On both schools business studies is part of the normal curriculum. Students learn about economics, international business, sustainability, financial markets, international trade and marketing. There is hardly any connection to the real business world.That causes problems in the sense of motivation and attitude towards learning, doing homework, and in the worsed case, education in general. These students learn best if they do practical assignments, which are hard to find in business studies class at the moment.This project will contain real marketing, export, import, distribution and and trade activities, so the students learn in practice what it means to work in international trade. Students become entrepreneurs of their own learning proces because they experience many different roles in a business proces, which will help them to make a more fundamental choice for their own future, and causes improved motivation to finish secondary school.* Students will learn to plan, do, control and act. In other words, they learn to think before they do, check if things go right, and make improvements if necessary.* Students will experience professional work enviroment. They will visit various companies to enlarge their view on international business. and society in general.* Students will improve marketing skills. They will learn to use marketing strategies, to be able to know which product will be most succesful, how marketing has to be done, and learn to improve when strategies don't work.* Students will improve language skills when they work together with the Irish school as well as when they work in international business, the actual lesson is also taught in English* Students will experience life in another country and learn to appriciate other cultures. They will also learn to develop a flexibel attitude towards cultural differences.* The students learn the need to raise money for people who are less lucky in life. The company profit will be given to charity. The participating students, appr. 120 in total (different students in year one and two) will be around 15 years old. The students are practical thinkers, so they need practical activities for better understanding and motivation, to prevent them to drop out.The students will study business studies. They will contact their peers, as an introduction, look for a product to sell, visit a company, visit a sea or airport and learn marketing strategies from an external expert. During the exchanges they will visit the company producing the product they want to sell, help with the production and inform themselves on import en export matters. They will also be looking for a charity to donate their profit to.Back home the students will import the goods, work on a marketing portefeille and organize a sales marketing for school and neighbourhood.In the final stage the teachers and students will evaluate and adapt the project when necessary. The curriculum of business studies will officially be changed. It will show substantial improvement. The project is shared on the website, in our bullitin for parents and teachers as well as to the bilangual Dutch network schools.The project will be repeated (in the improved version) in the second year.

In the project Steps2030 World participated five schools, from five countries, with the aim to do small steps in the direction to reach 17 UN goals until 2030. Gimnazija Jurija Vege Idrija, coordinator school, with partners: Burggymnasium Friedberg, Tabor College Werenfridus, I.I.S. V. SIMONCELLI and PRHG Rijeka carried out different actions to achieve the project‘ goals. Partners reached the following objectives: - Students developed empathy and awareness of global problems, searched for concrete actions and realistic actions for sustainable development at schools or at their homeland and implemented them. Students also developed and improved the key competences, such as critical thinking, communication in foreign language and team working. - Teachers improved their professional skills by learning new teaching methods and strategies, communication in foreign language and also additional ICT skills.- All participants extended their knowledge about EU in general, their institutions and function and also the knowledge regarding the participating countries. Activities that took place were:-Learning, teaching and training actions.-Concrete activities, workshops and actions in each school with clear goals to reach,-Joint activities to achieve the project objectives.Projects results are: -the booklet with workshops’ descriptions and lesson plans in combination with other project activities,-the a video about the project.We also had concrete, practical results. Some other results are also important, like plastic reducing in schools or at home. The schools realized during the project that dealing with 17 UN goals in schools is vital also after the project. Teachers will use the booklet as inspiration to continue with the education about sustainability. The video has a purpose to be wide spread in order to encourage people to carry out the similar actions: e.g. reducing plastic, saving electricity and water, ...

BaPN (Be aware of and Protect Nature) is an International project to be carried out in the field of School Exchange Partnerships of Erasmus+. BaPN aims to make the participants and other stakeholders aware of the popular environmental problems and solution while making them improve their citizenship qualities and key competences and also meet new Teaching/Learning approaches and methodologies. BaPN consists of variable acts for students and teachers which manages to combine them in good harmony.The main objectives of BaPN are to make all parts;* be aware of environmental problems and work on solution ways* meet/learn and use new Teaching/Learning methodologies* be active citizens and take action into social matters* improve their key competences and skills* improve their ICT usage capacity* broaden their knowledge* meet and learn about new cultures* take responsibility and gain self confidence* understand the EU policies, priorities and EU bodies* spreading the physical Cultural Heritage of EuropeBaPN will be executed by partner schools from Netherlands, Turkey, Spain, Italy and Slovakia in the leadership of the Dutch partner. The idea of BaPN firstly occurred in social media and turned into a body in e-Twinning platform. All partners were met in e-twinning platform (https://live.etwinning.net/projects/project/158246) after which, they have decided to carry out this project as a School Exchange partnership. All partners have junior secondary school students aged between 10-14 which is the target group of this project. That age group was selected specifically because they are at the beginning of their teens and candidates to becoming adults. This period is when they start to gain their major personal qualifications and habits. We have thought that, if the pupils learn true citizenship qualities at that age, it is likely that they will be better citizens in future. This is also the critical period in which children meet with bad habits and express themselves aggressively. Taking responsibilities, being active, social and self-confident will keep them away from those unwanted incidents.During BaPN, all partners will perform five different Learning/Teaching/Training activities. 4 students and 3 teachers from each partner will attend to those LTTAs. While students work on environmental problems and their solutions such as Global Warming, Pollution etc., teachers will help and guide them to execute those activities by using/meeting new teaching/learning methodologies such as Phenomenal Learning, Flipped Classroom, CILL, Task Based learning, ComputerContributed Learning etc..Searching and analyzing, group work, kinesthetic learning, learning by doing, cooperative learning and lots of other practical teaching/learning methods will be used actively.Participants will perform live campaigns outside their school such as planting trees, cleaning the beach, having demonstrations... and they will produce products such as sample Solar Energy panels, Wooden household items...etc which will enable them to be an active citizen.In a world where teenagers are bound with technology, of course, improving their ICT skills is another key objective of BaPN. Recording and creating videos, preparing presentations, digital calendars...will help them to learn How to use ICT in a true way.The teachers and students will also meet new and popular teaching/learning methodologies in practice. Whereas they are improving their skills, they will also improve their personality and citizenship quality, evaluate current applications and be more motivated to search, try and perform new ones.Dissemination and sustainability acts, of course, have great importance to achieve the expected benefits in a long term. Therefore, BaPN will try to reach as many people as possible.Cooperating and integrating with stakeholders such as nearby schools, local authorities, media, energy and environment companies, NGOs and parents will be achieved by different activities like having regular meetings, visits, interviews, applying questionnaires and inviting/involving them to the acts in schools. To make the outcomes reach more people, virtual platforms will be used effectively and all kind of documents will be easily reachable and downloadable for third parties.To sum up, BaPN is a project covering lots of social, educational and environmental matters to study on with the aim of ;*making people aware of environmental problems and solution.* encourage people and make them capable to take action as a truly social and responsible persons on social matters*integrating social and real matters to school curriculum by applying new methodologiesTo make the benefits last longer, the cooperation between partner schools will continue on eTwinning platform and the results will be shared in Erasmus+ Project results sharing, school gateway and other virtual platforms.