Digitalization is going to change future work fundamentally. Especially in times of COVID-19 crisis and social distancing. Thus, vocatinal and educational training needs to adapt to these circumstances. New technologies have to be learned and applied. The Gewerbliche und Hauswirtschaftliche Schule Horb (BS Horb) is in the process of establishing a ‘learning factory’ in which students get to know new technologies and experience “Industrie 4.0”. In order to master the demanding tasks in a “smart factory”, skilled employees of the future need to be trained. One part of the training will be transferred to the virtual world before dealing with the real work environment. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will therefore take a major part in our future professional life.For the intended ERASMUS+ project an exemplaric tooling process of a milling macine was chosen. In order to manufacture components with a modern milling machine, the engine has to be prepared (set-up). Therefore, tools have to be chosen, jigs installed, zero points determined and CNC programmes have to be written and tested. It ist he ambition to create a digital world in which all these tasks can be practiced before working with the real machines.

“Healthy Minds of Europe” is a project which involves 6 schools from European countries including The United Kingdom as the project coordinator, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Croatia and Poland. This is a project whose main objective is to promote among the pupils of the partner schools the importance of sport, exercise and a healthy diet as well as to make them aware of all the consequences smoking and taking drugs have. All the work will be completed by accomplishing particular tasks and activities. The project will involve pupils of all the educational levels, both boys and girls, pupils with special needs, teachers, school staff, parents and local community. The theories applied in this program are Situated cognition and Distributed cognition. That being supported by technology, creates more authentic learning environments. Also the use of innovative communication technology, which has become an integral part of our lives, is of vital importance. It will definitely encourage young learners to get involved in the project and enable them easier access to all the project's materials, resources and necessary information. Besides, the project's coordinators as well as the pupils will be able to communicate by means of the e-platform.The main purpose of our project is promoting a healthy lifestyle in various aspects and areas of life by means of innovative technology such as the e-platform which is one of the main sources of communication between the partner schools and the project's materials. As we have experience relevant to the work, we will be able to successfully achieve the project's objectives with the benefit not only for our school but also for the local society and the region. Health promotion is currently a top priority, therefore, international cooperation opens up new horizons and gives new perspectives on challenges of the contemporary world. This way, we wish to present to our pupils, their parents and local community the importance of healthy diet and physical activity as well as the benefits of such attitudes. The benefits resulting from the attitudes and the habits shaped in the course of the project implementation may bear fruit in the participants' future. The targets of our project also include creating and promoting healthy school environment; promoting healthy eating habits; caring for pupils' well-being, developing and boosting their self-esteem and developing their social skills; supporting pupils with special needs (both physical and educational); making the pupils aware of danger of smoking and taking drugs.A series of activities to achieve the established objectives has been planned. One of them is creating The European Cook Book including recipes for traditional meals based on healthy food. Another task is a new sports game for all the pupils of the partner schools. Besides, we will organize a European Festival and make Healthy School Posters which will be use as teaching materials in all the partner schools and in each school pupils and teachers will start a yard where they will grow fresh vegetables and herbs. The products will be used in school kitchens and served with the meals.We wish all the final products of the project tasks to become a useful source of pedagogical and educational knowledge for other teachers and pupils. The final result of the project is greater awareness of pupils, teachers, parents and local community how important the role of school in health promotion is. It is worth highlighting that this is the role of all the European schools. We also hope that the project will make both the pupils and the teachers change their lifestyle for better.As long-term benefits from the project we wish the tasks and activities to be strictly integrated with the schools’ work plans and to be continued when the project is completed. The tasks and activities will also become an integral part of school subjects as some elements and outcomes of the activities will be included in the subjects’ performance plans. The final products and results of particular tasks will be used as teaching aids during obligatory and extra classes in all the partner schools in order to sustain developed healthy habits and attitudes.

The internet, which has started to take place in every area of our lives, has led to some new transformations with the opportunities provided by the communication among people. While these transformations are mostly for the benefit of humanity, the internet, which has become a part of our lives, does not always have positive results. Excessive use of internet technologies that make daily life easier presents several problems. Some users can use the internet for a long time, never leaving their places or neglecting their daily life activities. Due to the unhealthy / problematic internet use behavior, these users have become increasingly confronted with more problems and psychological distortions in their lives. When the proper use of the internet cannot be achieved, there is the potential to negatively affect human life and create a dependency. According to the results of the European Online Children's survey (2010), it was revealed that 60% of children are online almost every day and that the age of using the Internet decreases gradually. As a result of our research with our project partners, we observed that many EU countries have the same problems.As a result of our meetings with our project partners in accordance with the project partnership structure;- students spend an average of 4-5 hours with the internet in their daily life,-The negative attitudes towards school among the reasons of indifference are at the top of the list,- Teachers in our participating schools need to be renewed in the age of technology;-The unscheduled and unplanned use of technology has emerged as academic failure due to the decrease in the motivation of the course.Project Objectives:Increasing teacher competencies in the use of conscious technology;Effective use of technology and internet in education,Effective use of technology in the courses and the students ' ability to motivate the course,Ability to combat technology dependence,Safe internet use and cyber bullying skills,The ability to plan and implement social and sportive activities which will support development of students through regular children's games will increase.In our project, there are 5 education, training and learning mobilities. These mobilities will take place in Furulundskolan School in Sweden on March 2020, in Hacı Suphiye Bolunmez Imam Hatip Secondary School in Turkey on May 2020, in Ekpedeftırıa Vassılıadı School in Greece on October 2020, in Stejarska Tehnicka Skola Oizijek school in Croatia on March 2021, and in Instituto Di Istruzione Superore, in the Vinci - Giorgio School in Italy on May 2021.Our project partners will participate in all international activities in the Kasımiye Secondary School school and will play an active role in our project at local events.In our project, we have agreed to give Europass mobility certificate, Europass CV and participation certificates to the participants.-In our project, our participants will create a guide for using web-2 tools,-supporting children at risk of technological addiction by contacting them about the use of technology consciously,- In order to raise awareness of cyber bullying, educational short films and posters will be prepared with students in all partner country schools,-In the case of safe internet use, in all our partner schools, parents will be presented with the participation of local representatives and handbooks will be distributedThe traditional game book will be prepared in the time period from the past to the present, which includes traditional games, and the sustainability of our project will be continued after the end of the project.

The EU’s plan for tackling early school leaving aims to reduce the average drop-out rate to below 10% by 2020. To give their contribution to this ambitious goal, 8 organisations (schools and training providers) from 7 EU countries developed the idea for the project “Math & Motivation”. The main aim of the M&M project was to improve basic skills of secondary school students in the sphere of math and sciences and reduce dropout rate in Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain. This aim was achieved through: - development and testing of Collaborative methodology and implementing it in an on-line e-platform- development and testing of a Curriculum with lesson plans for improving math, science and literacy skills of school students- improving the competences of teachers into creating and applying innovative teaching methods and tools (including ICT) in their classroom in order to increase the students motivation to be more actively engaged in their learning process and improving their academic resultsThe innovation that M&M project offered was the combination of three innovative teaching methods (self/peer learning, gamification and flipped learning) into one complex Collaborative methodology available in the form of theoretical guidelines as well as a base of an e-learning platform for collaborative learning: an online environment for teachers that supports modern approaches and models in learning. The platform can be used by teachers and students with the strong focus on achieving learning outcomes with the use of peer learning, quizzes and ability to check-mark rather than grade individual students. The direct target groups and beneficiaries of the M&M project were math and science teachers and secondary school students in the partner countries and in Europe (more than 140 teachers and 430 students involved in total). In the course of 2 years (September 2017-August 2019) the project partnership put many efforts and dedication on order to achieve the aims and results drafted in the initial proposal. During the first year was created IО1 – The Toolkit for teachers, consisting of the Collaborative methodology and the Curriculum aiming at increasing math and science skills. It was presented during the LTTA staff training in Italy (March 2018) aiming to provide the participants opportunity to share and exchange knowledge and good practices, learn the new methodology and to create the program and activities for the national cascade trainings. Based on the feedback, suggestions and comments of the participants in the event the Toolkit was improved and finalised before the end of the first year of the project. The national cascade trainings took place at the beginning of school year 2018/2019 in all partner countries. The aim of these events was to acquaint more teachers with the innovative toolkit and engage them in the further testing of the methodology and online platform in real classroom environment. The second project year was dedicated to the work on IO2 – Collaborative learning e-tools platform. All partners worked hard to set up the online learning environment, fill it in with content and test it among the target group – teachers and secondary school students. The piloting of the platform was implemented in the period May-July 2019. The last month of the project (August 2019) was used for finalization of the platform and improvements based on the results of the national testings. All products and results in the frame of Math & Motivation project were widely disseminated on the national multiplier events during the final months of the project implementation. Considering the feedback, interest and comments received during the whole project duration by interested parties at different occasions, it could be concluded that the project and its activities had and will continue to have a very positive impact on the participating organisations as well as on the direct target group – teachers and students, thus providing a positive influence at local and national level. All teachers who participated in the different stages of the project declared with certainty that they will continue to use the e-platform and the toolkit in their future work. They all considered M&M products as an innovative and attractive supplement to the formal school activities that could increase the students’ motivation in their learning and improve their peer to peer connection. The students themselves were very happy to participate in the project and stated that they would like to continue to use the platform during the next school year. The attractiveness and efficiency of the method will help to ensure the sustainability of the project results.

Active Citizenship for Sustainable Learning is a three-year ERASMUS+ strategic school partnership. It involved eight secondary schools from Croatia, England, France, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Spain. The latter cater for pupils of diverse ethnic and cultural origins. Most of these learners come from underprivileged families with low opportunities for learning, travelling and self-educating. They often lack motivation, ignore the importance of foreign languages and ICT in the labour market. Many of these learners usually give up when they face difficulties and often leave school early without any qualification. Therefore, our partnership will primarily focus on these learners.On the one hand, we first intended to enhance our learners’ motivation and investment in learning thanks to ICT, to offer them an opportunity to acquire oral communication skills in foreign languages and to develop entrepreneurial skills. On the other hand, we wanted to offer them an opportunity to meet their European neighbours, to discover European cultures in native place and to put forward their own culture, to develop intercultural skills, and thus, to build their European citizenship.To implement our partnership and hit our objectives we shared tasks amongst us according to each other’s experience and expertise. We compared our teaching methods, exchanged our practices and combined our know-how. Besides, a five-day ICT workshop was organized for teachers in Lithuania in January 2016. They learnt how to use a variety of ICT tools (eg Evernote, Blendspace) and two digital skills training approaches: the creation of digital stories (Storybird, Storyjumper). They also learnt how to use pictures, videos, flash animation, smart phones and tablets, how to implement a flipped classroom model and to place and to share all created materials on a dynamic project website. Moreover, four transnational project meetings were organized. These meetings offered teachers the possibility to observe classes abroad and to compare. Finally, they practiced foreign languages and got familiar with the European cultural diversity.As regards to our learners, we first made preliminary assessments and rated our pupils’ comfort/ability level on a number of skills. Based on the results we created small groups that blended abilities and backgrounds, and incorporated team-building activities carefully adapted to their abilities and possibilities. Besides, we had them complete tasks that involved using and developing ICT and oral communication skills that they would likely use in their future professional life. Moreover, we chose assignment topics and tasks that were related to the real world, and could be connected to our learners’ lives and environment. Finally, they participated in three ten-day active citizenship language camps which were organized in three different partner countries. These meetings put them in authentic communication situations amongst other European learners of their age, offered them good opportunities to develop team spirit, to gain sense of responsibility, to high up their self-confidence and self-esteem, to enlarge their cultural horizons and to foster tolerance.To ensure the efficiency of our strategy, various evaluation tools were developed and used. Communication between partners via Zoom.us and WhatsApp were frequent to ensure the best follow up of the partnership activities. To disseminate our results we created a Facebook page, a YahooGroup and a YouTube channel and published articles in the local and regional press. All results and outputs of our project have been shared freely on the project website www.ac4sl.eu so that learners and teachers in Europe and around the world could get inspired by them. An international conference was held in Paris in May 2018 to officially disseminate our outputs. To sustain our partnership and its results we have agreed to continue our cooperation beyond the three years of the project via E-twinning and construct a sustainable development module to incorporate into the schools’ curriculum. As a result, this partnership not only helped our learners, about five hundred, to acquire new skills in ICT, foreign languages, entrepreneurial and intercultural skills and to build their European citizenship, but has raised their future social inclusion chances as well. Teachers involved, around sixty, were given the opportunity to develop their language and intercultural skills and to have learnt how to incorporate innovative digital teaching tools in their practices and how to make their classes more engaging and more challenging for their pupils.