A project 'A Window on Europe' will be carried out by two primary schools: a small Polish school situated in a beautiful place on the Trail of the Eagle's Nest (Polish: Szlak Orlich Gniazd), in the Ogrodzieniec Commune, in Giebło and a Slovak school, 200 km from Giebło in Spisskie Podhradie. Supporting and reinforcing the development of key competences and basic skills, developing of English language skills and promoting awareness are main aims of the project. Students of 6th to 8th class (30 people, 13-15 years old) take part in the project, including 10 students and 3 teachers who go abroad. From the Slovak school, 30 students, 13-15 years old and 10 students with 3 teachers visit Poland.Students come from a rural society, they live in families with an average and low income. Part of them are aware that only receiving a good education in compliance with requirements of the modern world can provide a better living and it may change their social status, it is their window on the world. Many of our students, because of lack of good examples at home, very often do not realize how education is important for their future life. Not only students and teachers will participate in the project, but also parents, local community and authorities.Before the project starts, we analyse all needs and plan actions together. One of the first actions that we take are information activities about the project in the school and among a local community in two countries. Next, we want to start preparations for our trips. We decided that 5 students and 3 teachers from each school go abroad. During preparations for trips to the country of the partner, each school needs to have English classes and other classes which help participants of the international exchange to know the country and region to which they go. The next stage of the programme is the international exchange of students from the other school - the trip of students from Poland to Slovakia and the arrival of students from Spisskie Podhradie to Poland. A Slovak group will be accommodated in houses of Polish families and the Polish students and teachers in Slovak families. We prefer families with children at the similar age to our guests, especially the families of participants of our project from both countries.In September 2021, the Slovaks come to Poland and in May 2021, the Polish group go to Slovakia. In the primary school in Giebło, many interesting classes are prepared for Slovak and Polish young people. Students take part in English, IT, science, biology and history classes conducted in an active way. We have planned interesting activities at school, outdoor activities and some trips. All activities at school include cooperation of Polish and Slovak students and teachers. They will be working on tourists attraction and environmental protection. Similar programme is prepared by the Slovaks for Polish students at their school. Both schools are well prepared for this type of activities. They have modern teaching aids and highly qualified teachers. It guarantees good quality of classes and achieving expected results.After the student's mobilities, we will be promoting effects of the project at school and among local community. To sum up effects of the project, we organise conferences with students, teachers, local authorities and local community.There will be a multimedia presentation that includes information presented about the student's international exchange and results of the programme. Students tell about their experience and feelings and they answer questions. When the project finishes, we will be promoting results. We plan to create subsites about the programme on both school's websites, on Facebook and on both commune's websites. There will be some articles in local and regional newspapers.On each level of the project we plan evaluation activities, at the beginning, before the project starts, they show a current situation, during the project, they monitor all activities so a team responsible for conducting the project can monitor incorrectness and to check and evaluate if planned goals are achieved. A final report evaluates adventages and disadventages of the project and it will be an example for us in the future because our aim is to strengthen relations and continue our cooperation.The results of the project will be:- students increase their language skills and key competences, they strengthen their motivation to learn foreign languages, they understand why it is important to learn foreign languages, students become more self-confident Europeans- teachers enrich teaching practice, they get to know innovative methods, tools and teaching aids, they strengthen their motivation to teach and they have a job satisfaction- schools increase prestige in local community and international potential- we create an innovative teaching programme

The first encounter between the pupils of the schools in Zwickau and Zgorzelec took place in October 2018. This meeting consisted of a visit to the Polish partner school, collective activities and first pedagogical work with the participants of the project.Due to the positive feedback, both partner schools wish to establish these exchanges permanently into the planning of the school year and to make them part of a tradition in the school year schedule, as well as to intensify the cooperation through this mutual exchange opportunity.In order to ensure that all participants and target persons can derive the greatest possible benefit from this exchange for themselves, as well as for their personal future, a pedagogical concept suitable for both children and adolescents has been developed. The pupils experience new possibilities of understanding, ways around the language barrier and the expansion of their own perspective beyond physical and psychological boundaries takes place.By participating in the project, the pupils’ social integration skills will be strengthened, which will be beneficial in their later professional life. In addition, the general foresight, worldly experience, friendship and cooperation with peers from another country promote basic skills and key competencies in the pupils.In a time of xenophobia and exclusion we need friendships that reach far beyond borders more than ever. Our pupils are educated to be responsible, independent thinking people who have no fear of coming in contact with other nations and cultures and according to their personal convictions and experiences, stand for the equal opportunities, values and rights of all people so that the prospects of their own future and those of others will be improved. These are the reasons to promote this exchange project further.Thus, the goal of teaching basic skills and key competencies is at the heart of this project and its related activities.In order to give all pupils the chance to benefit from the project, whole classes are involved in individual activities. The age of the pupils is between 10 and 14 years.The planned activities include a short exchange between pupil groups, collective training for participating employees, as well as a lasting and constant cooperation during the year. During the exchange, the pupil groups learn to work together and to cooperate with one another and as they work on their first mutual projects, they can immediately recognise the success that they achieved. They learn that only through communication with one another, goal orientation and division of responsibilities can they reach their goal. In the days of pupil collaboration, friendships are formed which provide a good foundation for further activities and, moreover, the empathy as well as the social skills of all participants are further developed. In the further course of the project, the collective discussion of topics and questions takes place and a subsequent exchange of results follows. Furthermore, the participants get an insight into the different implementation and interpretation variants. In order to ensure a smooth and successful course of the project, a joint training of helpers will take place, which will enable their timely intervention in the project when required. During the course of the project, transparency and clarity about tasks and objectives are important.A desired result of the project is the fulfilment of the set goals, in other words the acquisition of key competencies and basic skills by all participants.Moreover, the achieved concrete results of the project should be made accessible to all interested parties. A cookbook, numerous photos and collaborative presentations in particular would be the result of the pupil exchange. As a result of communication between the schools during the year, a joint art collection would be created.The cooperation between the two schools will be maintained throughout the period of the exchange and within the scope of most subjects, information from the partner school will be incorporated into the current curriculum of the other school and continuously linked to the project.The result of the evaluation of the project will be the basis for further encounter days and pupil exchange projects. Potential for eventual expansion and improvement of the project will be recognised, as well as successful and positive stimuli from past encounters will continue to be used because evaluation ensures a steady qualitative progress. Children shape and determine the future. All their experiences, knowledge and attitudes will create the world of tomorrow. The positive and cosmopolitan intercultural experiences that they can gather in our project should therefore be made available to everyone. Through positive experiences and impressions, the views of the younger generation are positively influenced. Our project stands for equal opportunities, human rights and a peaceful coexistence.

"We decided to work on 'LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 in STEM school education' project because our students' basic maths and science skills are not sufficient. The analysis of students' marks, their exam results, class register proved that this statement is true. Thus, the participation in this project leads to the growth of teachers' qualifications and competences, the growth of the quality of school work as well as some European dimension. Our students broaden their horizons, boost their STEM knowledge and skills thank to the workshops and educational trips. The project is about the use of LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 sets in maths and science education. The robotics and the theme of the project are a part of every school curriculum and the majority of planned activities are impleneted into regular classes.The main aims of the project are: the growth of teachers' knowledge and skills in the area of STEM and ICT tools use in education, the growth of students' mathematical, science and technology, language, digital key competences, the increase education efficiency in science, maths, technology, engineering. The implementation of innovative teaching methods, new ICT tools leads to European dimmension of our schools. The observation of our students, and talks with them show that they are eager to participate in extra programming and robotics classes, they are able to use robots during maths and science. Our students develop their basic key competences. We prevent the early school students exclusion and increase their chances to get to high school. In addition to that, our aim is to equiped them with basic digital skills which are a part of VET and job market needs. More and more work positions are automatized. We propose to attend some interesting school and international classes, we want to motivate them to learn. The experience of the project influence their future job and work career and it makes our students active European citizens. Moreover, we would like to share our experience with other teachers from partner schools nad learn good practices from each other. There is a project website which will be operated during the whole year. We also organise 3 short-term exchanges of group of students and 3 short-term joint staff trining events and the main implemented methods would be: project method, active and innovative methods with the use of ICT tools. We are sure that the project results in more motivated students, who have broader language, mathematical, cooperation skills, boost their digital, programming and engineering skills. The products of the project are: educational aids (flashcards, exercises, presentations), the leaflet with maths, science and technology lesson plans, the guide ""The use of educational sets of LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 among school students aged 13-15, the guide ""The use of LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 in education of students aged 13-15. Technical dictionary contains terminology connected with the project, science, coding, maths in English, Polish, Spanish, Romanian.The results which are to be expected: the growth of teachers' knowledge and skills, innovation and entrepreneurship, the development of right attitude nad girls inclusion in the project, the implementation of good pracices in nearby schools and local, regional institutions, the implementation of new results into school work and curriculum and the use of them among students who do not take part in the mobility the growth of students' mathematical, science and technology, language, digital key competences, the increase of education efficiency in science, maths, technology, engineering. TTo sum up, the project brings new possibilities and opportunities such as: furthr cooperation or launching a new Erasmus+ projects, the impelmentation of new methods, ideas into school curriculum in our schools. We believe that our project helps our local governemnt to find a future partner in the city governors of other school partners. ,"

We may say that in our project we met the main aim – showing our students that the history was and is changing and sometimes there are positive and sometimes negative events. Drawings always reflects events in this period. So, for this reason students really visited the local or national gallery and started to learn how to understand a picture. Only one thing there was bad – we could not visit everything what we wanted because of virus Covid. So sometimes we offer a virtual visiting of some exhibition. In the power point presentation, there are sometimes events from the date when the drawing was made. So, pupils realized changes in our history not only in own country but in Europe too. At the beginning communication was via Skype but at the end we used Teams. Preparing the virtual meeting was easy at the end, but students were unhappy – they wanted to meet in The Czech Republic. We were able to finish our e book about all themes and published into Erasmus+ platform results and in our web pages too. Students exchanges private messages using WhatsApp – at the beginning it was not mentioned but for them was much mor comfortable then E Twinning. Making a questionnaire with their grandparents was very good. Some of them learned new facts about their relatives, seeing old photos, visiting graves for the first time (some of them). We would like to say, that students learn more outside of school in informal way, they proved what they learned at school – the foreign language, communication skills and using the different attitude for creating new opinion.

"CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF PROJECT.""DREAM"" project: The Drama of Environment: our Action Movement! is a school exchange partnership involving three partner schools, Colegio Salesiano San Juan Bosco in Valencia (Spain), Základní škola a mateřská škola in Prague (Czech Republic), and Szkoła Podstawowa w Nowej Iwicznej (Poland). It aims to foster a critical reflection among pupils about different environmental issues and to promote solutions, through drama techniques, while they improve their English speaking skills (among others) using this methodology.OBJECTIVES.General objective:Analyze an environmental problem from different viewpoints and encourage high-level critical thinking skills.Specific objectives:-To foster students cooperative work in international teams.-To improve language skills in general and especially those that imply expression skills, both writing and speaking.-To develop cross-curricular elements such as: creativity and innovation, critical thinking, entrepreneurship, ICT skills, moral values, leadership, learning to learn, social education, and a sense of multicultural cooperation.-To foster multiple intelligences: especially VERBAL LINGUISTIC in all skills, BODILY KINESTHETIC through corporal expression in dramatisation; VISUAL-SPATIAL through imagery, as well as video production; MUSICAL through sound, speaking rhythmically, etc.; INTRAPERSONAL through individual analysis of resources, as well as autonomous and planning skills; INTERPERSONAL being able to work cooperatively in international teams; and NATURALISTIC because they will have to observe, understand and organise patterns in the natural environment.NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS.This project will involve Primary Education pupils (ages 10-12). Other participants will be teachers (especially English teachers), parents, Parent-Teacher Associations (will take part supporting and financing some activities), administration and services staff (as consultant experts) and, ultimately, all the educational community in dissemination activities for all the school. Moreover, a group of 20 pupils from each partner school will travel abroad for short-term mobilities. All pupils will have equal opportunities of participation, giving priority to those facing economic, social, culture or learning obstacles.DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES.Virtual activities (2020-2021).- Logo contest; penpal project (each school is going to ask their students to write letters introducing themselves, their school, their class, environmental projects in every school, actions at home to help the environment. Letters will be sent using eTwinning to every partner school so pupils get to know each other; films analysis and debates in international teams (we will watch and analyse several films related to the topic of environmental protection: Bikes, Moana, The Lorax, Wall-E); writing of theatre plays/stories (in international teams of 3-6 students, pupils will have to write their own stories/plays to promote environmental protection, similar to what they had previously seen in the films and getting ideas from the debates).Mobilities (2020-2022) in Spain, Czech Republic, and Poland:-Research on several environmental issues and creation of a magazine/blog. - Dramatisation, puppets and masks workshops (pupils will prepare some puppets and masks to be used in the performances). - Performances (storytelling) and videos in international teams (written theatre plays are prepared beforehand in virtual activities. The performances will be recorded for dissemination); DREAM Awards Ceremony (the best theatre plays, as well as best actors, actresses, plot, music,... will receive a DREAM Award. - Debate league about environmental problems researched during the project and creation of a manifest.METHODOLOGY.We will combine several methodologies: cooperative learning (cooperative structures to foster collaboration in international teams). We will also include gamification elements (including avatars through the creation of masks and puppets to be used in performances; badges because we will give prizes for everybody, according to the categories where they performed better, and trophies for the most creative teams). Role play and drama techniques will be used to enhance speaking skills.RESULTS AND IMPACT.The results will be shown in videos, written theatre plays, posters, radio programmes, magazines and a blog. The envisaged impact is to transform students' attitude, who will become promoters of change with regard to environmental issues. Also the promotion of plurilingualism. We will share our results with other schools in the future, thanks to eTwinning, SEG, and Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, among others.LONGER TERM BENEFITS.All partner schools want to become GREEN schools. This project will be a great opportunity to bring us closer to that DREAM, to enhance pupils’ sense of environment, and multicultural cooperation to solve environmental problems."