In the recent years, a lot of people with different religions, cultures and social situations tried to enter the European Union to escape military conflicts or persecution. These developments have led to fears among many regarding their own political and social future, resulting in an increase in nationalism, populism and the tendency to create mental and physical borders all over Europe. The European Union had been created to unite and integrate people with various religious, cultural or social backgrounds. The given project „Ethos of Europe – Acting for integration“ tried to revive this concept among young European citizens by bringing them together and letting them create and express their personal ideas of integration and European culture.Students from Italy, Spain, Lithuania, Portugal, Austria and Germany had already worked together in a previous project called „Sound of Europe – we are making radio “. The students took part with a lot of motivation and were very interested to contribute to the project work. In this project, 24-30 students from all countries would participate in project meetings, which all partner schools would host. They were accompanied by teachers of the respective schools, who moderated and evaluated the project work. During their visits there were also cultural and social events in order to facilitate a sense of community and to get to know the habits and traditions of each country.But beyond thatthe project opened the way to reach more people with the ideas and outcomes of this common work. Students became more open-minded, were able to work in international groups in another language than their mother tongue and were happy to create something very new to share with others. With different tools we created new interesting ways of learning for our students: acquiring skills like e.g. writing poems/short stories, making short (documentary) movies, acting scenes, creating photo exhibitions and other artistic expressions. They were integrated in any part of project managing like looking for partners, working together on workshops and create their own products. Knowledge of different tools/techniques like editing, rehearsing, writing and acting were established. With this the students received a lot of possible benefits such as becoming more open-minded citizens, acquiring diversity management abilities, intercultural competences mixed with digital and artistic competences and/or other benefits of creating products as a means of an alternative instrument for learning.Teachers learned about the transnational aspect of teaching and learning, had the opportunity to improve their English and their capacity to work in teams. Schools could offer more international aspects to parents and pupils. The evaluation and dissemination of the project results to the other participants were realized through virtual platforms such as Twinspace and social media, so local authorities could benefit from the outcomes of the project and use it for social, cultural and youth policy objects.However, the Corona Pandemic in early 2020 led to a prolonged hiatus. The mobilities in Naples and Valencia were cancelled, and at that time it was not clear how and if the project could be brought to a satisfying conclusion. Since the project was supposed to end at the end of August 2020, it was prolonged by the national agencies to make the two remaining project activities possible. In March and May 2021 we were able to do these project ways virtually, hosted by the Italian school in Naples and the Spanish school in Valencia respectively. This was something that only few people in the project had experience with, but the results and the reactions by all participants showed that these two activities were a great success, given the circumstances. In general it can be summarized that, even though there were some huge obstacles along the way, the project as a whole can be considered a great success.

Friends Across the Water was an innovative project that got children the chance to understand and comment on an important issue affecting Europe in our time - the migration crisis. History can see this event as a turning point for Europe and it is important for children to be aware of problems and possible consequences and to share their concerns and feelings about the crisis in Europe. Our history was a journey from conflict to the dangers of crossing the seas, cultural immersion and resettlement. It is a two-way process of visiting and receiving. Water is a friend, but it can be an enemy. When we are writing this summary, many other migrants drowned, including children. They hear this message and have to come to terms with disasters. Our project was created thanks to a group of different schools from different parts of Europe who work with children to find out what concerns them in Europe where they live. The goals concerned children, learning them and strengthening the profile of the teaching profession. We gave the children a voice on matters that concern them, in accordance with the recommendations of the UNESCO Child Rights Act. We analyzed the issue of migration by researching and strengthening public awareness of the role of migrants in our lives and economy (the results of the surveys allowed us to conduct awareness lessons, promote films showing the difficult situation of migrants, and practical actions allowed us to identify with the immigrant's fate). We have carried out a lot of activities to raise awareness of the role and legitimacy of intelligent use of water, to develop and identify common values ​​for children, to help prepare schools and countries to deal with the reality of migration, improve teaching and learning of schools and develop aspects such as meta-cognition, information feedback and research and pedagogy associated with them to strengthen the profile of the teaching profession by exchanging, sharing and developing good practices, supporting teachers' skills in dealing with an increasingly diverse student community, supporting staff in developing leadership skills to cope with changes in at local, national and European level to raise awareness of the impact of people on their own environment.Participants were selected with concern due to the variety they offer in the history of the project. We start with Turkey and travelled around Europe to Bulgaria, Romania and Poland, who have problems with the migration of talents, moving to Portugal, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Greece. A truly varied mix of experiences enriched this project. Participants also have experience in international projects, giving these ambitious projects really big chances for great success.Our activities were equally exciting, creative and innovative. Art and drama were used to study conflict and war. It is transferring to the danger of water and crossings and how to value water. The children had a unique perspective of water as a friend and enemy. Change is a key aspect. Climate change is associated with a change in supporting and managing diverse cultures, both accepting differences and celebrating culture and values. Research projects carried out by children were very powerful as a learning tool. We trained employees in leadership skills to manage the project, and to conduct meta-cognition as a tool to develop learning. The children have prepared welcome packages for newcomers in schools, which will enable them to integrate better. This will allow children to learn about their own culture and what distinguishes it. At the end, we told the story, considering peace . How is it achieved and how can it be celebrated through dramas, art and music? All this has been made available and stored on the professional website of our project, etwinning and individual websites run by individual schools, available to everyone. They contain amazing project details that can be widely disseminated as part of the project and beyond.The impact of the project is huge. Children as scientists are innovative, developing practical metacognition is certainly far-reaching. Giving children a voice about this emotional problem was fascinating, and combining all this with UN child rights is crucial for any European work on the subject of the child and school. Long-term and short-term impact will be felt by children, their schools and teachers. We are sure that pedagogy will grow rapidly in all schools, because the subject itself has aroused great interest and caused a lot of changes in students, teachers, but also in the local community.

"In times of decreasing cohesion and solidarity between European countries and regions it was getting more and more important to be in contact, look for the needs and opportunities of the others and work together. We enabled this for pupils, teachers and stakeholder of this project. Seven Schools of General Education with secondary level from 6 countries worked together in workshops, national and transnational meetings, to be able to create radioclips and results with intellectual outputs provided at the internet.""Sound of Europe - we are making radio"" allowed us to create radioclips and emissions about common themes together.This gave us the opportunity of learning and teaching in an amusing touch, new ways and open frame, related to the needs of the participants. Bringing outputs like a community where it´s possible to share ideas, reflexions, stories and poems, sounds and music of different countries and regions were a tool for more cooperation. Regional and European themes like sounds of our school, sounds of our region, interviews, stories and music, apps to use for tourism and traveller-information, situation and development of the migration in the different regions in a European context or other relevant European discussions have been held at schools and with stakeholders and on social- and other media.But beyond that we opened the way to reach more people with the ideas and outcomes of this common work. Pupils should have become more open-minded, should be enabled to work in international groups in an other language than their mother-tongue and be happy to create something very new to share with others. Teachers should have learned more about the transnational aspect of teaching and learning, had the opportunity to increase their English and their capacity to work in teams. Schools offered more international aspects to parents and pupils. Local authorities were able to present their special culture, surroundings, could enjoy the outcomes of the project and use it for touristic, social, economic and youth-policy objects. Regional and national/international radio-enterprises can cooperate and the founding of an european radio-station for pupils should have been one possible target of this project - but this goal was reached. Therefore, it can only be carried out transnationally! We worked on the topic of making radio and working on national stereotypes at the beginning due to the cross-disciplinary quality of the above topic, which allowed integrating it in many areas, we could deal with other subtopics such as music or tourism in each of the cities participating in the project. European citizenship versus national identity, creativity and culture through radio.In order to realize our project, we meaned to apply a ""learning by doing"" way of teaching. The creation of a radioclip allowed the students to apply their technological knowledge and to have a feedback of it. The students were the main protagonists of an active cognitive way based on research-action processes finalized to produce improving changes in the learning process. Brainstorming, problem solving, simulation, peer education have been at the base of a new inclusive methodological approach in which knowledge is a social process which comes out from the constant relationship with others. The students useed different sources to gather data and obtain relevant information; they planed the activities, valued the outcomes, and proposed creative and alternative solutions. The results assessments and transmission of the work to the other groups happened through our virtual platforms, which will help to be aware about the use of the digital. The teachers guided all the phases of this learning process, having a leading role in flipped classroom activities and used experiment innovative learning methods which were shared with the work group."

"The aim of our project ''Tolerance and Equality promote Kindness"" is to have students share universal values of respect, tolerance and empathy towards people who are different and to realize that violence and harassment are never the answer as people are meant to live together in harmony even though fate has not been kind to all of us regarding health, family and social status. Our project unites 5 schools from Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Italy and Turkey where it learn disabled students(RO,LT, IT) roma students(RO, BG) and immigrants(TR, IT) who often find themselves victims of discrimination from class and school mates. These schools have lately been facing an increase in school violence, of bullying and cyberbullying, phenomena which determine among others school abandon and also make life more unpleasant for the students who are directly implicated. Project objectives:O1.To reduce the cases of violence by 8% by teaching 200 students from participating schools mutual respect, tolerance and care for peers in the first 2 years of the project, by developing a common strategy against violence O2.To improve the current methods used to combat bullying, violence and discrimination in partner schools by the 52 participating teachers within the 24 months by developing a good practice guide and sharing these methods with teachers, parents and other interested parties O3.To develop the communication and intercultural skills as well as digital and English language skills at 100 students during the projectO4.To increase the teamwork and social integration skills for 100 students skills which can be transmitted to the rest of the students back home by workshops and common projects during the projectThe project aims to unite students under the idea of diversity and the acceptance of diversity by looking for ways to transmit such values. First of all, we intend to promote equality on all levels.The target groups: On the one hand, the violent students who manifest aggressive behaviour towards their colleagues and teachers, on the other hand the students who are targets of such behaviour.-teachers who are confronted with cases of violence, harassment and discrimination-class and school mates, parents and teachers from other schools even the local community are indirect target groups which will benefit from the project.6 LTTAs will be deployed to meet the project objectives: C1-teachers learning activities, C2-6 students learning activitiesThe LTTAs aim for students and teachers to work together on issues related to the purpose of the project, so as to raise awareness of issues related to violent behavior and its consequences. During each LTTA the students will work together in international teams.The names of the 6 LTTAs:C1-Violence and discrimination in schools-General aspectsC2-Aggression. Types of aggression. Digital apps for a friendly schoolC3-Say NO to stereotypical thinkingC4-Say NO to violenceC5-Say NO to bullyingC6-Say YES to equalityThese exchanges will allow both participating students and teachers and their institutions to develop and improve their international cooperation skills.Therefore,the purpose of the project is to make students share the universal values ​​of respect, tolerance and empathyWe will achieve the outcomes:-a comparative analysis on school violence and discrimination from our countries and schools -a guide regarding the common strategy to combat violence and discrimination in our schools-an online magazine written and published by students(studies, observations, analyses) of LTTA 1-5-a calendar with the most important moments of LTTAs done with QRGenerator app-project’s website -etwinning, FB pages-exhibitions: photo, posters-anti violence short filmWe will raise awareness about the concept of equality and its importance, thus determining our students to become more flexible and open to differences. They will also develop their communication skills in English, digital skills, increase their tolerance and respect for others, their interpersonal and social skills as a result of working together in multinational teams.The project will lead to a decrease of harassment and violence cases, better intercultural awareness and improved working environment. The impact on our schools will be great. First of all, we believe that the number of incidents of violence amongst students will decrease as a result of the project activities related to this topic. These activities aim to raise awareness, but also to positively influence the emotions of our students. We will continue to disseminate the results after each exchange so that they could reach as many students as possible, and so the impact of the project on their attitudes and behaviors will multiply and shift from participants to other students. Teachers will be able to identify, adapt and implement good practices in their own schools."