FOR (Finding Our Roots) project emerges out of a previous collaborative work between three state high schools located in greatly depressed economic areas: IES Urbi (Basauri / Spain), Liceo Classico Statale Plinio Seniore (Castellammare di Stabia / Italy), and Varvakeio Model Experimental Lyceum (Athens / Greece).IES URBI high school is specialized in multilingual education based on CLIL (Content and Language integrated Learning), and since 2008-2009 has been holding annual European projects.Plinio Seniore high school puts great emphasis on language learning (English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese) to guide the school community on social development of economic sectors such as cultural tourism. Currently, the school is holding European projects that involve short-term exchanges.Varvakeio is one of the 47 “Model Experimental” state schools in Greece that pursue “excellence”. This school accepts foreign students that make there their short-term stages of practice. FOR project will run for two school-years (2015-2016 and 2016-2017), involving annual short-term exchanges for pupils.This project intends to apply innovative CLIL method to multilingual learning-teaching system in upper secondary education, with the regard to develop academic language skills related to Botany vocabulary, mythology, and social language abilities in English to B2 level. So, having as starting point the official curricula of upper secondary education within our respective countries, upper secondary pupils are going to work simultaneously on various contents in English, belonging to more than one academic disciplines: Natural Science, Classic and Modern Languages, Classical Culture, and Computers. Objectives:-Every target student will acquire English academic language skills related to Botany vocabulary through classical roots finding to B2 level. -Every target student will acquire English academic language skills to B2 level, by means of learning contents related to classical myths and plants.-Every target student will improve English linguistic competences to B2 level in real-life situations, by means of working collaboratively and interacting socially with foreign students.-Every target student will improve and acquire the vocabulary related to Botany in both mother and partners` languages: Spanish, Basque, Italian, and Greek.-Every single member of our schools will improve ICT skills by applying web 2.0 resources to CLIL.-Every single member of our school communities will improve plurilingual and intercultural competences through interaction with foreign partners and the use of e-ELP (Electronic European Language Portfolio).Main activities:-Every school year, the international student target groups should generate a collaborative glossary of 72 words about the morphology of the vascular plants in the project wiki. -Every school year, the international student target groups should generate a collaborative dictionary of 24 mythological plants in the project wiki.-Three times per school year, the target groups of each school shall prepare, conduct, and assess project activities together with the working groups’ representatives from the other two schools, who will be accommodated in foster school families.-Three times per school year, the entire school community shall interact with 12 foreign students and 4 teachers from 2 different countries through face to face real-life communication.Methodology:-CLIL learning-teaching.-Interdisciplinary teaching.-Information and Communications Technology supporting CLIL.-The use of the Electronic European Language Portfolio.Expected results: Intangible results: -Pupils` achievement of English academic language related to Botany vocabulary, classical myths and plants to B2 level.-Pupils` improvement of English linguistic competences in social situations to B2 level. -Pupils` improvement and acquisition of the vocabulary related to Botany in both mother and partners` languages.-School community improvement of ICT skills.-School community improvement of plurilingual and intercultural competences. Tangible results: -The glossary on Botany vocabulary and classical roots.-The dictionary of mythological plants.-The mythological gymkhana.-The mythological garden.-The interactive exercises on Botany terms and mythological plants.Impact:-To achieve the project objectives and results in target groups and school communities. -To include project aims, activities, and results in the annual syllabus of CLIL subjects.-To encourage other educational establishments and associations to take part in European projects.-To share multilingual and multicultural experiences among the school communities.The potential longer term benefits:-To use, develop, and disseminate most FOR activities, methodology, and outputs after the end of the founding, by means of ensuring the continuity of project teacher team work and the cooperation between the three schools.

In its capacity our partnership is proposing to develop,create and operate innovative teaching and learning materials that may be used at different High schools and can be transfered to different classes and education systems such as an online game,an interactive comics,an interactive travel guide on the thematic trip of Hercules with the contribution of pupils at different partner schools.With the help of the open access learning platform and pysical mobilities,we will be providing the teachers to enhance their abilities of innovative approachesand implement them into their own experiences.Our partnership is formed with a NGO, two universities and 6 different High Schools.There will be 6 project meeting,4 works of pupils,2 joint staff meeting and 1 long term pupil mobility carried out during the project. We aim to probe into the labours of the mythological hero Hercules,being used as a means of working on different cultures around Europe using ICT tools. Our organisations are mainly situated at places where the labours of Hercules is believed to have taken place. The new labours will then be appointed to him about the cultural values of the partner organisations that affect our European community and we will implement interactive comic for windows/mac computers and extensively to android and IOS .The main concentration of our pupils will be the cultural diversity and the strategic use of the ICT tools .Also we want to enable the teaching staff at our partner organisations to acquire the use of the technology in their respective teaching experiences with the support of ASPETE and HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY,which are specialized in the promotion of applied research in pedagogical applications of ICT in Education , educational technology and pedagogy. .In this respect each project meeting will be embedded by the short term activities for learners and joint staff training events. The aim of these events will to enable both the pupils and the teachers to acquire enough information that they will make use of during the project activities by the two partner such as the interactive comics and the travel guide. Supposedly the indispensable part of the mythology was the language Ancient Greek which is not a part of the curriculum in some of the partner countries. We also want to help students summon up the courage to learn enough Ancient Greek understand the inscriptions on the historical sites integrating it into the online game and the other outputs .All the target objectives will also be carried out on the online learning and teaching platforms. The experiences gained during the events then will be used to contribute in creating the outputs of the partnership such as the online game , an interactive comics prepared with the ICT tools an thematical travel guide of the Trips of Hercules etc. We also want to help the pupils to pay enough value on the diversity of cultures,the historical places, and the idea of common European citizenship. We will carry out the partnership with an etwinning project to help students to acquire knowledge of web 2.0 tools and to reinforce interaction between partners. For this purpose, we will run activities through the eTwinning platform. The activities will also enhance their competence in foreign languages.In some of the partner schools there are a considerable number of students with special needs. In order to assure the integration of these students in the development of our project we will design activities which will allow us to Involve students in modeling activities through the use of ICT skills for laptops, tablets and mobiles,we will help dyslexic and dysgraphic students or poor spellers to get good results,ensure that students in difficult financial situations, improve language skills of students to promote cooperative learning. We want to provide students to built their own interactive community of informed and passionate individuals as proud of their European as well as national identity by helping to exchange the idea of Europe in the eyes of them through a fun experience on the basis of our common heritage and the culture as well as creating materials that will be used after projecAll in all we want to increase the the quality of education and improve the capacities of our organisations by promoting the use of the outcomes we will achieve during our project and take up innovative practices in education to make more modern,dynamic,and professional environment inside our organisations. Moreover we want to enable pupils to promote greater understanding and responsiveness to social,linguistic and cultural diversity with the increased competence level of foreign languages and ICT tools and validate the participants recognition and abilities through European reference tool EUROPASS and raise the opportunity to be awarded the European Language label for our efforts to teach Ancient Greek with innovative approaches.