"El título del proyecto Erasmus+ es ""Tastes Of Our Lands"". Ha sido llevado a cabo por escuelas de Italia, Holanda, Turquía y España. El principal objetivo del proyecto es apoyar a nuestros alumnos y profesores a estudiar idiomas y a motivarlos a aprender. Todo esto se ha hecho a través del tema de la gastronomía de cada región o país. Nuestros alumnos asisten a escuelas pequeñas y su visión del mundo no es demasiado amplia. Muchos no ven la necesidad de aprender en relación con sus ambiciones. A través de este Proyecto hemos querido mostrar una manera diferente de adquirir conocimientos.Nuestros alumnos viven en ciudades pequeñas y raramente conocen a gente de otros países, por lo tanto, a menudo no tienen suficientes oportunidades de hablar inglés fuera de la escuela. Muchos alumnos también creen que tampoco es importante aprender otros idiomas europeos. Las diferentes movilidades realizadas durante el proyecto les han mostrado la necesidad y la utilidad de aprender idiomas extranjeros. El hecho de alojarse en casas de familias, trabajar en grupos internacionales y participar en diferentes actividades conjuntas ha permitido a los alumnos y profesores a empezar a hablar inglés en situaciones reales y a colaborar conjuntamente0. Los alumnos y los profesores que han descubierto que no se pueden comunicar sin un buen conocimiento de idioma extranjero y que no tienen suficiente fluidez en inglés, han estado motivados a aprender. Las habilidades lingüísticas adquiridas han permitido a los alumnos obtener mejores resultados en sus exámenes finales de inglés. Las actividades con los alumnos se han integrado dentro de la asignatura de inglés especialmente, pero también en las áreas de TIC, Ciencias Sociales, Artes Escénicas y Ciudadanía. Los profesores involucrados en estas materias prepararon actividades relacionadas con el proyecto y se han incluido y evaluado dentro del currículo del curso. Las escuelas están situadas lejos las unas de las otras, pero están todas situadas en áreas donde la agricultura y sus productos son importantes, así que todos los participantes tienen cosas en común como punto de partida para entender las circunstancias de vida de los otros. Por esta razón escogimos el tema de la comida para explorar con nuestros alumnos. Varios grupos de alumnos prepararon recetas típicas de su región y posteriormente escribieron las instrucciones en inglés para compartir con los alumnos de las otras escuelas. También realizaron vídeos instructivos de las recetas en inglés, en los cuales aprendieron a elaborar un guion, grabar y editar los vídeos. Durante el Segundo año del Proyecto, los alumnos prepararon las recetas de los platos de los otros países siguiendo las instrucciones de los videos y de las recetas escritas. Simultáneamente a estas actividades, los profesores condujeron investigaciones sobre diferentes métodos didácticos para saber cómo enseñar a elaborar vídeos y ver qué método de explicación funciona mejor, si el texto o el vídeo. También se realizaron investigaciones sobre el método Flipped Learning comparándolo con métodos más tradicionales y sacando conclusiones conjuntamente. Los alumnos han podido ver otros países de la Unión Europea con sus muchas diversidades regionales, cosa que los ha hecho conscientes y orgullosos de su herencia e identidad regional, nacional y europea. Tanto alumnos como profesores han podido mostrar sus tradiciones y aprender de los otros sobre vocabulario regional, sitios emblemáticos de cada región y sobretodo sobre la gastronomía. Los participantes han podido darse cuenta de que aunque la cocina de los diferentes países es diferente, todas pertenecen a la misma familia de países europeos y así han podido desarrollar una mayor tolerancia hacia las otras religiones, creencias, tradiciones, costumbres y estilos de vida."

Shape Your Mind is an Erasmus+ school exchange partnership.Our project starts 01.09.2019 and it will last 24 months.We are Spain,Poland,Portugal,Turkey and Lithuania.In this project we will study digital competence and digital citizenship.The background of the project is that we donot have planned education and activities on digital citizenship and digital skills.In our education systems students do not have enough chance to practice,experience digital citizenship activities and skills.We will try to improve the participants’ digital skills(managing information,digital communication,transaction, problem solving) and digital citizenship skills (digital rights/responsibilities,digital security, digital crimes, digital commerce).With the planned activities,events we will also try to improve the participants creative,innovative and critical thinking skills.All these skills will help to build a healthy society and to make the participants ready for future digital society,digital economy and responsible digital citizens.In the project we will help students to decide their future professions.They will realize the future realities.They will understand what qualities they will need in the future, and future labour market.The activites will help them to learn/respect other cultures,values,life styles, beliefs, and thinking way.So these participants will be self-confident,courages and willing to set up their future job in any EU countries. With the help of their skills, they will overcome the troubles and problems in their life.The e-twining projects will also help us to reach our aims and objectives.In this project we have local activities and international activities.All partners will try to take as many students as to these activities.The surveys will be applied at least 50 % of the school students .the seminars will be given to the all students in the school.The seminars will be given on different days in a week.Nearly 1500 students will have seminars and surveys in total.Also we will have e-twining project and and at least 10 students from each school will join the project too.We have 5 LTTs and each LTT 25 participants will join.The participants will be choosen by the project team according to the criteria.And each partner will choose 1 student who has social/ economic obstacle or academic difficulty.Local media,social media and website will reach at least 10000 people in the project.All partners will prepare reports after the activities using surveys and different evaluation methods.They will share them with other partners, school administration and their local authorities.This will help them to plan the future activities and take these subject into teaching process.The teachers will plan/organize activities that they will try to take most students in.They will take care of equality of gender in these activities.In our activities we will invite families,so the volunteer families can take part in them.These methods will strengthen the relationship between students and parents. They will be aware of the importance of spending and sharing time together.The activities involve teamwork and speaking,discussing,sharing and listening each other.So they can learn/respect other participants’ view,thoughts,values,cultures and life styles.These skills will also reveal their leadership skills,taking responsibilities and making desicions.The discussions will help them to see the possible risks and find solutions.All these skills are necessary for their future professions and in labour market.They will learn by doing and it means the education is permanent and they can not forget easily. The project will raise a positive awareness on thesociety.Thye will learn importance of EU projects.They will see / live the importance of learning language,digital skills and education. The cooperation among students, teachers and families make/feel the participants more important for the society and teacher. In the project we will have guides,booklets,brochures,e-books for dissemination.These will be used by all target groups after the project ends.We can use these activities to produce ,organize new activities related to these subjects.Our project website will be used too. . Project outputs will be open source on both Project websites and school websites .In school websites the visitors will see the link of project website.they can use the project ,activities and objectives in their life.

When thinking of our school problems we realised that ESL was one of our main problem like in EU priorities.Decreasing ESL rates and getting ready our students for the future life ,future economy were our aims in the project. To reach these aims our teachers must be ready too.Thanks to project TPMs they improved their IT skills and helped the students.We found 5 partners who had the same aims and objectives.Slovakia,Poland and Turkiye had the ESL problem .And Romania and Bulgaria ESL rates were not as bad as our.They would share their good examples.Also all partners have the sameaim to get ready the students for future life and economy. We discussed our main aim, objectives and activities ,then prepared the project.When we reached our aim to decrease ESL rate, we also had reached our other objectives.Now our students are more conscious about future life ,future smart economy and future professions. So They came to school ,joined lessons and studied more. They now use technology more in teaching process.The seminars about using technology and safe internet helped the students how to reach necessary information and use them correctly.In the Project we had 2 main aims;to decrease the ESL level and develop the teachers’professions. We have reached our objectives with the help of activities(The report is on website)The career days helped students to shape their future professions.They’ve learnt the importanceof education in every part of life.The successful members of the professions are the model for them.National/international activities have helped the students to improve their language skills,to work in a team andtake responsibility and complete on time, to learn/respect other cultures,beliefs,religions,values and life styles.They havelearnt the meaning/ importance of democracy.Now they are more conscious about national/international problems and troubles,and can offer effective solutions.Now they knowwhat steps they should follow when theyhave problems to solve.The LTTs encourage the students to be more entrepreneur.They had chance to learn ,research the region on cultural trips.LTTs showed them the importance of IT and technology,so they are much more into technological development and use it in their life.Free corner activity helped them to develop their social skills to share their ideas withour hurting others.The TPMs were all completed.The partners had chance to learn ,research, compare the definite subjects on traditional teachingmethods/approaches.We discussed and offered some new methods/approaches on teaching process.Using IT and new applications were introduced and discussed how to be used in teaching process.The participating teachers are now more open-minded to new technologies and use them.TPMs have developed their professional improvement.After the TPMs they shared their experiences with other teachers in the school and local area and also helped them to have new ideas/thoughts on their subject.The dissemination activities have helped to take attention to the ESL problem and solutions of it.Other schools ,teachers are willing to learn and be part of the EU projects.The local community, students,teachers and families have more knowledge about EU community,beliefs, traditions, values and their life styles.The participant teachers,students and also families are still in touch after the project TPMs and LTTs,they still share their experiences,ideas and plans for future.The teachers are sharing good examples,new methods,approaches in their whatsapp groups,and meeting their students on social media and courage them to speak in English and produce new projects.Also online discussions help us to meet new ideas and complete ourobjectives and tasks.Thecinema day activitiy is a good example of it.The reports of TPMs were shared with other teachers,local desicion makers by the help of teacher meeting.English,math,literature and science camp activities have made relationship stronger between teachers and students.Also these camps made the teaching process more fun, active and unforgetable.The student-centered learning made the teaching process more effective

Not only the different European strategies (E.g. “Europe 2020” or the “Inclusion and Diversity Strategy”) see the issue of social inclusion as a major target - especially the different education acts of the different countries and the individual school policies make it one of their primary goals to face and challenge discrimination based on ethnic diversity. Here, our schools have a key function and a diverse school, a school without discrimination, a school, which supports the personality development, a liberal minded school, a tolerant and democratic school is the overall objective – not only in today’s society. Many different actions already accept the challenge and we engage in different projects that spread the message that all people are equal – regardless of ethnicity, ability, skin colour, socio-economic background, appearance, educational level, language spoken etc. Everybody’s chances are improved when understanding and acceptance are imprinted on the individual. This can best be done by positive experience and with this project we can make a next step and work on the issue at a higher level. Already when travelling to another country it becomes a little less likely for the respective person to become a National Socialist and with such a project we will even have a bigger impact on students, teachers, society in general and in the end on the European Union itself. 4 schools from 4 different European countries - the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, and Turkey - are planning to make a change by addressing different topics in the field of interest. We want to show that egoism and nationalism are not a solution - we can only benefit from a diverse society. To reach our goals in the years of the project we are planning 5 different meetings with students and teachers, which include different activities. The first meeting in the Netherlands will concentrate on self-awareness and the question how we see and define ourselves. It will be interesting to see if the ethnic background matters when defining your identity and we want to define the term identity for us. Of course, the first meeting will also be used to introduce each other and our schools and we want to present how diverse our schools are on a map. The second meeting is planned in Spain and will centre around the image of the other and how we see and perceive others. E.g. prejudices, stereotypes, traditions and religion will be looked at, this, by e.g. an artistic approach. The schools will also introduce their countries and we want to know what distinguishes us from the other. Each country will make a “kahoot” with questions that the others will answer After getting to know the others and us it’s time to change perspectives and to walk into someone else’s shoes to enhance understanding, acceptance and tolerance at the third meeting in Turkey. We will focus on the question “What does it take to feel at home?” by interviewing immigrants and refugees and by simulating the different stages from being a migrant to being a citizen. A creative approach will come in handy as well. Consequently, it’s now time to question how we can benefit from a diverse society and what our schools can do to welcome diversity. . At the meeting in Denmark we will set joint goals for everyone to be put into practice until the next meeting. Each country will also arrange and plan a “national evening” with food, songs and dances from the region. The last meeting in The Netherlans focuses on global and personal goals with regards to migrant issues in the future. Students and politicians will be addressed and questioned. During the project, different methods and approaches will be applied to reach our individual goals and to create many different products, which will be distributed to be used in classes, other schools and communities (e.g. slideshows, booklets, posters, shirts, presentations, calendar, recipe book, book, videos, comics, simulated game). A project homepage and a Facebook page will document our project and its progress. The impact will be positive in many ways and our encouragement will motivate them. For students as well for teachers the project establishes a consolidation of the foreign language and the intercultural competences. The contact with students from other countries will also be interesting for the parents of the native students. They will learn about the customs of the European countries. Finally, we want to implement our achievements, results and learning input in our schools’ curricula. In the end we hope that we can make a lasting impact on the European Union and we want to make a change to ensure that our students are prepared for Europa after their school life.

<< Objectives >>We want to achieve-raise participants’ awareness on environmental problems,effects,results,and solutions -to make solutions(5R) a lifestyle and have a healthy society and environment-to raise participants’ EU awareness, identity and citizenship skills ;to improve digital competences,personal professional skills-to learn/cooperate organizations-to increase capacity of our school-to be successful eco-schoolto improve cultural diversity-to includefewer opportunities students in project<< Implementation >>We have2 TPM;the project agreements,activities ,results and outputs will be checked and necessary measures will be taken if necessary.We can manage the project easily .All partners know their tasks and complete5 LTTs;ın each LTT wehavespecial tasks and responsiblities,so when we completed all LTTs we will learn our 5R and howto make them our life style.We also learn howto be successful eco-school5ME;to disseminate our results and intelelctual outputs<< Results >>We will learn the importance of environment ,environmental problems and their effects on our life.We will learn green practices,green ways aand how to transfer them tyo our life.We will have 2 intellectual outputs; an educaion kit to increase awareness and teach what green practices and solutions the second is guide book and e-guide book about how to adopt 5R in our life;how to be eco-friendly citizen and protect the nature,biodiversity and forest,how to be eco schoolwewill have 5 MEs