Project title: 'The Intercutural Teachers' Competences in Multicultural Cities Warsaw-Berlin'Programme: ERASMUS+, Action KA2 Strategic Partnerships for School Education - Exchanges of PracticesTarget groups: teachers, pupils, students of pedagogical faculties.Project Duration: 1st of September, 2016 – 31st of August, 2018 Applicant Organisation: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa - Biuro Edukacji (City of Warsaw, Education Department). The project is implemented in a range of the exchange of good practices in cooperation with Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Wissenschaft Berlin (Senate of Berlin).Partner Organisations: schools from both partner regions on three levels of education system (primary schools, lower secondary schools and upper secondary schools), pedagogical university, in-service teacher training centre and non-governmental organisations.The objectives of the project: Target group 'Teachers':preparing teachers for effective work with pupils, including: development of cultural and intercultural competences; raising competences with regards to methods of pedagogical work in a multicultural classroom, accounting for cultural differences and similarities; raising competences with regards to didactic work, including improving skills of modifying curricula including intercultural content; updating a system of support for teachers working in multicultural schools/classrooms.Target group 'Students of pedagogical faculties':preparation for work in a multicultural classroom/school, including: development of cultural and intercultural competences; sensitizing students to the cultural context of the student, including cultural differences appearing in a shifting school environment.Target group 'Pupils':preparation for life in a changing society, including fostering attitudes of openness, tolerance and social commitment and involving them in the integration process of migrant pupils; creation of favourable conditions for development and education in a multicultural classroom; introduction of a peer tutoring model - peer assistance in entering a new school environment.The results of the project:- the development of the model of assessment of foreign/refugee students, taking account of the language barrier,- introduction of a peer tutoring model - peer assistance in entering a new school environment, - development of tools supporting teachers working with migrant pupils, such as: 'Good Practice Guidance on the methods and tools of working in intercultural school addressed to headteachers and teachers',- updating the assumptions of a model system of support for teachers working in multicultural schools/classrooms (teacher networking) – among others, the appointment of the Warsaw - Berlin Network of Teacher Working with Migrant Pupils,- exchange of good practices in a range of a model of cooperation between a school and an NGO,- updating the assumptions of a model of educating future teachers including intercultural education and its dissamination,- use of social campaigns in the scope of multiculturalism, as a model for social dialogue.The main adopted methods of implementing project activities are: the exchange of good practices, including use of the 'job shadowing', the development of tools supporting teachers working with migrant pupils, the dissemination of materials through the e-learning, eTwinning type platform and through the partner institutions' websites. All above-mentioned project results will bring a long-term impact on all participating institutions and the target audiencies of the dissemination activities implementing on a regional, national and European level.

At present, energy conservation campaigns provide households with a general awareness but do not provoke large scale behavior changes. The main goal of the STEP_BY_STEP is to maximize the number of households in a given area that significantly change their behaviour at home. Desired behaviour change includes reduced electricity consumption and the investment in energy efficient products and/or high quality renewable energy products. Communication strategies involving direct contact are typically more effective on behavioural change than mass media campaigns. Thus, a system will be put into place to make individual door-to-door contact with 80% of the households in a given area. Contrary to traditional door-to-door canvassing, often seen as a one-shot deal, our project solicits targeted households regularly through email or by phone and accompanies them over a 20 month period towards the adoption of energy-saving practices. To reduce the attitude-behaviour gap, our system uses proven communication techniques that push towards action. Households are regularly encouraged to try new ecological gestures adapted to their level of motivation. Feedback is given and social norms are used. Community-based social marketing strategies will be used to encourage energy-related investment decisions. Households likely to take individual investment decisions will be motivated to take such decisions benefiting from economies of scale and facilitated by other households’ experience. Institutional partners will launch their energy saving interventions amongst 9000 households in 4 European areas that represent diverse populations and communities. French SME E3D will provide a behavioral strategy along with a web based system for behavioral change developed within a research project. Partnered laboratories will analyze household energy saving behavior patterns based on profiles and will define the environmental and economic impact of the project. Power Link will ensure the dissemination.

In 2017 the EU document 'The European Union and the Challenge of Extremism and Populism', raised the challenges across Europe by the spread of right-wing politics. Across Europe, elections had shown a rise of 25% of votes going to right-wing parties. The partners involved in this programme believe that these problems need to be tackled early and engaging young people in education, in discussion and critical thinking, and in a safe environment, is essential. The focus for this project was on young people transitioning between primary and secondary age and taking into account the issues being discussed in the media, within communities and at home, impacting directly on the views and opinions of children of this age. We wanted to develop materials suitable for education on critical thinking and positive counter messages.We recognised at the start, and continue to recognise, how sensitively the themes discussed in this project needed to be handled and so the planning for, and the on-going management of, this project was detailed throughout. We involved experts in this field and involved young people and teachers throughout taking into account their opinions and feedback, making amendments where necessary. However, equally important was the involvement of parents and members of the wider community and partners in all regions actively engaged as many stakeholders as possible. We do not believe this project could be conducted by one country in isolation. We need a collaborative approach bringing in expertise from across Europe to inform and contribute to this complex issue. Issues such as these, cannot be tackled in isolation. Local authorities, schools and other experts from Spain, Wales and Poland worked together throughout the programme. However, the participating education departments are members of ELAN a European Local Authority Network, and members from across Europe have benefitted from training and events relating to the outcomes of this project over the 3-year period, thus widening participation throughout. We completed a number of planned phases in this project:1. Effective, thorough preparation and training of teaching staff2. Collaborative development of 6 lesson plans for delivery in all regions. These were amended to reflect local culture and sensitivities.3. Pilot lesson plans4. Thorough evaluation by experts5. Modification of lesson plans, as necessary, and making of films to support in-class materialsOur aim was to meet the following Erasmus+ objectives:- to improve the level of key competences and skills, in particular through increased opportunities for learning mobility and through strengthened cooperation between the world of education and training- to foster quality improvements, innovation excellence and internationalisation at the level of education and training institutions- in particular through increased opportunities for learning mobility and through strengthened cooperation between the world of education and training- to enhance the international dimension of education and training

P2Endure aims to provide scalable, adaptable and ready-to-implement prefabricated Plug-and-Play (PnP) systems for deep renovation of building envelopes and technical systems. These innovative solutions will be used to transform non-functioning or sub-optimal public and historic buildings into dwellings, and applicable for the widest range of building typologies, i.e. public buildings, residential buildings, and transformation projects. The main innovation of P2Endure comprises PnP prefab systems enabled by 3D printing, laser and thermal scanning integrated with Building Information Model (BIM). The promoted solutions are SME-driven and geared to rapid and low-disturbance on-site assembly processes for deep renovation. P2Endure presents a proof-of-performance of the optimised PnP renovation techniques by implementing 10 large-scale and live demonstration projects that represent the main deep renovation typologies and real market demand in 4 EU geo-clusters. This will be done through progressive steps known as “4M: Mapping – Modelling – Making – Monitoring” throughout a 4-year project duration. These demonstration cases give evidence of the achieved 60% energy saving after deep renovation along with 15% cost saving and 50% time saving at renovation, and high indoor environmental quality. The P2Endure project leverage in total primary energy saved is: 19.121 GWh/y. Wider impacts on replication and market upscaling are guaranteed by a Technology Commercialization Platform (TCP). On this platform P2Endure builds up a critical mass of building owners and their projects, local authorities, supply-chain actors, including leading industrial players in prefab building and technical systems that provide the necessary vehicle for innovative SMEs to enlarge their EU and global market shares through P2Endure solutions.