“Expanding learning mobility to new audiences through school – civil society partnership” stems from the underexplored potential of individual pupil mobility in Erasmus+. Its current scale is insignificant compared to the ambitious goals set by the EU in terms of numbers and underprivileged pupil profiles to reach. Schools are now not able to provide a quality educational experience to mobile pupils, lack appropriate recognition procedures and express the need of support by third parties in mobility. Furthermore, most schools lack a strategic approach to international education, of which pupil mobility is an element.The project objectives are to:1. Develop a quality educational framework for individual blended pupil mobility with underprivileged audiences2. Empower teachers to effectively promote, support, recognise and leverage pupil mobility in general, with less advantaged audiences in particular3. Engage schools and civil society organisations in recurring Erasmus+ projects, as a part of their overall European and international strategies4. Build and promote a sustainable model for partnerships between schools and organisations specialised in pupil mobilityThe project activities are:- The development of a Guidebook to individual pupil mobility with underprivileged audiences, through cooperation between schools and civil society organisations, as an Intellectual Output of the project. The Guidebook in English will include sections dedicated to: the educational framework for individual pupil mobility, recommendations on recognition of learning outcomes, practical and risk management aspects, inclusion of pupils with fewer opportunities, whole school approach to internationalisation and the cooperation model between schools and civil society organisations. The last section focused on the cooperation model will be published as a brochure and translated into French, Spanish and Latvian.- Small scale individual blended mobility of pupils for a period of 2 months, which will serve as a pilot for the Guidebook content and for the cooperation model developed in the project partnership. The pupils – in total 12, with 3 sent and hosted in each project country – will all be selected among those with diverse underprivileged backgrounds.- Two short term staff training events, each involving 29 participants: teachers of the schools and educators of the civil society organisations of the project. The first event focuses on hands-on implementation of the mobility educational framework, capitalising on and feeding into the relevant elements of the project Guidebook. The second one is centred on sustainability and future planning for embedding pupil mobility in the long-term internationalisation strategies of schools.- Five multiplier events to disseminate project outcomes to different stakeholders. The first event will involve 50 participants from different countries, including school and civil society representatives, policy makers, researchers and experts from the field. The following four events will be organised at national level, each to reach 20-30 different school and civil society stakeholders in the project countries.All the activities will be embedded in the cooperation between schools and civil society organisations, using the respective expertise and outreach of the project partners. In particular for developing the Guidebook, organising pupil mobility and the national multiplier events, bilateral collaboration in each project country will be key.The results expected - next to the production of a practical Guidebook tool, the contents and resources of the international staff training events, and the new competences of the learning activities participants - will focus mainly on building a sustainable future for individual pupil mobility. This includes increased interest of schools and civil society organisations in cooperation, in pupil mobility and in development of internationalisation strategies. The central result is a quality framework for inclusive individual pupil mobility, with effective educational approaches, outreach to wider school communities and clear task division for the different actors involved. Finally, the results will include commitment and readiness of the schools and civil society organisations, as well as their staff involved, to carry out concrete mobility projects with less privileged audiences within the Erasmus+ framework.Through these results the project will have a strong learning impact on the direct participants of the activities and capacity building impact on the participating organisations, including their staff and learners. Beyond the consortium, other schools, civil society actors and policy makers will gain awareness on needs and opportunities for pupil mobility, and concrete tools for acting upon them.In the long-term we expect the project to contribute to the growth and development of individual pupil mobility across Europe.

Intercultural,global,democratic culture:different terminology is used respectively by the European Union,the OECD and the Council of Europe to refer to similar competencies that Ministers of Education are called on to teach and assess in their school systems to better prepare pupils for living in diverse societies and working in diverse labour markets.Policy developments related to the implementation of the EU Paris declaration are taking place,such as the inclusion of citizenship education in school curricula and teachers’ training.However,practice in the field of teachers training on intercultural learning(ICL)and its assessment is scarce as detected through the Forum on Intercultural Learning and Exchange organized by Fondazione Intercultura and studies by the European Commission.Moreover,citizenship education does not necessarily address ICL,and though mobility opportunities are often promoted these are not linked with dealing with diversity in the class.Finally, long-term pupils mobility for the development of ICL,is recognised officially only in 3 EU countries (Italy, Austria, Belgium French speaking).Therefore the objectives of the project ‘Intercultura Learning for Pupils and Teachers’ were:- Develop teacher trainings for the promotion and assessment of intercultural competences within upper secondary education,fostering the understanding of the benefits of pupils’ mobility for ICL and internationalisation of classrooms and schools.- Develop and test an holistic approach for promotion of intercultural competences within upper secondary education,combining mobility experiences with in-class learning, and building on the expertise of non-formal education organisations.- Encourage policy reform aimed at the inclusion of ICL in teachers’ lifelong learning(LLL)- Encourage policy reforms aimed at the inclusion of ICL in school curricula,also through the recognition of the pupil’s study period abroad in long-term intercultural exchange programmes.To address these objectives,the European Federation for Intercultural Learning-the federation of AFS pupil exchange organisations in Europe- joined forces with 8 other organisations: the European School Heads Association representing school principals in Europe, the French German Youth Office (Germany/France),InterCultur(Germany)and Fondazione Intercultura(Italy) providing teachers’ training on ICL based on expertise with pupil exchanges, AFS France and Belgium French members of the EFIL who have sound experience with teachers’ training and workshops for pupils on ICL,Lycée Faure(France) and Ecole Internationale le Verseau(Belgium) with experience on pupils’ mobility and interest in ICL. The worldwide network AFS Intercultural Programs and other AFS organisations supported the project partners to have a wider reach (Turkey, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Spain).The main activities of the project have been:- the drafting and piloting of teacher training sessions on intercultural learning for a in-person 3 day training which can be adapted into a 1 or 2 day programme.- the drafting and piloting of a 50 activities based on non-formal education methods to promote intercultural learning in the classroom based on the whole school approach. The collection of activities is called the 'Toolbox' and each activity is referenced to the Competences for democratic culture of the Council of Europe and can be searched by section (whole school approach, cross-curricular, specific subject, international mobility) or by competence.- the drafting of two studies including recommendations to contribute to policy reform: A Brief Overview on Intercultural Learning in Initial Teacher Education and Continuing Professional Development for teachers of Upper Secondary Schools, and A Brief Overview on Intercultural Learning in Curricula of Upper Secondary Schools and the Recognition of Long-Term Individual Pupil Mobility.All project outputs can be found at www.intercultural-learning.euThe main results of the project are 212 teachers trained and 3633 pupils reached with the Toolbox activities in 4 countries (Belgium, France, Italy and Germany), and 45.000 people reached overall thanks to the dissemination efforts. The project outputs also contributed largely to support the EU policy developments under the European Education Area.The long term benefit of the project is that it has empowered participating organisations in delivering on a regular basis teacher trainings, and the studies produced can be used for advocacy and support policy reform.