"The “We learn Russian actively” project involved students of four schools from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. The coordinator of the project was Szkoła Podstawowa im. Wspólnej Europy in Zalesie Górne in Poland. The main language of the project was Russian. The students attending Russian classes had opportunities to use their knowledge and skills while working on the project tasks. We hoped it to improve the children’s motivation. The main objective of the project was to improve communication skills in Russian among the students of the partner schools, with the emphasis on the vocabulary connected with kids games and activities, proverbs, food recipes, children literature and geography. The indirect aims of the project covered: - familiarizing the students with the chosen TIK tools, eg. Storyjumper, Padlet, Kahoot; - experience-sharing among the teachers of the partner schools; - enriching the educational offer of the partner schools; - promoting the culture of the participants’ countries. 749 partner schools’ students aged 12 - 15 participated in the project activities. While the project was running, four meetings were planned to be held in partner schools. The first one were took place in Poland in December 2018, the second one in Lithuania in May 2019, the third one in the Czech Republic in October 2019, and the last one in Latvia in May 2020. 6 students and 2 teachers from each school took part invited in the meetings. We also wish to invite students with educational difficulties and students from low income background. The methods of work adopted to meet the objectives included: teamwork, integration games, texts analysis, mini dialogues and language games. The following results have been activied: - enhancing the knowledge on geography, children literature and traditional food of the partner countries - teaching the students engaged in the project how to use the Storyjumper, Padlet and Kahoot programmes - expanding the professional qualifications of the Russian teachers from the partner schools; - improving the ability to promote one’s country; - raising the prestige of the schools in their local environment; - adding the European dimension to the schools. The tangible results of our work included: - audiobooks created in the Storyjumper programme, the Book of Proverbs; - the Gallery of Fairy Tales Characters prepared in Padlet - Kahoot quiz - photo and video reports on the concerts and shows. The cooperation on the project has enriched the educational offer of all partner schools. We have introduced to the learning plan of the Russian language extra topics, , Proverbs and riddles, Fairy tales , Culinary workshops, and to the annual schedule of school events ""Russian language day"" and ""European Culture Week"". We strived to make the Russian language more attractive by introducing the ICT tool into the teaching and learning process."

"<< Background >>Prior to the implementation of the ""Active Teachers - Active Students"" project, the analysis of the institution's needs was carried out, in which the most important needs for the development of the school and the teachers were identified. The needs are related to the development of the students, teachers and the entire institution in such a way as to draw on the best European models, develop key and other skills which are the most necessary in the modern, rapidly changing world. Among them, the need to activate students and to develop language competence of both teachers and students turned out to be very important. In the world where most activities are carried out in a project mode, it is very important to increase the staff’s competence in this area. Learning good practices used in educational institutions in Europe gives us the opportunity to ensure high-level education in our rural school.<< Objectives >>The following areas of activity and main objectives have been established for the project:(C1) increasing the activity of students in grades 6-8 in compulsory classes at school,(C2) introducing CLIL elements in computer science classes in the school year 2019/2020 as part of pedagogical innovation and then continuation of the programme,(C3) improving the project coordinator’s competence in project management and introducing an additional teacher for these activities,(C4) introducing new activating methods of work into everyday practice of teachers (class scenarios on the school website),(C5) enhancing language skills of the teachers participating in 17 mobilities in the project.<< Implementation >>As part of the ""Active Teachers - Active Students"" project, 17 mobilities of teachers were carried out, including:10 courses on activating working methods: - 3 related to art, - 2 related to ecology, - 5 partially or fully using ICT;2 courses on activation and modern methods of working with students with special educational needs;2 CLIL methodology courses;3 intermediate or advanced English language courses - in selected English-speaking countries (Malta, Ireland).<< Results >>During the trips, mobility participants improved their language skills and methodological competence and then shared their knowledge and experience with other teachers. Newly learned methods have been implemented during the classes. There is a noticeable greater involvement and activity of students in lessons conducted with the use of the new techniques and methods. The teachers participating in the project joined the Erasmus+ and eTwinning projects addressed to students.The School Coordinator - Mrs. Monika Sochacka-Kukiełka, raised her qualifications in the field of project management at postgraduate studies, carried out research on the implementation of international projects in all the facilities of the Piaseczno Municipality and then developed a project and applied for Erasmus Accreditation for the Piaseczno Municipality as the Consortium Leader. The application submitted in 2021 was rated at 97 points and was accepted for funding winning the first place. Thanks to this, all educational institutions supervised by the Piaseczno Municipality will be able to participate in ERASMUS+ projects in the new financial perspective.The implementation of the project contributed to the internationalization of the school, improvement of the quality of its work and increasing the prestige of the school in the local environment."

Natural and cultural heritage is the most important element that a nation has to present. It's the set of all the particular elements that make it different from other nations and give it its identity. The sum of these that make them proud as people and give them special their mark on the world map. Therefore, this proposed project by acknowledging the great importance of people’s natural and cultural heritage as well as the teachers’ need for training in this area and perceived the necessity to develop an action plan inside the school unit that will lead to knowledge acquirement and its utilization for improvement and development, aimed to the teachers’ professional empowerment through attending seminars abroad, job shadowing in schools abroad as well as teaching in them. All these developed dynamics has benefited directly and indirectly the main recipients of this effort, the students who, as future citizens of this place, have the need to come into contact with the special features of our place and race and the elements of our natural and cultural heritage; to love their homeland and be prepared to defend it in any occasion. Moreover, the school as an institution has been upgraded and modernized through this effort; has acquired a European dimension and extended its internationalization. More specifically, this proposed project directly addressed our school’s educational community which consists of 25 teachers, 296 children and twice as many parents and even indirectly, the wider society through the dissemination of the results. After the acquisition of the necessary knowledge at the seminars abroad, a lot of actions have been integrated in the students’ cross-curricular courses in order to achieve the project’s objectives. In these actions children’s parents and the wider school's community were been involved. Several external collaborators further reinforced our effort. The project’s implementation is expected to have a huge impact and constant assessment. The long term benefits from this project directly affect all the involved parties. On the one hand, the knowledge, the attitude and the skills that have been acquired are definitely going to accompany the persons throughout their lives and be a part of their cultural identity. The 1st Makedonitissa Primary School, on the other hand, will develop more as an institution and through this proposed project will empower the European dimension of education.

“OUTSIDE THE BOX” is a project initiated by the school headmaster and the teachers who want to implement it in order to enhance their competence and improve the quality of the school performance.We have defined the following specific objectives of the project:(C1) increasing the number of educational activities carried out outside the classroom.(C2) adaptation and conducting classes in ecology with the use of newly known working methods.(C3) introducing new good working methods to teachers' everyday practice, especially with students with SEN (special education needs) as well as other good practices learned in European education systems.(C4) improvement of language skills of our teachers and their future participation in new international projects involving students.The project is planned for 24 months and it will be divided into the following stages:STAGE 1: choosing the participants of the mobility and preparation for the courses as well as promotion and information about the project in the school and local environment.STAGE 2: Teachers' participation in eighteen mobility or training courses (in different Europeancountries) on the following issues:*** the largest group - 8 - are various courses on educational activities carried outside the classroom (in the environment, in museums and in other places);*** 2 courses about ecology*** 2 courses about new good working methods with students with the SEN ,*** 4 mobilities are an intermediate or advanced English courses;STAGE 3: Sharing the acquired knowledge and using it in everyday school work. Dissemination of project results and promotion.The main benefit for the school resulting from the project will be achievement of the abovementioned specific goals, organizing Outside Classroom at the school area and publication with new good methods of work. The most important results from the point of view of the participants:- significant improvement of language skills of participants in both English as well asovercoming resistance in communication in foreign languages at work;- breaking cultural barriers;- learning about modern work methods;- learning new ideas and ideas regarding the operation of modern schools;- meeting teachers from other countries and starting cooperation with them - creating a worldwidenetwork of contacts;- developing the feeling of European citizenship;;- personal development of the project participants;The project will also bring tangible effects – products:- photographs and films taken during the accomplishment of the project, documenting its process;- individual reports on the completed mobilities;- presentations and articles about the project;- materials acquired during the evaluation of the project;- publication on the school web page including descriptions of the most interesting methods /scenarios introduced during the project- a joint printed brochure on the project and all the mobilities;- the final report.The implementation of this project will contribute to enhanced quality of work in our school and theimprovement of its perception in the local community.

"As the classical understanding in education systems in Europe is gradually left behind and STEM practices begin to settle as its core point, a new education model is emerging. Considering the 21st century technological development, coding and robotic design studies within the STEM implementations get to the foreground as indispensable and developing field. With robotic coding and designs, technologies that populate every area of our lives in the fields of engineering, mathematics, science, and even arts are produced. It cannot be said that our educational system is adapting this technological revolution rapidly. However, international project-based activities are crucial for this adaptation. While evaluating the 21st century lifestyle, it becomes obvious that the vast majority of our students continues their lives as basic users or addicted to IT tools. We know that it is vital to approach to our students of ""Z generation"" with methodologies convenient to this era. As an institution, we are in a serious search for development of modern approaches in education. We want to involve our students of this generation in STEM applications and Coding and Robotic Design studies which are important part of STEM education. Due to this project, we plan to share and enhance good examples and bring out an innovative approach with project partnerships in the field of STEM, Coding and Robotics design. While evaluating the characteristics of the project stakeholders, we can see that the partners have such studies and expertise: ""Lego Mindstroms"" in Greece, ""S4A, Arduino"" in Romania, ""Scratch and Baldie"" in Poland, ""SmallBasic, MakeBlock"" in Turkey. In this sense, the experiences we will share with our partners having different levels of expertise in coding and robotic design, as a whole, will enable us to have an innovative, systematic, disciplined and dynamic perception of education in the field of STEM, coding and robotics design. Even if we run simple studies in this field, we cannot say that we are able to produce larger-scale studies. The approach our international partners are supposed to provide will complete our own perception of education and ensure that it is developable. Our project activity plans include thematic study topics in which each partner can transfer their expertise to other partners. On condition that our project is approved, we believe that we will bring out an innovative approach on using computing tools in education. As curriculum applied in the subject of STEM & Coding and Robotic Design at primary level lacks in our country, studies in this field are still very insufficient. Since classical education approach can provide very few students with good basis for the future, with the perception of STEM education we want to make them gain skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, product development and assessment, and also want to be their innovative guide. Coding is a process which is as important and fundamental as literacy skill. Because it involves many important elements such as ""thinking, mathematics, problem solving, science, etc."". Due to this reason we extremely need good school samples as an institution. These experiences will provide us to make our students gain a stronger and more modern foundation, and also a better perspective for the future. In total 25 teachers actively, more than 200 students from 10 to 14 years old will participate in the project work from the partner countries. There are teachers from various branches in the project. This will enable coding and robotic studies to be used in fields besides the informatics lessons. Students will actively participate in these processes via the activities the schools will undertake. Within the scope of these studies, each school will form an active group of students to determine the students who will participate in the final activity. By developing products with them, they will be able to participate in the ""international coding and robotics"" competition. The aim here is to develop products together rather than establish international rivalry and ensure that students become a significant part of an international event. In addition to make improvements on the subjects of STEM, Coding, Robotic Design, our project will provide important contributions in areas such as good classroom practice, sharing of cultural heritage and intellectual development. All project processes will be shared on the eTwining project page at the same time and provided to spread over a wider area. In addition, a booklet titled ""The use of computing tools in education"" will be published with the information obtained as a result of project experiences. This product will be delivered to many stakeholders and experiences will be disseminated. This project will enable us to develop with solid basis in direction to strengthen our understanding of a dynamic, critical, creative education in our institution."