"""Culture is incredibly important, and its role is vital in our society. Cross-cultural exchange is essential for adding depth to an individual’s educational experience. Particularly in the arts, whether it be drama, music, painting, etc., the creative arts can quite literally form a person; it gives them wings to DREAM, to BE ENTHUSIATIC, TO SUCCEED PROFFESIONALLY and to TAKE JOY IN LIVING"" (a Spanish singer´s words). These are our aspirations. When cross-cultural exchange meets creative expression, the result is nothing short of magic.The main task at the heart of this project is to utilize the social and educational value of our European cultural heritage in order to advance language, teaching and learning, and to promote the internationalization of our schools. The schools of Spain, Austria, Latvia, Germany and Italy have met on the way not by chance; Modernism, Vanguardism and Nature have been the reason.Combining the liberal arts with the exchange experience, emboldened by our investigations into creative expression, nature and teaching/learning processes, and with the use of eTwinning as our organizational platform, we will give birth to this project. We imagine theatre productions, puppet shows, radio programs, orchestra, song and music composition, orienteering races, art booklets, weaved crafts, our own version of the life tree, etc. All of which will be created by participants. The students from these six schools will be wholly nourished by such integrated activities. Inclusion and diversity are the instruments by which to ""sew"" the project together, using the arts as the ""thread"". Students will experience a newfound motivation, positive attitude, improvement in academic and language performance, innovation in creative skills and expression, and what’s more, improvements in social competence and self-esteem.Our eTwinning platform (which has the same name) has helped us to draft this idea and it will be our meeting point to carry out every step along the way, to create this global project integrating the different programs from six schools and five countries. Each school will have assigned tasks and will be able to receive feedback in international meetings. In this way there will be full collaboration in regards to project investigation and coordination, as well as a means to facilitate the students’ work, virtual meetings and evaluation. This foundational organization will be very important as it will be the glue of the process; every step, activity, final product can be traced.The dates of our international meetings have been determined by our partner curriculums and programs, as well as weather conditions and common activities. Our first meeting will be in Alfacar, Spain for the first time, beginning with the origins of the whole idea. The second in 2021 will be in Latvia because we need our logo (a weaved logo in this case). The first in the second year will be in Austria because we need the inspiration of the Life Tree of Klimt to launch the idea of Nature. The following meetings will be in Germany and Italy, those countries that have greatly promoted music and the performing arts throughout history. We will try to create meetings in which all the community members are engaged. How? By involving them from the beginning in every step.Every international meeting will support the evaluation phase (one month after each) which will be carried out by the means of rubrics from the Erasmus teams in each school. Coordinators will then reach conclusions and publish their reports in eTwinning. The final products and results of each activity will be available in every school’s community web page, in eTwinning, as well as in local newspapers, and a podcast summary will be worked into radio programs. The podcasts will be one of our main deliverables of the project. They will be produced in Radio Alfaguarra. The Spanish team as coordinators would like to be invited to share the experience in CEP Granada and with the art educational group ""ConSumoArte"" which has inspired us to a great extent.The benefits of this creative and intercultural project are multifold: a new design in our classes at home and abroad, an enrichment of the knowledge of art, improved curriculums and linguistic competence and other skills; expansion of student possibilities, improved confidence in students, promotion of the idea of students as “global citizens”; the use of the liberal arts to discover the Nature around us, becoming better stewards of the planet, exploring the lived experience of other people in different places, meeting new friends, new families, new teachers- all of this will enrich us personally and offer a new vision of Europe, of life itself. In the end, this is the opportunity to create a thread of friendships linked by the same motivation to change our teaching life, and to promote future Erasmus+ possibilities as well as job shadowing, or even beyond.. why not a KA229 to make films?. It is one idea."

"""The End of Hospitality?’’ came into existence because of five schools' joint desire to work together on a new European project on the theme of the migrant crisis. The objectives were varied.First concerning students: reinforcing links between school education and active citizenship, economic, social, cultural and European considerations, increasing their self-confidence, and helping them acquire better language and digital skills. For teachers: enhancing their professional development by integrating a collaborative and innovative approach into the activities we proposed. The successful relationships between teachers concerned will lead to future collaboration as a result of this project. As far as schools are concerned: the aim was primarily to open our schools to internationalization and increase the European dimension of the education we provide.There was a class of 30 students, aged between 15 and 18, working on the project in each of our four schools from verydifferent socio-economic and geographical backgrounds. This two year project was divided into four semesters, eachfocusing on a particular aspect of the question in four areas: the history of immigration since the Second World War, the human stories of migrants through the study of a book written by a young Syrian refugee 'Nujeen', the changing attitudes of people in our five countries towards refugees and finally the way the refugee crisis is dealt with by the media. All the proposed activities were selected as a result of consultation with colleagues interested in sharing their methods with others and learning from the approach of other European teachers and involved people living and working close to our respective schools.Four transnational learning activities offered the opportunity to compare, to pool and conclude the work carried out on such questions beforehand in each individual school. Students in turn investigators, interviewers, reporters, writers, secretaries,artists, webmasters thus, thanks to the collaboration with students from partner schools, constructed their own learningprocesses, their relationships, their sense of responsibility, making them truly European citizens. The tools available on the eTwinning platform enable teachers and other schools to find inspiration from our work thus contributing to other forms of innovation."

"""Innovate Yourself! Create Yourself Anew! Produce Yourself!’’ came into existence because of four schools' joint desire to work together on a new European project on the theme of innovation. The objectives are varied. First concerning students: reinforcing links between school education and active citizenship, economic, social, cultural and European considerations, increasing their self-confidence, and helping them acquire better language and digital skills. For teachers: enhancing their professional development by integrating collaborative and innovative pedagogies into the activities we propose. The succesful relationships between teachers concerned will lead to future collaboration as a result of this project. As far as schools are concerned: the aim is primarily to open our schools to internationalization and increase the European dimension of the education we provide. There will be a class of about 30 students, aged between 15 and 18, working on the project in each of our four schools from very different socio-economic and geographical backgrounds. The two years of the project will be divided into four semesters, each focusing on a particular kind of innovation in four areas: living together, literary production, the production and distribution of food and finally innovation in the field of visual arts. All the proposed activities have been selected as a result of consultation with colleagues interested in sharing their methods with others and learning from the approach of other European teachers and will involve people living and working close to our respective schools.Four transnational learning activities will offer the opportunity to compare, to pool and conclude the work carried out on such questions beforehand in each individual school. Students in turn investigators, interviewers, reporters, writers, secretaries, artists, webmasters will thus, thanks to the collaboration with students from partner schools, construct their own learning processes, their relationships, their sense of responsibility, making them truly European citizens. The tools available on the eTwinning platform will enable teachers and other schools to find inspiration from our work thus contributing to other forms of innovation."

'Let's be Prepared for Tomorrow's World' came into existence because of four schools' joint desire to work together on a new European project on the transformations which characterize contemporary Europe. Developments in Artificial Intelligence mean that students can expect their working lives to be very different from their parents'. The rise of social media and the internet are having profound consequences on our relations with one another and the way we are informed. Today's youth are troubled by threats to the well-being of our planet as witnessed by the climate strikes supported by students across Europe. All these concerns have been the source of inspiration to film makers and writers whose works are often dystopian. The objectives of our project are varied.As far as students are concerned, we aim to improve their communication and digital skills. Our objectives are also to encourage them to become more active citizens, to adopt a more positive attitude towards the European project and European values (increasingly under threat), and to enhance their critical thinking. Teachers will, through the activities we propose, integrate more collaborative cross-curricula methods and improve the relevancy of their teaching by associating people living and working close to our respective schools when dealing with the subject of 'Tomorrow's World'. Schools will be more open to internationalization and increase the European dimension of the education provided.There will be a class of about 25 students, aged between 16 and 18, working on the project in each of our four schools from very different socio-economic and geographical backgrounds. The two years of the project will be divided into four semesters, each focusing on a different aspect of the question: Literature, Sociology/ Politics, Economics and Geography. All the activities we propose are the result of prolonged and intense discussion among partners intent on improving their professional development and learning from each other's teaching methods.We have elaborated a varied, realistic common work programme over the two years. The work on a particular aspect of the 'Tomorrow's World' at our individual schools will culminate in a Transnational Learning Activity during which students will compare their results, broaden and widen their understanding of the question under discussion. In turn investigators, interviewers, reporters, writers, actors, film makers, secretaries, webmasters students will construct their own learning processes, their own relationships and become more truly European citizens. Working together with students from partner countries, whether it be before (via collaborative activities on the project Twinspace), during or after Transnational Learning Activities will be the hallmark of this project. All results will be posted on the Twinspace providing teachers across Europe with inspiration to undertake similar projects beyond the formal duration of this project.