who have similar backgrounds and provide a sense of unity and belonging. It provides people with a link to traditions that might otherwise be lost. The sensitivity, responsibility and awareness of members of a society towards this values are so significant for handing them down to future generations. Traditional and cultural values and identity are sometimes ignored by today's generation and the young face cultural degeneration. The aim of the project is to help young people be more aware of the cultural prosperity and their own identity and characteristics, transferring them to the following generations, since those who have no awareness or value of their own heritage can hardly have bright future. The project will be focused on cultural values like historical buildings; such as traditional historical houses, markets or other traditional buildings and on what shows the identity of a society, of a nationality . It will look at the lifestyles and traditional ceremonies. We want by learning about the others to get know ourselves better. In conclusion, national, cultural and cross-cultural awareness will be aroused among the young and they will have the opportunity of having a better understanding of each other's culture and identity and will find out who they have been and thus they will discover the traces of EU identity.The project objectives:• encourage cultural diversity, intercultural and religious dialogue between participants.• Strengthen skills and attitudes that will help participants to grow as personalities;• Develop young peoples’ emotional intelligence and effective communicative, collaborative and creative skills;• Discover different cultural identities and to what extent these different identities live together in Europe or in their own countries;• Introduce a sense of European dimension of education, introducing the idea of an international collaborative work and the amelioration of a European dimension on linguistic and cultural contents in the curriculum;• Increase the motivation of direct and indirect beneficiaries of lifelong learning to develop ICT skills as a way to communicate and to use them as a purposeful everyday tool, to learn a new language and as a means of communication and mastering English for project work;• Encourage the cooperation within the partner organisations from Europe and the exchange of good practices.Our project objectives link to the horizontal aims of strategic partnerships objectives is to raise awareness of the importance of Europe's cultural heritage through informal and non-formal learning social inclusion and youth engagement. We aim to encourage cultural diversity and religious dialogue through photography, respecting freedom, tolerance and human rights.We aim to reinforce the development of key competences for life long learning .We promote creativity and innovative learning approaches and invironments, cooperstion with stakeholders in local communities and abroad. The idea of this project was initiated by a previously implemented YE in Guadeloupe - France titled ""Identity picture"", where the Bulgarian partner took place.It is important this project be carried out at the international level, as we think it will be very interesting to define similarities and differences throughout European countries in our way of livings, stories, culture, food. Working together in international teams will create an atmosphere of trust, help to avoid prejudices and strengthen bonds between organisations from 3 European countries. Our plan is to implement totally 3 TPMs and 3 LТТs in the 3 partner countries where main activity will be to prepare and organize an exhibition showing the culture and identity of the countries seen by the eyes of the participants. The pictures from exhibitions will be organised in a Photo book containing photos and short descrtiptions for each photo translated and published in English and the 3 languages of partners - Bulgarian, Macedonian and Turkish. The partner countries have many differences and similarities in their cultures, traditions and educational systems, religion. Participant will be from 3 Program countries - Bulgaria, Turkey, Republic of North Macedonia. - one member state of EU and 2 non EU Programme countries. All info about project will be uploaded on a project website. At the end of project period an e-version of the Photo book will be created and distributed on partners websites, and the website of project. Social partners will be included to cooperate about dissemination of project results during the project and after th eproject period. We believe that the product we will ce reate will be a good educational tool for culture education in futurе."

<< Objectives >>''The Music Balkan Train for Peace'' project aims to raise awareness and emphasize the importance of peace and grow the sense of prosperity on school kids, on their teachers, and in general, in school environments. In addition, the project through its results, seeks to deal with radicalization and racism phenomenaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<< Implementation >>This project aims to achieve its goals through the methods of exchanging good practices, transnational events in the participating project countries, training courses, short term joint events, the development of a useful toolkit for the needs of the project, and the combined creation of a song from each school along with a dance show.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<< Results >>The Music Balkan Train for Peace project is expected to have a significant and radical impact on the project participants, NGOs staff members, target groups such as teachers, school staff, students, as well as local, regional and national stakeholders, and the project countries. More specifically the Music Balkan Train for Peace project through school students’ training and education, will promote peace methods to young generations and strengthen their consciousness of becoming peace ambassadors

"There is a growing interest nowadays of using immersive technologies to promote Cultural Heritage, to engage and educate visitors, tourists and citizens. Digital heritage (DH) is the use of digital media in the service of preserving cultural or natural heritage. The main aim of digitization of cultural heritage is to enable the permanent access to specific cultural achievements (from three targeted regions in Croatia, Bulgaria and North Macedonia) starting from historical objects, paintings and/or traditional craftsmanship, up to local/regional traditional folklore music and/or dances to any interested person, regardless of his/her location on the world map.Project main objectives are: Development of innovative educational approach with introducing of Digital Heritage in education process by using of 360-degrees videos; Establishing of a teachers network for transnational cooperation by using of eTwinning networking module; and promotion of advantages of long-term transnational strategic partnership among different type of organization in development of innovative educational methodologies.Project specific objectives are:- increased teachers' skills and competences in using of innovative ""state of the art"" VR technology /360-degrees videos/ in the educational process, with educational approach that will lead to reinforced creativity in education.- creating of Digital Heritage 360-degrees videos enhanced by animated 3D elements for promotion of cultural heritage in targeted regions in Croatia, Bulgaria and North Macedonia (min 9 - 3 per each country)- increasing of students interest and overall acknowledgement about importance of Cultural Heritage preservation- enhancing students skills development and reinforcing of their creative potential;- improving of students presentation skills (for the best students from three schools)- establishing of transnational teacher's network by using of eTwinning networking module.- creation of a strategic Action plan with developed realistic actions/projects for the future transnational cooperation in the field of education;- to present in front of the relevant stakeholders on local regional and national level an advantages of new developed ""learning by doing"" Digital Heritage-based educational method e.g. use of the high level ICT technology in Cultural Heritage preservation.The partnership necessary for the successful realization of the project activities is consisted from 6 partners from three European countries (One NGO and one primary school from Croatia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria).Project Partners have determined as the best approach a combination of following activities: 3 transnational project meetings, 3 short-term joint staff training events, 1 short term mobility of groups of pupils, development of 3 Intellectual outputs and 3 multiplier events /one in each of three countries/. Main target groups, as well as direct beneficiaries, are students on the age of 12 to 14th years old as well as a school teachers that are teaching school subjects related with the History, the Art and Music education from three schools from targeted regions. As indirect beneficiaries can be determined educational institutions that will get a more attractive educational process with highly competent teachers ready to implement new educational approaches, and an overall society that will get an important preserved data about the cultural heritage from the targeted regions.School Teachers that are teaching the History, the Art and Music education will got increased competences and skills for practical implementation of new education approaches by using of VR, will become familiar with using of the eTwinning module for networking with their colleagues from other European countries to share the best practices. In addition they will got increased skills for practical implementation of ""activity-based"" education methods, which will lead to significant and effective improvement of the formal and non-formal schools' education programs, for present and future generations of students in their schools.Long-term impact for the three targeted regions can be seen by improved quality of their school education process for which they are very much interested in. Project activities will lead to increasing of the attractiveness of education process in primary schools, will improve their services, quality of teaching of future generations of students in their schools, will establish cooperation with other schools from other countries.Project partners expect that with dissemination of project results through ERASMUS+ program network, by presenting of project achievements as good practices through eTwinning platform and You Tube, positive impact will also be made on the EU and larger international level, especially in maximizing the impact of Erasmus+ program in the field of cultural heritage education and encouraging greater awareness of Europe’s rich cultural heritage in schools"

<< Background >>Food waste is a recognized problem that has gained political, economic, and social importance in recent years. Numerous high level political statements formulated in the last decade express the need to combat food waste. It is generated all along the food supply chain at the stages of production, processing, retailing and consumption. Food waste can be defined in many ways and there is no unique methodology for measuring it. Nevertheless, it is generally recognized that, at global level, around one third of the food produced for human consumption is wasted or lost. Food loss is defined as the decrease in quantity or quality of food. Food waste is part of food loss and refers to discarding or alternative (non-food) use of food that is safe and nutritious for human consumption along the entire food supply chain, from primary production to end household consumer level. FAO defines food waste as food which was originally produced for human consumption but was not consumed by humans, instead it was directed into a non-food use (for humans), feed for animals or waste disposal (FAO, 2014). Most of the systemic challenges of eliminating food waste stem from certain mindsets and approaches that in turn come from the loss of our value for food. For many people, it is so accessible that we hardly think about it. Would it not be better to start changing mindsets with our youngest and their schools? Schools are uniquely positioned to help change the culture around food waste management and they can be the drivers for a more thrifty, efficient, and resourceful use of food. Today’s students are tomorrow’s food decision makers. Consequently, students as the generation of the future are the most important people to reach when addressing change in behavior that affects our resources like solid, water, nutrients wasted along with food. It is considered as vital to take pilot actions in high schools. S4W project focuses on piloting actions upon food waste prevention, management and reduction, and aims at fostering students’ ability to think critically and to adopt a proactive attitude by:-raising students’ awareness of the problem of food waste-increasing their knowledge about reasons for and impacts of food wastage. -pointing them towards specific options for actions that are within their sphere of influence by teaching them new skills related to evaluation of food quality and understanding proper food storage, food preservation options, and so on.S4W project aims to promote awareness regarding the economic, social, and environmental consequences of food waste, highlighting actions and habits that people can take to reduce their own food waste. The project is going to develop a curriculum and piloting actions which will enable teachers to select those activities that best match the needs, abilities and interests of their students while also conforming to time and resource constraints. Educate and engage the school community, communicate and celebrate food waste management good practices are more important than ever. The pedagogical advantages of initiatives focusing on recycling and composting are multitude. In particular, students can learn by practicing, interacting and expressing their creativity, being aware that the topic of waste is also relevant to their life and the environment outside their schools. What students learn at school has an enormous potential to be immediately applied. S4W project will be based on composting method as it is an easy-to-perform, natural process that transforms organic waste into compost, a valuable and nutrient-rich natural fertilizer to be applied on a school’s garden, and also on 9 circular economy ‘R’ strategies or principles, referred to the 9 R’s, as it has been proposed by EU. Finally, the project anticipates encouraging students to implement mini projects led by them in cooperation with their teachers to find ways to prevent and reduce food waste in their classrooms.<< Objectives >>Undoubtedly, food waste is an environmental and social issue that we cannot ignore. Reducing food waste is considered one of the most promising measures to improve food security in the coming decades. Indeed, up to one third of the food produced for human consumption globally is estimated to be wasted or lost, not reaching its original purpose. In developed countries, waste occurs mostly at the distribution and consumption stages of the supply chain, and this is very closely related to shortcomings such as buying or cooking excess food, deficient storage conditions, or undervaluing food. Indubitably, schools have a relevant role to play in educating future consumers. Schools provide a key avenue to both educate, and encourage students to engage in food waste management, as well as helping to improve habits on nutrition, through education on nutritional values and increasing awareness on food relevance. Therefore, tackling this problem through different approaches in the school environment is a marvelous opportunity for the educational community to become aware of food waste and to, thus, promote training initiatives that contribute to minimize food waste by encouraging changes in eating habits towards more sustainable models that can reach many people. More precisely, the question arises here is what knowledge students have in the EU over food waste issues? In alignment to this perspective, S4W project focuses on the following objectives to: -train students on issues upon food waste management-raise awareness to students to reduce food waste through pilot actions-emphasize the important role that schools play as an educational agent sensitizing the future generations on food waste management.-demonstrate the potential for reduction of waste through source separation, reuse, and recycling of organic waste.-empower teachers and school directors by providing technical knowledge and up-to-date information on waste management and particularly on organic waste management: characteristics, treatment techniques, -challenges, and benefits-present case studies and examples from o the discipline that have been successful in managing the organic fraction of their waste and could adapt on school environments-encourage schools that do not yet take actions to start activities regarding managing waste particularly the organic fraction-spread waste management education wide across schools in European Union by providing useful practices and methods<< Implementation >>S4W project is based on 2 main project results, each of them planned in accordance with the required resources and in view of achieving a manageable distribution of workload among the partners. Each of the results has been detailed in concrete and reasonable activities and outputs in order to allow continuous monitoring of activities. Management will ensure efficient and effective administration. The main activities of the project are:PR1 – Training Course Development and relevant training material, Piloting test activities on food waste management and practice and S4W Toolkit development for teachers and NGOsPR2 – Policy Recommendation Development, Validation and FinalizationTraining Material DevelopmentProject partners will design and develop a training course for teachers from secondary schools to offer insights on food waste management and enhance the understanding of its significance. It is a marvelous opportunity for the educational community to become aware of food waste and to, thus, promote training initiatives that contribute to minimize food waste by encouraging recycling practices, composting methods, and changes in eating habits towards more sustainable models that can reach many people such as adolescents, teenagers, students, volunteers, staff members from involved partner organizations, teachers and further teaching and school staff. The training material will provide all the necessary specific food-related resources, the tools, and the waste management-related information, raising awareness over environmental issues, contributing to both knowledge and skills development and competences. Once the training course is completed, qualified NGOs will train the teachers from secondary schools on the training material. Afterwards, teachers will be responsible to work with their students in order to transmit good practices and the proper knowledge related to food waste management, and thus students will be prepared to work on and implement their own project idea regarding the food waste solutions.<< Results >>Results: What project results and other outcomes do you expect your project to have? (4.000 characters)More specifically, the Save4Waste project will encourage a culture over food waste management and reduction, through high schools students’ training and education, promoting discipline over food waste to young generations and strengthening their consciousness. In particular, based on the activities of the project, we expect to contribute to strengthen capacity among EU countries and stakeholders in implementing contemporary, easy to apply approaches in food waste management and composting which is an organic material that can be added to soil to help plants grow. Furthermore, the project expects to introduce the school community to zero waste practices and teach the next generation about the value of food and natural resources. The Save4Waste project is also expected to make food waste a visible problematic issue, raising awareness about it, educating about it and its consequences. Therefore, S4W project, having been in alignment with the EU priorities, pursues to:1) Promote training initiatives and practices that contribute to minimize food waste2) Engage in and implement composting practices within educational environments such as schools, highlighting its benefits in terms of food security, sustainability and prevention of climate change3) Encourage innovative business models from students together with their teachers, encouraging to develop innovative ideas and provide solutions to combat food waste Reflect on students’ personal contribution to the food waste problem and explore the potential of the waste hierarchy and the circular economy to suggest solutions4) Investigate, through the training material, how changes in the way we shop, cook, consume, and store food can help reduce food waste, and provide a better understanding in which foods are being wasted most a0 and why5) Collaborate to produce actionable changes that can make an impact on school community6) Examine, analyze and compare food waste practices from various fields and discover the innovations and methods that are helping to reduce waste7) Increasing students’ knowledge about reasons for and impacts of food wastage as well as food waste prevention measures pointing them towards specific options for actions that are within their sphere of influence by teaching them new skills related to evaluation of food quality and understanding of food durability labels, proper food storage, food preservation options, or purchase planning.8) Engage with the policies of national governments and the EU and help improve the sustainability of the food system in EU countries

"Utilization of Renewable Energy Resources (RES) and Energy Efficiency (EE) together with Environment protection (EP) are topics which are presently a world wide trend. Unfortunately those topics are not popular because of their attractiveness to the students but due to real necessity of their implementation to prevent negative influence of industrial development and more and more obvious climate changing.Many EU projects were dedicated to above mentioned topics and the most common conclusion is - There is HUGE necessity of arising of awareness for utilization of cleaner energy and to safe energy as much as possible with the most suitable target group - children from primary schools. Also that can be noticed from many previous attempts to approach with importance of RES, EE and EP closer to mentioned target group is that there was only randomly applied projects without strategical approach which will be focused on the learning about RES, EE and EP since the youngest age. Municipality of Kochani and Municipality of Pazardzik decided to make one innovative approach for their youngest inhabitants - students in Primary schools by developing a Strategic partnership through preparation of ""Strategy for development of education cooperation between schools from Kochani and Pazardzik"". Also proposed project is forecasting training of teachers from 2 (two) Pilot Primary schools from Program Countries (Macedonia and Bulgaria) in development of innovative teaching methods for implementing of renewable resources, energy efficiency and environmental protection, on adequate way in accordance with students age. Teacher’s training will be supported by experts from Macedonia and Bulgarian NGO’s from Kochani and Pazardzik who have a large experience in utilization of RES, EE and EP as well as great practical experience in implementation of Open Education Resources (OER) in educational purposes.Main project objective is to create strategic partnership for school education between Kocani and Pazardzhik through preparation of Strategy for development of education and training teachers from 2 (two) primary schools from Program Countries ( Macedonia and Bulgaria) in development of innovative teaching methods for renewable resources, energy efficiency and environmental protection.The other specific objectives of the project will be: Provide teachers with practical ideas for how they can incorporate RES and EE resources into their existing lessons; Familiarize teachers with current Web 2.0 and Internet trends; Giving a space for exchange of experiences and good practices among teachers coming from different countries who work in the same field; Improving teamwork skills through the use of ICT and RES and EE resources; Sharing of best practice in teaching and learning. Main target groups are teachers from primary schools in Kocani and Pazardzhik that are teaching students on the age from 7 to 10 years old and teachers from primary schools in Kocani and Pazardzhik that are teaching biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics for students on the age of 11th to 14th years, that will be trained for innovative teaching methods for renewable resources, energy efficiency and environmental protection. Final beneficiaries of the project will be 900 students from the two municipal project schools, existing and all future students from the primary schools in the two municipalities, municipal administration, NGO's in the field of education, national education institutions and European institutions involved in education.Main project activities are preparation of Strategy for development of education, performing of trainings for teachers about using of Open Education Resources for Renewable resources, Energy efficiency and Environmental protection; Establishing of teachers network with using of open forum modules; Learning with OER; Using of new educational approach; Preparation of bilingual brochure and 8 (eight) guidelines – small instruction handbooks for teachers (pedagogical work material) which will be used in the teaching of students for each school level and organization of two multiplier events for dissemination of the intellectual outputs."