"Project ""Educating hearts"" aims to highten social inclusion in participating schools and their local communities. To achieve project objectives, we've build a partnership on the eTwinning platform, with a goal of resolving the issues that we've faced in our regular work, that we've found ourself insuficiently equipped to deal with. With this project we will be able to bring the subject of social inclusion to our students and classrooms, and we'll also do it by showcasing how the transnational cooperation looks like in practice, by setting up multiple short-term pupils exchages. Our main goal in the project is to teach participants about gender equality, social, racial, cultural and religious tolerance, as well as various other forms of social inclusion, like inclusion of people with disabilities or people of old age. We want our participants to understand our shared values, which will also allow us to teach them more about the importance of cherishing our shared European heritage. While doing that, our participants will also improve their more tangible skills: english language and ICT. With that in mind, our methodology for the project is simple: we want our participants to learn various aspects of tolerance in the process known as ""learning by doing"". That's why mobilities and their workshops are so crucial to the project: they are the only option we have for showing our students how true multinational cooperation looks like. Project mobilities include 5 short-term mobilities of pupils and 1 mobility for joint staff. Staff mobility revolves around preparation for project activities and aims to boost both creative methods fo participating staff and their evaluation methods regarding informal education, in essence equipping them with more educational methods for both project use and regular school work. Pupils mobilities will be proceeded by preparation by all participating organiations: sending organisations will create extracurricular classes for the pupils participating in the mobility (boosting their language skills), while hosting organisation will involve their local participants in creation of activity program. Main criteria of participating in short term mobilities as a pupil will depend on three factors: 1. Fluency in english language; 2. Emotional development (judged by school staff: teachers, councelors and psychologists); 3. Level of engagement in the activities taking place on the eTwinning platform. With those criteria in mind, we plan our participants to be between 10 to 14 years old, with englishlanguage fluency ranging from levels A1 to A2. Of course pupils that won't be able to participate in short term mobilities won't be excluded from the project, quite the opposite: they will be more heavily involved in project activities taking place at their local schools. During mobilities, every participating school will present slightly different set of activities, every one revolving around subject matter. However, all participants are bound by the General Policy - set of mandatory activities, that they have to include in their program. General Policy consists of 4 sections: 1. ""Life where I'm from"" Opens the context of cultural differences and similarities 2. What we share > what makes us different. Understanding that we all share common goals and dreams, and have the same daily and social needs. 3. What makes us equal? Learning importance of seing ""another"" as different form of ""self"". 4. Shared European values: cornerstone of our future. Deepening understanding of European values, benefits of extended dialogue, importance of shared ideas and multinational communities.With that in mind, every participating organisation took upon itself expanding upon subject matter by embracing different topics and methods: Portugal - Social Inclusion Turkey - Gender equality Lithuania - Inclusion of people with disabilities Croatia - Cultural tolerance Poland - European values Thanks to this and General Policy, we can ensure that all mobilities can stay equally educative, while beoing slightly different in execution.As a result of our project, we expect to: - increase social skills, language skills and ICT skills of our pupils; - deepen the understanding of different points of view among pupils and those that surround them; - strengthen the sense of shared, common purpose of peaceful coexistence; - improve understanding of goals that drive modern European thought; - stimulate creativity of our pupils; - increase competences (skills and knowledge) of participating school staff (teachers, school councelors and school psychologists) in regards to informal education, incentivising creativity and laying foundation for more active and well-informed participation in Erasmus+ projects in the future; - decrease"

"""Head in the clouds"" project is about increasing scientific spirit by studying meteorology and comparing weather amoung eight european countries. Weather seems to be a very common subject. Despite of this, its technical aspects are rarely studied at school. It has nevertheless a real and concrete impact on our daily life. Studying weather is a way to teach sciences through multidisciplinary activities. This three years project addresses primary school pupils, irrespective of sex, origin, social level or abilities. It is shared in six semesters :- recording weather (creating meteorological instruments)- states of water (experimenting to understand their role in weather)- clouds and extrem natural phenomena (experimenting to create a cloud, creating a clouds dictionary, creating a boardgame)- astronomy (comparing seasons, experimenting to understand lenght of days and night, high of the sun...)- global warming (comparing effects on culture, water level...)- weather and health (comparing flu epidemic dates, Seasonal Affective Disorders, protecting from the sun...)Pupils are learning to observe, make working hypothesis, develop a line of argument and imagine experiments. In this way they are developping their curiosity, their criticism, their creativity and increase their interest towards sciences.The great diversity of involved countries provides a wide panel to observe and compare. This enables our pupils to learn European geography, increase their feeling of European citizenship and their openmindness. By learning to love sciences from the earliest age, by learning to love Europe from the earliest age, our pupils, boys and girls, will probably be more inclined to study sciences later and, why not, increase the number of European scientists !"

"Art and mathematics don’t seem like a good fit at first sight. Usually these are 2 different subjects at school. But in reality you can find mathematics everywhere around you. We notice a deterioration of maths and a demotivation learning maths skills in our schools. With this project we get the chance to use a new approach of teaching maths that is more hands on and has a practical application. Teachers will also improve their teaching skills thanks to online courses, exchange of experiences with other teachers and the challenge of teaching maths in a new perspective. We focus on different art forms to implement mathematics. Each art form gives the opportunity to include maths in a different way and will address different students and teachers. The focus is on visual arts, performing arts, literature and applied arts. Including technology expands the possibilities to include maths and add a new perspective of creating arts. We are all teachers in primary schools and the age group we are working with is from 6-12 year old.This project is also a great way to discover and exchange cultural differences and similarities concerning learning, teaching and using maths in Europe. Thanks to eTwinning and student mobility, children see their peers, materials and skills used abroad and are motivated to take part in the project, using the math and improve their language skills.The project ""Maths, Art and Technology in Harmony"" is a 24 month project and the coordinating school is the Vrije Basisschool Christus Koning in Belgium. The partner schools are: Sincan Akşemsettin ilkokulu – Turkey, Tildy Zoltán Általános Iskola és Alapfokú Művészeti Iskola – Hungary, Agrupamento de Escolas de Moure e Ribeira do Neiva – Portugal, Vilniaus Barboros Radvilaites progimnazija- Lithuania and OS Vransko-Tabor Vransko 23 3305 Vransko – Slovenia. Each country uses their expertise to contribute to the project. During the meetings, the receiving country provide the partners with workshops, lectures, demonstrations, … to share their expertise. This will be used to develop activities fit for the topic of the coming period. This is the schedule we follow:SEPTEMBER 2019: Starting preparation. Introduction of the project at school. Starting the website, designing a logo.NOVEMBER 2019: Learning Teaching Training Activity in Belgium. Topic: Maths and Technology.DECEMBER 2019: start using eTwinning.MARCH 2020: Learning Teaching Training Activity in Portugal. Topic: Maths and Visual Arts.MAY 2020: Learning Teaching Training Activity in Lithuania. Topic: Maths and Performing Arts.JUNE 2020: Dissemination OCTOBER 2020: Learning Teaching Training Activity in Slovenia. Topic: Maths and Literature.FEBRUARY 2021: Learning Teaching Training Activity in Hungary. Topic: Maths and Applied Arts.MAY 2021: Learning Teaching Training Activity in Turkey. Topic: Assessment strategies for mathematics.JUNE 2021: DisseminationWe will do all activities at the same time between every 2 meetings. These activities will use the art forms we chose for that period. We aim at a broad variety of activities such as creating a book, making your own artwork, making your own instrument, coordinating a play or musical, performing a dance, creating a magic show, … The results of the activities will be shared on our website, on eTwinning, parents and local community can come visit an exhibition we made or watch a show we created.During each meeting we will present and evaluate the former topic and help each other creating activities for the new topic. There are 6 LTT activities, only teachers attend the first and last meeting. Mostly 4 students and 2 teachers from each school attend the 4 other LTT activities. These students are hosted in families. With this project we hope to improve the maths skills of our students, motivate teachers to find new methods teaching mathematics. We will learn new innovative curricula and educational methods. Students (and teachers) will work together, get to know the advantages of ICT, learn about other European countries and cultures, share experiences and communicate about it and they will be encouraged to be creative and using maths creating art."

“ACQUISITION OF BASIC COMPETENCES” (ABC) is a project that reflects the philosophy and attitude of teachers and educational communities from all partner institutions of the project.This project was developed due to the need for the candidate institution to address some challenges:- insufficient skills of teachers to teach basic and horizontal skills;- weak motivation for development and improvement of communication skills in a foreign language of the staff and the children;- full inclusion of children with SEN, children - migrants and children - refugees.The other partners also faced the problems of social exclusion. They also had problems similar to those identified by the institution - candidate.All partners together chose to use on game-based learning as the main methodology. Various additional methodologies were applied, which are relevant to the main methodology - gamification, active learning, joint learning, project-based learning, cooperative and partner learning, educational drama as method of learning, action learning methodology and functional learning.The following goals were set and achieved in ABC:-The competence of all teachers in teaching basic skills has been increased;-Good practices, new methods and innovative techniques for teaching literacy, mathematics and science are shared among European teachers;-More chances and more opportunities are given to disadvantaged children and students and children and students with SEN to acquire basic skills, using attractive methods such as joint learning, actions and games;-Shared good practice across Europe has enabled people with low basic skills to acquire basic competencies;-The curricula of all partners have been renewed and adapted as a result of the acquired better practices and skills;-Greater importance is attached to cultural diversity, social inclusion and European citizenship issues in the institutions;-The European dimension of the institutions has improved and they are internationally recognizable;-Respect and knowledge of the culture of both one's own countries and Europe has increased;-Innovative methods in teaching basic skills have been learned and shared;-Although slightly, the percentage of early school leavers in partner institutions has decreased;-Teachers learned on how to teach basic skills using traditional, digital, board, creative and handmade games, educational drama techniques, cooperative learning, WEB2 tools, applications, technologies;-The basic skills of children and students are developed and they are prepared for their future;-The basic skills of disadvantaged children and students and those with low grades have been improved;-Teachers learned more about the education system of countries that are successful in PISA;-Parents and students acquired reading habits in this way as well-They improved their communication skills in their mother tongue and in English as the project language.Within the project, 6 LTTA were carried out for teaching basic skills to children and students, based on 1. Drama; 2. Games; 3. Digital tools; 4. Art / Digital Art; 5. Methods for working together / Friendly activities and 6. Indoor and outdoor activities.With the help of the open-door trainings the pedagogical teams of the participating institutions, representatives from other schools and kindergartens, students, the educational authorities were trained and informed about the good practices of the project.Just over 4,400 children and students, 1,231 of them disadvantaged and low-achieving, and about 540 teachers participated in the project activities.The desire to teach more effectively the basic skills of children and students with SEN and those with disabilities has been crowned with great success.One of the achievements bring an especially proud - the development of reading literacy in children and students and their parents, as well as the development of their interest in reading and love for books.An additional final product of the project has been created - HANDBOOK, which describes 36 of the games and theory with specifics on each of its topics.144 different games, digital books, exhibitions, various campaigns, performances, concerts have been created and published on YouTube ABC Channel and many activities have been carried out to disseminate the results of the project.In the long run, disadvantaged children and students are expected to continue to acquire basic skills much more effectively in a fun way. The games and the various methods described will provide an opportunity to develop the basic skills of all children and students in Europe in whom they are applied. The international educational community will upgrade its skills to teach and develop basic competencies by developing its own versions of the created games.ABC has been awarded for OVERALL QUALITY PERFORMANCE by HRDC - Bulgarian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Program.