ARCH (Artistic & Religious Culture & Heritage) project aims at enhancing the Religious Heritage (RH) and its impact on society at local/national/European level. Religious buildings, together with their contents and all the architects, artists and musicians, festivals and other markers of cultural heritage are important for how people publicly define themselves, and identify with a group or a tradition. Acknowledging them therefore helps people to be themselves. On the other hand, good educational practice will always be that which moves beyond the binaries and boundaries of stereotypical, fixed identities. In the constantly changing religious makeup of European societies, religious diversity is one of the gifts of the EU. Since the fear of the other causes barriers between religions/nations and leads to divisions and fall of civilizations we must call for the gift of reconciliation. When this openness is achieved, schools become places where not only any individual may be who they are, but where diverse communities are brought together to flourish.Six schools take part in this project. The Greek SHS of Thesprotiko Vasileios Zormpas, the Italian IIS Margherita Hack, the Turkish Sehit Halil Ibrahim Yıldırım Anatolian Imam Hatip High School, the Czech Gymnazium Aloise Jiraska, the French Org. de gestion du lycée privé Bahuet and the Hungarian Közgazdasági Politechnikum.During the project there will be activities that will discover the RH of Europe from different points of view. Participants will spot local/regional religious buildings and monuments. Also, activities will be held about religious art and traditions/festivals of each religion. Last, we will examine issues related to religion and society to promote the humanitarian aspect of the project.The methodology applied throughout the project will involve both formal and non-formal/informal and experiential learning. Educational visits to sites of great religious interest combined with seminars and workshops will activate students’ interest and raise their awareness on religious heritage.The results of the project have to do with the engagement of participants and interested parties in raising awareness, protecting and promoting RH so as to bring sustainable development of a local/national level. Additionally the inspiring of the young generation, the exchange of good practices, the dialogue between religious communities, cognitive skills and the openness of school to different religious traditions are expected results.The impact of the project involves the participant schools, the local population and other relevant stakeholders and organizations. All together will work in order to save RH and harness its power to drive socio-economic development in European cities. Finally, we expect it to be a journey of generations, for our historic resentments and hatreds. It is not agreement on all things, for that is impossible, but the acceptance of diversity, even disagreement and yet love in all things.

HOME (Human Out-Migration in Europe) is a project which aims at bringing to light various aspects that generated vast human movements across Europe over a 100-year period - from after WW1 to the present day. These aspects will cover the major causes, organization, assistance, employment and minor migrants of out-migration. Human migrations have been the base of the ever-evolving Europe as we know it. With migration comes the unknown and the unfamiliar. Whether it be on cultural, linguistic, religious or societal levels. Human diversities have forever been brought together within the various European countries, but they all have one common root: the fact that, at one moment, the decision or obligation to leave a birth place was taken. Each European generation is ADNned with an unexpected diversity of origins and is very often oblivious to this fact. It is for this reason that our project has been created: to let students realize, through their own research and findings, through sharing and learning from each other, that they may each be a true living proof of the out-migration which has created so many rich differences in each of us.Six schools will take part in this project : The French Organisme de gestion privée Lycée Bahuet from Brive la Gaillarde, the Cypriot LYKEIO POLEMIDION from Limassol, The Italian IISS C. Marchesi from Mascalucia Catania, the spanish IES TORRELLANO from Elche, the hungarian KOZGAZDASAGI POLITECHNIKUM ALTERNATIV GIMNAZIUM from Budapest, the German Gymnasium Am Stadtgarten from Saarlouis.In each schools, mobilities will concern 20-25 students, aged 15-18, some of them with fewer opportunities and 2-3 teachers of English, arts, history, geography, etc.During the project there will be activities to help the students understand, visualize, experiment and hear about out-migration. Framed around a set of 6 themes covering out-migration movements, participants will learn by doing or between peer. Moreover, when they will visit refugees camp, center for asylum seekers, students will talk and share with migrants. Through educational visits to local/regional sites and associations, participants will experience and interchange on migratory activities. These meetings will not only help students realize the diversity and richness that can spring from exodus, but will also help them question how human movement has evolved throughout time. The project is aimed at raising awareness of the importance of accepting others, of realizing that each person has a story and history. It will prove that we must develop empathy and understanding towards each other if we want our World to survive in Harmony and Peace for the generations to come. The exchanges and eye-opening activities and visits will help the construction of a solid human understanding towards others.

CONTEXTAfter years of public and political educational debates in relation to sustainable development, 2015 marks a turning point due to COP21 (the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Paris). The wish was to implement pedagogic projects in relation to sustainable development, with the aim of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.Our societies face inequalities, unfair, unstable and less effective societies. To reach social equity is a moral objective and ,at the same time, practical. We want to assume it in relation to our project Unified for a Sustainable Future comprised of 5 countries of Europe: France in the West, Spain and Greece in the South, Belgium in the Nord and Romania in the South-East.This project offers not only experiencies that come from our geopolitical, historic and cultural diversity, but also that come from some previous projects. In this way, this project is based on the principles of complementarity and innovation. The dimensions of sustainable development will be integrated in a transversal way, to be able to give an answer to its multiple, social and environmental issuesOBJECTIVE. To allow teachers and students of 5 European countries to collaborate in relation to education and sustainable education in its 4 dimensions: social inclusion, sustainable development, economic growth and social security. In the same way, the social, pedagogic and cultural objectives of the project are primary goals in the European education policy: social inclusion, sustainable investment, the acquisition of aptitudes and competences. There are social, culturally and pedagogical objective. Benefits:- Directs: 120 students (15-18 years old, general, vocational and technological schools, derived from different social environments) and teachers from 5 schools.- Indirects: 3000 (students, teachers, parents of students, school, cultural, local economic, regional communities).The activities (of preparation, evaluation, realisation of finished products, local activities of learning, of training of teachers) will lead to these RESULTS:-Immaterials :aptitudes, knowledge, skills, scientific , organizational, relational, communication, intercultural competences.-Tangibles: calendars, documents, power-points, photos, posters, pedagogic kits, charters, dictionary, website, optional course of sustainable development, green equipped spaces. METHODOLOGY. Variety of dynamic approaches to the concepts: conferences, debates, workshops, visits, thematic excursions, practical and artistic workshops (sorting in the schools, fabrication of ecological products, creation of a green space in the school, posters, photos, videos). Methods: focus groups, class discussion, surveis, observation, questionnaires, researchs, interviews, oral presentations, slideshow, videos.Every school will coordinate a thematic segment: social inclusion (Lycée Bahuet,Brive, France); social security (IES Azcona, Spain), economic growth (CN Carol I, Romania), sustainable development (ITHCF Gembloux, Belgique et Geniko Lykeio Syrou, Gréce). As a basic principle we will have the collaborative and participative management.