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"<< Background >>Experiences from the previous period have taught us that learning requires a motivating factor and that only a satisfied and smiling child has an openness to new knowledge and strengthening their competencies. After a long period of online teaching and partial use of the living word, we believe it is necessary to find a new way that would make it easier for teachers and parents to make their children happy.The pandemic affected the physical and mental health of children combined with a serious lack of motivation. This has led to poor or below-average education, loss of work routines and habits. (https://bit.ly/3fkFWoG ), which opened the need to devise a way to make students happy, and thus motivate them to adopt educational content.Teachers should be provided with instructions and training to motivate students, as well as instructions for selecting and implementing a happiness curriculum. Teachers usually focus only on students ’academic skills and do not pay attention to the importance of their social and emotional skills (https://bit.ly/3eC12zV ). With this, we conclude that teachers also need additional education and gaining new knowledge on how to make their students happy.Parents of students are not teachers and often students do not have the support of their parents due to parental work, but also due to the inability of parents to help students in mastering school materials. Therefore, it is necessary for this project to provide support to parents in order to participate with the help of teachers in creating a curriculum of happiness for students.The realization of such a project would significantly affect the healthy development of mental and physical health in students, and would help parents and students in the realization of this idea.<< Objectives >>The aim of this project is to develop a social and emotional curriculum with an emphasis on happiness in order to stimulate motivation in students, and thus train teachers and parents on how to approach students and create conditions for their happiness, and then enable students to use independently and allow suggestions progress (based on experience). This project will be based on objectives such as collecting good practices from schools and creating a booklet with best practices in social and emotional training at EU level, developing a social and emotional curriculum with an emphasis on happiness as a basis for motivating students.One of the goals is to develop training programs for teachers with an emphasis on happiness to improve student creativity by creating an atmosphere and thinking of students.Creating a motivational application for avatar is the goal that will be the main bearer of this project. Creating an online AVATAR character will help you gain new knowledge by applying IT technologies in a very simple and effective way to reach school age children. Students will be satisfied with an interesting character, but they will also be eager to learn the teaching content in a completely new way, which will evoke the stated feelings.<< Implementation >>The first is the creation of the Good Practice Manual for Happiness Curricula in EU Schools, where we will be based on the creation of a methodology for collecting good practices, where each partner will collect at least ten good practices in their environment. We will then base ourselves on assessing the collection of good practices and creating a final list of them.After creating the list, we will be based on the development of a final manual and make an analysis based on happiness and identifying gaps in the EU report and of course translate all the material into partner languages.We will build on the development of educational content about happiness and build a matrix of competencies and skills before and after assessment and prepare educational content on happiness and form focus groups with external experts in the field.After preparing educational content for the curriculum, we have planned to organize a second transnational meeting, where we will work on improving educational content about happiness and translate all content into partner languages. We will then base ourselves on piloting tools in schools, collecting feedback and evaluating content, and then working on improving the tools and translating all content into partner languages.After that, our intention is to create a Guide for Parents “How to Support Happiness Training at Home” where we will work on developing content for parents based on the Happiness curriculum. We will work on developing exercises for home use to support the development of social and emotional skills. For that purpose organize focus groups with experts in the field to check the content, then improve the content and finalize the Guide.Finally, the holder of the whole project will be the development of a digital application for motivational avatar, where we will work on developing the concept of virtual character, create a guide ""How to motivate students through a virtual character in the classroom"", conduct pilot testing in schools, collect feedback and assessments based on which improvements will be made in the digital application.All content, done through the project, will be translated into partner countries and finally we will hold a Transnational Meeting in Rousse, Bulgaria, local dissemination conferences and a final conference on dissemination of project results with workshops.<< Results >>The pandemic appeared suddenly, leaving behind many consequences that are seen especially in the segment of primary school education. Children were left without educational, motivational, social support, which caused a decrease in their quality of life, causing many psychological consequences, making children unhappy and lost.Children have lost a lot in the time of online education, live contact with teachers, socialization skills, and motivation to learn which has led to a decrease in their quality of life. https://bit.ly/3u7E60Q Teachers, the first link in the knowledge system and transmitters of knowledge, can, with adequate techniques, motivate students to make up for lost time, to catch up in the material, encourage critical thinking and motivate students to participate in learning and school life.Needs for happiness in life, motivation, better education and making up for lost knowledge in constructive and creative way. https://bit.ly/3u7E60Q The overall implementation of this project will lead to healthier and happier students, which was relatively disrupted during the COVID 19 pandemic.By developing a handbook of good luck curriculum practices in schools in the EU, the most significant impact will be on students as they will develop the necessary skills to learn how to deal with and strengthen these difficulties, preparing them for future challenges.The development of educational content about happiness with a positive attitude will lead to a significant effect on the motivation and inclusion of students in school life. It will help students acquire important social and emotional qualities, which will improve their overall future life.By developing a training program for teachers, this project will have a positive impact on the way teachers will access online education. The impact will be significant as it will lead to professionalisation in terms of teaching management, thus creating space for quality education for all students. The positive effects of this program will be realized in:- development of teaching skills for online teacher education, which will lead to the upgrade of education for the digital age;- increasing self-confidence in terms of professional ability to produce quality educational works;- strengthening cooperation with families for crisis management;- strengthening the teacher-student partnership as active participants in the educational process.Creating a guide for parents “How to support happiness training at home” will achieve a significant effect on parents ’awareness and desire to strengthen cooperation and connection with their children. Together they will find greater motivation and satisfaction in learning social and emotional skills. Another positive result will be the correction of the parent-teacher-student relationship.A virtual character-Avatar with a guide “How to motivate students through a virtual character in the classroom” will have a significant impact on students participating in the project, improving their social and emotional skills, overall mental health, motivation to achieve better academic achievement and happier children."

"The project prepared Pan European analysis of good practices of school-parent cooperation and then create one, amalgamate strategy for education and cooperation with children's parents, called Parents corner.Parental involvement in the form of ‘at-home good parenting’ has a significant positive effect on children’s achievement and adjustment even after all other factors shaping attainment have been taken out of the equation. In the primary age range, the impact caused by different levels of parental involvement is much bigger than differences associated with variations in the quality of schools. The scale of the impact is evident across all social classes and all ethnic groups. (Desforges 2003). There is still underdeveloped public awareness of the importance and the need to educate parents and only a small number of printed and published material is available to provide the parent with enough information. On the other hand, schools are not intensively involved in the parent's education because of lack of training for work with parents. European Union has set the policy called “Supporting Parenting and Assisting with Childcare” in which defines Involving Parents in the Education of their Children with the implementations strategies. This project directly supports the horizontal priorities of Erasmus +: a) Dealing with complex classroom realities and b) Developing new approaches to strengthen the education and training paths of prospective and practising educators/youth workers.What the parent's corner is? Parents Corner is the - the place and a- group of methods through which we strengthen our relationship with parents and build a new level of partnership. We do not want our parents only come to the informational and parent meetings with class teachers, but it is at full capacity involved in school life. Through the ""Corner for parents"" actively involve parents in the new forms of partnership with the school: parents educators, volunteers, trainers, advisers, teaching assistants, participants in workshops, panel discussions, lectures, authors and co-authors in making guides, brochures, etc., which encourages and directs parents to serious relation to the obligations imposed by the education of children, and ultimately affects the improvement of relations between family-school and graduating with a resulting level of cooperation on the level of partnership. Educate parents in Corner for parents is meant to offer greater support to parents of children discrimination based on gender, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and disability, as well as to all parents whose children attend the school. This corner becomes the place where parents meet and work together, a place where organize different activities, in order to improve parenting skills and opportunities.Results of the project- Manual of good practices found in the EU regarding the strengthening of Parents-School relationship- Analysis of the current situation of Parents-school cooperation in EU- Training for the teachersProject already results in better cooperation with partners from other countries; innovative approaches for addressing target groups, ensuring attractive education and training programs in accordance with the needs and expectations of individuals, the use of participatory approaches and methodologies based on ICT; greater efficiency activities for the benefit of local communities; more modern, more dynamic, more committed and more professional environment in schools through its willingness to incorporate best practices and new methods in daily activities; openness for synergies with organizations active in various fields or other socio-economic sectors, strategic planning professional development of staff in accordance with the needs of the individual and organizational goals of schools. Impact of the projectIt is expected that the project will encourage development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices, and implementation of joint initiatives to promote cooperation, collaborative learning and exchange of experience at European level and motivate other school and teachers to be more active, and create a Corner for parents that will enable a comprehensive approach and successful cooperation with the parents to raise the level of partnership.It is also expected that project will strengthen the profile of teachers, encourage teachers and school management to provide high quality education, solve complex situations and embrace new tools and methods, so that everyone had the necessary skills in partnership with parents, through acceptance of collaborative and innovative practices, with the aim of creating the necessary changes and improving partnerships between schools and parents."