This project will aim to use Art, Media and Communication and Information technologies to raise awareness of national and European themes particularly addressing the issues of active citizenship, creativity and community participation.Students involved in this project will be aged 15-18 and through various activities they will compare the relevance of cultural heritage to their communities and discover particular national traits to investigate and share differences and similarities, both social and cultural.Classroom curricular activities will be based around topics examining particular social and cultural expressions in different European countries. Students will research about the perception of those expressions by teenagers in their area and look into where and how they get present in their local community and area, and how they are linked to their identity. Students will also investigate their cultural heritage and traditions, look into their particular traits and compare them to those of others to look for similarities. This work will be completed using many different types of shared media -mainly digital presentations and tools-, and disseminated in all partner schools and the wider community. ICT will be used to display and share the research as well as having a focus on media presentations.As we aim at getting the bigger number of students as possible involved, the preparatory phase of each activity preceding student exchanges will be carefully structured, so that they actually cooperate in the process exchanging materials at this preparatory phase, so that they be shown at each participating school and these exhibitions may be the base for work for whole classes - groups in their lessons.The other element of the project will be students visiting partner schools and working collaboratively on a range of activities. They will take part in actual teaching-learning events in each visit, creatively working together to produce crafts and works of artistic expression. They will feedback and present the outcomes that they have learnt. The key point is sharing these tasks and reaching conclusions together examining similarities and differences. Students will work with the Art, History, Civics, IT, Media, and English lessons in schools.

We have agreed on this project as six schools from Turkey, Italy, Norway, Romania, Macedonia, and Slovakia to make a project about using technology and avoiding its bad or side effects. Having this project, we are able to meet each other and to understand what methods can be used commonly in our schools and how to put technology into our education progress and how to avoid the bad effects of the Internet. In the course of the project, we will also make some concrete outputs that we firmly believe that these outputs will illuminate our paths while working in our schools. We have come together six schools to share our experience on technology and our weak side in struggling the sides effect of the technology.We are Planning In every mobility:•Examples Lessons; teachers are going to show an example lesson which technology is used. •Seminars in the school; presentations about using technology in schools and Internet traps.•Erasmus + school boards; To announce the Erasmus + Project and acquisitions of each mobilities •Acting out a drama or short film about cyber crime; to show the internet traps efficiently•Performing gym to prevent technology’s physical damage; to live healthy •Stant in schools’ events; To show our souvenirs and present our Partner countries•News in the local press; to show our tasks and present our project•Presentation of Statistics about cyber crime and types of cyber crime; to raise awareness about cyber crime. Building up a WASTECH technology class to raise awareness of secured internet technology. Visit Police Department: to give some information about cyber crimeIndividual tasks:•A Web site include resource pool - Turkey•Technology dictionary - Italy•Booklets about memories - Romania•Questionnaires - Macedonia•Multi language dictionary - Slovakia•Logo - Turkey•DVD recording mobilities - Norway•Leaflet “how to save our privacy from cyber trap” - Norway•Forming Facebook group” Romania

"Values in Education: Teens in Action!"" (VETA) is a two year project in which schools from eight countries of the European Union( Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden) who had established a professional connection over the Internet or/and through previous personal contact, are involved.About 250 students from Years 9, 11 and 12 and 25 teachers have taken part in this challenging project working together to reach the same goals: to improve the students’ level of English as a lingua franca within the EU, to foster positive democratic values to prepare them for an active citizenship in their adult life whithin a common Europe, to increase the students' skills and level of competence in ICT, and Visual Literacy, and to promote cooperative work.Since our project aims at students between 15 and 18, a very critical age, we have considered it would be highly relevant and positive to work on twelve macro topics connected with values, these being: consumerism, poverty and solidarity, Internet safety, gender quality, interculturality, European citizenship, road safety, tolerance and respect, human rights, violence and hate, health and addictions and environmental issues. We have reached the project’s aims by means of watching, subtitling and discussing short films and movies based on these values, and above all by creating, both locally and internationally, student-produced short movies, documentaries or PSA .Therefore, we have provided students with the chance to express their own views and to be heard, and at the same time they have improved their foreign languages skills and competences in ICT and Visual Literacy, thus becoming the central elements of the teaching- learning process.As one of the key aims of the project is to foster cooperation amongst students and teachers, our methodology has been active, cooperative as opposed to competitive, and agreed through general consensus. Students have been encouraged to improve their social and autonomy competences by cooperating in transnational teams. Furthermore, teaching guides have been collaboratively designed to foster the reutilization of the audio-visual outputs in worldwide classes.Regarding the activities, in order to guarantee coordination, three general transnational meetings, plus a bilateral one in Germany for the two countries involved in the Long-term-study-mobility of pupils, have been held: the first one in Spain, and the other two in Norway and in Sweden, with the objective of planning the agenda, discussing key issues and monitoring and assessing the activities. We have developed eight local activities in which students have been be asked to accomplish specific tasks on eight of the mentioned values. Finally there have been two short term exchange of students per year, in Spain and Bulgaria in 2015,and in Finland and Lithuania in 2016, to work together and create internationally team –produced outputs on the four remaining values.Not only the students participating in this project have benefited from it, but also the teaching staff from the participating institutions, the whole educational communities of the partner schools, Local Communities and other European teachers, students and educational communities in general.Through the production of VETA DVD, we intend to transcend the scope of our schools and share our products and results not only locally but worldwide through the Internet, thus fostering the usage of English as a Lingua Franca, together with Spanish and German, raising awareness on EU values and promoting youngsters active citizenship and participation.We expect this project to have a pervading impact on our schools and local communities. Its expected outputs have been devised to be sustainable open access resources, which will remain accessible on the Internet, and which may be easily exploited by other schools and educational associations and institutions all over the world."

"""The End of Hospitality?’’ came into existence because of five schools' joint desire to work together on a new European project on the theme of the migrant crisis. The objectives were varied.First concerning students: reinforcing links between school education and active citizenship, economic, social, cultural and European considerations, increasing their self-confidence, and helping them acquire better language and digital skills. For teachers: enhancing their professional development by integrating a collaborative and innovative approach into the activities we proposed. The successful relationships between teachers concerned will lead to future collaboration as a result of this project. As far as schools are concerned: the aim was primarily to open our schools to internationalization and increase the European dimension of the education we provide.There was a class of 30 students, aged between 15 and 18, working on the project in each of our four schools from verydifferent socio-economic and geographical backgrounds. This two year project was divided into four semesters, eachfocusing on a particular aspect of the question in four areas: the history of immigration since the Second World War, the human stories of migrants through the study of a book written by a young Syrian refugee 'Nujeen', the changing attitudes of people in our five countries towards refugees and finally the way the refugee crisis is dealt with by the media. All the proposed activities were selected as a result of consultation with colleagues interested in sharing their methods with others and learning from the approach of other European teachers and involved people living and working close to our respective schools.Four transnational learning activities offered the opportunity to compare, to pool and conclude the work carried out on such questions beforehand in each individual school. Students in turn investigators, interviewers, reporters, writers, secretaries,artists, webmasters thus, thanks to the collaboration with students from partner schools, constructed their own learningprocesses, their relationships, their sense of responsibility, making them truly European citizens. The tools available on the eTwinning platform enable teachers and other schools to find inspiration from our work thus contributing to other forms of innovation."

'Let's be Prepared for Tomorrow's World' came into existence because of four schools' joint desire to work together on a new European project on the transformations which characterize contemporary Europe. Developments in Artificial Intelligence mean that students can expect their working lives to be very different from their parents'. The rise of social media and the internet are having profound consequences on our relations with one another and the way we are informed. Today's youth are troubled by threats to the well-being of our planet as witnessed by the climate strikes supported by students across Europe. All these concerns have been the source of inspiration to film makers and writers whose works are often dystopian. The objectives of our project are varied.As far as students are concerned, we aim to improve their communication and digital skills. Our objectives are also to encourage them to become more active citizens, to adopt a more positive attitude towards the European project and European values (increasingly under threat), and to enhance their critical thinking. Teachers will, through the activities we propose, integrate more collaborative cross-curricula methods and improve the relevancy of their teaching by associating people living and working close to our respective schools when dealing with the subject of 'Tomorrow's World'. Schools will be more open to internationalization and increase the European dimension of the education provided.There will be a class of about 25 students, aged between 16 and 18, working on the project in each of our four schools from very different socio-economic and geographical backgrounds. The two years of the project will be divided into four semesters, each focusing on a different aspect of the question: Literature, Sociology/ Politics, Economics and Geography. All the activities we propose are the result of prolonged and intense discussion among partners intent on improving their professional development and learning from each other's teaching methods.We have elaborated a varied, realistic common work programme over the two years. The work on a particular aspect of the 'Tomorrow's World' at our individual schools will culminate in a Transnational Learning Activity during which students will compare their results, broaden and widen their understanding of the question under discussion. In turn investigators, interviewers, reporters, writers, actors, film makers, secretaries, webmasters students will construct their own learning processes, their own relationships and become more truly European citizens. Working together with students from partner countries, whether it be before (via collaborative activities on the project Twinspace), during or after Transnational Learning Activities will be the hallmark of this project. All results will be posted on the Twinspace providing teachers across Europe with inspiration to undertake similar projects beyond the formal duration of this project.