"OUR DIFFERENCES ARE OUR RICHNESS Our project ""Our Differences are Our Wealth"" is a school partnership where we work together to explore our European cultural heritage and traditions. During the project, partners will compare their traditions, find differences and similarities, learn each other's proverbs, phrases, important authors who contribute to the common heritage, and the works of these authors, the scientists who contribute to the World Heritage, the historical places that shed light on their civilization, and their living natural beauty. Our goal is to acquire cultural awareness proficiency, which is an important element when creating a sense of identity that understands different cultures and respects the world and others. This project focuses on the fact that cultural differences can be our cultural wealth and can turn them into an advantage by managing them well, as well as common sense. Our goals are; to cooperate internationally, to promote the relationship between students from different cultures, to contribute to cultural integration against all forms of discrimination, to provide more active participation in society to raise awareness of concrete and abstract cultural heritage and social cultural diversity.Activities to be held for this purpose are drama performances, exhibitions, conferences, historical and natural environmental review activities, tours, folk dances and competitions. During the project, it was also aimed to improve the English skills of all participants. During the project period, we want to achieve the goal of strengthening the profile/profiles of the teaching profession. Teachers and students will gain specific information and improve their proficiency when participating in Learning Teaching Training activities: improve their English skills and BIT skills (WEB 2.0 tools, educational tools, communication tools, cloud storage methods, web page designs, eTwinning), learning about learning environment, learning storytelling methods and methods of using photography in classrooms, learning the diversity of folklore, civilization history, handicrafts, they will learn and compare museum training, education systems in common countries. During the meeting, students will work in transnational groups and discover famous musicians, artists, athletes, Oscar skilled people and learn traditional songs. In addition, school students who are project partners will work on different activities related to cultural heritage: logos, project mascots, photography, postcards, World Heritage Areas, traditional outfits, games, instruments, legends, special occasions. The age range of the participating students is 11-15. The project will contribute to improving the quality of school education by learning the best practices in education in Europe, increasing the knowledge and skills of teachers. Our project is student-centric and most activities will be carried out by students. With this project, students will increase their potential learning power in the labor market. So the qualifications acquired will contribute to their employment. Our project will last for 2 years. In 2 years, we will produce short collections of exams, photos and postcards; we will be informed about our countries and education systems. Booklets containing cultural heritage values of the countries involved in the project will be printed as project products. A collection of puns will be created. At the same time, the E-twinning project will be carried out between partners. All of our product areas will be published on our twinspace, blog and Facebook page."

"The ""Education to Action: Web of Life"" project reunites 5 schools from North Macedonia, Romania, France, Slovenia and the Czech Republic and is addressed to students aged 12-15 years old. The international dimension will foster multiculturalism and the feeling of connectedness with the European school community. Partners have similar profiles and complementary experience which will facilitate the exchange of good practices and learning from each other. Students from all partner countries tend to spend more time indoors than outdoors, using smartphones or laptops, mostly for playing and chating. They also have unhealthy eating habits, do not practise sports and lack motivation for learning. We believe that this project will be a meaningful learning experience for them because it will connect them to the immediate reality, give them a sense of reality.The main aim of our project is to increase awareness of 250 students from 5 EU countries about the role of humanity in protecting the natural environment during 2 years project. Through this project we want to raise awareness about the environmental problems, empower students with knowledge and skills to take an active role in protecting the environment, involve students in activities that protect the environment and encourage the use of ICT tools for exchanging project information.Our project is designed to reach several groups, i.e.: students, teachers, school staff, parents and institutions from our local communities. The total number of our students is of 250 aged 12-15, we aim to involve as many as possible, we designed the project for 120 direct participants to international project meetings.We planned different activities and we will bring nature into the classroom and, also, take students outside to learn because interactive learning will unlock students’ creativity and sparks their imagination. This is will also encourage interdisciplinary learning leading to incorporating new practices into the school curricula.We planned 5 project meetings focused on different topics: Recycling, Climate change, Healthy habits, Pollution, Ecosytems. The working methodology has 3 stages: students’ research, online and offline interaction. These stages will facilitate social inclusion engaging a wide number of students to our project and develop students’ key competences.We have combined presentations based on student’s research with practical activities. This will enable students to make connections with the real world, apply their learning and observe the interconnectedness of socio-ecological-cultural issues. The exchanges of good practices will stimulate students’ critical and creative thinking skills, which will help foster a generation of informed consumers and users. The international dimension of the project will encourage students to observe different sides of issues to for getting an understanding of the full picture when it comes to environmental issues. This will promote tolerance towards different point of views and cultural approaches.The activities aim to encourage both students and teachers to participate actively in environmental protection. Students will interact with peers from different EU countries which will contribute to make them open to new cultures, discovering and understanding other lifestyles, customs and traditions. We want to connect our students to the world around them and run a series of activities that increase awareness of how humans impact the environment, offering hands-on experience on how to take care, improve and sustain the environment.The project is student-centered and students will be responsible for creating the projects tangible results. This will contribute to create a culture of responsibility among students, increasing their self-motivation, self-esteem while stimulating creativity and innovation. Teachers will be resource persons to support students while creating project products and helping in the learning process. We are going to use project based learning-encouraging to students to make researches, surveys and using ICT for educational purposes.The concrete results we would like to produce are presentations, dioramas exhibition (ecosystems), food festival, surveys, eco-campaigns, emagazine, travel guide, project logo, T-shirt, questionnaires, project webpages, promotional materials and project DVD.Partner schools will increase their network of contacts both at a local, national and international level and increase the opportunities for running new educational initiatives. The school community will become aware of the positive impact of Erasmus projects, and we hope more teachers will be willing to initiate KA1 and KA2 projects. Students and families will increase their understanding about the benefits of direct interaction with other cultures, getting to know other EU lifestyles and traditions, and increase their desire to participate to EU projects and knowing other EU cultures."

"The ""Experiential travel for creative education"" project reunites partners from Lithuania, Italy, Romania, Turkey and Greece, and is addressed to students who are 10 - 13 years old. The partner schools compared their development plans and the following common points were identified: giving a European dimension to the school, increasing the quality of the educational process, raising the attractiveness of classes, developing teaching methods, developing students’ key competences, increasing cooperation with teachers from other European countries and stakeholders at a local, regional and national level.The main aim of the ""Experiential travel for creative education"" is to foster social inclusion among 250 students from 5 European schools during a 2 years project.The project objectives are to encourage students from 5 EU schools to have an empathetic behavior, reinforce mutual understanding and successful coexistence, promote the use of project-based learning and facilitate intercultural dialogue.The project combines classroom education with outdoor adventures, international project meetings, virtual exchanges and a wide range of learning techniques.The planned 5 LTTA meetings will include activities that involve students’ choice, real-world scenarios, authentic audiences and cooperation. A team formed by 4 students and 2 teachers from each country will attend the project transnational meetings. The activities are designed to help students’ develop interpersonal skills through cooperation and boost their sense of personal independence. We will use PBL to encourage students’ active participation which means that students will have the freedom to arrive at conclusions through their own process. They will explore, question and make their own tests to come to conclusion on their own. The meetings are divided into topics (European Cultural Heritage is our common treasure, Sport unites pupils, Environmental challenges, Digital citizenship for pupils, The power of pictures) and there are activities aiming to develop participants' communication and team skills, empathy, critical thinking, curiosity, collaboration, leadership and adaptability.We intend to use project-based learning (PBL) as project methodology because is a dynamic approach designed to engage students in the process of investigation of real life problems and to encourage them in the process of experiencing learning by doing and by discovering. In grappling with authentic problems, students bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and real-life experiences. PBL is a wonderful opportunity for students to develop their key competences through educational travel which incorporates multiple subjects. By removing students from the boundaries of a classroom, students are determined to use multi-faceted skills, establishing a basis for PBL.Our project is student-centered, empowering each and every student to trust him/herself more and become aware that by working together we can achieve great things. Working with their peers will improve communication, interpersonal and social skills.Reuniting people from different geographical areas, people with different socialeducational-cultural background and who work for reaching common goals is a unique opportunity for encouraging pro-social behavior, social inclusion, intercultural dialogue, communication, social cohesion, mutual understanding, successful coexistence and empathy. This will also contribute to understand stereotypical thinking and its side effects, decrease discrimination and racism.The diversity of activities will contribute to increase participants’ communication skills, cross-cultural understanding, creativity, critical thinking, adaptability to newenvironments and flexibility for working in international mixed teams. Teachers' will develop their professional competences and interest in continuing to develop their teaching skills. They will gain knowledge for expanding the school curricula and give it an international dimension, which will have a positive impact on theschool teaching and learning activities."

The project involved 5 schools from Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Turkey and Romania. The schools involved 3 primary schools (Greece, Poland and Romania) and 2 complex schools – combined primary and junior high schools (Lithuania and Turkey). The project entitled “A healthy mind in a healthy body” was aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle among students, in particular through healthy diet and physical education. The rationale behind the project was linked to the strong conviction that it is necessary to start shaping proper eating habits of the Young Europeans and to raise awareness of a healthy lifestyle, by introducing a healthy diet, regular physical activity and active leisure. Through the realisation of the project we attempted to help young people to take the right decisions concerning their diet and ways of spending their free time, inspiring them to take up active and creative activities that could come in place of the long hours spent in front of the computer. The project proved extremely necessary as it had considerably enhanced the knowledge and skills of its participants and had increased the awareness of the young people as to the needs of their own body and the necessity to eliminate risky behaviours (such as use of nicotine, drugs, alcohol and other psychoactive or harmful substances). The partnership fully realised all project tasks: art competitions (5 international contests, approx. 200 submitted student works), thematic Online newsletters (3 issues), lesson plans and syllabuses, Students’ Dream PE Lesson Outline (60 lesson plans from all partner schools); 5 quizzes, 6 interactive crosswords, 6 online questionnaires on sports and healthy lifestyle, dedicated meetings with dietary specialists (1 meeting in each school), medical doctors (1 meeting in each school), sports people (1 meeting in each school) and other people from our local society leading a healthy lifestyle (1 meeting in each school). The partnership also jointly worked on: healthy menus (approx. 100 menus from all partner schools); folders/maps that show places in the close area of each partner school where one can do some sports or actively spend their free time (5 folders). We had planned the release of 1 photobook, but we finally published 5, each documenting current project activities, including local cuisines of each of the partners. Moreover, on the initiative of students from the Romanian school, partners prepared their own cookbook: the Romanian students prepared recipes of pancakes, while the Polish students prepared recipes of dishes with apples. We also organised 2 immensely successful international sports events titled „International Sports Day”, in which all contests had been prepared by students of all partner institutions (10 highly creative disciplines). The project envisaged the use of ICT for carrying out, promoting and disseminating project tasks and activities. Accordingly, all participants have acquired new skills of learning and teaching, not only in the area of health protection and maintaining one’s own well being, but also in the field of ICT skills. Participants of the project used the ICT to acquire and disseminate knowledge as well as to evaluate the tasks performed. Voting in international competitions (on the works prepared by the students from all partner institutions) were carried out using electronic and online polls. The project proved to be a very useful means of integration between partner institutions, facilitated by the use of ICT (emails, web pages and social networking). All participants have improved their competence foreign languages, mainly English, but also other European languages (basic vocabulary), and other areas of education, exchanged ideas for realising pro-health tasks and promotion of sport.The realisation of project activities enabled the teachers participating in the project to gain new experience, while numerous tasks proved so well prepared and tailored to the needs of health educational programmes that they will be included in school curricula of various subjects after the project has concluded. The e-learning applications developed during the project will continue to be used, while the skills gained by the teachers will introduce novelty and will enrich the educational offer of all schools, not only in the area of health. The project was a great challenge to all the international partners involved. It was also a great educational adventure, with capital-letter ‘Health’ as the priority, realising unique form and developed on an unprecedented scale. Participation in the project strengthened the position of schools in local communities and enabled the development of links with various sport institutions that will continue in the form of attractive joint sport activities continued long after the project has concluded. Schools have integrated internally and with their international partners, and expressed their willingness to continue this fruitful cooperation.

This saving consciousness and wasting management oriented partnership, while providing interaction of communities and individuals, it not only will keep forefront the identficiation of basic consumption materials(gas, electricity, water, paper,plastic and glass etc.) which are being most consumed by personals, students and parents of our school; but also will provide management and prevention of wasting these materials by making them used, reused and recycled efficiently to grow more skillful and conscious individuals for sustainable economic future in their own countries and world. It's clear that at schools both in Turkey and Europe, plastic and paper are the most consumed materials after electricity, water and gas. And also at our school, the usage of these materials is in high levels and very unconscious. As known, the raw and source of these basic comsumption materials are decreasing but the usage of them are increasing day by day. In this intense consumption world, Training and managing conscious and conditioned students who can internalize these saving and conscious behaviors and can transfer wasting behaviors to real life as saving behaviors is the most important and urgent task of us. Because According to EU Environment Commission: ’’If the rest of world lived like Europeans do, we would need two planet to support everyone’s demands’’. So we shouldn’t carry out only formal duties of our school but also non-formal for our future generation. We shouldn’t forget that the most valuable heritage which we can bequeath for our children is our world. We can achieve this prevention and management task by interaction in every respect of European schools. By mutual evaluation and working together, emerging different cultural, environmental and academic and practical learning approaches will be building blocks of our project works. At the same time in this Global crisis world, this consciousness will make our students more successful, flexible and entrepreneur in academic, social and economic life and they will discover the meaning of active European Citizenship. We will follow two thematic management activities to reach these goals and to assess the interactions between human health, environment and economy. First we will make more efficient and sustainable the usage of water, electricity and gas with the monthly bill questionnaire (smart bills). Second we will recycle and reuse plastic and paper efficiently by the power of garbage. In addition to these activites we will form Social clubs, Project schedule, Project decision book, Budget control file and Twinspace as main five tools to be ensure proper budget and time management.