"At the online conference meeting, which was held at the beginning of the first semester in September, we discussed the goals of the project. We all mentioned the same problems at our schools, ""violence"".After we agreed on, "" we have to solve this problem and discuss it on international era"", we decided to make an Erasmus+ project on this issue and follow and share all the activities and disseminations also by the eTwinning platform, by creating the same project on eTwinning. This issue was discussed in the school management units and we established EU Project teams, which include school directors, School counsellors, English teachers and Psychological Guidance teachers. The counsellors contributed this project by applying the tests and evaluate them. They are going to take part in:-organising rehabilitation groups-applying conflict resolution tests on students-evaluating the tests results in the beginning-determining the physchological technics and methods that are going to be applied to the students.-Reevaluating the tests after the rehabilitation programme.Rikke Balle Rasmussen, English teacher and Coordinator of this project. She is experienced in carrying out Erasmus projects as partner as well as coordinator. She is the of the head persons in charge of running this project. She is going to take part in:-having communication with the stakeholders-helping our psychological guidance teacher in evaluating the test results-collecting governmental scientific information-making scientific researches having done in Denmark and in the other countries.Filiz Ekenler, English teacher is the one of the head person in charge of running this project. She is going to take part in:-having communication with stakeholders-writing direct-indirect cause and effects of the project:IT teachers are going to be in charge of:-Establishing web-site on the project title,-making groups on Facebook(students will be added on this social media group.They will share experience of violence and their own ways of overcoming it.)We have studied on these kind of event researches by academicians at university and will contribute our project with the scientific problem analysing and evaluation ideas. The school directors assign this team as a Project Commission of our school. School Project Commission will work on this project because it is going to be beneficial for our schools on lots of sides as students, teachers, creating peaceful school climate and all of these directly effect the school's education quality and school vision. When the studies completed, It is decided that violence they exposed has a large share on the basis of their problematic behaviours. However we are not just focused on the violence at school, we are mostly interested in the effects of violence they have already exposed or witnessed. Our aim is to help our students to overcome the effects of violence they exposed. Because violence sometimes can be inevitable in society because it can return to normally with the effect of religious, culture, and social structuring of community. People's soul is getting sick day by day and they accept violence as a normal fact and they give up fighting against it. We want to show our community that violence is never a normal fact not only in our countries, but also in the world. We are going to be counsellors for our students to help them overcome the effects of violence. Our main goal is to create well equipped rehabilitation systems both in our country and participant countries and of course all over the World. Weare trying to save the human capital of our country for our countries' future.We want to help our countries to have strong economy and become internationalized. The other aim of this project is to create international culture against the violence. At the end of this project all students and educators will have common agreements on struggling against the violence.We are 6 countries working on this project, and we believe we have lots of different methods and teaching approaches which we are going to learn from each other. Also by the coordination of Denmark which already has the best educational methods among all the partners, we believe that we can achieve the goals of the project.The participants involved in this project will be the students and teachers we choose to travel. As described earlier, we will choose the students that benefits the most from this theme. Other students at our schools will be involved in the project as well, through participation in project activities, seminars and presentations. Through our dissemination channels we will reach parents, local community and teachers at other schools. It's difficult to put an exact number of persons, who will benefit from this project, but around 200 persons from each school will be involved in this project. The sustainability of this project will be measurable - our students will improve their self-confidence and their desire for education."

What is wrong with language learning? Why is Language felt as one of the least attractive subjects at school? Could language lessons become more exciting and effective? And why not teach Language across the curriculum? These have been some of the questions we have been discussing when reflecting on basic skills in the 21st century school and how to enhance them. The answer we would like to explore is a three-decade-old, yet still innovative learning and teaching methodology, known as Suggestopedia or the Lozanov method. It is the pedagogical application of Suggestology, the interdisciplinary research field experimenting on the power of suggestion in communication to liberate the subjects from inhibitions set to their performance by the social norm and facilitate the untapping of their reserve capacities. In suggestopedic schools in Bulgaria and Austria Dr. Lozanov's methodology was implemented to teach all subjects in global themes with great results (see www.litta.net) long before the term 'cross-curricular' entered our syllabi.Our partnership consists of six upper-secondary schools in Europe; five of them offering general education and one vocational school. We are all facing similar problems such as professional burnout among the staff, low participation in EU and international projects due to lack of confidence in their communicative competence in English, low achievement of pupils in all subjects, low interest in school and a rising number of pupils from different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds that need support in fostering their communication skills and integration. All of the teachers involved in this project share the same enthusiasm with culture and faith in intercultural exchange as a vehicle of change in society and education. With three of the partners having already experienced the impact of Suggestopedia as a foreign language learning methodology and one of us being a certified trainer in it, we decided to exploit its potential to boost our pupils' creativity and help them design innovative courses of language and culture to apply in peer-teaching their languages to their partners and schoolmates whose skills in the school's official language need upgrading. Each of the schools will engage from 20 to 40 pupils locally and internationally.This proposal promises to enable us to achieve three main goals that each of our schools has set out to pursue in their European Development Plan, namely the inclusion of our pupils from different ethnic backgrounds so we can prevent early school leaving, the intercultural exchange that will benefit both the staff and the pupils and opening to innovation that will upgrade our teaching skills and the effectiveness of our schools. Before commencing, the participants will have been prepared for this project via an eTwinning project (ID 217537) open to the whole school communities in all project countries; focusing on local and European cultural heritage seeking ways of sustaining it through sharing it. For the purposes of this project, they will be inspired by Suggestopedia to incorporate the tokens of their intagible culture identified as worth-sustaining and worth-sharing in innovative language courses based on culture. These courses will be the tangible products of our Erasmus+ project named Language via Culture as they will contain multimodal cultural and historical texts (stories, legends, myths, quotes, jokes, songs, poems, literature, art) creatively orchestrated along a storyline. We are planning three types of activity; the design of the suggestopedic language courses for each of our project languages that will take place locally and will be open to the whole school community, the peer-teaching of each 15-hour course to the participants from the other partner schools by the school team hosting each Learning, Teaching and Training Activity and the peer-teaching of each language course by the pupils who speak this language as their mother tongue to their classmates from other ethnic and linguistic backgrounds throughout the project duration on a weekly basis for a total of 80 hours. As a follow-up activity refugee and immigrant pupils will be trained by their peer-teachers and the teachers participanting in this project to design their own suggestopedic courses for the accelerated peer-teaching of their own mother tongues to their schoolmates and other peers from the local community. In this way, we are aspiring to take a major step towards multicultural exchange and social inclusion. To assess the achievement of our objectives we are planning to use survey questionnaires, standardised language tests and interviews. All of our products (course materials, tests, evaluative reports and video recordings of our lessons) will be made accessible to the whole eTwinning and Erasmus+ community online. We hope to be able to inspire more organisations to implement Suggestopedia for the transformation of education from meaningless routine to joyful creativity.

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The serious loss of biodiversity is permanently and increasingly a topical issue. The project promotes an engagement with the topic.The idea for the KA2-project was to realize more examples of outdoor learning locations. Secondary and vocational students between 16 and 21 years of age from five schools have created learning locations, where other students and if possible also the public can learn in the nature about the nature. The contributions from the partners differ according to the specific local conditions.The two-year-sequence of the project started with a teacher-training seminar and went through three student exchange meetings. Finally there had been 131 mobilities. The third exchange meeting (C4, Portugal) took place without Italian participants, due to Corona restriction. The last exchange meeting (C5, Germany) had to be cancelled completely, due to travelling restrictions for all groups.All schools had prepared together a common and individually a certain topic. At the students meetings the schools introduced the results to the others. The common topics were: - The significance of biological diversity. - The importance of nature for mankind. - The humans’ influence on nature.Individual contributions of the schools are: - Germany: A natural trail for children prepared by nursery students. - Italy: From ancient grain to bakery products. - Romania: Beekeeping, a key to preserve biodiversity. - Portugal: A protected forest as learning location. - Austria: An Outdoor-workshop on sustainability in food production, cooking and consumption. The main target was the intensive meeting of students and teachers under the specific consideration of the topic.Every School worked with a specific group of students or choose a target group who might use the finalised location afterwards (disadvantaged people, apprentices, refugees, primary school pupils, people looking for a rest, utilisers of harvest). This diversity enhanced the experiences of the project.Sustainability of the project is guaranteed by the fact that the learning locations are offered to the public or even are protected areas. Each common activity was monitored by an anonymous questionaire, separately for students and teachers. This helped to optimize the following activities. EXPECTED RESULTSThe students and teachers have improved their professional, practical, social, personal and methodological skills. A special attention got the successful integration and support of the disadvantaged students.Five well documented and tested outdoor learning locations have been generated. Each school has implemented at least one aspect of an outdoor learning location that had been presented by a partner school.The different educational conceptions and attached didactical material perform a particularly important result (construction manual, videos, working material…).The material is provided in the internet.A final feedback of teachers emphasizes the request to continue to work with the project topics with the partners.

The project Fit4Thought focuses on the exchange of good practice in teaching and learning in order improve key competences such as multilingual, digital and learning competences. Within the project we would like to emphasise the relation between effective learning and mental and physical health.The project concentrates on four issues:innovative ways of teaching and learning, mental health, physical health as well as stress management and burnout prevention.Firstly, we want to encourage young people to invest time in learning effectively, teach them how to present their arguments in discussions and improve the language skills of young people and teachers. In addition, the purpose of the project is to skilfully use the Internet and ICT tools in formal and non-formal education.We also want to emphasize the possibilities of shaping the professional future and working in the European Union. Students will improve their skills and motivation by participating in innovative classes from Science and Humanities and career counselling sessions. A part of this project will be devoted to methods and tools used while working with people with learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia). Secondly, we will concentrate on working with people with diagnosed depression and on boosting low self-esteem. We will organise workshops dealing with the issues of team support as well as encouraging the values of friendship and reliance. During the projects are going to work on enhancing student-parent-teacher communication through organising workshops and conferences. In order to enhance the school production and rise the students’ self-esteem we are going to we will fight against bullying and cyberbullying through meetings and workshops organised in partner schools as well as we are going to celebrate the Safe Internet Day to raise awareness of the safety issues among students, teachers and parents as well as to celebrate the World Mental Health Day in order to underline the importance of mental health issues at school.The third issue of the project is the physical health of students and teachers. We are going to encourage students and teachers to do sport activities through organising workshops and sport meetings. We will present a new approach to teaching Physical Education in order to prevent skipping of PE classes. It will focus on traditional sports and pastimes as well as traditional food across Europe. Moreover, the project is going to be focused on healthy and balanced diet and their influence on students' and teachers’ production at school.Attention will be drawn also to prevention of eating disorders. Furthermore, we are going to raise awareness of modern-age diseases and their prevention. Last but not least, the fourth issue covered by the project will be stress management and burnout prevention. During the project we will work on building teachers’ working plan effectively. We will concentrate on Teacher Job Stress prevention.The project will direcly involve 107 students but it can reach approximately 5000 students in all six educational communities.The methodologies used will mainly include a constant sharing of strategies among all partners, using digital platforms, definition of work plans, analysis and evaluation of results and constant exchange of ideas and methodologies, always between students and teachers.Our project will result in producing three e-books: a publication containing six lesson plans of Physical Education classes, an e-book containing six articles on how to work with dyslexic students as well as an e- publication containing 6 lesson plans with the use of ICT and useful activities to be used in formal and non-formal education. Moreover, students will prepare films about their hobbies and pastimes and presentations of typical dishes of their regions as well as a set of recipes for healthy school snacks.The partners will organise an interdisciplinary conference on physical and mental health issues at school. Students, teachers and parents will take part in workshops and conferences devoted to innovative ways of teaching and learning as well as physical and mental health in the school context. Furthermore, the results of the mobilities will include the improvemement of key competences of participants and the cooperation with local and foreign institutions. The project will have an impact primarily on the school communites engaged, therefore students, their parents and teachers will benefit from the activities. It will have an impact on other schools on regional, national and international level through dissemination and training conferences organised by the project schools as well as other educational and governmental institutions. The long-term benefits will be the use on latest methods and techinques in formal and non-formal education through the publications disseminated. The health programmes introduced in schools will promote healthy living and efficient learning and teaching.