<< Background >>It should come as no surprise that we have a serious problem with plastic in the oceans and on land. Both microplastics and macroplastics have their devastating effects on biodiversity and in the long run, the resources we need to feed a growing world population.The challenges are real. We all recognize the problem, but the solutions are scarce. While plastic production is booming, recycling is hard and inefficient. Few attempts at collecting plastic from the oceans are successful and, in any case, extremely far from sufficient.We simply need more STEM-based entrepreneurship from young people in this field, but teachers across the EU are not well equipped to give the right tools and boost the courage of their students to be willing to enter the task of entrepreneurship - and certainly not in this vial field. We can see it in the numbers of new entrepreneurs across the EU: they are plummeting at an alarming rate.This Erasmus+ bid aims at bringing students from widely separate world regions together to understand the underlying factors behind the Plastic Ocean and to come up with entrepreneurial solutions to real local and global problems. This will result in a compilation of streamlined teaching materials, ready to use and easy to implement.From Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean to Valencia in the south, via Greece to Copenhagen the problems are diverse and complex and not least epochally important. We will learn from each other, not only regarding plastic pollution but also regarding the teaching of young students through best practice.Spanning two years the project will take a total of around 100 students and teachers on an academic adventure to the partner schools involved and each time we will focus on a new aspect of plastic pollution. At the same time the students and teachers will gain cultural knowledge and expand their social and professional network.<< Objectives >>There are three main objectives of this project.1. To conceptualize, create and streamline PBL teaching materials for STEM-based entrepreneurship for you adults in upper secondary schools.2. To have students learn about the scientific aspects of plastic pollution and to help them have the courage to enter international entrepreneurship in this essential field.3. To have our organisations develop the tools and gain the know-how to teach in this complex problem while at the same time become better at cooperating across borders.<< Implementation >>We will make 4 short term visits to the 4 partners in the project where students will receive in-depth STEM-based knowledge and analytical skills related to plastic pollution (2 activities) and participate in workshops with entrepreneurship-training making real alternatives to plastic products (2 activities). We will keep the project on track with three project meetings and we will have follow-up activities where teaching materials are being created and tested.<< Results >>The project will result in a compilation of streamlined PBL and STEM-based teaching materials in the field of entrepreneurship related to plastic pollution, ready to use and easy to implement. It will also boost the confidence of our particular students to create environmentally focused start-ups and to enhance the skills of the involved teachers and the international capabilities of the school organisations.

Europe needs strong, educated, involved young people active in the labor market who really know their role in society and the benefits of democratic principles. Students are the engine on which the European community is built and the knowledge-based economy is developing The main reason for this project has come from a need of our school of care for a few years, that is, we have a high percentage of unmotivated students to learn. We are a technological high school, weare not always pupils with the smallest grades, but once they get into our system they are not progressing, they see high school life as a punishment to stay in classes where it is important to promote them not to learn. As a result of the previous school year, we had 75% students with an average of 5-5,99; 15% undergraduates, 3% dropout and 7% students with unfinished situation, over 45 students/parteners with over 40 absences unmotivated and low results to graduation at exams. So if we motivate pupils to learn, we can easily guide them to a career and create generations of active students on the labor market.Specific objectivesFor students1. Increase in self-esteem to 80% of students participating in learning activity in Croatia by the end of March 20202. Develop to 80% of students participating in the Turkish learning activity of positive attitude towards school education by the end of October 20203. Developing to 80% of students participating in the learning process in Spain, the ability to be aware of their own learning process on the basis of awareness of the usefulness of theory in a practical context by the end of February 20214. Developing to 80% of learners in Portugal's learning activity, career guidance capability based on awareness of the importance of study qualification by the end of May 20215. Developing to 80% of the number of pupils participating in the learning activities of the equal education chance feeling in the partner countries, by the end of the project.For teachers:6- develop the skill to integrate in the didactic and extracurricular process of the methodologies, tools used by the partners (learned from each other) according to the project theme, to 90% of the number of teachers participating in each training activity by the end of itDirect target group -120 teachers and students+6 reservesThe transnational activities dedicated to teacher training will involve 2 teachers/partner x 5 states x 4 transnational activities = 40 teachers+3 Reserves/partner 4 pupils /5 partner/4 transnational activity =80 pupils will participate in the transnational activities devoted to pupils. Students will be aged between 11 and 19.+3 Reserves /partner.We have 28 participants with economic obstacles, geographical obstacles, immigrants with adaptation problems. We provided 4 short-term exchanges for pupils and 5 short training courses for teachers It is necessary to carry out the 9 activities in order to reach the objectives in which the pupils aredirectly targeted. The objectives can be achieved through learning-pupils' activities and mutual teacher education and applying their innovative methods in all partner schools Activities will consist of workshops with exchange of best practices and direct interaction, didactic, cultural, moral, linguistic, scientific.All will be continued at home, adapted, combined with online joint workResultsMotivating pupils for school and professional successDeveloping team spirit of students, improving self-confidenceTeachers will enrich their methodology used in class / extracurricular to motivate students to get better school outcomesExhibition of graffitiOnline tests for planning the moral, social and professional routeMagazine and Calendar Market Guerrilla PygmalionMagazine and calendar Origoclass-Men sana in body sanoJournal Political-social and ecological imbalances through the imbalance of freedom in relation to responsibilityExposition Practice without theoryEducational filmsMobile app Appery.ioMagazine: 100 reasons to learn, Traveler in 5 European schools, Dual Debate Magazine -Demotivation by StereotypingThe e Learning platformCaricature exhibition - the shortest road to successExhibition So yes, so noEducational Market BrochureMoral Calendar - Lifetime MaximsFinal resultsStudents - Polyglot professional dictionaryTeachers-School Guide for Successful Lessons and the decrease in absenteeism, Didactics of counseling, Student's counseling notebookIn the long run, we are following:had high-level teachers and would have a higher prestige be viewed by pupils, parents and the community as an effective stage in preparing young people andintegrating them into the labor market be part of several local, regional, national and European partnerships, broadening its methodologicaland didactic sphere of interferenceparticipate with many students at competitions and contestsbe looked at with respect and trust - will have a greater advancement in final examinations

"Our ""Young European Entrepreneurs Schools "" ' project brings together 5 high schools located in France, Italy, Poland, Lithuania and Spain in order to join our efforts and to araise in our students the desire to create entreprises on European level and to facilitate their access to all information related to the world of business and entrepreneurship in these 5 countries. We want to accompany our future young entrepreneurs step-by-step to find business ideas and take advantage of their ideas. By bringing together general information on the labour market, trade and business creation in each of our respective countries, by bringing knowledge for a better understanding of cultural differences, we wish to share ideas of companies with our European partners and thus develop business ideas together. We will work on this project with our most vulnerable students in the technological and tertiary sectors in order to encourage them to be involved in their social and professional future; with those who spend their holidays in shopping malls because they have no other means to escape the greyness of suburban cities or the monotony of rural life. Throughout the project, each partner school will create a Mini Enterprise that could be turned into a real business in the future. All the results of the project activities will be commucated in a Brochure and a DVD entitled ""Young European Successful Entrepreneurs ' Handbook "" and via our Blogs and Main Website. Throughout the project, we will also develop a primer on Entrepreneurship, a Labour Market Study, a Prosperous Business Guide. We will also find original local products, promote them with commercials, and sell them. Mini-companies will confront their ideas and progress together. We will meet succesful entrepreneurs and interview them to share their experiences. We aim to make our students aware that entrepreneurs create new jobs, new sectors, new markets and the development of new technologies, thus guaranteeing the economic and social development of the country and, through such partnership, of Europe."

Next-Gen in Europe of 2020'sIt is a Project that will last 2 years and involves schools from France,Turkey,Spain,Estonia,Italy and Belgium.Some of pupils in this Project come from disadvantaged backgrounds and all schools have lots of things in common,that is the main reason of the partnership.The six participating schools have deeply analyzed their contexts(at a school and community level)to determine their needs:-schools are settled in rural areas or low-educated neighborhood where levels of English are low.This affects mildly both students and teachers.However,students are unaware of these effects-lack of knowledge environment to simplify the development of key competences/skills among students-lack of teachers specialized in organizing and delivering training programs for the development of innovative practices and methodsConsidering the needs above,this project wants to be innovative by analyzing different ways of learning and teaching in order to create new ways to develop thekey competences in youngsters.We will focus on the transfer of ways of teaching and learning techniques in schools towards innovation.We will investigate which innovation processes are appropriate to develop methods that are successful for our society today.We will analyze all ways of teaching and learning in the schools involved in the Project.We have rural schools,CLIL school,ICT schools,Flipped school,Bilingualism school and a school from Estonia to analyze their method which a very positive model in Europe.We have focused on the following objectives:•To reduce the school drop out rates in the communities involved in the project•To develop the key competences,such as ICT skills and linguistic competences using ways of teaching&learning focused on pupils•To improve the linguistic competence in pupils in order to develop techniques and skills which will be essential for them in the world of work in a close future•To encourage in pupils the capacity of work in Europe since early ages by working on linguistic and social competences•To implement the European dimension amongst all participants,encourage in them internationalization and be open-minded,which is so important to be integrated in a common Europe to prevent our communities’ members of social exclusion in the future•To use ICT as international instrument of communication, elaboration, evaluation and diffusion of the results•To improve students’ and teachers’ communication, group working skills, the use of English as common language•To compare methods of teaching and learning,values of education,school organization and curriculum in order to look for innovative ways of teaching&learning such as CLIL(Content and language integrated learning),Flipped Classroom,ICT Appliciations&Tools,Drama and introduce pedagogical innovationsAll schools involved in the partnership will work to achieve these aims due to we have nearly the same necessities.All partners have some strong point to implement the Project but at the same time all of them have necessities that will be solved with the development of the Project.We will focus on pupils from 13 to 18 years old to achieve the objectives of the Project.This group of pupils will work directly on the Project,but the whole school community will participate and will be involved in it.It is a very important Project for all teachers and they will have to participate in it in order to collaborate and investigate to look for innovative ways of learning&teaching.All teachers will participate to develop the materials and the manual that will be available and we will spread it out in order to helpother schools interested in the method.We will start to work in a new way with the objective of improving the ways of teaching and learning since very early ages at school.We will put it into practice since primary level in the close future with the purpose of increasing the quality of education at this level.This project wants to be innovative by analyzing different ways of learning&teaching in order to create new ways to develop the key competences in pupils,the improving of ICT techniques and linguistic competence. We will create a commission or committee to select people who is going to select people,who is going to participate in mobilities,to evaluate the Project and to spread the results out, to intervene in an emergency and to control de budget.We will have three main products:A manual with different ways of learning and teachingA dictionary with basic functions in our mother languagesA book with fairy talesMost of pupils included in this project are students with fewer opportunities and face problems such as geographical obstacles,economic obstacles and educational difficulties.We will evaluate each aspect of the project three times per year.It will be after learning&teaching mobilities.The different Commissions will meet in each country and they will report an information with the evaluation of all items.

St.A.R.T. UPtoEU (Storytelling Ancient Roman Traces up to Europe ) is a Strategic Partnership of schools (Italy, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic), local authorities (Reggia di Caserta), cultural association (Bimed) and a telematic university (UniPegaso) following the main lines of the Education Modernisation Agenda. The project will offer high quality, innovative tools and courses, international mobility and cross-border cooperation in order to enhance the skill of building new curricula in school education especially in the fields of cultural management and shared cultural heritage. The whole project opens various possibilities to work with and to think about. The project aims to:- support synergies with training, research and innovation activities, promoting new technologies;- develop innovation to enhance cultural heritage in the digital area following European priorities;- promote a multilingual and intercultural approach to history and art with an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset;- recover the common identity of partner countries, once Roman provinces and now European members to achieve the awareness of European citizenship;- strengthen cultural, social and civic skills to involve students to foster employability, socio-educational and professional development to promote social inclusion; - promote the acquisition of skills and competences improving linguistic/ communicative abilities.The context spreads over various fields (archaeology, history, ICT, Cultural Heritage, Education), connected to one another by the principal priorities of innovation and internationalization.Most partners have previous experience of participation in an Erasmus+ programme and/or active in eTwinning projects. The schools are all situated in countries once Roman Provinces interested in working on a project about the promotion of their Cultural Heritage.The choice of the other organisations and local authorities is meant to develop the best horizontal and vertical cooperation between schools and University, Cultural associations and the labour market. We think to gain the achievement of our objectives through training courses, workshops, short-term learning mobilities for students, etwinning projects, storytelling, introduction to History and Archaeology, improvement of foreign languages and ICT.All of these activities will always be pursued keeping a special eye on innovative and inclusive educational strategies such as: cooperative and peer to peer learning, the use of new technologies, learning by doing.The project not only provides for the achievement of outcomes but also the realization of tangible outputs, which will be:OUTPUTS- a cultural heritage storytelling platform (database, maps, digital interactive guide online and on app (O1));- structure and implementation of a learning digital platform (O2;- structure cultural heritage 3D printed gadgets (O3);- Cultural Heritage Digital and Multilingual Glossary (O4)OUTCOMES- linguistic & ITC certifications; - intellectual output (objects learning, videoconferences, courses online, network, articles, etc.).The products (guides, thematic maps, totems, platforms) may be implemented and also used after the end of the funding period not only by individual organizations, but also in a much wider community.The storytelling platform and its transferability to other contexts such as the world of the experts (cultural heritage) and the cultural- touristic industry will implement an economic development process about the territory.The main impact of the outcomes is to enhance opportunities of educational, social and cultural growth, strengthening the cultural and civic awareness in the local communities.Actually we intend to disseminate the project through meetings, conferences, events, online platforms, social network and website.A constant supervising and monitoring action will assure that funds will be properly used through Transnational meetings.The main sustainability factors connected to the project are joined to territorial actions fields, time span and participant groups, all representative factors of the different stakeholders in schools and in the local community.Another possible element of transferability and sustainability is also working with high-quality organizations, active in Education and in the enhancement and protection of cultural heritage, through the Digital culture and in innovation; the cooperation tested in the partnership will continue on the same issues even after the end of the project.PARTNERS1. LSS “G. Siani” –Italy (coordinator)2. EuropaschuleLangerweheGesamtschule - Germania3. IES Jaume II el Just-Spagna4. Gymnázium, Praha 4 –Czech Republic5. Reggia di Caserta - Italy6. UniPegaso - Italy7. BIMED - ItalyASSOCIATED PARTNERS- Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Caserta e Benevento – Italy - et al.