Hasan Orhan Ortaokulu / Turkey

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Agrupamento de Escolas Padre Benjamim Salgado (AEPBS) is situated in Joane, a small town which is expanding strongly and benefits from a good geographical location. The AEPBS is a cluster of a secondary school and a group of pre-schools and primary schools formed in 2012. It has around 2600 students, 250 teachers and 85 technical or administrative assistants. There are several educational pathways, including adult education. Apart from the courses especially designed for students looking for higher education, we also provide vocational courses, including multimedia and computer programming. Socio - economically, the community of students is quite diverse, but some students’ background is not well structured, and some of them face lack of resources. Thus, it is a school’s concern to provide them a good educational ground upon which they can gain skills to fulfil their goals for life. The school is widely recognized for its successful results. It’s also our goal to develop new teaching and learning methods, making lessons more attractive, and making the curriculum more flexible, adapted to the students’ own reality, increasingly more meaningful and authentic, connected to digital knowledge and skills. We are focused on enhancing literacy in general, but also digital literacy, preparing our pupils to the demands of XXI century. We believe that technology and literacy can and should go together. A project which links storytelling and ICT brings authentic knowledge into the classroom, develops communication and IT skills, creativity, makes students find and promote their cultural roots, making connections between different generations. Storytelling is the way to build up better learning environments and stronger sense of citizenship. By emerging the participants’ awareness of belonging to a community but also to the European society, this intercultural blend will broaden the views of everyone involved, as well as promote the creation of closer and solidary bonds. Simultaneously, it’s our goal to develop the school’s internationalization, by sharing experience and expertise with foreign schools. Elsa Fernandes is the teacher involved, working with lower and upper secondary levels, including vocational education. She has collaborated in other Erasmus+ Projects, KA1 and KA2. Other teachers: language teachers, particularly Ana Carneiro, teacher of Spanish and English languages; the librarian teacher; ICT teachers; teachers of other subjects. Participation and development of projects is a common practice at this school grouping, and it is highly fostered by its management, being part of one of the institution’s goal. These projects are not only local, but also national and international. Several prizes have been awarded to some of these projects. All the staff is well prepared and willing to develop this project, in case the teacher directly involved is not present in the following years.

In IES Puertas del Campo, there are students of Secondary School, High School and Profesional Education. There are 72 teachers and an average of 800 students. Students (age from 12 to 18) come from a multicultural and multi-ethnic environment. Most of the students belong to low-income level families.

Now the school has two different buildings, one called IES Puertas del Campo I where Professional Education is taught. IES Puertas del CampoI building is in San Juan de Dios Avenue. The other part of the school is IES Puertas del Campo II, where ESO and Bachillerato is taught. This other building is in Greco 20 street, 51002 Ceuta. We strongly believe that this project can offer our students the opportunity to succeeded academically, as well as learn to get along with each other, creating positive conditions where students and teachers are respectful of the different backgrounds. In IES Puertas del Campo, day by day, teachers face with the challenge of making “cultural responsive”teaching to acknowledge different prospective for all the students while not favouring one group over another. Our school aims to provide a balanced curriculum which involves to reflect needs of students and labour market demand. This project will reinforce the image of our school as modern and effective; it offers a challenging opportunity for future generations. Our key persons involved in this project are experienced specialists. We can count on many teachers who have had positive experiences working on projects applied to our sections of professional. According to the good evaluation of previous projects, applying for this project could be a future challenging experience both for students and teachers. We see the importance of the introduction of a new method and the use of technology, first to motivate students to learn from different sources and secondly to make learners more enthusiastic even on demanding subjects. Thirdly to avoid students put their tasks until they definitely give up the school. The school management and the headmaster are responsible for the budget and the finance of the project. The school management, the English, IT and chemistry teachers will work on this project. The coordinator of the project at school has taken part in contact seminars about European projects and has worked on previous transnational projects. We are pretty sure that the project staff will not change in the next two years, any way, a number of teachers are volunteering to contribute to the project and ready and already prepared to substitute his her /colleague. In Ceuta, we live four different cultures: Christians, Muslims, Hindu and Jewish culture, so we love all the festivities of all the religions and culture during all the year. As our school is linked to a professional school about business and computers, our staff can contribute to this project 

Szkola Podstawowa nr 2 is an 8-year-primary school which provides general education for students at the age of 7 – 15. As such it has been operating since September 2017. The number of students is 250 and the number of teachers is 26. The school paramount objectives are to equip pupils with knowledge and skills necessary for future self-development, give them tools crucial for successful functioning in modern society.  computer literacy, foreign languages, a range of academic subjects and a number of optional activities comprise the school educational offer. Highly qualified school staff consisting of university degree teachers regularly takes part in trainings to improve their know-how. Also, we make any effort to help those whose opportunities are handicapped. Sustainable development of every individual ranks the highest among the school priorities. Pabianice is located in central Poland. The town is home to modern factories and the region provides relatively wide job opportunities. It has a small group of expatriates from Vietnam and countries which used to be former republics of the Soviet Union. We find it crucial to enable our youth benefit from European programs as for the vast majority such experiences are inaccessible outside school premises. It is also vital to help the students build strong relationships with other nations in order to help them join the community of the modern Europe. Teachers involved in the cooperation participated in international projects, which were the source of inspirations and the ground of achieving multi-pronged successes. Their experience and the value of the cooperation is the most inspiring factor to continue the work. For the students, the international cooperation is a motivating factor and creates a number of school parallel opportunities to gain knowledge and abilities. They will adopt skills necessary for broadening knowledge and adopt tools useful in entrepreneurship and further education. The school coordinator will be responsible for supervising students’ and teachers’ work, ensure the realization of the project as a part of rhythmical school work, ensure the quality of the project outcomes. He will keep in touch with the project coordinator and the partners collaborating. In case of the persons’ leave or absence, the school principal will appoint another teacher to continue the work. Such a person will be recruited from teachers involved in the realisation of the project and familiar with the procedures necessary to accomplish the duties successfully. The school has previous experience in international cooperation and managing international projects. It has experience in cooperation with institutions which provide knowledge and know-how. Both the school staff and the students involved in the project work are computer literate and open to innovations. They are also fluent in English. In terms of cultural aspects, the school is located in the area rich in multinational heritage.