In this fast-changing world, we feel it is necessary for educators to step back and focus on the exchange of good practices for the inclusion of special-need students (including low-achievers, students with disabilies, etc.) by means of both practical activities and new technologies. The study and the application of new strategies for inclusion, common to the partners schools and/or specific to the different socio-cultural contexts of the involved institutions will be the first step to raise awareness about inclusive education, and to equip educators with suitable strategies and better tools. In all the applying institutions over the years there have been more and more students with diagnosed special needs, and we all feel this should not be left to the care of special support teachers only. In fact we believe that the more interaction with peers these students get, the more opportunities there are for them to overcome their status of special need or low achievers, and for the other students to experience inclusive environments and acquire skills for life.We also feel that the creation and integration of more practical laboratorial activities meant to give value to each student's special or different abilities should become part of each school's everyday practice, and should encourage teachers' creativity by means of lab activities where all students are welcome, wherever they are or start from.In short, to cater for a higher and higher number of students with special needs (whether recognised or not), to equip teachers of all subjects with suitable tools to address those special needs, and to integrate the use of new technologies with forms of real interaction with peers, we aim at pursuing the following objectives:-share good existing practices on inclusion as experienced in different European contexts-provide opportunities for teachers' development by valuing existing competences in each school and with the help of experts already working in educational contexts-allow more practical peer-to-peer interaction through laboratorial activities with a strong focus on inclusion-complement the use of new technologies in each schooland we expect to involve about 1000 people, taking into account teachers and students who will participate in transnational meetings and short-exchanges, students and teachers that will directly benefit from activities carried out in each contexts following the project development, and other stakeholders (families, other students and teachers, local organisations, etc.) who will benefit from its long-term results.To do so, we will carry out the following activities:-awareness questionnaires to detect attitudes and plan and focus on more inclusive activities-engage students in tutoring activities towards disadvantaged mates in their classes to make them identify, experience and share how to 'feel good together', within and across borders -deepen the practice of laboratorial activities related to different social, geographical and educational context (eg. traditional games and sports, animated reading activities, practical scientific experiments, art workshops, simple coding, papercraft, etc.), as expressed in each school's curricola and previous experiences-make students interact in a simple way in a foreign language during short-term exchanges, and experience the benefit of peer tutoring, either as tutors or as tutees-make teachers discover how a traditional activity (such as a game, or a practical one) can be proposed with a wider inclusive focus, with the help of expert supervision and/or shared choices within the groupWe will also increase the students' and teachers' technological skills by means of constant use of the project blog and the eTwinning platform to share, interact, upload and download materials, propose activities, etc., produce learning and teaching materials as a result of the project activities and aim to publish it as an eTwinning tool-kit.The results we expect to achieve are:-establish peer- tutoring as a wider practice in all schools-activate new projects on the basis of what experienced during the project and enrich each school's curriculum-reach a higher and higher number of teachers through dissemination activities, through the blog and the eTwinning space-increase the motivation of students and teachers to use a foreign language to communicate, use and produce learning and teaching materials. All this will represent a very important desired impact for all the participants, which will be shared through the dissemination planned.In the long run, we expect to benefit both professionally and personally from this transnational project. We expect all the participants (teachers, pupils, and relevant stakeholders) to exchange knowledge, share good practices and obtain new different skills and competences. Most of all, we expect special-need pupils in all countries to benefit from interacting with their peers.
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