Education in schools is mostly done at cognitive level and mostly cognitive behaviours are gained. Young people in our schools have very different cognitive characteristics, different interests and abilities. For this reason, activities outside the classroom are vital as well as the variety of teaching methods to be applied during the lessons.Students who like to spend time outdoors will arrange school gardens as they wish and use materials that we consider as waste. In this way, they will both have to find more creative solutions and gain awareness about today's urgent issues such as production-consumption-recycling. To do this, they will first analyse school gardens, plan what they can do for the design of the space, what materials they can use, and from whom they can help with to provide these materials. They will provide interviews with relevant teachers to provide knowledge. They will share tasks for everything to be done and include their parents as well as all the school staff.In the light of all this information, we need a focus on out-of-school activities, We should give students the opportunity to organize their own living spaces to enable young people to know and question themselves, to feel the pleasure of not harming others and the environment, to make life meaningful and beautiful, to create a space where they can give themselves body, spiritual and physical sense, and thus to love their school.We have been inspired by three ET 2020 objectives:- Make lifelong learning and mobility a reality- Improve the quality and efficiency of education and training- Enhance creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and trainingAs 5 partner countries, we have set our goal to approach recycling with art and make education applicable to real life and enjoyable.Essential objectives of our project are:raising awareness about recycling and waste materials, our depleted natural resourcespreventing young people from spending more time than necessary in the face of technological tools and to enable them to communicate with nature and peopleby enjoying the pleasure of being beneficial to the environment, producing, and finding creative solutions by evaluating everythingensuring young people help each other and communicate with environmental institutions while determining and supplying waste materialsbeing aware of the surrounding living beings, willing to protect themcomprehending the importance of the main elements such as soil, water, air and the plants, animals, other creatures and human beings that are intertwined with usgetting more energy instead of tension caused by hunger for successstrengthening students' communication with peoplemaking the school culture attractive for studentsreinforcing the culture of the school institutionensuring the students enhance being self-confidentincreasing school attendance rate by making students enjoy the school environmentunderstanding the importance of cultural integration, language learning, broadening the horizon100 students and 40 teachers will participate in international visits. 300 students will directly participate in the activities to be performed locally. At least 1000 people will be actively involved in the project, together with those who will indirectly participate in activities and dissemination from surrounding schools and local institutions.Our main activities will be,using art in recycling, recycling activities, collecting waste materials, classifying old objects, painting and shaping old materials and waste, producing new materials from waste, designing school gardens with waste materials, preparing presentation about our country and waste policyIn order to implement the activities such as researching, classifying, shaping, painting, reusing, garden redesigning with waste and old products;Active learning, learning by doing, case studies, cooperation, observations, checklists and portfolios will be the main methodology of the project.Results and Outputs will be,Project Corner, exhibition of the products, Booklets, Video albums of the renewable waste in each country, Video albums of materials renewed by artPosters, Questionnaires before-after mobility, Logo Contest, Project Website, A mini multilingual Recycling dictionary (digital), 2021 and 2022 Recycling Art Calendar, Facebook Group, YouTube Account, eTwinning Project.Our project will continue its effect for a long time with its dissemination activities such as Video albums on YouTube, Project Website multilingual Recycling dictionary (digital), 2021 and 2022 Recycling Art Calendar Facebook Group, YouTube Account, eTwinning Project. Moreover, the outputs to be produces (new school garden designs, exhibition, reproduced items) will make the project both visible and effective over the years.

"In this partnership, to raise awareness of cultural heritage and sustain it to next generations through the wedding traditions is the focus point.What we emphasize is that the cultural heritage of the countries is a rich and diverse mosaic of cultural values which should be preserved for the future generations. As the cultural heritage and diversity are endangered, we have chosen this motto: OUR CULTURAL VALUES ARE OUR MUTUAL MEETING POINTS.We have learnt that our values have an integrative energy for us: as individuals, communities and societies. So, we should struggle to conserve our values if we want to build a strong future for our children. We are able to observe all the elements of culture in the wedding ceremonies. In a wedding ceremony, you can analyse whether how deep a culture lives or not. So weddings are the mirrors of cultures.Today, the most significant issue is being a strong family. We have decided to focus on family structure which shapes aspects of societies, and we assume that different role models should be given to the young. So, from stronger families to stronger futures, Slovakia with its European partners (Turkey, Romania, Spain, Lithuania) will get a variety of gains. Our main theme is the traditions of weddings in which we can find many hidden cultural treasures. We will rediscover the songs, symbols, costumes, dishes, local musical instruments, wedding photos, folk dances in weddings. By the means of them, we aim to compose a social cohesion and sense of belonging among the students. Moreover, we will benefit the power of culture to manage to strengthen the roots of values and international cultural relations. -Obtaining skills: creative, critical and analytical thinking, effective communication, problem solving, self-esteem, respect to the cultural differences-Promoting the sense of belonging to one's own culture-Composing a cultural consciousness -Attracting attention the importance of the family structure-Learning other cultures-Improving students' motivation on lessons-Collaborative work-Communicating in foreign language-Meeting new cultures and being aware of European citizenship-Using English an active communication language-Regaining our endangered traditions-Planning time productively-Having self and peer evaluation-Exchanging experiences with friends and teachers from EuropeIn our project named “WETCA” we are partners from Turkey, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Lithuania. Our students are 14-17. We are planning all activities students–centred. In every LTT activities, there will be 2 teachers and 5 students from each school for each mobility. We can also enhance dissemination studies with conferences, seminars and the workshop studies, which will be a part of project. So, the families will participate in our activities such as seminars, introduction meetings. Nearly 2000 people will experience a milestone of their lives, change their teaching, learning technics and share them with others.There’ll be 5 LTTs, 2 teachers and 5 students for each.-1st LTT will be in SPAIN in NOVEMBER, 2020-2nd LTT will be in SLOVAKIA in APRIL, 2021-3rd LTT will be in LITHUANIA in MAY, 2021-4th LTT will be in ROMANIA in NOVEMBER, 2021 -5th LTT will be in TURKEY in APRIL, 2022 ACTIVITIES: Exhibition of Wedding Materials (Dishes, Clothes, Objects, Symbols, Wedding Songs) Folk Dance and Local Music Presentation Video Clips of the Local Weddings A Visit to 'Just Married' Couple Drama Performance 'Henna Night' Workshop on Traditional Dances of Weddings Old Wedding Clothes workshop Workshops about the first step to being family: Weddings Theatre plays about marriage Conference – The importance of family A questionnaire about marriage Wedding photography workshop Creative course - proposals for wedding dresses Excursions to places where weddings usually take place The presentation of Traditional Fairy Tales which have wedding Images Discussions about marriage (now/then) The Presentations about marriage preparationsThe children with a strong cultural background are more aware of the world, difficulties of the life; so they will have the potential to manage to be a benignant citizen.Our schedule will follow exactly what we proposed at the beginning of this partnership. Besides wedding traditions, we will cover other aspects and subjects at school such as: History, Geography, Languages, Literature, and Music. The students’ interest for learning will definitely rise. We aim to make the students realize how important is to learn and why to learn. The most important thing that our students will gain will be the tolerance and acceptance no matter nation, religion, culture is. By discovering the richness of our cultures, the students will be able to realize the roots of their culture, and we will establish the future together. It will contribute to have a visible sense of ""belonging to our own culture."""

"""Our Milieu Through Our Camera"" is a project with the main aim of exchange of good practices. It will start in September 2020 and will last 24 months. Turkey and Lithuania came together at the eTwinning platform they created the idea of the project. They conducted a needs analysis with project teams in the schools of these two countries. First, they decided to do an eTwinning project. We have cooperated with our partner schools in The Republic of North Macedonia, Italy and Romania as a result of long evaluations and interviews with the schools that reached us via eTwinning. In the surveys (all partners conducted the survey) prepared and applied to students by our teachers:It was seen that our students have not visited a relative or a neighbour for at least one year, and there have been months since they had a walk in their neighbourhood. So, it is clear that communication gap between the young and old population is getting bigger and bigger every single day.Many of the students are not even aware of the natural beauty in the surrounding villages. The percentage of those who do not visit the historical buildings in their town is over fifty percent. The ratio of those who do not meet with a touristic, historical and natural beauty at a distance of approximately one hour by car is quite high. Starting from our street, we need to know our neighbourhood, our town, our city; rediscovering people, buildings, villages, vineyards, gardens, fields, natural beauty, historical sites, tourist sites; meeting them; being aware of our environment must be the duty, responsibility and goal of all of us.Our main objectives are:- raise the awareness for active citizenship.- decrease everyday stress by exploring the environment.- enhance awareness of the culture of European countries.- make people promote children to be creative and productive.- strengthen the cooperation among students, teachers and parents.- explore the feeling of creating.- carry out education outside the school.- motivate students with fewer opportunities.- enhance searching and research techniques.- use technology productively.- to have empathy and openness to diversity and interculturalism.- to be a part of digital society positively.We have had our inspiration from all the four of The strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training 2020 objectives:- Make lifelong learning and mobility a reality - Improve the quality and efficiency of education and training - Promote equity, social cohesion, and active citizenship- Enhance creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship, at all levels of education and training The participants in the project will be students between, aged 13 to 18, teachers, local school staff, parents, society and public authorities. Approximately 360 students, from 5 countries, will actively be involved in local and international activities. When we consider the total number of students in schools, parents, local schools and society, it is clear that thousand of people will be informed and involved in project activities. We will have 3 LTTs in the first and 2 LTTs in the second year. In international visits, 5 students and 2 teachers from each country will be hosted during the mobility. A total of 100 students and 40 teachers will participate in international visits.As in the project title, our activities will be centred to introduce our environment with all kinds of recording devices, especially mobile phone cameras.The project will provide information on how to determine places, regions, buildings, components, planning and mapping methods, video, photography techniques (by a teacher at school or in the region). During the period between visits, students will continue their planning, research, discovery, ranking, editing, photographing, videotaping activities.Collaborative method discussion, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, case studies, narrative research, data collection, historical research, kinaesthetic learning, digital tools, peer-observation, critical reflection, brainstorming, analyses will be the methodology we are going to conduct. Our results will be: presentations about their town, city and country. Questionnaires and Surveys. Project corners, booklets of neighbourhood and cityvideo clips of ""people, our town; our nature; our agriculture"", video interviews, posters, short video of each mobility, Logo Contest, My City Mind Map,Project website, eTwinning Project, 2022 Photo Calendar, Facebook Page, YouTube channel.We will conduct series of dissemination activities to reach the widest impact and to get the most potential longer term benefits. These activities will start among the partners and at school level and the stretch out to other schools, local community, wider society in order to bring a dimension of internationalization."

We are 5 schools from 4 different countries (Romania, Bulgaria, northeast Turkey, southwest Turkey, Croatia), with social and educational circumstances ranging from fairly similar to radically different. The same applies to the way citizenship education is performed in our schools. The problematic observations we made among some of our students are poor understanding of their rights and obligations as citizens, lack of understanding of the migration crisis, under-appreciation of education, stereotypes and prejudice towards foreigners, negative gender stereotypes.Thus, we decided we want to develop citizenship-related knowledge, skills and attitudes relevant for both local contexts and the European context. We have identified five key areas of civic life (political participation, stereotypes, migration, education, family roles) comprehensible to students aged 12-15. These are key areas, understanding of which and competence in are relevant for any future European citizen. We all come from countries which are newer or aspiring members of the EU and from countries whose citizens migrate a lot across Europe and the world. We want to make our students able to understand their own society as well as other European societies and allow them to function in other societies as well as in their own.In this project we organize diverse activities that will allow our students to practice: interacting effectively and constructively with others, thinking critically, acting in a socially responsible manner, acting democratically.There are three kinds of activities that help us achieve that:1) research of major social changes in the four topics (Political Participation, Stereotypes, Migration, Education, Family Roles) from 1960 onwards2) topic-related actions in the local community that promote democracy, equality, tolerance, solidarity3) students' interaction and discussion on social issues relevant to the topic.Our participants are students aged 12-15. There are over 1000 students of that age involved in the project. Apart from the local activities they will participate in, we also plan Learning/Teaching/Training activities in which 100 students will be involved. During the LTT activities, students will reinforce the knowledge, skills and attitude they will have acquired in local activities, and they will experience operating in a multicultural environment, the kind of we are preparing them for in this project. Each school is the leader of one topic's activities, and the LTT activity in their school will be directly related to their topic.The methodology applied in this project involves:lectures and workshops by non-governmental organizations, institutions and organizations, firsthand accounts of experiences from persons who witnessed the social processes from 1960 onwards;students' own research on the five topics;brochures, quizzes, newspaper articles, videos, plays, drawings, reviews, reports and comics students will share and prepare for their peers;direct interaction between students and discussions on relevant social issues researched before.The project will have far-reaching impact:on students, who will understand their political rights and obligations, question the practice of stereotyping, understand the causes of migration and empathize with refugees, appreciate their education, question typical family roles and gender stereotypes;on teachers, who will improve their teaching practices;parents and families, who will be culturally enriched by interacting with students from other countries;the local community, which will reconnect through mutual solidarity actions;European schools and teachers, who will participate in our project through eTwinning events, will have access to our public Twinspace and the digital and paperback citizenship education handbook the involved teachers will produce and publish with all the other materials on Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.All the project results will be published on the project website, Twinspace and the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.

"According to Eurostat ""Statistics on European cities"" February – March 2019 report: More than half the world’s population resides in urban areas: cities continue to attract an increasing share of people in search of a job and an improved quality of life.People are moving away from natural life with industrialization, urbanization, and the digital age. The population living in the village has now decreased. City life is more attractive than village life with all the possibilities and different activities it offers. We only have the elderly who were born and grew up in the village. The new generation no longer recognizes the village. So they don't know village life either. Whereas, was our past life like this? People lived together in the village, ploughed land, took care of animals, cared for farm, prepared winter food, and found peace by living in harmony with nature. There was also a neighbourship. People were concerned with each other's grief, joy, and troubles in the village. The neighbourship disappeared with the transition to city life. However, in the villages, people would visit each other. Sometimes they used to make village affairs a way of helping. In fact, we have lost many of our values ​​by staying away from the villages.Our biggest motivation in the project is to raise young people's awareness towards natural and village life, plants, animals and basic life skills. Moreover, these young people will know their neighbours and their surroundings and be aware of themselves and their cultural heritage.Our priorities with some of their objectives are:Social and educational value of European cultural heritage:- awareness of rural life- non-formal learning- lifelong learning- intercultural approaches to heritage- recognize village lifeSupporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences:- developing survival skills- fitting natural life- healthy eating- active life- effective communicationEnvironmental and climate goals:- healthy and sustainable nutrition- reaching clean water sources- highlighting fresh air and environmental awareness- preparing one's own food- growing organic productsWe are partners from Greece, Romania, Turkey, Italy and North Macedonia. Our students are 13-17. We have been planning all our project activities as student–centred, based on learning by doing and groupwork.In all LTT activities, there will be 2 teachers and 4 students from each school. With the conferences, seminars and the workshops, we will also enhance dissemination studies. Teachers will be able to inform their students about the project. As we all know education cannot be carried out without families, on the contrary, they are one of the cornerstones of it. So, the families will participate in our activities such as seminars, introduction meetings. Furthermore, ""Parent -Teacher Associations"" will undertake some tasks to build bridges with other stakeholders such as nongovernmental organizations. So, approximately at least 2000 people will be engaged in the process of long awaited rural life, preserving the ecosystem and tasting the pleasure of life learning education.Activities:Animal Care- Poultry care- Care of stables (horses, donkeys)- Dairy and fattening livestockGrowing vegetables and fruits- Seed selection and accumulation- Land and soil selection- Fertilization and maintenanceLand maintenance, growing special crops for the regionSocial life and activities in the villageFestivals, festivities, fairs, feasts and other social events to be held will provide an immense learning opportunity in terms of cultural heritage.All partner countries will provide students with the opportunity to learn (by living, learning) by various activities and field experiences within the conditions and possibilities of the surrounding villages.Active learning, observation, dialogue, learning by doing, brainstorming, note-taking, interviewing will be the most used methods.Our concrete outputs:- Project Website- eTwinning Project- Winter and Summer Food Booklets- 2022 Dream Village Calendar- Dream Village Paintings Competition and Exhibition- Facebook page- YouTube channel- Instagram account- Posters- Banners- Project Logo- Erasmus+ corners- LIVE BookletThe project will widen participants' horizons; help them come in touch with other cultures, make friendships with students from other countries, boost future partnerships. They will learn to work in a team, to cooperate, to express themselves. They will acquire knowledge and awareness on rural life, cultural heritage, and environmental issues useful for their life. - Teachers will acquire new knowledge and monitor good practices which they will use in their classrooms with other students in the future. The collected material will be used for future reference by all participating schools in forthcoming years."