We are submitting an ambitious and multidisciplinary project which aims at a completed and total involvement of the participating schools. Our experience has shown us how the present educative system sometimes overestimates a very rigid treatment of contents as well as scarcely motivating methodologies. Within our european development plan, which began three years ago, we have in mind to carry out an up-to-date methodological approach, an internationalization process, and above all an adaptation to the new 21st century educative realities. With this project we want to link these three objectives with the aim of making them real.International Knowledge Fair gives us the opportunity to work following this path, in such a way that not only our centre can get the benefits from this educative style but other european centres can cooperate with us and they get their own benefits. The aim is to promote the exchange of good educative practices from a wide range perspective . Each school involved in the project will work for a month period on the themes previously scheduled before hand, these themes have a flexible character to be able to adapt them to the reality of each center. All centers will work the same theme at he same time, making use of different methodologies such as visual thinking, flipped classroom, project based learning, role plays and dramatization, collaborative work team, learning through research, gamification, augmented reality. The conclusions obtained after the teaching and learning processes will be shown and published in a written format both on the part of the students and teachers involved. At the same time teachers will also publish an essay including the different steps on the process , advantages and disadvantages of the methodology used. Every term a different knowledge fair will take place about the different areas of knowledge previously worked, in which schools will exhibit and present the works and products achieved before the rest of the schools as well as any other institution, mainly educative, that can be interested.Every member will display a stall for the exhibition with the final product as well as the process, specially underlining the methologies used to get to those results. Apart from the fair stalls, different chats, lectures and workshops will take place in order to disseminate experiences among professionals and people attending the fair . We also aim at promoting the culture and diversity of the countries involved, so in the stalls we could provide visitors with information about the different countries, regions or cities as well as souvenirs...The project offers the possibility for the dissemination of methodologies, ideas and activities once discussed and compared among paritcipants. It also offers the opportunity to both students and teachers to implement the educative processes in which they are immersed which are, in most cases, rigid and tough structures difficult to change.Both written documents about the activities developed and fairs enable the transference of knowledge to be carried out in a clear and natural way. The fact that the project is open to other schools and educative authorities that can feel attracted by the issue, guarantee the enrichment of the project and the possibility to increase its spreading on different media. Apart from the methodological innovation and recycling, the project focusses on the development of collaborative tools on our students so that they involve in obtaining works and quality products, in improving their communicative competence and in becoming first-hand experienced members about the European reality that they must help themselves to build up.To sum up, we conclude this summary outstanding how ambitious this project is, being motivating for both students and teachers, with a clear purpuse to renew methodological frameworks as well as sharing and disseminating good and new practices.
We have tried to develop an ambitious and multidisciplinary project that has tried to involve the majority of the departments of the participating centers. Sometimes, educational systems (at least ours) overestimate the treatment of content and leave more to the margin the importance of methodologies, often working teachers with elements and instruments of low motivation for students. In this way, and within the line of work of our European development plan that began 4 years ago, we have tried to carry out a questioning of the methodological approaches, a renewal of ideas and approaches of teaching work that was also integrated within the internationalization process to try to adapt all this to the new educational realities of the 21st century. Thus, the International Fairs of Knowledge have allowed us to work in the pursuit of these objectives, trying also that other European centers could join this idea of methodological remodeling and together cooperate and learn from each other in the approach and work with new methodologies. The primary objective has been to promote the exchange of good educational practices from a broad perspective. Each center has worked for a month on previously scheduled topics. It has always been about flexible topics so that each center and department could adapt them to their realities and curricula. Thus, all the centers have worked on the same subject at the same time, but using different methodologies such as Visual Thinking, Flipped Classroom, ABP, role-playing games, dramatization, gamification, augmented reality ... thus seeking the methodological differentiations of the same theme. The main product extracted from this project is, in addition to the experiences and enrichment lived, the conclusions obtained after the teaching and learning processes, which have been compiled by the coordinating center and will be published and disseminated through various channels so that others Teachers can study them and benefit from them for their daily work by observing the different steps of the process, advantages and disadvantages of each methodology used. To further promote the empowerment of these new methodologies we have held a Knowledge Fair every quarter at the headquarters of the partners involved in the project. In them the works and products achieved during the quarter have been presented, conferences, round tables, workshops, exhibitions on educational themes and methodologies have been held ... all in a context of intense exchange of good educational practices. In this way, the profile of the participants has clearly been formed by students and especially teachers to try to learn new ways of working. In addition, broader profiles have been sought as educational authorities, teacher training centers, representatives of universities and even parents of students who were interested in analyzing these new educational methodologies that are being implemented first-hand. The project has always tried to serve as an incentive to promote and disseminate methodologies, ideas and activities; discuss about them, compare them, analyze their suitability according to the themes, subjects and curricula. It has also offered the opportunity to both students and teachers to expose the educational processes in which they have been immersed trying to serve as a model for other teachers and schools to follow. We counted for all this with the main participation of 4 educational centers besides ours (at the beginning there were 5 centers plus ours but the center of Scotland decided to abandon the project). Other institutions such as university faculties, town halls, teacher training centers, private companies, communication media ... all with the intention of increasing the impact of the project as well as its impact have also been involved throughout these 2 years of the project. diffusion. It has been, in short, an intense period of work in methodological innovation and of course recycling for teachers as well as a great way to develop collaboration tools, obtaining works and quality products, improving communication competence (especially in English) and development of the European culture in general that has allowed us to continue with our process of internationalization and modernization of the center as well as an awareness of the vital importance that today has the use of new methodologies, computer applications and resources ICT for education.