"The project ""Students and teachers integrated in Europe ... you never stop learning"", is addressed at students of second/ third/fourth year, while the mobility of the staff is addressed to the Headmistress, the Director of administrative services an accounting assistant management of projects and 10 teachers. There are three mobility periods of two weeks each, one for students accompanied by two teachers and one for the school staff. The organization of the mobility will be managed by a tour operator expert in Erasmus projects Key action 1. The majority of our students come from the nearby villages, only 30% live in Enna. The social class of our students is medium-low, many of them do not have established basic skills, often they come to our school with little motivation to learn, low self-esteem, lack of trust, poor English, lack of opportunities to gain experience in the work in an intercultural group, little opportunity to travel. Our students do not have great opportunities to put into practice what they have learned and to deal with other cultures, we would like to allow them to get to know the European labor market, the European standards. The group of staff that will participate in the project, has already had experiences with international projects, which, thanks to this project, would also have the opportunity to grow and expand their skills, opening up to multiculturalism, acquiring new teaching methods that will give it the possibility to motivate their pupils to learning, also reducing school dropouts. The administrative staff and the School Manager will acquire new knowledge regarding funding and new management and organization techniques. Thanks to the participation in the project, the target group will acquire international professional experience and increase its linguistic and professional skills, develop and strengthen their personality. An important aspect is the development of personal skills, that is to say: to improve self-confidence, the ability to cope with stress, to cooperate within an international group, to increase motivation to learn, to increase the opportunities to travel of the students. The acquisition of professional, personal and linguistic qualifications, certified by the Europass mobility, is aimed at increasing the possibilities of the participants to recruit and facilitate their entry into the national and European labor market. The project creates an opportunity for the professional and personal development of all the staff members involved in the project, will allow us to get to know the European job market, improve our language skills and the comparison with other educational institutions. For schools, it is an opportunity to teach in the European dimension. Students participating in the project will be selected by a committee of teachers and by the headmistress, they will then participate in a program of linguistic-cultural and professional preparation that will allow them to obtain the planned professional skills. As for the staff of the school the participants who belong to the administrative staff are those who have always managed the accounting of projects, the 10 teachers instead will be those who participate in the Erasmus projects and some teachers who carry out training activities. The internships will last two weeks and will be organized in collaboration with partner Travelmania GmbH. At the end of the experiences carried out by both groups, the participants will receive the certificates issued by the host institutions, the school and also the Europass Mobility certificate. Students will also learn to fill the Europass CV which will allow them to use it for future work experience at the end of graduation. The internship will be evaluated by teachers of professional and English subjects and will also get an evaluation in the calculation of school credits. The hours worked will be calculated in the total hours of the school job training activities that the students must complete each year. The project will be constantly monitored by the project coordinator and practical skills by teachers of professional subjects with the support of foreign language teachers. In order to ensure that internships are carried out in accordance with the project hypotheses, an agreement will be signed on the implementation of the traineeship and training program. Products will be created, such as sectoral glossaries and videos that will be used by teachers and students for dissemination through meetings, information on the press and on websites.Thanks to this project the school will be more effective, completing a path that will allow it to be considered an ""European School""."

"<< Background >>The ""G. Marconi"" Institute applied for the project We Learn We Teach to improve the Institute's educational offer by expanding the Europeanization process that it has been promoting for some time with various initiatives. The project offered 16 members of the school staff: the Headmaster, the DSGA, (Director of General and Administrative Services ), 12 teachers, and 2 administrative employees ) the opportunity to increase their professional skills on issues such as inclusion and the prevention of teenagers’ dropping out of school. This transnational training of school staff has favored and promoted a network of connections and relationships with mobility countries, which will certainly contribute both to better directing students towards possible Erasmus experiences, and to form in them a will to succeed in future study and work paths at national and international level.<< Objectives >>The two main objectives of the WE LEARN WE TEACH project, Staff mobility were: to prevent and reduce the dropout of adolescents from school and to promote an inclusive culture, aimed at the creation of European-inspired social relationships, centered on precise values ​​such as democratic coexistence, respect reciprocal, valorization of rights and differences, cooperation and integration of diversities, constructive exchange, and interculturality. The participants who took part in the mobility met with realities other than their own expanded and consolidated their professional and personal skills and this will contribute to making the school environment more motivating and inclusive for student education. The teachers brought to their lessons a concrete testimony of the universal educational values ​​of the school, of which the students are often unaware, making them more interested and motivated in the lessons and also involving as much as possible also those students with special educational needs<< Implementation >>Teachers and administrative staff based on their professional profile carried out job shadowing activities such as company visits, school visits, and observation of the different school organization systems, teaching methods, and school administrative management. Six members of the Staff carried out the mobility in Ireland in Cork and took the English language course to expand and consolidate the CLIL methodology with the use of digital devices. The activities were chosen on the basis of innovation and creativity for teachers the lesson plan was on cooperative learning, games-based learning, authenticity in the classroom, learners' style and learners' training classroom dynamics and student motivation, special educational needs, using project work, using technology, soft skills in the classroom, group discussion and sharing of ideas.<< Results >>The project has made possible a broader and ""European"" vision of teaching and school management, favoring extremely fruitful exchanges between teachers, the headmaster, and administrative staff with foreign institutions. The participants experienced the competence of the English foreign language, in visiting institutes with similar characteristics to the institution they belonged to and appreciating the peculiarities of local institutes through observation and sharing of information. The result was an enormous professional and human enrichment that is invaluable for one's work, a positive impact on the didactic approach and on the methodologies used in the classroom, transferring the newly acquired knowledge to the students. In the management area of ​​the Institute, a broader vision in carrying out administrative procedures and in the organization of school spaces. The Staff group that took the English language course in Cork deepened their English language skills to broaden the CLIL methodology in their lessons. Likewise, the vision and contact with other professional realities led to the improvement of the Staff's know-how so that it can contribute to making relations with local companies more profitable."

The project is the result of the analysis of the needs detected during the self-assessment process and the redaction of the European Development Plan. The objectives are improving the core competencies of the students, enhancing innovative teaching methods and ICT-supported techniques, increasing the number of CLIL projects, expanding contacts with teachers of schools of our same vocational area and with other European partners for possible future collaborations, and testing new practices for inclusion and integration. To achieve these goals we believe in the importance of training teachers in a European dimension, through participation in training courses and the possibility of observation of best practices in other European schools. The project involves eleven teachers of several subjects with adequate language skills and with a strong interest in a European dimension in education. The activities scheduled during the project are structured courses in Germany, Finland, Great Britain and France and an activity of job shadowing in a VET school in Sweden; such activities have been selected matching the needs identified in our school. During the course of the project participants will be prepared with formal meetings at school, exchanges of emails and materials with suppliers of courses and the Swedish partner; the participants will use the eTwinning platform in order to benefit from current experiences and possibly establishing contacts with teachers and /or schools that follow a similar path. Upon project completion, the expected results are improvements in the following areas:1. performance of learning in basic skills;2. learning outcomes in foreign languages and in the legal and economic disciplines in the groups of the students of participating teachers;3. teaching methodology;4. ability of participants to disseminate and promote further initiatives at European level;5. understanding and response of participants to the management of cultural diversity, and special educational needs;7. profile and reputation of the school at the local, national and European level.The project will have an impact on the teachers involved in the activities, on their students, on all the colleagues of the school and the managerial staff. The impacts will be assessed at two different times and on different areas, short-term (end of school year) and medium term (after the publication of the INVALSI results).The potential long-term benefits relate to the organization of collaborative projects and partnerships with European schools, mobility activities for the vocational training of students in Europe, and proposal of innovative projects to recover sociocultural disadvantages through strengthening professional skills in European workplaces.

Our school, Nişantaşı Rüştü Uzel Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School is a prestigious and long established institution that aims to provide qualified labor primarily for our district, and also for Istanbul. In this respect, our purpose in this project entails increasing the employability of our female students in Clothing Technologies department, artistic drawing field in special clothing sector. Participants will have 1 week of theoretical and 2 weeks of practical training in modal research and artistic drawing in Italy. First of all, it should be stated that, at this point, our graduates are unable fulfill the expectations of special clothing sector in terms of creativity, uniqueness, and artistic drawing. In the field of special clothing being creative and unique is the major key, and cannot only be attained through skill. It requires the necessary education, providing the ground basis of these ideas. We, thus, need to increase their employability by differentiating their qualifications and experiences from others. Secondly, it is expected to have a certain background in arts and in the philosophy of art from the people working in the special clothing sector. Our present curriculum is unable to provide such fundamental knowledge in art and philosophy to our students, and therefore, our students are constrained with their own interests only. At this point, it is clear that a fundamental education in art and philosophy is needed in the way that special clothing sector demands, and increase our students’ chance to be employed in their own field. With this specific goal, 28 Clothing Technologies students in groups of 14, and 2 companions for each group will be sent to Italy in two flows. Our projects main aims are as follows: - Make our students more appealing for the employers with the help of their special training in Italy, which is the center of the clothing sector of the world.- With this cultural experience, helping our students to become professionally more capable and intellectually more sophisticated individuals, increasing their scope of personal interests and triggering their creativity- Increasing their proficiency of English and making more resources avaible for them at hand in terms of self improvement or/and professional improvement- Experiencing the EU citizenship experience for three weeks - Documenting their experience in abroad with certificates and Europass.- Creating opportunities for our institution to meet certain its needs during the executive activities. All executive activities will be performed by our project commission. The commission has already planned the phases of the project and how to handle logistic issues. Our commission will sign contracts with the partners to make sure that there is a consensus between the partners on the conditions and activity standards of the project. The contracts will be prepared using the contracts that are drafted by National Agency, and our activities will be following the procedures during the entire process. The project will have a positive impact on our participants, our institution, and our target groups. With the help of specialized training they are going to receive, our participants’ chance to be employed in fulfilling positions will be increased. They will finally have the fundamental knowledge on art and philosophy that the job itself requires, and that will make them superior to other employers in the same field. The project will also help our institution to realize our strategic plans. International activities are going to help us improve institutionally. It will also be beneficial for our target groups such as students’ parents, employers in the district, other vocational schools in the district etc. Our projects’ activities and results will make it easier for us to access our target groups and cooperate.

Our project aims to motivate teachers and incrase the success of pupils. After having long meetings with our teachers we see that we need o use new methodologies in our lessons. We especially need them in Mathematics, English, History, Literture lessons. Because the reason of being a religious vocational school our pupils had mainly religious lessons in the school. So this situation causes to decrease the success of pupils in the Mathematics, English, Literature, History lessons. In this context, we chose a vocational school which will guide our school staff and administrators can provide us great benefits during the project. In preparing our project we conducted detailed hearings with our partner school about the plan, stages of the project and the proficiency levels of their school staff. We exchange ideas with mainly the teachers that will join the mobility, and also with all teachers from the school about the aims that are should be reached. We prepared meetings about the impacts of the project on our staff and the benefits that we can get from the partner school.To reach our goals we will assess the materials and the techniques for each branches separately that will be used in the lessons. First the partner school headmaster and our school headmaster and all teachers who participate the project will control if all of project activities take place timely and to what extent. Before during and later job shadowing activity we will share all activities on www.etwinnig.net. Also , facebook, email and skpe will be used to provide nonstop communication. At the same time By using these web sites we will share all details of our project with teachers from all around. After job shadowing activity, our school manager will provide all conditions to apply the activities in the lessons. We will also join a course in Spain about ICT programmes. In our school we have enough technological equipments but after searching the rate of using these equipments in the lessons we saw that it is not enough to get a real success. Than we decided to get a course about ICT programmes.At the end of our project, we will make the necessary calculations and observations in order to measure to what extent the results we have achieved targets. The last, we will share all our experiences with all the teachers from the schools in our area with the meetings that we will prepare.