Effective sustainable development is one of the common challenges for European Union and its member countries, as is the education for sustainable development. It is part of the European strategic goals, national strategic goals and also of national school curriculums. As educators we are faced with the challenge how to present the subject to children who are ever more disconnected with nature and with themselves. We face the same problem with some of our colleagues and parents. Connecting with likeminded educators from abroad is one of the ways to stay motivated and achieve creative solutions. The main aim of the project is to achieve long lasting changes in schools by sharing good practices collected in guidelines on integrating sustainability. Throughout the project, partners will share ideas by working collaboratively online and documenting their work using our project Twinspace. We will also exchange ideas and results during face-to-face meetings in all the partner countries. Emphasis will be on international cooperation. Since every partner school follows different national/local guidelines, has special conditions regarding natural environment surrounding their school, spatial conditions and is set in a specific culture, activities will be set in a way where every school will be able to adapt them.Objectives: - exchange of examples of good practice among project partners by having a meeting in each country (they will include powerpoint presentations, workshops and job shadowing);- to develop guidelines on integrating sustainability in educational institutions, that can be applied to any educational institutions;- to document existing practices in partner schools in the area of sustainable food practices, waste management, sustainable practices involving toys and play/art materials, outdoor activities and sustainable relationships in the form of a joint report;- to foster critical thinking and problem solving skills among staff and children by enabling them to develop creative solutions for different issues such as reusing waste materials, creating outdoor spaces ...- minimising or optimising our impact on nature by more effective recycling solutions (creating compost heaps, making school gardens, rethinking toys and art materials, staying outdoors more ...);- to improve knowledge of the pupils, parents, educators and staff on sustainable development by exposing them to different issusus (such as local and imported produce, recycling ...)- to involve parents and local communities in our project by spreading sustainable practices among themProject resoults:- booklet with sustainability guidelines for preschools/schools (main product)- Facebook page and Twinspace with sustainability guidelines and collection of good practices- posters for different events (seed exchange, school garden volunteer day ...) and visual guidelines for sustainability practices (recycing, composting ...).- questionnaires for children/parents/teachers/staff about changes in attitudes toward sustainability (will be distributed at the start and at the end of the projects)- dissemination folder with all the powerpoint presentations about project activities, photographs, videos, documents, booklets and posters in pdf form- eTwinning educational course for teachers Project is aimed at preschool and lower primary school institutions. One of the groups involved in the project are children aged 1- 11 years old. They will participate in local project activities and events. Project involves only teacher and school personnel mobilities. There will be six project meetings (2 in Slovenia, 1 in Bulgaria, Sweden, Latvia and Spain) with 2-4 participants from every partner country (15 in total). Mobilities will involve different educators such as teachers, school staff and management. Each meeting will be dedicated to one of the subtopics of the project (sustainable food practices, waste management, sustainable practices involving toys and play / art materials, outdoor activities and sustainable relationships). All participants of the project see sustainable development as the only successful method of development for the future. That means that all the solutions and practices that will be collected during the project and proved effective will be used in schools in the long term (taking into account different national / local guidelines, special conditions regarding the natural environment surrounding their school, conditions and cultural differences). We will also create sustainability guidelines that will be shared among our national school networks and with public. Activities and examples of good practice will be gathered in the activity folder which will be available to teachers of the schools involved in the projects. We plan to use them in our lesson plans. If the partnership proves successful we will later try to work on another project and tackle new challanges that future will bring.