"CONTEXT/BACKROUND In last decades, ""obesity and malnutrition“ has been growing up problem among the children between 5-18 that badly effect their health and result with several problems. There are several reasons lying behind it such as bad eating habits, sugar intake, addiction and inactivity, etc. OBJECTIVES We aim to:*raise awareness and introduce new term of “MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY"" and use of it for a healthy diet among students, families and school staff starting from local area to national point, then in Europe*show how to apply the techniques that are commonly used in molecular gastronomy and draw attention to use natural food and products in homes*combine correct food and use the right cooking techniques and use creativity in kitchens*remember old traditional meals and sustain them*inform people and disseminate our projects with panels, forums, conferences, etc.*arrange feasts, organizations, sport tournaments and workshops in schools*include both students and families in activities, decrease early school leaving and grow sympathy for school*grow the inner abilities that students have and promote productivity, self confidence and tolerance among students*create opportunities for meeting new people and having cross cultural activities*disseminate the project, its' objectives and activities among local authorities, local governmental and private institutions, cooperate with local associations and local press, announce at first, reach the national organizations and governors then*change the eating habits, decease and stop bad eating habits and run a healthy life in public PARTICIPANTS:The project will involve schools from 5 European countries, such as Spain (coordinator), Germany, Iceland, Romania and Turkey (two schools). In project activities, they will include:- secondary school students, aged from 12 to 18;- teachers;- other school staff;- parents and local authorities; - specialists in the filed of nutrition. ACTIVITIES: We will have 5 exchanges of pupils and they will last 5 days. For each mobility, 2 teachers and 3 students will join the mobility activities. Each host will create e-book with the recipes used during the workshops and cooking sessions. Plus, the physical exchange will be combined with virtual exchanges on eTwinning. 1) Students will make gluten free sandwiches with “chia and Chenopodium quinoa and agar agar"" in Germany. 2) Students will make their own homemade chocolate in Spain.3) Students will have a ""murături"" contest in Romania. 4) Students will decorate their homemade cakes with black pearls in Iceland. 5) Students will make their “Foamy Drinks” with lecitinin in Turkey. Throughout two years we will also follow a timetable and accomplish 19 activities with our partners. The students will have a role as “makers “ and will be involved in various activities such as: Logo competitions and online voting; creation of booklets, papers, flyers, project boards, t-shirts, films, ads, etc. These will also be among the products resulting from our project. The visits to culinary schools and gastronomy departments in universities, local institutions and foundations, seminars, conferences, meetings and news on local papers will contribute dissemination too. METHODOLOGYThe digital platforms will enables us to communicate easily, sharing/exchanging the needed materials, filing the data and docs, announcing the improvements and checking out the data and tasks during the two year long process. Messenger, WhatsApp, Google Drive will be used to communicate with partners. We will divide the tasks as “specific” and “common ones”. The partner schools will make sure that they have completed all the given tasks and activities which were planned to be fulfilled and disseminated among by all the participants. Methods: workshops, meetings, visits, pair/group work, evaluation tools, etc. RESULTS AND IMPACT At the end of our project, students will be able to: *learn about “molecular gastronomy and correct food combination and cooking methods”*know about uncommon but natural and healthy food*leave bad eating habits and follow a healthy lifestyle*do activities that promote active life*involve in school activities,share tasks and responsibilities and promote pair and group work*organize sports activities *learn how to keep fit and healthy*grow positive feelings (responsibility, confidence, leadership, growing imaginativeness, empathy and critical thinking,etc.)*hold conferences, seminars, meeting, visiting and conferences and meet specialists on “molecular gastronomy""*use their ICT competence for useful purposes and improve it (PPTs, videos, short films, logos and posters,etc.) *meet new people,host them,learn about them and break down their prejudices and build up friendship*use their foreign language (English) and improve four skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking); *meet new friends from different countries, have cross cultural activities"

On the basis of the current migration and refugee movements in Europe it became clear that most schools had no or no current concepts for intercultural education. As a rule, newcomers from other cultures were completely unprepared for the new class association, met fellow students whose intercultural competence was scarce, and saw no possibility of being productively involved in the school community. Frustration, aggression or school refusal were the result, and sometimes the entire school climate was severely impaired. Our project is to develop innovative teaching modules on the basis of different teaching subjects of our curriculum for intercultural education. In six different modules, we want to combine curricular topics with superior learning goals such as openness, the reduction of prejudices or the awareness of one's own cultural identity. In this way, we would like to point out approaches to facilitate the integration of children from other cultures into their new school community, to actively involve the new classmates in their new school environment, and to teach local students the culture of their classmates without prejudice and authenticity. In the same way, we aim to raise our awareness of our own cultural identity, to bring together the common European cultural values as a basis for our coexistence, to feel culture as an enrichment of one's own life and to improve existing intercultural teaching modules through innovative approaches. The six participating partnerships want to involve as many people involved in school life as possible in the project, actively involving representatives of social organizations such as refugee initiatives, NGOs, cultural, political and religious representatives in the project. The nature and scope of these external participants is determined by the respective topic of the module. The project has the intention to identify methods and approaches in six modules, how intercultural learning can be linked to different basic teaching subjects and focus on openness, empathy, respect for the fellow-pupil's culture and the awareness of one's own cultural roots as a central learning target to stand. All modules follow a similar scheme and want to actively involve the young people in our schools with their biography, history, skills and abilities, as well as their fears and concerns. Culture is to be experienced by all participants as valuable, enriching and trustworthy. The modules focus on: - Language and literature - Music and dance - Visual arts - interreligious dialogue - Politics and history - everyday culture And link this focus to a higher-level learning target. In detail, the modules are shown on the page ....... We want to develop at our schools and all schools in which we will act as a multiplier, solid building blocks for intercultural education in all relevant disciplines, which in turn serve to bring students from other cultures into our school community , The opportunity to contribute to the school life with their cultural background. Likewise, we want to develop teaching modules to help the newcomers integrate and grow into our own cultural environments and to raise the awareness of the cultural identity of their new classmates. The results should be as follows: - Educational building blocks for linguistic, artistic, artistic, political-historical, social-scientific and religious Compartments; - Apps for Intercultural Education - diaries, ePapers, storybooks, biographical videos, exhibitions on the empathic confrontation with the Refugee theme - A website, a blog, an eTwinning project page and a youtube channel for the documentation of our work and our results as well as CDs and DVDs to document the work on the individual modules - interreligious prayer books - self-produced workbooks for learning the basics of the new language for incoming refugees or Migrant children

"The partnership was founded on the collaboration of 5 partners from 4 European countries: Turkey, Poland,Portugal and Czech Republic.CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT: In education we as teachers always need to follow new approaches and methodologies for the sake of the improvement of students. In a classroom there are different types of students. Teachers are supposed to have effective teaching methods in order to spark students’ interests and to have them take part in the lesson. In order to raise students' interest, using media-based interactive teaching and learning methods are effective. Furthermore, through these digital methods we want to improve the acceptance and integration of digital media in schools. Innovative ideas will impact the teaching environment positively and enrich classroom learning. ""CORE"" project have an integrated approach in teaching Science and Technology combined with social and transversal skills. With international cooperation and different contents, learning environments and digital tools integration will get supported. Some research shows that a highly skilled workforce is needed and it is based on science and critical reasoning skills. Modernizing science and technology teaching is a “must” in schools to tackle today’s world and bridge the gap between labor market and qualified workers. Through this project the students have the chance of seeing how Science and Technology can offer solutions to problems in their society. This also broads their horizons, and increases tolerance towards other cultures. OBJECTIVES OF OUR PROJECT: - improving media-based interactive teaching methods; - enhancing teachers’ professional development; - highlightling the relationship between education and technology-driven labor market; - intensifying upbringing of enterprise skills and for career; - adopting innovative and collaborative practices; - building an interest and positive attitude towards science; - improving levels of different skills such as digital skills, and transversal skills; - promoting students with the knowledge, understanding and skills to use technology creatively and purposefully; - improving competence in foreign languages; - promoting an active Euporean citizenship and intercultural understanding, tolerance. NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS: We are five different secondary schools from Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, and Turkey (two schools) that nearly have the same school level and common issues on the topic. The students, teachers, parents, and school staff of the partner schools will be the participants. DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES: During the project, we have 5 LTTs planned. Short term exchanges of pupils will help group work, learning new cultures and traditions, showing respect to others, realizing the students’ potential. We will have the chance of exchanging good practices, sharing experiences, and improving innovative teaching. There will be after school wokshops for extra-curricular activities on digital citizenship and cyberbullying. Also, there will be seminars, conferences and trainings for teachers, students and parents. Students and their families will participate in competitions, meetings, celebrations and fairs. METHODOLOGY: at project meetings: presentations, observing lessons, surveys, discussing curriculum and education systems, workshops, implementing and evaluating progress. at student exchanges: presentations, visits to research centers/museums, debates, online discussions, role-plays, workshops, round tables, music, dances, art, sports, picnic, games, group work/pair work, videos, surveys, implementing and evaluating progress. RESULTS AND IMPACT: 1) impact on students: - raising students’ interest in Science and Tecnology subjects; - increasing students’ interest in Science and Technology careers; - preparing them for the challenges of labor market; - promoting communication skills in English by cooperating with peers from Europe. 2) on teachers: - improving the quality of Science and Technology teaching; - creating the international cooperation among teachers; - raising awareness on Erasmus+ Programmes; - improving communication skills in English. 3) on participating institutions: - creating awareness on the importance of education and science teaching; - having more open-minded, tolerant and academic staff and students; - developing synergies and cooperation between education and higher education, research centers and world of work; - promoting European citizenship. LONG TERM BENEFITS: - strengthening the European dimension in the school and community; - building a European network among partners - continual cooperation with local authorities for future projects."

"The partner countries England and Sweden withdrew their participation at the beginning of the project work without giving any reason, so that finally Portugal, Turkey and Germany carried out the project.The first mobility took place in Germany. Pupils and two teachers from Portugal and pupils from Turkey travelled to Meinersen. The pupils were accommodated in host families, the teachers in a hotel. The preparations for the first mobility took place in the respective partner schools. The theme of the first exchange with groups of pupils was ""traditional games"". For this purpose, the German school organised friendship tournaments for individual grades, in which the host students were involved. The 5th classes played dodgeball, the 6th classes football, the 7th classes handball, the 8th classes basketball and the 9th and 10th classes volleyball.On another day, each country presented common (children's) games of their country, which were then played by everyone together.Playing together created a very harmonious sense of community. In the course of the project, the pupils communicated more and more freely and informally with each other in English, and the inhibitions that initially existed due to the use of the foreign language diminished more and more.The social programme of the exchange included visits to the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, which is very important for this region, and a visit to the cities of Braunschweig and Celle. Many students from the German school were involved in the tournaments. The students who hosted guest students benefited particularly. Some friendships developed that were maintained beyond the project via chat groups, email or other online platforms.The second mobility was an exchange of teaching staff and took place in Tomar, Portugal. Five colleagues were involved in this mobility.The content focused on robotics, exploring the surroundings of Tomar, lectures on digital teaching and testing different learning apps.The third mobility, entitled ""Dance"", was prepared in the individual countries. The German group practised a hip-hop dance in cooperation with a local dance school. The German group did not take part in the exchange because of the uncertain political situation in Turkey at the time, so only Portugal and Turkey were involved in the mobility.The fourth exchange was supposed to take place in Portugal, but was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. This resulted in a delay of one year in the implementation of the project and the other exchanges were organised virtually.The long delay of the project meant that a large number of the students involved had already left school at the time of the last projects or were in the final exam phase and would no longer be available for all activities. Therefore, we had to recruit new students who first had to be informed about the previous activities. On the other hand, this also enabled us to reach a larger number of participants over the whole project period.The virtual form of exchange was an additional challenge for all participants, as this form of communication was new to everyone. Despite initial technical difficulties, the two virtual three-day events were successful and enriching for the participants.Each country presented a virtual tour of their school and its surroundings. Afterwards, a quiz was solved by all.The German students, in cooperation with a local artist, had made installations out of modelling clay that represented their wishes for a pleasant school environment. The wishes were not only about space and furnishings, but also about how to interact with each other.The Portuguese school instructed the students in traditional Portuguese tile painting in a video workshop that was created in a pottery.The final event focused on the theme of music. Each school presented musical pieces played by the individual school bands. This was followed by a writing workshop in which the participating pupils wrote texts on the topic of ""What is a good school for you"". They created flow texts, mind maps, poem forms and word pictures, which were then presented and shown in the video conference.Finally, the whole project was reflected on by everyone."

Contex of the project:The alarming developments have risen up in all about Europe.Populist and extreme political tendencies have strengthened rather than rising of democracy.Therefore,we should defend our democratic values and consolidate social cohesion while rising of social and cultural diversity.We should be engaged with the civic competencies such as communication skills,critical thinking and joining willingly to the social life.Social and civic competencies were defined as one of the important competencies by the Council of Europe and the European Parliament,in 2006.The Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education which asserts the youth should have the right skills,knowledge,and commitment to active democratic participation approved in 2010.Also,2010-2018 the EU Youth Strategy announced that enriching social inclusion,active citizenship,and solidarity are some of its main targets.According to researches,students who have been active in democratic school culture and civic education programs are more activated rather than those who have just known dates or facts about the events.To give citizenship education successfully,we need a school culture in which attendance of democratic principles is supported and students can have a right to make up their minds.Different good practices for active citizenship education have been carried out by European schools.For example,some have it as a subject of their curriculum and some have an extra curriculum for it.We would like to create a model with the help of our project for schools about how their curricula can be useful for students who need to have civic skills.And the competence and project-based approach will be included to focus on students' active learning using learning by doing step: being involved in discussions as a witness to learn past and present violations of democratic principles,being eager to be volunteer and representative of NGOs and attending excursions to places of remembrance.Objectives:*to teach a better and democratic class and school atmosphere through moral values like tolerance,respect,honesty,fairness,*to be more positive attitudes towards the European Union values such as fundamental rights of human,social inclusion,non-discrimination and critical thinking,*to examine the conceptions of citizenship and the extent to which these conceptions accommodate ethnic and religious diversity in today’s schools,*to make the students apprehend moral values,*to enable democratic atmosphere to students in order to regain their self-esteem and sense of security,*to promote cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and social cohesion,*to strengthen a sense of European identity. Number and Profile of Participants:This project is a result of the collaboration of six European schools from Germany,Turkey,Portugal,Spain and Hungary.*approximately 30 teachers in the given schools assure to provide an understanding of human rights as a part of their educational curriculum and project,*approximately 50 students in each school take an active role during project studies.Each partner school has specific responsibilities to fulfill such as;*Running the project according to the time schedule and plan of the activities,*Preparing the activities held in international meetings properly beforehand,*Disseminating the subject of the project to reach large massesDescription of Activities:*Through the project,we will raise awareness in society concerning the issue of war and its negative effects on children.In the meantime,we will promote positive attitudes towards European Union values,human rights,nondifferentiation and critical thinking.We will focus on activities such as;*organizing campaigns,exhibitions,competitions,*creating pages on social platforms,*creating a webpage of the project,*holding training sessions,seminars and workshops,*producing materials made the project prominent.Methodology:*Guidance for students:With the help of social learning strategies,we will provide awareness about values, equalities, human rights and democracy.*Training for school staff:We will provide preservice and in-service training for staff in terms of teaching strategies for behavioral change.*Family and community:We will involve families and community in every phase of the project by motivating to embrace and disseminate the principals of our project.Description of the results and impact:*We will raise our students as respectful individuals towards human rights,*We will create a school atmosphere in which students feel free to express themselves and put themselves imaginatively in other places and respect one another's' differencesLonger Term Benefits:As a long-term benefit,we aim to promote a policy that supports our curriculum adopting moral values to maintain a positive educational atmosphere and fostering democratic participation and an open,pluralistic culture,based on values of tolerance and moderation.