"To react for the growing problems of the EU with immigration in Europe and the rising antipathy of EU citizens in relation to foreigners, Europejskie Forum Młodzieży has developed the project ""YOUTH and DIVERSITY - EVS OpenMind ZONE"", which very important aspect is to help young people to gain the ability to build their own opinion on diversity and problem of immigration, strongly connected with current EU policy. With the participation of foreign volunteers hosted in the framework of our project, we helped young people to better understand what is diversity, how to use media properly and not to be manipulated by them, how to build their own views and opinion independed from media, what is xenophobia and intolerance and what risks it brings, and above all we keeped a constant discussion with young people about information everyday coming through many media types about immigration, EU current policy and its role in today’s world. In the project we have realized 1, 3, 5 and 6-months EVS activities in various institutions in Poland from the Kłodzko region in which participated of 21 volunteers from different European countries such as Romania, Spain, Slovenia, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Germany, United Kingdom and Finland.Objectives achieved thanks to the implementation of the „YOUTH and DIVERSITY – EVS OpenMind ZONE” project:- supporting international mobility of young people and multiculturalism;- supporting young people in gaining new competences in order to increase their opportunities for self-development and to increase their chances for employment in the European labor market;- supporting young people from less-privileged areas, with fewer opportunities;- increasing the capacity of organizations active in the field of youth in order to offer activities that better meet the young people’s needs;- supporting non-formal learning and cooperation in the field of youth with partner countries;- broadening awareness of young people from the Kłodzko region in the field of diversity, multiculturalism, immigration, EU policy, role and impact of media on their life;- involving 21 young people from different countries, aged between18-30 years, in free and unpaid full-time voluntary activities in Poland;- providing to young people volunteering activities strongly influencing on their self-development and which goal is to improve their position in the labor market by raising their key competences and skills;- using experience gained through implementation of this project to improve the quality of youth work among partner organizations;- equal opportunities of young people from the Ziemia Kłodzka region in becoming active European citizens by providing them possibility to contact with peers from other European countries."

"The ""EVS between East and West - Young Ambassadors of the Future"" was initiated by both the young people from the area of ​​the Kłodzko region, which at the end of 2016 year took part in the ongoing seven days, Polish - Ukrainian youth exchange, as well as by institutions coordinated by the EFM, which are direct project partners. The project was a huge success, paying particular attention to the need to build a common positive relations between EU member states and the countries of the east. Our project will involve 21 young people from 6 European countries, 5 countries neighboring the EU in 6 different polish institutions from Kłodzko region. Volunteers will be involved in activities lasting 6 months. The project will be included volunteers from 5 different countries belonging to the Eastern Partnership - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, and in the host institutions from Poland will be taken new innovative activties to, among others, increase the awareness of young people and local communities in the field of migration and asylum. With the participation of volunteers, we want to help young people to understand current processes taking place in the EU, building self-esteem based on mutual respect, tolerance and respect for human rights regardless of their place of residence, country of origin or religion, enriching them with new experiences and features, so that they become active citizens of Europe - Young Ambassadors of Future"". In addition, we want to make it what it is diversity, and not yield to media manipulation, how to build their own views of what is xenophobia and intolerance and the risks it brings. The main goals of our project we divided into two groups: 1) The overall objectives of the project: - Supporting the international mobility of young people, diversity and intercultural dialogue; - To promote dialogue and build partnerships between Eastern and Western countries; - Supporting young people in acquiring skills in order to increase opportunities for self-development and increase the chance of employment in the European labor market; - Support young people from less-privileged, with fewer opportunities; - Increase the capacity of organizations active in the field of youth work in order to offer activities that better meet the needs of young people in Europe and beyond; - Supporting non-formal learning and cooperation in the field of youth from partner countries neighboring the EU. 2) The specific objectives of the project: - To broaden awareness of young people from the area of ​​the Kłodzko in the field of culture, east, diversity, multiculturalism, immigration issues and policies of the EU and neighboring countries; - Involving 21 young people from Programme Countries and countries neighboring the EU at the age of 18-30 years in the free and conducted in full voluntary activities in Poland; - Provide volunteers actions strongly influence their self-development and to improve their position in the labor market by raising the level of key competences and skills; - Use of experience of the project to improve the quality of youth work among partner organizations - the east and west; - Equal opportunities for young people in becoming active European citizen by providing it with the possibility of contact with peers from other European countries and neighboring EU."

The Project of Miejski Zespol Szkol is entitled : European Teacher – Learning School. The institution is located in a small town in kujawsko-pomorskie district and it is located far from bigger cities. Due to the lack of development opportunities for teachers, the school decided to apply in the project to realise its aims.The main aim of the project is to develop language competences of the teachers of different school subjects In order to acquire ability to communicate in a foreign language. The teachers of school took part in the courses of English, Spanish and PE course for a a teacher of physical education. Also the teachers of foreign languages such as English and Spanish took advantage of the project, In this case they took part in courses in order to improve the learning process during language classes. The project helped them to improve the results of the exams in primary school and at mid-secondary level. Along with other teachers also a teacher of physical education took part in the project. The course of PE enabled to present the students new kinds of games for which was essential due to the fact of having a sports class at school. Altogether 8 teachers took part in the project which enabled to enrich the teachers' work and helped the teachers to present better lessons to their students. It was important that all the school staff got engaged in the project and found out more from their colleagues from work. The staff that will take part in the project will also present the result of the project to their students, parents and local society. Additional effect was that the students got more motivated and encouraged to learn a foreign language more effectively.The project gave an equal chance to all participants and gave a chance to think over teachers' work and needs in the field of communicating in a foreign language. With a great dose of certainty the project enabled the school to cooperate with Agrupamento de Escolas de Vialonga, Lisbon, Portugal in job-shadowing which helped the teachers from both schools to enrich their work and to offer their students gain better results in education. The project resulted in building a school which uses all possibilities which are available in Europe through the Internet and cooperation with other foreign institutions. We believe that the project prepared teachers to another challenges to take part wisely in exchange of experience and cooperation at european level.

"The project ""My school - the door to modern Europe was realized by Miejski Zespol Szkol in Radziejow. The main aims of the project were to equip the teachers in communications skills and to establish cooperation with other educational institutions in Europe. The participants during the project developed their skills in communicating in English, Spanish and developed their IT skills. During job-shadowing task, the main aim was to observe other teachers at their work and to observe how to teach such skills as mathematics, reading and writing. in total, 18 teachers of different subjects took part in the mobilities, including school management. Overall, 21 mobilities to 4 countries were completed. The project has a few main results. The participants of the project improved their qualifications The teachers developed their interpersonal skills and communication skills in a foreign language. An important result was to work out proper teaching methods and to gain good practices which were implemented form the partnership institutions. The participants not only got to know other teachers but also the fact that the participants managed to apply to Erasmus plus with 4 new projects and two of them were result of job-shadowing. The participants organised different activities for their students, informed them about their accomplishment and also together they got to know the culture of the partnership countries. The project was not only promoted at school but also through articles in a local paper and through direct meetings with students' parents and other teachers from schools around. In the future the teachers of the project plan to be engaged more in EU project and other project connected to education."

The title of our project, “Towards European horizons, departing from our cultural heritage”, sums up what we want very well. Our school (CRA Escoles del Xúquer) was born in 2006 as a union between two former independent schools: CEIP Gavarda and CEIP Penyarroja. Nowadays there are five groups in Preschool Education (three in Gavarda and two in Sumacàrcer) and ten groups in Primary Education (six in Gavarda and four in Sumacàrcer). Our school is a plurilingual centre where three languages are used: the two official languages in the Valencian Community (Spanish and Valencian) and English, used as a subject and in Arts and Crafts as a vehicular language. Less than a 20% of the staff is qualified to teach non-linguistic areas in English. We want to increase this percentage to make progress in our plurilingual project. The teaching staff are strongly committed to improving the digital competence of the students. We value the importance that a good instruction in this field has. We want to remark that we live in a rural environment and pupils show a very strong link with their surroundings. In our school we do different activities to strengthen this link: hiking, the participation in the water day, etc. Besides, soon we will start building an ecological garden in the school yard to raise awareness in sustainability. In addition, the teacher staff are very concerned about learning new methodologies that can give a response to the diversity we find in our classrooms. Due to all of these facts we have established as main objectives of this project the following ones: • To promote a proactive citizenship. • To preserve the cultural heritage in Sumacàrcer and Gavarda. • To improve the staff’s communicative competence in English. • To promote exchange relationship with other schools. • To improve the teaching-learning process. • To learn about active methodologies to implement them in our school. All the staff members will participate actively in this plan because we need to apply all the knowledge that we acquire with this K1 project in every stage (preschool and primary school) and every specialty (English, Arts and Crafts, Physical Education, etc). The activities that we are going to carry out are the following: 1.- Job Shadowing with Osnovna škola Gračani, Zagreb, Croatia With this activity we want to acquire knowledge to implement in our school positive conducts towards the environment. 2.- Job Shadowing with Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcących nr 2 w Białej Podlaskiej in Poland. Direct observation of how they implement new technologies in their school to apply in our centre all the knowledge that we acquire there. 3.- Job Shadowing with Miejski Zespol Szkol in Poland. Implementation of a plan to protect students when using Internet. 4.-Education and counseling for students with Autism and Asperger syndrome. To widen our knowledge to improve the social inclusion of pupils with special educational needs. 5.-Approaching PBL practically To spread the project-based-learning methodology in Primary Education. 6.-The Montessori Method of Teaching Applied -AMFI To renew our methodology to develop collaborative work, critical attitudes and creativity in our pupils and teachers. 7.-ACTIVATE your ENGLISH for TEACHING (B1+, B2) in IRELAND-10 training days To improve our communicative competence in English to consolidate and widen our plurilingual project. Regarding the methodology that we used to do this project, we have worked through periodical meetings and creating a commission with staff members of different educational stages and with different profiles. For this reason our basis is teamwork, as this is a project that is going to make an impact in all the school staff. Concerning the results expected and the long-term benefits, we could remark the immediate increase in the communicative competence in English of both teachers and students, a renewal in our methodologies, the improvement of knowledge about pupils with special educational needs, the progress in ICT competences, the development of proactive conducts and the progress in knowledge to develop a European dimension in our school, which it could lead in participating in other K1 or K2 projects, eTwinning…