Our transnational project aimed at optimizing our students’ skills for successfully completing an apprenticeship as well as at optimizing their language skills. It supports them in living and working in the European information society. Having participated in our project, the students’ chances on the European employment market have improved. The partner schools developed their students’ key competences in focusing on the internationalisation of instruction, the improvement of media literacy (ICT), methods of German language learning, oral English skills training and testing , the development of the career training concept and the cooperation with our commercial partners. In doing so the students’ motivation for learning and for international mobility has been increased. Cross-curricular instruction (German, English, ICT, career training) closely connected phases of instruction and practical training.Altogether 12 students and 4 teachers per school participated regularly in the project. The teachers are trained in the field of home page, career training and they have studied German and/or English. (for further information, see choice of partners and competencies in E). The students attended classes in years 7 to 10. Project activities included joint training courses for the teachers (career training, German/English language teaching) as well as short-term exchanges for the students in Koblenz and Bratislava with peer practical trainings for the students with our commercial partners in Koblenz and excursions to commercial partners in Bratislava. Preparation and follow-up of the project activities were dealt with in the weekly lessons by both Erasmus-Teams and were completed during our short-term exchanges in Koblenz/Bratislava. The young people gained experience in communicating in different surroundings and in teaching their fellow students. They improved their learning competences. They experienced systems of school and apprenticeship in Germany and Slovakia. Teachers and students from Bratislava participated in the annual Job Information Day at the Realschule Plus auf der Karthause, in job information events of the Agentur für Arbeit Koblenz as well as in the annual local job fair for young people in Koblenz. They experienced practical trainings and the “Praxistag”. In the face of globalisation, migration and heterogeneous classrooms schools have to improve the qualifications of staff and students. Within the European Union one fifth of under 15-year-olds attain only the most basic level of proficiency in reading and almost 15% of 18 – 24-year-olds leave school prematurely. Nearly a third of the European labour force is low skilled, but according to some estimates, by 2010, 50% of newly created jobs will require highly skilled workers and only 15 % will be for people with basic schooling (2010, Youthpass Guide).Our project’s most important development unfolded during the transnational teachers meeting in Bratislava in June 2016: We had found out that the concepts of DAF/DAZ didn’t meet the German partners’ needs as much as we had hoped for. The teaching material was not especially helpful for teaching refugees and the numbers of refugees arriving had decreased. Therefore, we had to shift our focus from German to English. Visiting our partners’ English lesson in Bratislava, we got to know their newly-installed English Certificate preparation. The English teachers in Koblenz had been working on oral skills teaching and testing formats for a while and found in Bratislava the perfect form for preparing and testing . The students from Koblenz sat a mock exam during their short-term exchange in Bratislava in November 2016. The results of the English mock exam and our students’ feedback affirmed our decision to change one project focus from German to English in order to get the best benefit for our students. In the school year 2017/18 the Realschule Plus Karthause offers a preparation course for the English exam as well as an English drama club for the first time. Both courses aim at improving our students’ oral skills and at developing and testing new teaching methods for English classes at our school. The students from Bratislava are going to participate in annual practical trainings in Koblenz.

"The school exchange partnership “Dual-Moravian-Slovak reciprocity in education” was based on a mutual decision of the participating schools to cooperate in developing experiential education through the application of non-traditional teaching methods and practices in general and art education at primary school. The project will involve pupils from two primary schools of the same specialization from the primary school in Makov and the primary school Hutisko-Solanec. The above-mentioned schools educate pupils in the age from 6 to 15 years old. The aim of the partnership is to exchange good practices, knowledge, skills and competences in unconventional educational methods. The main goal of the project is to link non-traditional art education with practical activity, to implement unusual art techniques in the educational process and to exchange best practices between partner schools. The added value of the school exchange partnership is the development of information and communication technologies, language skills and practical professional skills of pupils. Project participants will obtain the necessary information about the working environment, working tools, techniques, work procedures and practical activities.Partial objectives of the project: a) to present pupils' knowledge, skills and competences,b) to help young people, after completing basic education, to enter career choices and thus to the European labor market,c) implement selected assessment tools into the educational process,d) compare history, art and cultural development, the system of education in the field of Czech-Slovak cooperation,e) to use English, Slovak and Czech language for communication in a new environment,f) create relevant information outputs from the project activity,g) to increase the professional qualification of the involved teachers of relevant subjects and consequently to use newly acquired knowledge and skills in further education and training,h) to propagate best practices in the field of primary education among partner schools.The project concerns the following target groups: app. 10 teaching staff and 24 pupils from each school (96 pupils in total). During the project, four workshops will be held, thematically focused on ""C1-Shared bond, C2-in the footsteps of our ancestors, C3- Common but different, C4- Common culture in a time of coexistence and today"".The theme of team cooperation of pupils will be chosen as follows to capture the most striking manifestation of the geographic location of the Primary School. During the workshops, accompanying events will be organized - joint language preparation from English, Czech and Slovak, cultural and social activities. Each Czech-Slovak meeting will be concluded by a joint exhibition at which the work of pupils will be presented to other teachers, pupils and the general public. During the project meetings, pedagogical staff will be acquainted with the selected techniques for which they will create a system of evaluation. Based on these materials, pupils will be evaluated at the last meeting. Pupils from partner schools will use techniques of cooperation and communication via the tool eTwinning, with which schools have practical experiences.The project will include ongoing communication between school teams on a together developed website. The output of the project will be methodological manuals on technological procedures of work and a magazine of workshops participants in partner schools, which will map basic education, training and leisure activities. The planned output is an information bulletin about the project and an English-Czech-Slovak dictionary of professional terminology from the field of realized activities. During the workshops, each participant will be equipped with a tablet to document his / her activity on the assigned tasks. A common video will be created from the pupils' recorded films. All activities will be published on the project's common website and on the promotional DVD. The experience gained and the established working contacts will be a lasting benefit for each participant of the project activity. Pupils acquire new knowledge, skills and competences within 12 days at the partner school. Before each mobility, so-called virtual mobility will be held, which will be a new platform for electronic communication between selected pupils who will learn about the outcomes of their chosen educational activity. The school exchange partnership will contribute to the innovation of primary education and training and to the rejuvenation of the teaching of general education subjects in partner schools."

Within the framework of the submitted project, the ambition is to implement activities that will contribute to the fulfillment of selected priorities focused on the individual educational needs of children from disadvantaged regions. By acquiring key language competencies and developing basic manual, digital skills and media literacy for these children, we want to contribute to improving the quality of their education and to develop opportunities to learn or work in other European countries.The main activities of this project, realized during the mobility of pupils and teachers between partner schools, are mainly cooperation on assignments on the theme of the South Hungarian Slovak life, preserved traditions and prominent personalities.Participation in the project is for pupils aged 10-14 from two partner schools – secondary school in Jelšava from Slovakia and Slovak Két Tanítási Nyelvu Általános Iskola és Óvoda from Hungary. 40 pupils and teachers from partner schools will participate in both mobilities, and we plan to involve approximately 300 participants in the accompanying events during the project duration. Regarding the cooperation on the submitted project, we will address local cultural organizations from both regions: the Municipal Museum and the Center for Visegrad Culture in Jelšava, the civic association Jelšavanka, active pensioners, folklorists, volunteers of YMCA, members of the Slovak Komlos Organisation , Komlos Folklore Association.The results of the project will be measurable on the basis of the outputs of the assigned tasks, in the solution of which students from the addressed partner schools will participate together.Based on the study of historical sources, their tasks will be to create an information panel with a map of Slovaks moving from Middle Gemer to the Lower Land in Hungary with a reference to important Slovak personalities working in the Lower Land. The support and development of students' artistic skills in the field of dramatization and presentation of folk art is the organization of dance workshops, which will be focused on practicing our folk dances and dances of lowland Slovaks. Our students and students from the partner school have experience with theater production. Their participation in the show of theater ensembles in Sarvaš is a motivation for them in the further development of their ambitions.- to create a publication focused on traditional gastronomy from both regions of the partner schools of Hungary and Slovakia.- to obtain methodological materials for the creation of a methodological manual regional education - to implement regional education into the school educational program The specific objectives follow the traditions and common past of the participating partner schools, which map the life of the Lower land Slovaks in Hungary.

The aim of this project is to provide, through an effective partnership between schools, space for sharing valuable experience in the field of information technologies and their use in both distance and mainstream education, as well as in environmental issues and school settings in accordance with sustainable development according to Eco-school standard. Within the project, we want to build on the partnership between the Eden and Cádrova primary schools and use the unique experience that both schools have in these areas. The project aims at cooperation between teachers and pupils from both schools, who will share their experience and practice of the impact of both concepts in the everyday life of the school. In our current situation, we consider both themes to be key to a modern approach to education and training pupils for responsible behavior and environmental management. The project will provide space for teachers and pupils to spread their experience in their own school and to gradually introduce the concept of a partner school. This is the aim of the project and at the end of the project we would like to extend the range of Eco-schools with Eden Primary School and at the same time bring effective use of digital tools for teaching to the Cádrova Primary School. We plan to develop the partnership of both schools after the end of this project in these and other relevant areas. During the project, we plan to implement a total of five educational activities that will strengthen school partnerships and help them implement the concept in their home environment. Pupils will be intensively involved in these activities, and through working together with their peers at partner schools, we also target their personal development.

The project is a comprehensive range of activities in the field of cultural education, involving organization of educational and animation workshops (theater, art, music and dance workshops) which is prepared for school youth community centers. Education help offer is addressed to children from low financial status, dysfunctional, disadvantaged and insufficient care families. Planned activities are respond to the needs of the school and family community and serve to solve the problem of the education of the poorest children and they are stimulating their socio-cultural activity. The purpose of the cultural workshops conducted within the activities of the community center is to support families in preparing children for independent living, development of proper social attitudes by taking care of them during their free time and organizing educational and preventive activities. Priority in this regard is also influencing the pupils the way that they could deal better with problem solving, improve their social skills and that they will be involved in constructive ways of spending free time.The main goal of the project is cultural and social stimulation of 60 children who attend to school community centers. What is important is developing basic skills in pupils, early care and preparation for the proper functioning in the peer group, local community, family life, homeland, Europe and the world. Through cultural workshops, in other words education through play, we will try to shape the personality of children, develop the skills of creative expression and affect the evolution of intellect. Nowadays cultural education has become one of the most important forms of work with children. Such activities sensitize pupils to the beauty of words, music, give joy, learn culture. Working on the performance, the choreography, the show develops their cognitive abilities, memory exercise, correct pronunciation, enriches general knowledge. Contact with real costumes, musical instruments, props, theater puppets and masks, specialized painting equipment becomes a source of knowledge. Emotional involvement of pupils in the magic of culture - by entering into subsequent role, preparing performances, proper characterization will have influence on the development of the students interests in this field and the discovery and targeting of this passion. Moreover, the project aims to reinforce the professional profile of 16 teachers who are employed in schools participating in this project. Due to the work done in the project , teachers will acquire additional skills in working with recalcitrant children. Their knowledge will be expanded to elements of cultural education. Thanks to work on modern equipment, purchased under the project, innovative workshop programs will be developed to work with children from day-rooms. Exchange of experiences with teachers from partnership schools will also allow to notice the need to change the existing individual routine activities, which from now on will be executed more efficiently as it will be mastered. As it is known, the quality of schools is the sum of the actions of individual teachers. Thanks to higher-quality of teachers work, the development of schools as institutions focused on multi-faceted educational progress of students will be guaranteed. Due to the direct cooperation and exchange of experiences among the teachers during the courses of study, workshops and trainings, the necessary competencies will be enriched and developed. In this case, ‘team teaching’ will become another possibility to create work culture in which teachers acquire the space to develop their personal vision, derive energy and motivation to their own development, and above all for the development of their students.Nowadays, the role of the school community centers is enormous, they fill a gap between the school and parents, who often do not create appropriate living conditions for their children. The reason may be lack of funds or time, which results in the inability to provide the child a meal, help in learning or the best possible emotional development. The functioning of the community centers combines the competence of the school with the responsibilities of parents. It often support creativity and entrepreneurship of their pupils, activating them by organizing extra-curricular activities, and their primary goal is the broad interests of the child. It prepare the youngest for independent life and try to shape them with appropriate social attitudes. Furthermore, it develop children's interest, activating them during free time, learn cooperation, organization of time and give a chance for a better start in the future.