"""Rhythm is Life, helps you survive"" project helped us meet the European Commission's 2020 strategy in terms of improving the basic skills of the new generations for a better future for the European Union. It developed the fundamental skills necessary in social work, entrepreneurship, in a participatory spirit, in artistic, linguistic and digital skills. As a project team and coordinators of partner schools, we have worked to improve the lack of basic skills in foreign languages, music and ICT. During the project work we focused on practical training. Since music is a matter of great importance in the participating schools we put music at the center. By bringing our students into music within the schools, we have engaged them with education, we have increased their motivation and developed their basic skills.In this project the English and ICT clubs have supported our project work as students in developing the foreign language and digital skills, thus favoring their future employment.The working methodology was based on the conception and development of extracurricular activities by establishing 3 student circles. In these clubs, students studied music, English and technology. In each of these clubs the teachers worked with the students and produced real materials, activities and situations. The teachers developed the club work program and supervised the students. The school's administrative staff supported the teachers in all activities.Preparatory activitiesMeetings were held before all the mobilities to define the intent and purpose of the project, we carefully chose the participants, prepared the mobility agreements and with commitment to quality, we defined the various initial, intermediate and final activities. These meetings were held by the project coordinators and chaired by the school directors. Computer tools were used to improve and qualify the digital skills of the participants. (web platforms, insert images, documents, comments, online forms, ...). Communication between the project representative and the participants took place throughout the duration of the project, even in a mixed way. Language preparation took place via web applications. Furthermore, useful presentations were created for participants before, during and after each mobility. All the preparatory activities have been evaluated and monitored with online questionnaires before and after each mobility using paper forms and Google forms.We had 6 meetings with the following contents:5/8 November 2017 HUNGARYDuring this opening meeting the koordinators met personally, the details of the project work were discussed and the preliminary organisations started.26 FEBRUARY / 2 MARCH 2018 GREECEAs for ICT we created the project website, organized web game competitions, started e-twinning accounts and managed a partnership. We chose the project Logo.14/18 MAY, 2018 ITALYAs for the main topic, that is MUSIC we have created school hymns; re-elaborated popular traditional songs; performed a singing competition, which was rather a folk songs show; visited higher-level musical institutes the Music High School in Sorrento and the Music Conservatory; organized concerts: one at the church in Massaquano and one at the end of the meeting in Moiano school.12/16 NOVEMBER 2018 ITALY Regarding the topic ENGLISH LANGUAGE each partner have prepared a theatrical work in English; performed a singing competition in English; acted role plays, listened to songs in English, invited famous people to school16/23 MARCH 2019 HUNGARYWith regards to the main topic, that is MUSIC, we concluded the activities planned with the students: sang school hymns and project anthem in the languages of the partner countries, as planned; re-elaborated popular traditional songs; performed our songs; organized concert at the end of the meeting.24/28 June 2019 TURKEYClosure meeting when we evaluated the results and the impact; and discussed the final report.Dissemination (within the school, on other schools, on the territory) has been carried out since the beginning of the project on different levels:We held meetings with families and some press agencies based on the presentation of the project; The project was presented to the teaching staff in the schools; For every mobility we met the local Mayor, deputy Mayor and councilor for education; Brochures, flyers and posters were created to publicize the meetings."

"The subject of our project ""Clean Water Sources for the Future of Europe"", as the name implies, concerned activities focused on the protection of water resources in order to save them for future generations. Schools from Poland, Italy, Turkey and Bulgaria participated in the project, which lasted two years. At the time of acceptance of our application form, there was a school from Portugal in our group, unfortunately this school resigned from participating in the project. That is why, after consultations with national agencies, we decided to change the action plan. Therefore, we relocated selected mobility and planned an additional LTTA visit in Poland.During the implementation of the project, we undertook many activities aimed at overcoming cultural barriers (presentations of schools, regions, countries, coffee and tea meetings during international visits, cultural trips) and activities resulting from the subject of the project (local trips to water intakes, drinking water sources, activities art sensitizing to the problem of lack of clean water and access to drinking water in many regions of the world, thematic conferences organized during international meetings).At the stage of summarizing the application, we assumed that approximately 1,200 people would benefit from our activities. During the implementation of the project, organized meetings, happenings, dissemination events and other local activities attracted a much larger number of people, including not only those who were directly involved in the implementation of planned activities.Thanks to the project, the participants developed their speaking skills in English, learned foreign cultures and thanks to the ""clash"" of representatives of the Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim religions, they had the opportunity to develop a sense of acceptance and tolerance of different beliefs, cultures and traditions.One of the most important project results was the common creation of a Water Protection Card. It is a document, a declaration of all partners regarding the protection of water sources for future generations. In addition, a great achievement of our cooperation are numerous documents presenting the theme of water in art, literature and everyday life (economy, trade). In addition, we have created tourist guides about the regions where our partners came from. We hope that these documents will be creatively used by those interested and will inspire others to take new actions to improve the quality of life."

CONTEXTWe are 5 European schools which want to join our efforts to increase the students’ knowledge and interest in subjects related to the cultural heritage of our countries – Geography, History. Moreover, in a world touched by globalisation in which individuals have a tendency to overlook their own national heritage, we need our students to go back to their own roots by knowing the customs and traditions which have been passed on from generation to generation. We are of the opinion that if you don’t know your roots, you don’t know your foundation and if you don’t know your foundation, you can never thrive. Therefore, we want to cultivate our students’ patriotic feelings, making them look back to their past and their origins, while at the same time opening their horizons to other cultures and their specificities. PARTICIPANTSStudents – the target group is made up of approximately 1000 students aged 11-14, 100 of them having special education needs. 150-200 of them will be selected as members of the work group (minimum 30 / country, but the number may vary according to the size of the target group up to 40). They will be at the core of our project, will be involved in the activities of preparation before the exchanges, 100 of them will participate in the activities during exchanges, will disseminate the information to the other members of the target group after the exchanges. Accompanying teachers – 2 teachers/country/exchange. One of them will be the coordinator, while the other one will be a History/Geography/Literature/Arts/IT teacherOBJECTIVESThe main purpose of the project is to increase the cultural and intercultural awareness of all the actors involved in its implementation. However, being specifically targeted to students, we have set the following objectives for them:OS1. To increase the cultural awareness of at least 80% of students, making them more knowledgeable about the history, geography, literature, customs, traditions, dances, musicOS2. To increase intercultural awareness and competence of all the students, making them more knowledgeable about the other European countries, history, geography, literature, customs, traditions, dances, music.OS3 To improve students’ ICT skills by having them use mobile applications and online tools for presentations, activities, evaluation, creation of outputsOS4 To improve students’ transferrable skills – communication, research and analysis, team work, adaptability, organisationOS5 To improve students’ motivation for learning and self-confidenceAt the level of the institutions, our objectives are:1.To improve the European dimension and international cooperation2.To motivate teachers3.To improve the communication and cooperation among all school actorsMAIN ACTIVITIESWe plan to organize 5 exchanges, each dedicated and hosted by each partner:1. C1 - The Italian heritage – hosted by Italy in February 20202. C2 – The Lithuanian Heritage – hosted by LT in May 20203. C3 – The Romanian Heritage – October 20204. C4 – The Turkish Heritage – March 20215. C5 – The Polish Heritage – June 2021RESULTSTangible results include: presentations created by students (30), workshop materials, online brochures (5), the final output “The European heritage”, guest students’ travel journals (80), the eTwinning space, eTwinning forum, photo albums (5), Europass mobility documents (112), certificates of attendance (112) initial and final evaluation forms, mobility documents (agenda, methodology, questionnaires, evaluation forms) etc. IMPACTThe institutions will benefit from the good practices acquired and transferred through the participation of students and teachers in the exchanges. They will promote intercultural learning and will open to new models that will benefit the students in the medium and long run, too.We will develop the European dimension of the school and will be better prepared to manage projects under Erasmus+, both the experienced schools and the less experienced ones. This project will lay the foundation for future cooperation among schools through eTwinning and Erasmus+