Within the current situation of a World pandemic resultant from the spread of COVID-19, educational institutions have had to adapt their teaching methods and the organisations involved were no exception. Regular work with pupils was no longer possible and had to be moved online, with such it quickly became obvious that though there are materials online on the SDGs that can be downloaded and user, including some using gamification, these were still designed for use in the classroom. The materials that could be used online are often of a very limited nature of interactivity and engagement or require a cumbersome setup. Facing this situation, the organisations in the consortium worked together to draft a plan for the development of a fully interactive and responsive online platform that would teach pupils (in both computers and mobile/tablet devices) about the SDGs online, promoting and empowering them towards more sustainable practices.The project is aiming to design and develop learning materials that will be used in an online platform (also to be designed and used), that helps pupils develop the key competences for the 21st century of critical thinking, creativity and problem solving while teaching them about the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. This results in two (intellectual) outputs and several results associated to them:- (Output 1) Design and development of learning materials - The organisations involved will design and develop learning materials on the SDGs, while taking into account feedback and contributions from teachers. There will be materials for each of the SDGs (there are 17 goals) taking different shapes such as questions, quizzes, challenges, interactive presentations. Overall there will be more than 17 different gamified elements, to enable a diversified and extensive offer that will keep the pupils interested.- (Output 2) Design and development of online platform - The organisations involved will design and develop a platform that will host the aforementioned learning materials that will support gamification elements to go along with the interactive nature of the learning materials. The exact shape of the platform will be seen as its design and development progresses, but is expected to incorporate points, achievements and leader boards for the pupils.- (Output 3) Development of digital skills course - The organisations involved in the project will develop a teacher training course on digital skills related to distance learning that will be delivered to teachers within the scope of the project and be made available online.An open call for schools interested in participating in the project's testing of the platform and materials will be done. A selection of schools that answers the call will be done, with the assessment of their interest in the project and in contributing to its goals, its student composition (both in terms of having the appropriate age range, and of the diversity of its student body), and the experience of the teachers proposed to be involved. If not enough schools apply or not enough of them fulfil the necessary criteria, then schools that have previously worked with the organisations in the consortium will be invited to collaborate.The expected results from the delivery of these outputs are:- Contribution to pupils developing key competences and learning about the SDGs. Such is estimated to occur with 80 pupils during the project (as a result of the testing work done), and 200 pupils within the first year following delivery of the online platform with the learning materials.- Support to schools in having learning materials to teach their pupils about sustainable development, and the key competences of critical thinking, creativity and problem solving, available for free online in their native language. It is estimated that 6 teachers and 6 administrative staff members will have been affected by this during the project as a result of their contributions to the testing, while a further 25 teachers and schools' administrative staff within the first year following delivery of the online platform with the learning materials.- Contribution to teachers developing their digital skills, thus allowing them to better deliver on distance learning. It is estimated that 25 teachers will benefit directly from training sessions wherein the digital skills course will be delivered, while a further 50 will benefit within the first year following the course being made available online.

Early school leaving (ESL) of Roma students is one of the biggest challenges in educational process in many European countries. Many strategies, policies, measures and recommendations against ESL, on the highest EU level, were prepared, but they didn't made expected impact, especially on the basic level of practical implementation e.g. primary schools.In accordance with performed Surveys among primary schools staff, the same conclusion can be made: Usually institutions and other relevant authorities react afterwards when the process of leaving schools is active and it is almost non-stoppable. Therefore instead of precaution actions which are far more effective, there are always post-caution actions with temporally and/or very low quality effects.Project will be realised by 6 (six) project partners - one NGO and one primary school - from 3 countries /N. Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece/.Main project goal is implementation of a new strategic approach by development of Early School Leavers Monitoring System (ESLMS), which will be used as a respond system for possible ESL cases. ESLMS with included software application, adaptable for any situation and education institution, will be used as early warning system for possible ESL cases. Software based part of ESLMS will allow teachers /after recognising a very first signs of possible case of ESL/ in relatively short time period, by using of software application, to get a set of proposed actions how to react (or instructions what they have to pay attention to).With aim to achieve best possible results from project realisation, PPs determined as necessary to have a combination of following activities: 4 transnational project partners meetings, 3 short-term joint staff training events, development of 3 Intellectual outputs and organisation of the 3 National dissemination (multiplier) events.During the realization of the project activities following results are expected:- 3 Intellectual Outputs developed1. ESLMS /with developed software application/ for primary schools2. Manual for establishing of ESLMS in primary schools3. Strategic Document for long-term strategic transnational partnership among NGOs and Educational institutions in addressing of challenges of social inclusion and ESL of Roma students in regions of of Kochani, Sliven and Larissa.- 9 representatives of school management and administrative staff (principals/deputy principals, school pedagogues, sociologists and/or school psychologist) (3 per each project partner primary school) with increased skills and competences for implementing of process of establishing of Early School Leavers Monitoring System in their primary schools, as well as with increased skills and competences for promotion and implementation of an active inclusion of the parents of Roma students in the school activities (trained within the third short-term joint staff training event). Also will be trained in using of the eTwinning networking module for transnational cooperation with their colleagues from other European countries.- 9 teachers (3 per each project partner primary school) that are teaching students from 7- 10 years old will be trained in implementation of Roma culture and traditions in primary schools’ non–formal activities (within the 1st short term joint staff training event as well as in recognition of discrimination, racism, bulling and hate speech (within the 2nd short term joint staff training event). On the first short term joint staff training events will be also trained for using of eTwinning module for teachers networking- min 36 students (min 12 junior students per school on the age from 9 - 10 years old /6 Roma students and 6 students from other majority nationality/) with increased awareness of facing of challenges of discrimination, racism and hate speech as well as with increased team-work and presentation skills – participants in the long-term teaching assignment transnational competitive event for students teams- min 120 students (min 40 junior students per school /on the age from 7 - 8 years old/ ) with increased awareness of multicultural differences and specific of Roma's culture and traditions – participants in the main learning event e.g. long-term teaching assignment- min 120 local, regional and national stakeholders (min 40 participants on each of the National Dissemination events in N. Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Greece) will become familiar with advantages of newly developed ESLMS in mitigation of ESL cases among Roma's students in primary schools.The main impacts which project have aim to made is to promote a successful implementation of a new ESLMS based approach in tackling of ESL challenge, as well as the importance of transnational partnership among different organisations and teachers networking as a proven approach for more efficient education.

<< Objectives >>The overall project objective is to contribute to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), a key element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The project aims to design and develop learning materials regarding SDGs that will be used through the online platform that helps pupils develop key competencies such as critical thinking. Improved teachers' digital skills for distance learning and supported schools' ability to provide remote education with applied Digital Skills course.<< Implementation >>Transnational meetings and coordination; Preparation and adoption of the SDG learning materials; Planning and specifications of the platform. Developed and applied Digital Skills course for teachers distance learning. Organizing local/national workshops to apply the knowledge practically. Pupils, with the support of the teachers, will gain an understanding of each SDG. << Results >>Materials for each SDG (17 goals) taking different shapes such as questions, quizzes, challenges, interactive presentations placed online at SDG platform. Develop a teacher training course on digital skills related to distance learning delivered to teachers within the project's scope and made available online. Increased 21 century key competences of students and digital skills for teachers.