Our TalesThe communication skills of the children are nowadays neglected, so the main task of our project is to reinforce the ability to strengthen the sense of speech and verbalism in the way closest to young children, with tales. Teachers from five countries try different fairy tale methods, then share their experiences and write their own tales, reinforced with what's new and learned. The characters in the tales are the heroes of the countries, they introduce the different cultures and improve the children's verbal communication. In the tales, the characters experience the adventures together with children, enriching their vocabulary and language skills. The 3-7 year olds make online friends, get to know the tales and heroes of other countries, and help them figure out the characters' adventures. New content is being added to programs with parents, that helps to involve families as well. In addition to traditional storytelling, info-communication technologies have a significant role to play today, in which the openness and motivation of the teacher is decisive (online tales). The result is an illustrated digital storybook, each with an English dictionary that can be seen on eTwinning, and shared as good practice.

<< Objectives >>The ASTR@CTIVE project will propose an novel methodology to motivate primary school students and teachers to participate in interdisciplinary science-and-sports initiatives and to develop and establish a network that will work together, exchange practices and maintain the activities and results in the Future.Using SPORTS, NATURE, outdoor and DIGITAL learning in a meaningful, attractive and challenging way, will give know how to educators to teach one of the oldest sciences (ASTRONOMY)<< Implementation >>-2 onsite and 2 online TPMs-monthly brief virtual meetings to ensure proper Managment of the project's budget, time, partners, tasks, roles of the partners and risks-1teachers' training-Testing of Toolkit and Web plaatform-local courses for teachers and audience -3 OERs-2 conferences, stakeholders’ visits, social and mass media advertisements.-a wide Dissemination Plan including:7 progress reports, 7 financial and 7 newsletters per partner, material, internal workshops, online training<< Results >>RESULTs:5 WPs linked one to other and to ASTR@CTIVE general objectives.WP1-ManagmentWP2- Analysis of best practices, ASTROguide and ASTROcamp 1.WP3 - ASTROtool for teachers and ASTROcamps 2 and 3.WP4- A Web Platform in multiple languages integrating digital educational modules and the OERsWP5- Dissemination and exploitation of the results. National Conferences and local activities in 8 countries for the promotion of the results Directly involved 4560 pupils, 585 teachers in 8 countries.

Title: Europe+Emotions=Inclusion.Be different, accept and learn… in a united Europe!Our Mission: Learning together promoting emotional education in European schools for an inclusive emotional well-balanced society.Our project objective is to impulse the development of social, civic and intercultural skills in a European dimension through emotional education. Every school has a totally different background and culture. Every school has a different approach to manage social problems to their children, students and teachers. How do they do that? Which school has experience on that subject? That will be our first step: learning from each other by visiting each school during the project. What is the vision of the school? What are the strengths of each member on that subject. How do they manage bullying? How do they learn their children to be tolerant European citizens in a world that is nowadays very divers? The project´s goal is to create a sustainable common approach realted to emotions management as a result of the learning process from each school’s line of work in their social context. This approach will lead to create a sustainable common line of action between all partners. It will lead to a positive school climate in which our students and teachers are coming ‘whistling to school’. We believe that emotional well-being is an essential prerequisite to lead to a society where they can learn which and from each other. A society where there is harmony between all participants.With this project, we intent to implement meaningful goals on the way we work with all members of the educational community. For this purpose, a set of outcomes is foreseen:- Creation and use of a Guideline of social skill management that is focused on the background of each school.- Creation and use of a Toolkit full of strategies and resources to use in favor of preserving harmony and a positive climate in our schools, - Creation of a positive climate in our schools which will lead to harmony between teachers and pupils.- Creation of online tutorials that can be used for all teachers in all educational stages we comprise, interested in achieving the objectives.In this joint idea, we will built a strong partnership between five kindergartens and schools from several European countries. Given that each partner is currently working in the field of emotional management to create a better school coexistence and inclusion. The partnership improves all partners’ competence complementing each another in pursuing the common goal. Each school´s strengths in emotions management, are opportunities of learning and improving for the rest.This partnership has been selected very carefully according to our realities, experiences and motivations, with a good strategy of common work and clear objectives. This is necessary in the context of each school. It is a Project with active participation of all the parties involved (students, teachers, families), which is necessary in the current (local and European) context. All activities will be planned together. We will follow the same strategies to achieve our objectives. Activities will be connected and will give each other a meaningful role in the development of the project. Each international and shared activity will be worked out and prepared with local activities. The use of the etwinning platform to communicate, participate, organize, and work together, is thoughtfully combined with international meetings and LTTs that are necessary to achieve a strong improvement in our action plan.Teachers mobility are planned to share and learn those good practices each partners has developed. Our students play an important role in this project. The students mobility planned offer them the internationalization and intercultural awareness as a strong pillar to implement the changes needed in our schools and in their equals. Students will learn by sharing and working with their international partners and experiencing different daily learning situations during their visits.A sustainable result of this project is to enrich each other to become a school where all participants accept each other.There will be an ongoing evaluation of the project by the coordinators, by the active participants, by students,... to ensure a well development and that it follows our project planning towards our objectives.The wider European educational community will benefit from the project through the dissemination and exploitation of the outcomes that each partner will carry out and through the project´s web-page in the teachers room and in the schools of their community.Together, educating in positive harmony for an inclusive well-balanced emotional society.

"Starting from the problem of challenging discrimination at schools which is one of the primary goal of "" Europe 2020"" strategy the coordinating school made a questionnaire at school and asked if the students and teachers had ever been witnessed a disciriminatory behaviour.%30 of students,%40 of the teachers answered that question as “Yes"".After searching for the schools that are in the search for carrying out a EU Project on this problem 6 primary schools from Turkey, the Wales, Portugal, Spain,Germany and Romania came together and created the Project in 6 months working via Facebook and Whatsup groups.Our partners school from Spain and Germany have never joined a strategic partnership before.The objectives of our projects are sharing European good practices ,developing the feeling of belonging to the one European community, teach the students tolerance ,non-discrimination and respect for human rights,overcoming all forms of discrimination,raising awareness about equality, increasing the sense of belonging to the society ,promoting diversity and equality with the disadvantaged students,a better integration of students from disadvantaged groups to the school activities,sharing the good examples about equality and non-discrimination among partner countries,strenghtening students' and teachers' ICT and digital skills,increasing the competences in foreign languages ,discovering the culture and traditions of the partner countries by visiting them in LTTs and by the help of the direct presentations and developing techniques for team and peer working.Nearly 2200 students and 95 teachers will directly and indirectly will be involved in the Project from 6 partner schools. All the schools in the Project are in primary level students , aged 5-12.There will be an opening meeting in Turkey where we will discuss about the dissemination, implementation of the Project , next LTTs and prepare the questionnaires.There will be a short term joint staff traing even in the Wales and 3 short term pupil Exchange activities in Spain, Germany and Romania.We will also organize final meeting in Portugal where we will write the final report alltogether. The other activities , concrete results and outputs in our Project will be :A calender,a booklet with the paintings of the students from the partner schools,youtube videos of the activities,posters on “ No to discrimination” theme by the students, t-Shirt designs on the theme of “ no discrimination!”,project Logo,seminars for the parents on the topic,street interviews by the students,exhibitions with the paintings of the students,presentations,an etwinning Project,bookmarks prepared by students and parents,a short educational film,new years cards,a website of the Project and “Know your rights” yearly activities and choosing the ACE Ambassadors at every school .Project activities will boarden students' point of views on the discrimination theme.Teachers will create heterogene groups in which there are students from different social backgrounds,cultures,educational level, ethnicities, religion, genders and with the students with disability and health problems.All the students will be able to learn values such as equity, tolerance and non-discrimination.The sense of belonging to the society of the disadvantaged students will increase too. Diversity and equality will be promoted by all the student's coming together in the Project activities.The disadvantaged students will be integrated to the school activities better by the help of the Project activities.By the help of the joint staff training event which will be organized in Wales, participant teachers will be able to be adapted and integrated of in European educational community better. Joining the LTTS and the Project activities at schools both students and teachers will develop techniques for team and peer working.The Project will encourage students and teachers to discover Europe's cultural heritage.The methodolgies to be used in carrying out the projects are Critical thinking ,cooperation and teamwork data collections via pre-surveys and the last surveys, Street interviews,Observation forms , peer Works, presentations, evaluation forms after each LTT and the final report. The expected results are:-An increase in the motivation to learn English,a development in the feeling of responsibility, confidence and belonging by the help joining the project activities,a strongly created feeling of belonging to ""the one European community"", creating a feeling of belonging of the disadvantages students ,breaking stereotypes and prejudices. After the ending of the EU funding, our ""Know Your Rights"" yearly activities will continue.As it will be a part of our curriculums in our schools,we will continue to teaching inclusion, tolerance, respect for human rights, how to overcome all forms of discrimination ,diversity and equality.The project results will be used in a long term at partner schools after the end of the Project."

"In the present project we both intend to encourage and demand reading aid in communication, taking in and perfom information, documentation (also media-aided) examing facts and own thoughts and feelings as well as reflecting written statements of others. At the same time we want to have a close look at the pupils reading motivation. By interchanging their reading preferences, becoming aquainted with texts and customs from foreign countries (e.g. traditional fairy tales), trying out different methods of improving their personal reading skills and abilities, students learn that reading can be a pleasure. Further on, they will realize that practice, concentration, attent readiness and interest are essential for their own progress.Concerning the studens, the objectives of the project are mainly the developement of reading skills and abilities. Increasing reading motivation and to confirm reading comprehension. The students should realize that both, ability and readiness to read are important basic requirements for their own holistic development. Teachers' goals are to continue their (own) education are ""reading in class"", reflecting and evaluating their way fellow teachers from their partner schools (Italy, Greece, Spain, Germany). Thus all participants make profit from one another to improve the quality of their methods of teaching.During the project teaching examples or ideas from different partner schools are regularly contributed. They can be used for individual topics, e.g. reading methods, favourite literature fairy tales and then tried out and evaluated. At first, methods of reading practice are carried out and evaluated. The subject of fairy tales will also be handled with more comprehensiveness. In order to give pupils a framework in which they regard contents and thus make own impressions they may improve their personal reading skills in an interest-driven way. At least one fairy tale which is well known in all participating countries will be handled in terms of contents and language. So, through the interchange of typical fairy tales the children gain an insight into the culture of foreign countries.Throughout the entire project period, there is a lively interchange on various methods in order to improve reading skills so that both, teachers and pupils, will have a range of methods at their disposal. The individual methods will be handled in four phrases. 1. Theory (coming aquainted with the method) 2. Sitting in on classes (in which the respective method has already been introduced) 3. Implementation in the own class 4. Evaluation and reflection of the method by pupils and teachersIn the end, each participating school will have a wide selection of methods, addresses of cooperation partners in their home area, and concrete project opportunities. In an adapted form, they may be used to promote reading skills, reading abilities, and reading motivation. As a further result, there will be the ""fairy tale book"", which shall include traditional fairy tales from all participatin school as well as a travel diary as a result of the project mascot "" A bookworm on the road"".For the long term, participating in the project will support the development in the involved schools. Even after the conclusion of the project all teachers can have all the results of the project at their disposal, e. g. videos, photos, the method catalogne, read texts and so on. By getting to know each other cultures the children will become open minded towars cultural diversity."