"The IES Eras de Renueva, coordinator of this Erasmus project has extensive experience in this field having organised multiple activitiesOur center participated, together with twenty-five other European schools from nineteen countries, in the sessions in which the document ""The European Charter for Democratic Schools without Violence"" was written, in Strasbourg in 2004, organised by the Council of Europe. The ""Peace Day"" has been celebrated every year, with literary, musical and artistic activities in which the protagonists have always been the students.Through this project, attempts have been made to raise awareness about the importance of Human Rights and democratic values ​​to promote tolerance and fight hate speech. It has been intended to favor social inclusion and the development of ICT skills. The objectives set were the following:Learn about democracy and human rights, learn through democracy and human rights and learn for democracy and human rights developing the critical skills necessary to participate in a democratic society.All partners have previously worked on this issue, trying to prepare their students for their future lives, encouraging them to discover their own identity and making them responsible European citizens.There is no doubt that cooperation and collaboration among students from different countries create the right space for human interaction.Regarding the activities carried out, six meetings were organised, four LTT meetings and two transnational meetings (TM) with the aim of organising the entire project. LTT meetings were held in Slovakia, Turkey, Italy and Spain, while TM meetings took place in Slovakia and Italy.A calendar was needed to sequence the planned activities for the two years of the project, which were the following:Creation of Erasmus teams of teachers and students.Websites, email accounts and social networks (whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram) to interact and disseminate project products.Information panel (Erasmus Wall) for activities.E Twinning project to work and share.Survey on Human Rights. It was passed to students, teachers, families and citizens. analysing them in each country. Collection of final resultsProject logo competition. Publication of finalists on Facebook and Twinspace. Voting through Google. The winning logo appears on all project documents.Triptych about the objectives of our project.Activities in different subjects to raise awareness about human rights. They were shared on eTwinning.Calendars (2018-2019) and Posters with Human Rights based design.International Women's Day: exhibitions, conferences and workshops.Presentations of the sociocultural context of each centre and on the specific topic of each mobility.Specific topics of each LTT:1 LTT: “Sociocultural reality of my region”2 LTT: “Violation of human rights”3 LTT: ""Rights of refugees and vulnerable groups"".4 LTT: ""Human rights through art"".Results and impact achievedParticipating in this project, students have developed their social and civic competences through active participation in the workshops and proposed activities on Human Rights and Democratic Values. All this has contributed to the development of the critical spirit and the ability to work in a team.The sharing of their work has been an opportunity to put democratic values ​​into practice in a suitable atmosphere. It has also been the occasion to respect the ideas of others and learn to collaborate with colleagues from different countries.Students have used workshops to create materials in order to disseminate the project using ICT tools. These meetings improved respect and sociability, reduced xenophobia, improved oral skills in English and expanded knowledge about other countries.Longer term benefits. Some teachers participated in courses related to the awareness of students in Human Rights during the summer of 2019 to continue working on this topic in their classes"

Humankind has great responsibility on environment. The most valuable heritage to the next generation is leaving them a clean, green and liveable world. In the last century, environment has used loutishly and unconsciously. People’s indifference and irresponsibility to the environment make it dirty and natural sources have been decreasing day by day. Among many environmental problems, the most serious and threatening our future are; environmental and air pollution, depletion of natural resources, and lack of recycle and reuse. European Commission’s 7th Action Programme to 2020 published in March 2015 emphasises clean air and water, recycle, reuse and sustainability of resource efficiency. To decrease and solve these problems and had more responsible individuals, promoting environmental awareness at school years was an effective way to create environmentally-conscious citizens.Our project aim was to raise interest on environmental problems among students, teachers and parents with the activities in and out of the school and other people with transnational meeting activities. We had three main steps: First, We attracted our students’ attention on environmental issues. Environmental issues and project activities were included in the curriculum and monthly implementation activities at schools. Second, we did various activities for better environment such as planting trees, workshops, organizing open to public activities such as Walk, Critical Mass, and celebration international days, competitions shooting film, documentary or public service ads to raise awareness on environmental problems. In the last step, we enhanced our students and the community’s ability to act responsibly for a sustainable future. For this step, we prepared leaflets, infographics, public interviews and polls, and organized contests by integrating many people from all age and profession group.Additional to these; we did extra cultural activities to learn more about our partners and overcome the prejudices, raise cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity among students. Active study language was English in this project. All developed materials were translated into English and students had the opportunity to improve their English. Students were actively involve in all project activities. They planned and implemented the activities and teachers were their guide. Students worked cooperatively during learning/teaching/training activities for workshops, social responsibility activities and creating project forests, and teachers discussed, evaluated, and planned project activities and road map.All activities and products created during this project were published on school Project Corner Walls, Project websites, Project Facebook Page, School magazines, leaflets, local newspapers, and local TV channels. We had concrete products such as 9 memorial mini forests, toys, objects, and souvenirs made by waste materials, brochures, posters, films or documentaries and recycle bins for dissemination of our projectAt the end of this project, especially students and then local people were aware of the problems of environment they were more environment-friendly individuals. With the activities and public service ads local people also realized the environmental degradation, problems and solutions. In medium term programme, the significant problems of partner cities/towns (pollution, deforestation, recycle, reuse) were decreased. In long term, partner countries had memorial forests and greener and cleaner environment, responsible individuals, a good friendship and work together for further partnerships.