"<< Background >>“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” (R. Buckminster Fuller, Author & Inventor)Erasmus + project FCL focuses on digitalization after the COVID-19 pandemic and new and innovative ways of learning and teaching in the age of Education 4.0. The activities to be carried out for the development of digital learning resources and contents, and the use of digital learning resources developed at all stages of education and training activities form the basis of our project.According to Digital Scoreboard 2017, more and more people are moving to digital, but only one of two Europeans have sufficient digital skills. To support this, the European Commission published in 2018 ""by the Digital Economy and Society Index, digitization degree ratios EU average is 53.51%. Italy 44%, Poland 45% . In Turkey and North Macedonia digitization rate is below the EU average (10%). Bulgaria 35%, Romania (39%) have the lowest scores after Turkey on the index.The educational needs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic bring along the need for excellent computing and digital skills for both school administrators, teachers and students. The fact that our students stay at home continuously and spent their education at home away from school education is a situation that puts education authorities in a difficult situation and requires breakthroughs in this way. For this reason, our schools want to open the doors to a better digital education and help them act responsibly in this area, while also creating healthier communication ways among their students. Teachers need more schools and ideas when working with computers and digital materials.In this age which the teacher transforms from being a 'teacher' to being a 'guide', inspiration and practical experiences need to be designed for teachers. In particular, the chaos environment in education by the COVID-19 pandemic has laid a more indispensable ground for the digitalization of education. This is exactly why we decided to write the ""FCL"" project on ""Digitalization in Education"", regarding that we needed to share good practices with partnership.In April, we have decided to carry out an Erasmus + project on ""Digitalization in Education"" in line with the roadmap determined within the scope of EU 2021 targets, which is included in our institutions' strategic plan.The project, addressed to teachers of local schools, stakeholders, universities, families and students, involve nine Institutions: schools and Educational and training organizations.Needs for Target Group1- Students of High schoolsDue to inadequate supplementary supports, Ss have lack of social emotional needs, as it has been proved in the analytical report “Strengthening Social and Emotional Education as a core curricular area across the EU” (http://bit.ly/SocialEmLearning )Ss need a curriculum focused on ICT tools and which will require them to use FCL classrooms in following years at schools. It will also help them with the means to improve their opportunities for more success in the future.Needs for Target Group 2- Teachers of High schoolsTeachers at high schools always need extra international supports and trainings as well as in-service training to work effectively and to devote themselves for education in the increasingly digitalized labs and classrooms “Using digital resources for continuous professional development.” (as cited in DigCompEdu 1.4)As cited one of the most important action of Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027),teachers and educational staff must be equipped to foster digital literacy and tackle disinformation through education and training. This should be done in close cooperation with bringing together European organizations, European technology companies and stakeholders, national authorities, education and training institutions, associated partners, educators, parents and young people.<< Objectives >>The main objectives are to fill the digital competence gap of the participants, to provide them with digital tools and make it easier to develop or update their digital competences, to develop communication and cooperation skills with EU institutions. The practical knowledge gained through this project directly covers digital tools. The project recognizes the importance of promoting partners' 21st century skills, technological skills, critical thinking skills, teamwork skills, and international awareness of teachers and students. We want teachers and students to be more involved in digital education, make a more conscious and positive contribution to digitalization, and realize our objectives that contribute more use of technology in education at the end of the project.As objectives for teachers, we aim to demonstrate what the digital competence and digital competence framework, develop competencies in web tools, increase language skills in the target language, improve communication and collaboration skills in teachers, communicate with foreign teachers for cultural interaction and sharing, improvement of the information technology skills of our teachers and students by ensuring mutual discovery of digital educational materials, help teachers to address the risks, opportunities and consequences of digitization and improvement of the participant's ability to adapt to changes.As objectives for institutions, we aim to increase the capacity of partner institutions by improving their digital literacy levels, develop the democratic educational process and active citizenship at schools; empower institutions in digital education, the ability to use Web 2.0 tools in the distance education process, communicating with foreign teachers for cultural interaction and sharing, helping institutions to address the risks, opportunities and consequences of digitization.As objectives for students, we are planning to increase language skills in the target language, provide economical, easy and fast access to educational content for students with fewer opportunities, use the benefits of digitalization to improve students' learning outcomes ;During the project process, we aim to develop a Guideline for Future Classroom as an Intellectual Output and a Digital Education Needs Analysis , Digital Education Materials and applications and e-Learning Portal. As concrete results, we plan to produce educational interactive games produced with presentations, event / idea collections, feedback on activities, ""FCL DIGITAL"" e-magazine, evaluation documents, participation certificates and web tools.In addition, we aim to make a Green Travel Plan and make a contribution to the preservation of nature using things less. With green travel, we aim to increase awareness of respecting ecology and reduce the negative effects of human beings on nature through responsible behavior and regulations. We want to reduce, reuse and recycle while travelling.<< Implementation >>The methodology in the implementation of the activities will have a collaborative and participatory path based on communication and experience sharing through 21st century educational approaches.Our project will contain a total of 5 LTT's and 2 Transnational Project Meetings.L/T/T and TPM: They include activities abroad where the participants will receive training on digitalization and share the best practices of partner institutions. Kick-off TPM- Preparing for Documentation will be held in Poland in March 2022. Participants will receive a training on ICT Tools in Learning and Training Process in Italy in June 2022. Then, Bulgarian School will host LTTA on Innovative space and time concepts concerning Future Classroom in September 2022. In Romania-Targu Jiu we will organize a L/T/T on E-safety for Teachers in January 2023.In North Macedonia we will organize ""Use of E-learning Platforms and Open Source Multimedia Tools in Education and Digitalization"" in April 2023. The participants will join the LTTA on the Gamification in the Classroom which will be held in Poland in September 2023. In Turkey, Poland and Romania we will organize Multiplier Events on ""Teaching in the Future Classroom!"" in January 2024. The final TPM-The Documentation of the Whole Project and Sharing of the experiences and outcomes will be held in Turkey to discuss the achievements, results and sustainability of the project in January 2024. Final TPM and the Multiplier event will take place at the same time in Turkey. Final TPM will last two days and Multiplier Event will last one day, so representatives of partner institutions will stay for 3 days in Turkey, in order to take part in the ME as well, as guest speakers, along with Turkish experts. Participants will explore ICT tools in a practical way. Hands-on workshops and collaborative group work will allow participants to understand and assimilate the content actively. Intellectual Output: As an Intellectual Output, a guideline (the Guide for Future Classroom) will be created with the leadership of Romanian partner to serve as an inspiration to other schools and teachers. A clear guidelines may help them to have the correct image of the Future classroom for planning and creating the future classroom. Intellectual Output will be studied throughout the project with the collaboration of partners. The topics will be distributed among all partners.The areas where partners are responsible for the implementation of the activities are: All partners will design their own proposals for the project logo, Romania will hold a logo contest using Google Survey. An Erasmus + Corner will be created in partner institutions. On the eTwinning page, a video, questionnaire, photo album, games will be created with web tools related to each event. Information will be collected with mixed teams to create e-journals, project final product and project calendar. The website of the project will be created by Bulgaria (with a eu domain name). TMPİBFL will create the project's blog and follow the posts, create and update the Twinspace page.DISSEMINATION- The toolbox for teaching and assessment of skills- Dissemination of the project in local/regional/ national media, project website, school websites, school magazines ,Erasmus Days, Artsteps Virtual exhibition, preparing certificates using teacher or certificate program, Playing Kahoot Games, some materials(Tshirts, Pencils, Cups, magnets-our logos on it etc.- Dissemination activities at local, regional, national and European level.SUSTAINABILITY:-Our Project Partners have already a very specific potential network and users who the project results will be promoted to(especially schools, teachers, students, Universities, policy makers). In addition, the project results are planned to be included in the schools where the project partners are located and in the education programs and curricula of these schools.<< Results >>The most important result will for sure our intellectual output, the Guide for Future Classroom. This output aims to bring the methodology and tool developed in this project closer to all schools that can access the project languages, by step-by-step guide for the implementation and creation of the Future Classroom.Tangible results: e-magazine (FCL DIGITAL), an e-book, a website with all materials revealing the works of the project, project logo and posters, a virtual exhibition with artsteps, promotional poster, videos and brochures, presentations, teachers wakalette platform, feedback on activities (Zumpad,videos), Twinspace page, eTwinning and European QL's, learning diaries, hands-on activities, interactive lessons, seminars, start-up and evaluation surveys.Intangible results; In short term, the project will ensure the communication on digitalization, the necessary training for the digitalization division of the personnel working in partner institutions, the transfer of education and training techniques, the arrangement of the necessary knowledge of the educational organization arrangements to be made in order to increase digitalization in schools. In long term, the project will help the partner organizations to create awareness on digitalization, achieve a suitable interdisciplinary form that ensures the full integration of digitalization into the curriculum. The experience and good practices of EU institutions will be transferred, the professional competencies of participants will increase. The project will add prestige to the institutions involved in the partnership and become one of the exemplary institutions in the field of digitalization, and increase the quality of education and academic success.All the objectives and results concerning the activities of our project are directly related to the digital tools that are the topic of our project. Since the topic and objectives of the project overlap, the results of the project will be measurable towards these objectives. The project partners are aware of the importance of the lack of technological skills, critical thinking skills, teamwork skills and international awareness, which are the most important aspects of teachers and students that need to be developed in the 21st century, and the project idea created for this problem. Participants will gain knowledge and skills for the use of digital tools needed in the digital age and will develop their competencies in this field. We anticipate that teachers and students will be more involved in digital education and a more dedicated contribution to digitalization. Technology will be used more widely in education at the end of the project. All partners are willing and ready to develop these aspects of teachers and students.Participants will participate in group work activities and workshops with colleagues from different social and cultural backgrounds. In this way, we work not only on digital skills but also on soft skills such as communicating with new people in a new environment. Participants will learn how to use mobile applications and tools in the teaching process. Through competence, knowledge and the skills gained by trainers will benefit from a new set of tools and strategies to safely develop their digital citizenship. At the end of the project, the participants will be able to use digital tools in their work, establish effective digital communication between participating teams and target groups, and become more visible at national, regional and international levels. Within the scope of combating Covid-19, our schools will make a striking contribution primarily in terms of educational materials, digital applications and programs, different teaching and learning methods and techniques involving out-of-school students and teachers.The project results will be disseminated at local, regional and European level. These activities will start disseminating our project from the beginning to the end of it."