"CONTEXTThe widespread use of qualified inclusive education has become an important goal in many EU countries. They have embraced and adapted their support services to improve their quality of inclusive education. As in many European countries, support services are required. Among these support services in inclusive education, resource room (RR) model is also widely used in schools. However, the teachers who are not in the special education area who provide services in this application need support in giving education at all levels according to the potentials of students with special needs (SEN). It is necessary to go through a number of improvements in the nature of both the teachers, the programs to be implemented. OBJECTIVESThe UDL4U project aims to increase the quality of support education services by planning activities such as organizing workshops to determine needs and problems; organizing the mobility to see the applications in place by partner countries in the project; developing a number of standard development activities that can measure the quality of RR model; developing the general education teacher (GET) training program, named GETInvolved, based on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles; organizing an international congress. We anticipate that the vocational qualifications of teachers who provide RR model will be improved through education and training program through the UDL4U project. All teachers providing supportive education services will learn new methods, techniques and approaches to provide education to European standards for children with different and special needs.They will also have the opportunity to learn innovative teaching methods such as creative drama as well as scientific-based applications used in the field of special education. By learning the UDL principles, students will learn to offer effective learning opportunities at every level. PARTICIPANTSIn UDL4U project there will be 8 Institutions.Coordinator IRIPS from FR, 3 Local authorities for education,Directorate of educations from Rezekne LV,Antalya TR and Rodopi GR.Akdeniz University is higher education authority.Duraliler and Gulveren school from TR and Jankow school from PL are the partners of the UDL4U project. Although the beneficiaries of the project are GETs who are applying the RR model, the main beneficiaries will be SEN students and their families.Teachers-staff who work with SEN students in the RR. Representatives of civil society organizations, public institutions and organizations, representatives of local authorities,decision makers and related associations, local, national and international media and NGO members, local universities participants with fewer opportunities.OUTCOMES-''UDL'' GET involved Cirriculum module (IO1)-''UDL"" GET involved practice Book (IO2)-resource room (RR) model-''UDL'' Webinar-A template for an Individual Support Plan(ISP)-A questionnaire to identify individual strengths and weaknesses for inclusive educationACTIVITIES-TPMsThere will be 4 transnational project meeting to plan,review and evaluate the project activities with the 3 participants from each partner.1.TPM in TR, 2.TPM in PL, 3.TPM in GR ,4.TPM in LV.-LTTsThe content of GET Involved training of Trainers(C1) will be entirely focused on improving the ability of teachers to meet student needs. In addition to face-to-face training In Bastia, this development will be achieved through on-site observations of good practices, e-learning opportunities (e-module, online courses, forum etc.), confererences.3(Three) participants from each partner.-Local TrainingsAfter C1 ToT in Bastia,Trained teachers will transfer these qualifications to other teachers locally so that it is possible to grow the effectiveness by local trainings with 500 local participants in Bastia,Antalya,Rezekne,Rodopi and Jankow.-IOs-IO1""The Get Involved Vet Module"" -IO2 ""Get Involved Practice book"" -MEsThere will be Congress-Conferances with 8 different Multiplier events in Bastia,Antalya,Rezekne,Rodopi and Jankow with the participation of 30 participants for each partners"" target group.Totally 240 participants for MEs.IMPACTUDL4U has local, national and international impacts and a dissemination plan is presented for dissemination of the impactsThe most important effect expected in the project is that the teachers have to gain proficiency through the developed GET Involved program and to offer effective teaching by applying the UDL principles to the SEN students.It will reduce early school leavers by develop new form of SEN education in the school context.LONGER TERM BENEFITSThe UDL4U project will respond to the Europe 2020 priorities in the area of education and training, youth and early school leaving in the context of SEN education.Thanks to the intellectual outputs and activities,It will serve to reach 2020 and further European strategic targets in the field of general education and SEN education."

"As the conflict in Syria approaches its 8th year, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe are dealing with the worst humanitarian disaster since the Second World War. The unprecedented refugee crisis is increasingly spilling over to affect apart from the wider region, also Europe. Reality shows that refugee people face a range of barriers to enter urban life in their new countries, especially related to the fact that the municipality is not prepared for dealing with refugee people. This situation has forced municipalities and local authorities to assume key roles in managing the crisis by providing services and integrating refugees into their communities. The refugee crisis has also caused social tensions so ensuring social cohesion by involving both refugees and host communities in joint activities will contribute to improved relations, coexistence and stability within host municipalities.The project of ""Supporting Public Education Centers' Educators for Refugee Adaptation"" (PEC4R) addresses inclusive support for training of the municipal Public Edducational Centers' (PEC) educators to provide well-qualified education, so they can cope with refugee adults often lacking the language skills they can fully participate, and are also affected by the traumas of war that are fully disabled and integrated. Municipal PEC educators facing such problems should be more prepared to know how to deal with it. Ensuring the provision of a modular training that addresses the main issues (integration, adaptation, language, war traumas, dealing with stress, right of refugees) should form an important part of the response to the current challenges. This training and supporting will combat at source some of the factors contributing to education failure of these people, while it would aid in combatting the risk of integration problems to urban life. Supporting material provided consists of an illustrated handbook for the PEC educators with accompanying printed/mobile/online supporting tools that will support the advisor throughout the different challenges they face nowadays. Equally, the supporting tools will also work towards engaging PEC educators and refugee people in a manner that is novel, attractive for both the municipality and the refugees (beneficiary). The outcomes can be easily multiplied across all cities that harbor refugee by applying the concept of open resources, commons creative licensing and free mobile and online applications.Our consortium:1- Coordinator: Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Public University, Turkey 2- Phoneix KM, NGO, Beligum3- SoftQNR, software development company, Serbia. 4- Konya Municipality, Turkey5- Izmir Bakırçay University, Public University, Turkey6- Secondary Education Directorate of Karditsa, National Public Body, GreeceThe project's main target groups are:- Municipalities and their PEC educators: Every EU municipality network will be invited to the project portal, while contacts will be made also with local supporting initiatives.- Pedagogical and psychological experts: Material will be readily available to these stakeholders and will be implementable default in 5 languages, while translations can be done freely.- Refugee adults (living in the city): They are to benefit from an approach that allows them to deal with their war traumas, being supported by teaching staff that is aware of the sensitivities and the special requirements needed for these people to integrate into their city environments and the host country.Long-term benefitsThe desired impact of PEC4R is a universal one, due to the global occurrence of the refugee problem. This is reflected in below local, regional, national, European and/or international impact assessments. It is expected that the PEC4R will provide supporting material for all affected PECs as well as other adult edcuation institutions in all partner countries at the end of the project, while transfers to other languages will also support the take-up."

The ''LET'S STEM IT'' partnership has been conceived against the background of the current crisis and the lack of growth and youth’s unemployment that have been upsetting strongly Europe’s society in the last 5 years. Education is therefore called to respond to the urgent need of highly skilled engineers and technologists and labor supply must match demand as recognizsed in the Flagship initiative “An Agenda for new skills and jobs” in the EUROPE 2020 strategy of the EC. The General objective of the LET'S STEM IT project is to guide increasing Europeans' interest and skills in STEM and to provide the schools with the necessary tools in order to engage their students, teachers and other actors, in related activities.The project aims to develop teachers’ and educators’ competences - especially integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) teaching skills, based on collaborative problem-solving (CPS) - sharing experiences among countries involved in the project (the project was compatible with PISA 2016 aims to evaluate students’ performance in mathematics, science and financial literacy; performance in problem-solving and reading). Specific Objectives of the project: -Offer teachers collaboration in creating innovative STEM school curricula-Contribute to developing and implementing innovative STEM education in order to enhance the quality of science teaching and learning –to develop teachers’ and educators’ integrated teaching skills, based on collaborative STEM education.-Develop a student-centered approach to STEM education, facilitating inquiry-based teaching, collaboration and active learning.–To explore new forms of teaching, learning and assessment of students achievements–To guide teachers and educators, how to motivate children and inspire their passion for discovery and learning–To share experience of good practice on increasing students' interest in STEM and technical creativity; developing students’ skills of logical and critical thinking The ''LET'S STEM IT'' project is focused on the fact that the level of employability, competitiveness and wealth of our society will depend on the ideas and skills of its population. These have always been the EU’s most important assets. As the world becomes increasingly technological, the value of these national assets will be determined in no small measure by the effectiveness of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the EU. STEM education will determine whether Europe will be able to solve immense challenges in such areas as energy, health, environmental protection, and national security. It will generate the scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians who will create the new ideas, new products, and entirely new industries of the 21st century. The target group of the project - teachers and educators, who are not afraid of challenges and are seeking quality of teaching and learning and higher learning achievements of students in STEM education, are open-minded, communicative and collaborative, and are ready to provide meaningful learning experiences for 21st-century students. Participants will be science, mathematics, ICT, technology and design teachers from schools and directorate of educations(local authorities) and academics and lecturers from partner universities. Our main target group are teachers, of course also pupils, but also, school Principals, Policymakers, STEMcenters, parents, other institutions related to the school education.The Final beneficiriars will be the students who will carry Europe further.The main activities will undertaken: - 5 short-term joint staff training events - 2 Trans-national project meetings - Seminars-Local Trainings-Dissemination-E-conferanceMethodology to be used in carrying out the project: The training comprises 8 hours of lectures and demonstrations and 15 hours of hands-on workshops. These sessions will be framed with field trips and hands-on outdoor activities that will regard innovative ways for creating links between schools, research centres and non-formal learning settings. Careful analysis of the present situation in terms of attractiveness of the STEM disciplines in the concerned partners at all levels of school education. This includes a collection of data, Inquiry-based learning, short-term joint training events within the involved corporate.Potential longer term benefits include the skills acquired by the students such as critical thinking and ICT skills will make them more employable in STEM related areas in the future. Innovative teaching resources created during the project will be available online after the project is finished for use by other teachers. LET'S STEM IT project will strengthen European integration by increasing cooperation across different institutions, and by bringing together different cultures. It will also promote the idea of European citizenship and the extended local community.

Over the last 2 years as a European Collective, we have actively been working to raise awareness of drugs and alcohol abuse across our partners both locally and nationally. We feel that we have been able to have really honest, opened and moving conversations with both young people and adults who work with young people to inspire change. We are really proud of the work that we have done over the last 24 months as a collective and have created a range of innovative outputs, all of which are a testament to our work and commitment to the project, much of which will be explained through this evaluation document. We understand that substance misuse is still very much an issue for young people across Europe, but we feel proud to have contributed to the growing conversation and awareness work that is happening, in addition to mobilising both young people and adults who work with young people to equip themselves with both the skills, knowledge, and confidence to discuss these topics on a national and international scale. We feel that we have been able to:1. Raises awareness of the reasons why people use substances, the types of substances that are misused, and the factors that can influence the effects of substances.2. Support both young people and adults who work with young people to study the harmful effects of substance misuse on individuals and society, as well as where to get support and advice on substance misuse. 3. Raise awareness of how stereotyping affects users and how media reporting affects people's perceptions of substance misuse in addition to understanding statistics nationally and locally about substance misuse.4. Encourage our team to consider the risk factors and protective factors for substance misuse, ways to protect individuals from the risks of substance misuse, and the barriers to making healthy choices.

The horizontal objective of the partnership called “e-plat-Forming Education” is to develop new ITC services offered to schools and local community of Municipality of Proszowice, Poland and Karditsa, Greece in the field of education. The idea is based on creating an innovative tool of multifolded e-learing platform accessible to different groups in reference to education. The idea of creating and implementing such tool is the answer to the call of modernity, digitalization and computerization of every aspect of life. It also answers the wishes and needs of teachers, parents and students who are the main subjects and the beneficiary groups of this project The project aims at creating this vast and generic tool because never before have we developed such an education – supportive device. Socially, it is important as it brings schools together creating a network of organizations, schools and libraries important for our local societies. It allowed to co-operate and exchange good practices between schools and institutions of culture on local and international levels. It has built up the atmosphere of cooperation and friendliness. Professionally, it has enlarged the database of edu – tools, teaching / learning ideas ( ELT), practical exercises and evaluation methods in unprecedented scale in our regions. It has also offeedr such innovative tools as: e-administration, e-register for schools, e-learning, online teaching with lessons recorded and uploaded on the platform: podcasts, mobile schooling and educational games and applications, useful links, online newspaper for the youth, film club, virtual walks and others. Due to our project we achieved several different goals which refer to different subjects and we want to address teachers, students, education workers, parents and other citizens of our cities. The project has greatly activated people from different groups: administrative staff of our organizations, project workers and other beneficiaries. It upgraded the competences of educational staff and subjects of education introducing new products and methods for practical educational use. Development of e-learning platform has had enormous impact on the quality of education in our respective regions. The target groups have benefited in terms of improving the level of learning / teaching, linguistic skills and entrepreneurial approach. Also the deeper cross – cultural understanding and transnational cooperation has been brought about also in terms of recognizing EU values. It triggered modernization of our teaching techniques and is successfully used after the project conclusion. In the project there were involved about 15 administrative workers of our organizations, about 70 teachers from both regions, about 3000 students directly or indirectly involved in the project activities and about 4000 parents in our respective regions who were also indirectly influenced by the project implementation. We have established very good working relationships between the institutions engaged in the learning activity, as key-decision factors. The e-platform is constantly used as it is placed on the server which is paid by our institution until 2020, also the partnership continues beyond the period of the project implementation as well as all the invented educational tools. Moreover, due to dissemination conferences not only schools but also institutions of culture like libraries and culture units offer the usage of e-platform.