TOGETHER - STRONG AND SAFE It is a project that lasted 2 years and involves schools from Denmark, Cyprus, Finland, Hungary, Iceland and Spain. Most of children in this Project come from disadvantaged backgrounds and all schools have the same aim in common which is working towards inclusion against bullying, so this is the main reason of the partnership. We have focused on the following objectives: 1.Improve and renew the tools for teachers in children bullying prevention. 2.Help teachers to deal with social problem issues, such as bullying and to face possible children's violent attitudes through enjoyable activities. 3.Provide information on bullying to teachers, families, children and society in general. 4. Sensitize and educate children, teachers, coaches, and all school community members about the need of prevention. 5. Exchange realities regarding the topics in the participating countries. 6.Share experiences and best practices with other teachers, children, parents and other members of the school community. 7.Develop different activities for personal development and skills of the people involved in the project. 8.To encourage in teachers techniques to work in team and to collaborate with other European colleagues looking for innovative ways of teaching. 9.To develop in children the internationalization in order to make them international citizens. 10.To reduce the school dropout rates in the communities involved in the project. 11.To develop the key competences, ITC skills and linguistic competences using ways of teaching and learning focused on children. 12.To improve students’ and teachers’ communication and group working skills. 13.To produce resources that can be used by our schools in the future and for dissemination to other local schools. 14.To compare methods of teaching and learning, values of education, school organization and curriculum in order to look for innovative ways of teaching and learning. 15.To explore commonalities in school life and culture across Europe. 16.To coordinate with local associations, inspection service, teachers training center to develop the project, disseminate and evaluate it. 17.To commemorate the current European Year of cultural heritage. The objectives have been chosen with the main aim of achieving social inclusion, but they will also achieve the social and educational value of European Cultural heritage and support schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) and disadvantage. Our main products will be developed to achieve these aims and they will be: a booklet of games to promote inclusion, a packet of activities to use fine arts and prevent bullying in conexion to our cultural heritage, and and a manual of strategies for teachers to handle bullying and promote inclusion. We will focus on children from 10 to 14 years old to work directly on the project but to achieve the objectives we need the participation of the whole school community and all children at schools. All teachers will participate in it in order to develop the materials. We will start to work in a new way with the objective of improving the ways of teaching and learning since very early ages. We will put it into practice since preschool in the close future to increase the quality of education at this level. This project wants to be innovative by analyzing different ways of teaching and learning towards inclusion to develop the key competences in children, the improving of ICT techniques and linguistic competence. We will create a Commission in each country and a Main Committee coumpound of the presidents of every country Commission. They will select people who is going to participate in the mobilities, evaluate the Project at different stages and intervene in case of emergency. They will also control the budget. Most of children included in this project are studennts with fewer opportunities and face problems such as geographical, economic or social obstacles and educational difficulties. We will evaluate each aspect of the project three times a year after every learning and teaching activity. The different Commissions will meet in each country, afterwards , the Presidents of the Commissions that constitute The Main Committee will meet using Skype and they will exchange information through email to release a final report with the evaluation of all items mentioned in the project. Project results will be disseminated to the entire educational community, both in partner institutions to others who could provide an example in the teaching-learning process. We will use different media such as etwinning, twinspace, European Platform results, the diary of the project in etwinning, website of the project, local newspapers and local tv channels. The impact of this project will be a lifelong one and will bring enrichment not only to the children but to the school community as a whole, including staff and parents and the wider community.

"In our multicultural and digital society, the educational systems of EU Countries are facing the troublesome challenge to respond to emerging current needs such as: embrace classrooms with students from different cultural/linguistic background, reinforce motivation and the relation between knowledge and life experience, engage vulnerable groups (as migrants, Special Education Needs - SEN, etc.), involve all actors within a shared educational path, exploit the potentials of new media, foster innovative collaborative and peer learning practices.Based on this complex context, the project ""INCLUDED - INclusive ChiLdhood edUcation supporteD by multimEdia and Digital storytelling"" aims at developing a set of guidelines / recommendations (pedagogical approach, methodology, spaces, tools, best practices) with related competence framework and training guidelines for teachers to design and foster inclusive activities and practices through tangible Digital Storytelling (T-DST) strategies in Childhood Education (primary school age, 6-10). The action is conceived as a contribution to nurturing social inclusion as well as opening up education to innovative digital practices to enhance quality in childhood education, being – within the others benefits – the strengthening of teaching profiles and the contrast to ESL and disadvantage within the EU2020 strategy and lifelong learning.Given these premises, the INCLUDED proposal leverages on the pedagogical paradigm of DST to elaborate this framework to address the needs of inclusion in childhood, promoting a participatory action-research that builds upon the T-DST paradigm at primary school age for the following goals:● Lay the foundation of a curriculum framework and related guidelines for educators in order to implement such methodology for the goal of media literacy, by o Defining a training reference framework for educators; o Designing and implementing a training model and practices for educators; o Designing and implementing experimental activities in different narrative-based educational settings;● Make a scientific assessment of the activities on specific research focuses related to educational outcomes.The proposal target groups are represented by:● Primary school teachers (from at least 3 European Countries) who will attend the INCLUDED’s training course on inclusive practices with T-DST and who will be involved in the educational experimental activities, supported and supervised by academic researchers. At least a total of 60 teachers will be involved.● Children aged 6-10 years (primary school) that will be involved in T-DST inclusive educational practices by their trained teachers. At least 840 children will be involved in experimental activities.The proposal Intellectual Outputs (IOs) are:IO1 - TEACHER TRAINING COURSEIO2 - EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTATIONIO3 - SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION IO4 - GUIDELINES ON TANGIBLE DST FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATIONBriefly, the macro-task of the project plan are:1° year (M1-M12): SoA research, teacher training course, design of educational activities2° year (M12-M30): Research and experimentation of activities in school settings / scientific observation in parallel3° year (M30-36): Documentation, analysis of practices, development of guidelinesIn relation to the objectives, the project will take advantage of the collaboration of an interdisciplinary and international school partnership, supervised by a group of researchers experienced in projects devoted to the research and experimentation of innovative digitally supported practices in education, with a special focus on children inclusion/SENs. In this way, it will be possible to enact this action research on a European dimension, to compare the results between different institutions and cultural backgrounds, in view of a better exploitation of results within the EU roadmap towards the improvement of quality in school services.The desired impact foresees the following:●Enhancing capability of schools to handle inclusion, ESL and disadvantage●Promoting the innovation in regional/national/EU policies●Enhancing teachers’ skills and competences and reuse of the INCLUDED training model among primary school teachers in Europe"

CHILDREN IN A EUROPE OF 2020It is a Project that will last 2 years and involves schools from Holland, Denmark, Cyprus, Finland, Hungary and Spain. Most of children in this Project come from disadvantaged backgrounds and all schools have lots of things in common, that is the main reason of the partnership. We have focused on the following objectives: • To reduce the school drop out rates in the communities involved in the project.• To develop the key competences, such as ITC skills and linguistic competences using ways of teaching and learning focused on children.• To improve the linguistic competence in children in order to develop techniques and skills which will be essential for them in the world of work in a close future.• To encourage in children the capacity of work in Europe since early ages by working on linguistic and social competences.• To implement the European dimension amongst all participants, encourage in them internationalization and be open-minded, which is so important to be integrated in a common Europe to prevent our communities’ members of social exclusion in the future.• To use ITC as international instrument of communication, elaboration, evaluation and diffusion of the results.• To improve students’ and teachers’ communication, group working skills, the use of English as common language.• To compare methods of teaching and learning, values of education, school organization and curriculum in order to look for innovative ways of teaching and learning and introduce pedagogical innovations.All schools involved in the partnership will work to achive these aims due to we have nearly the same neccessities. All partners have some strong point to implement the Project but at the same time all of them have neccessities that will be solved with the development of the ProjectWe will focus on children from 10 to 14 years old to achieve the objectives of the Project. This group of children will work directly on the Project, but the whole school community will participate and will be involved in it. It is a very important Project for all teachers and they will have to participate in it in order to colaborate and investigate to look for innovative ways of learning and teaching. All teachers will participate to develop the materials and the manual that will be available and we will spread it out in order to help other schools interested in the method. We will start to work in a new way with the objective of improving the ways of teaching and learning since very early ages at school. We will put it into practice since pre school in the close future with the purpose of increasing the quality of education at this level.This project wants to be innovative by analyzing different ways of learning and teaching in order to create new ways to develop the key competences in children, the improving of ITC techniques and linguistic competence. We will create a commission or committee to select people who is going to select people who is going to participate in mobilities, to evaluate the Project and to spread the results out, to intervene in an emergency and to control de budget. We will have four main products:A manual with different ways of learning and teaching. A dictionary with basic functions in our mother languages.A book with fairy tales. A power-point with the different technologies for preserving the environment.Most of children included in this project are students with fewer opportunities and face problems such as geographical obstacles, economic obstacles and educational difficulties. We will evaluate each aspect of the project three times per year. It will be after the transnational meetings and the learning and teaching activities. The different Commissions will meet in each country and they will report an inform with the evaluation of all items mentioned below. This is our first agenda for transnational meetings and learning teaching activities:• First meeting: It will take place in Denmark in early October 2015.• Second meeting: It will take place in Cyprus in early February 2016. • Learning teaching activity in Hungary (C1) in early May 2016 which includes children. • Third Meeting: It will take place in Finland in early October 2016. • Learning teaching activity in Holland (C2) in early February 2017, which involves children.• Fourth meeting: It will take place in Spain in early May 2017. There will be also a learning teaching activity (C3) which involves children, because it is the final and most important meeting. We will finish all products and we will put into practice our final manual with different ways of learning and teaching languages.