"Narrative cinema is an educational and communicational tool almost essential in today's school, both as a visual art and as a means to pass and learn through emotions. The cinema narration has a great training value for young generation and succeeds in profoundly affecting the emotional sphere of the youth, training them to decentralize and to develop empathy, stimulating the imagination and knowledge of other worlds, developing divergent thinking. Starting from these premises, the 5 schools were involved in the project:- Mameli-Magnini - Liceo Artistico Alpinolo Magnini (Deruta - Italy)- Salvatorelli-Moneta (Marsciano - Italy)- IES A Pinguela (Lugo - Spain)- Esprominho (Braga - Portugal)- IES Axati (Siviglia - Spain)They intend to use cinema as an educational tool in European schools, carrying out training, discussion and exchange activities among schools, students and teachers, launching a discussion on the topic and activating an eTwinning group that allows all interested parties to find points for reflection and useful tools to create a European community that can collaborate in the development of new projects on the subject of cinema and school education.OBJECTIVESThe objectives of the CIAK project are:- to promote the active participation of teachers in the experimentation of teaching through the cinema and audiovisuals use - to recognize and promote the skills of teachers who will collaborate in identifying, drafting, using materials and tools in the eTwinning group in order to increase the use of this platform- to encourage the socialization of teachers' work, in a synchronic and diachronic sense, opening the way to a collaborative relationship with other teachers coming from different European countries and allowing an overall growth of teaching reflection of the audiovisual and cinema subject at school- to facilitate the participants (teachers and students) in the experimentation of a collaborative school teaching that gives the teacher the role of facilitator in a research where students are considered the protagonists- to support the planning and definition of the criteria for the dissemination and settlement of educational activities to be carried out through the use of the audiovisuals in the curricular programming of the partner institutionsPARTICIPANTSThe total number of students involved will be around 150, 49 of them will do a mobility and approx. 100 students will participate in the activities on site. The total number of teachers involved will be 33, 6 of them will do a mobility, 7 will accompany students and 20 will participate in the activities on site. Both the teachers and the students involved will participate in the eTwinning group.ACTIVITYThe CIAK project plans 4 actions:1 Short-term exchange of group of pupils, from Italy to Portugal-Braga (21 days / 19 students)1 Short-term exchange of group of pupils, from Italy to Spain-Lugo (21 days / 15 students)1 Short-term exchange of group of pupils, from Portugal and Spain to Italy (10 days / 15 students)1 Short-term joint staff training event of 5 days in Italy which will be attended by 6 teachers coming from Spanish and Portuguese schools and 4 teachers from Italian schools, during which a laboratory will be created in which they will acquire skills related to the use of cinema in traditional teaching and will collaborate among them in the conception, drafting and realization of a short film covering different roles (from filming to audio, from editing to acting, etc.).METHODOLOGIESThe methodologies used will be mainly active and will consist in collective exercises, group works, brainstorming, storytelling. Audiovisual products will be produced through laboratory experiences. The English will be the transmissive language of the project.RESULTS- Creation, management and implementation of an eTwinning group on the theme ""Cinema and teaching at school""- N. 4 project works carried out by students of the mobility in different European countries- N. 2 short films, one made by teachers and one made by students- Collaborative creation, through the eTwinning platform, of tools and materials useful to the different school disciplines for the audiovisual and cinema implementation in the traditional teachingBENEFITS AND IMPACT1. Improvement of the educational offer of the schools involved2. Improvement of the quality of teaching3. Enhancement of collaborative practices through eTwinning4. Increase of the learning opportunities for students5. Improvement of the visibility and European participation of the educational institutions"

"Our agreed title for the project is ""The Power of Wisdom"". Contained within the title is the partnership's aim to challenge our schools to create opportunities for active learning. We also wanted the title to encourage us to think, in the widest sense, about new methods, strategies and pedagogical approaches that would support us in engaging our students in learning and after-school activities. We have decided upon the main priorities of our project:- Cultural heritage; - ICT - new technologies - digital competences; - Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development).The schools are constantly looking for changes, hence we need new methods, experiences, new cooperation, which helps to improve the quality of education and develop the personality ready to deal with life changes. The main objectives of the project are:- Use of Information technology to increase the efficiency and quality of education process;- Change teaching / learning practice to make the use of information technology in the educational process meaningful;- Knowledge of European cultural, historical and natural heritage through digital technologies; - Dissemination of existing experiences in the field of digital technologies and new knowledge and skills.5 schools from Lithuania, Latvia, Italy, Greece and Portugal are the partners of this project. The variety of digital tools and platforms used during the project will improve learning outcomes and increase students' motivation. Teachers and parents understand the purpose and purposeful use of modern technologies to encourage pupils' interest in teaching content. The project will enable teachers from partner countries to gain more practice and experience and use new innovative methods of teaching in their classrooms. Routes across European countries will be created.An e- methodological booklet of instructions how to use and how to achieve best results in class using the digital tools mentioned above will be issued. During the project, the participants will have the opportunity to test all the digital tools offered. The trainings will take place in all partner schools involved in the project.In this age, digital technology is increasingly affecting public life. Digital technologies will be used to promote Europe's cultural, historical, and natural heritage. The following methods will be used to present the heritage: interactive routes, cognitive city pages, virtual 3D object restoration, created databases. The aim will be to attract as much attention as possible to the endangered heritage or to further promote existing objects to survive for future generations. It is hoped that this heritage will remain much longer in the digital space. All the partner schools will organize activities how to know European cultural and historical heritage using digital tools, will present innovative digital practices. Each partner school is responsible for organizing teaching/learning activities. Latvia will host the 1st meeting for teachers. The 2nd teaching'learning event for teachers and students will be held in Italy. The 3rd meeting will be held in Portugal. Greece will host the 4th meeting and the coordinating school Kruonis Gymnasium, Lithuania will host the last meeting.Each partner school will organize workshops to share experience gained during teaching/learning meetings, each partner will present e-material about digital tools they use. Lithuania will be responsible for issuing an e-methodical publication to be shared among schools in all the partner countries and all around Europe.The project will start with project logo competition and Lithuania is responsible for it. Each institution will organize dissemination of each partner meeting on school website, local media. The experience and results of the project will be presented to all schools in the area and also at national level. At the end of the project each school will disseminate project results in national newspapers, radio and TV, on social media, organize national conferences and eTwinning webinars. Cooperation and communication between meetings will be carried out via various means - Google documents - for exchanging information and ideas and information filling in the application form, as well as e-mail, Facebook group, RealtimeBoard (endless online whiteboard for team collaboration), Padlet and eTwinning platform Twin Space. Twitter will be used to create project teacher networks and later on all the like-minded teachers in participating countries will be connected to share experiences and innovative practices."

"The ""How we teach and learn English"" project has been a response to the needs of the partner schools from Portugal, Spain, Romania, Slovakia and Poland in the field of language education. All the schools are the same vocational type and the students in many cases come from similar backgrounds. The same have also been the problems with motivating students to studying foreign languages. We also thought of students with economic obstacles. This project intended to get them involved in learning at European level. The main objectives of the project were: improving the quality and attractiveness of language education, integration of foreign languages and other subjects with help of modern, digital technology and creating attitude of openness to international cooperation. Approximately 100 students and teachers from five partner schools have been involved directly. The tangible results of the project activities are educational resources for use in lessons of different subjects. The innovative aspect of the project is the use of CLIL method in general education and vocational classes. Teachers involved in the project developed scenarios of such lessons. Development of teaching skills has been our objective as well. Among others, the status of teachers depends on their qualifications, attractive and effective lessons they carry out and ability to communicate with students and teachers from other countries. Activities like blended mobilities and short training programs helped to accomplish the project results. Virtual cooperation in conjunction with real meetings made it possible to achieve the highest quality. The use of modern digital technology and foreign languages improved competences in this area, both among the project participants and other target groups. The European dimension of the project made the achieved results available among a very large number of recipients, and various ways of dissemination of results of the project ensure their durability. All the results are open and allow for the continuation and development of the project activities by the next generation of students."

International cooperation between the initial vocational education and training (VET) is very often focused on the mobilities of students, teachers and trainers, on the development of the joint new training and/or study programmes and other issues. All these fields of cooperation are very important for improvement of quality and attractiveness of initial VET in the different countries. However, the potential benefits of such cooperation can remain very limited, if this cooperation does not entail methodical and holistic exchanges in the field of curriculum design by considering the comparative strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of curriculum design in the partners. Therefore, the main objectives of the project “European Partnership for Service Specialists” were to establish and develop long-term partnership and network of the initial VET institutions focused on the curriculum design in the different occupational fields, to improve the contents of VET curricula and make them more oriented to the international labour market needs, enhancing effective and beneficial international movement of students and graduates in the European Union. The project was implemented by seven initial VET institutions from 4 EU countries: Karaliaus Mindaugo profesinio mokymo centras (Lithuania), Wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft gemeinnuetzige GmbH (Germany), Johanniter Akademie Bildungsinstitut Mitteldeutschland (Germany), Sächsische Bildungsgesellschaft für Umweltschutz und Chemieberufe Dresden mbH (Germany), Euroform RFS (Italy), FEDERAZIONE CNOS FAP VENETO (Italy) and ESPROMINHO - ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DO MINHO, LDA (Portugal). The partnership took the following steps to achieve foreseen objectives:-Developed the methodology for update and development of training modules in accordance to EQF level V requirements and labour market needs;-Analysed and compared the work processes of 4 occupations: Florist manager, Administrator of Hospitality Services, Paramedic and Fashion Shop Designer;-Analysed and compared competences and learning outcomes of selected occupational fields outlined in the curricula of partner countries;-Developed a catalogue of work processes, related competences and learning outcomes typical for partner countries in the field of selected occupations;-Developed 4 training modules for the selected occupational fields which corresponds EQF level V requirements;-Tested designed training modules through mobility of the learners;-Developed methodological guidelines for the selection, usage and adaptation of training modules in designing VET Curricula. The project has developed 5 intellectual outputs which include the main results of the activity steps described above. Notwithstanding initially planned results and impact for VET stakeholders, the project had a great impact for EQF level V qualification development in partner countries: two complete training programmes providing EQF level V qualification were produced and released for implementation in the EU countries where EQF level V qualification is only taking the first steps: Germany (Paramedic) and Lithuania (Administrator of Hospitality Services).

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