Six different schools from Europe find education frustrating, overloaded and tending to give uncreative, unlimited amount of homework, tests or giving grades only for 'study and forget' effect.This tendency is shown by students and their parents who first gave as a sign and accorded their disapproval for keeping school curricula in the old, traditional way. Our schools respect needs of local communities, but also many educators are convinced that curricula or approaches in teaching should be changed to give practical knowledge instead of constant grading. We are going to deal with established problem, search for alternative methods, observe, study and systematically measure progress. Teachers who feel that a new face of European education lays in moderating methods, would like to reduce stress, focus on individuals, discover talents, give practical experience like for instance solving problems or developing critical thinking.Educators require methodological support, renewing their workshops or even a fresh motivation to work with new perspective reducing stress in education. We believe that teachers are important and the very first step to alter the curriculum.Thus, two trainings were planned directly for 24 teachers who will be familiarized with alternative methods in teaching, refresh their approaches, collaborate and analyze own workshops to use and share new perspective in own institution as handbooks "Motivation plus, stress minus" and 'Practical Notebook'. Our project is a two-year research where we can study together as teachers and students to find, identify negative stress factors, decrease them, focus on important aspects that help us to live healthier, with a better understanding the quality of relations among people and fostering social integration. We will include students with fewer opportunities, those with lower results in education or just physically weaker.To achieve above results we planned all activities that will be placed in our countries according to their specific or experience. In Turkey, our intention is to explore traditional arts, give alternative workshops that slow down our life, give joy of simple life, settle examples of spending time with other people instead of rush or silent staying at home in front of digital devices.Greece will help us in comprehending life in a big city or just the place that we live in but do not recognize its beauty or simply do not have time for it. Understanding own 'Slowing down' rules that we will explore in Thessaloniki will help us in better perception but also in healthier life without negative stress effects. We believe that setting positive examples of spending time actively, sharing with others will have big impact for our condition, curiosity and deeper bond with people.To prove our theory, we will conduct numerous activities, explore cooperation, give chance to respect each other, but also to have fun, find different hobbies or passion. After research in local societies, interviews with third generation, students will travel in time to get to know popular Games from the Past, their meanings, rules in Poland.They will also use imagination to create own game and prepare 'Time Travellers' book that lists the best entertaining activities from the former generations. Excellent chance to chill out, defeat stress will be camping in the wild in Portugal, designed to find harmony with nature, understand its mechanism and have live Biology, Geography, Art, PE lessons.Benefits from this activity, 'Happy Life' photo album and every day blog style 'Camp diary' will evaluate our objectives and level of satisfaction. Latvian team will show how to understand different sounds around us, find own relaxing methods, music. Italian experience, knowledge let all participants be more conscious about products we consume, settle perfect example of high quality, nutritious Slow Food, sharing joyful meals with relatives allowing us to live happier and healthier. In whole project will participate similar number of students and teachers that is about 24 students and 18 teachers from every school who will take part at courses abroad. Additionally, project will involve all school society during the meeting in the institution which organizes activities. Potential benefit group is approximately 5000 European citizens. We are going to implement regular video project meetings on eTwinning platform where partners will confirm, share, approve plans, solve potential problems, evaluate our schedule and objectives. We will use numerous diversified methods to ensure the best process of receiving not only theory but also knowledge that is ready to reuse or give potential long-life results for beneficent group. Main impact we would like to achieve is pointing problem for the biggest group of respondents, including Ministry of Education, local societies and involving our elaborated methods, approaches that allow to reduce stress in education.
Six different schools from Europe found education frustrating, overloaded and tending to give uncreative and unlimited amount of homework, tests or grading. That tendency was shown by students and their parents who first gave as a sign by official disapproval of traditional school curricula. We created project goals showing respect to local communities and being convinced that curricula or approaches in teaching should have been changed to give practical knowledge instead of constant grading. We dealt with problems, searched for alternative methods, observed and systematically measured our progress. Teachers who still feel that new face of European education lays in moderating methods, thanks to international cooperation learnt to reduce stress, focused on individuals, discovering talents and healthy life style. We believe that teachers are important and very first step to alter curriculum.Thus, there were two trainings directly for 16 teachers who familiarised with alternative methods, refreshed their approaches, collaborated and analysed own workshops to sum it up in handbooks "Motivation plus, stress minus" or 'Crumb Notebook’. Our project was a two-year research where we could study together as teachers and students to identify negative stress factors, decrease them, emphasise important aspects to live healthier, with better understanding quality of relations among people and fostering social integration. Project idea was also big social inclusion so we encouraged students with fewer opportunities, lower results or just physically weaker.To achieve above results we provided all activities in countries according to their specific or experience. In Turkey we explored traditional arts, took part in alternative workshops slowing down our life or representing joy of simple life. We settled examples of spending time among instead of rush or silent staying at home in front of digital devices. Greece helped us in comprehending life in a big city where we usually do not recognise its beauty or do not have time for it. Understanding own 'Slowing down' rules, exploring our senses and reading history in Thessaloniki pointed to better perception without negative stress effects. We believe that setting positive examples of spending time actively, sharing with others will have big impact for our condition, curiosity and deeper bond with people.To prove our theory, we conducted numerous activities, collaborated giving chance to respect each other, but also to have fun, find different hobbies, passion. After research in local societies, interviews with third generation, students travelled in time in Poland to get to know popular 'Games from the Past', their meanings, rules. They used imagination to create own game, prepared 'Time Travellers' comic book. Excellent chance to chill out, defeat stress was camping in Portugal, designed to find harmony with nature, understand its mechanism and have live Biology, Geography, Art or PE lessons.Benefits from that activity, 'Happy Life' photo album and every day blog style 'Camp diary' evaluated our objectives and level of satisfaction. Latvian team even with the meeting online, showed us perception of different sounds around us where participants made their own relaxing soundtrack and ‘Mandala Book’. In Italy the focus was on nutritious Slow Food and ‘Grannies Recipes’. We shared joyful meals to live happier and healthier. In whole project participated similar number of students and teachers that is about 24 students and 18 teachers from every school who took part at courses abroad. Additionally, project involved all school society during meeting in institution which organised activities. Potential benefit group was approximately 5000 European citizens. We implemented regular video project meetings, with some use of eTwinning, Padlet. Our group implemented numerous diversified methods to ensure the best process of receiving not only theory but also knowledge for potential long-life results for beneficent. Main impact was pointing valid problem for the biggest group of respondents, including Ministry of Education, local societies and involving our elaborated methods, approaches that allow to reduce stress in education. Our final result 'Anti-stress Guidebook’ was systematically created within 23 months by all of partners who presented their best practise and alternative, creative methods to slow down life, change learn-teach approach and worked out methods to change education. Project extended in many ways, one of them is Slow Down App that also sums up our ideas giving daily challenges to enjoy life and feel less stressed. After two years of intense work, involving six nationalities, it was gratifying to be able to experience not only other realities, but also to see the enthusiasm of the participants involvement, their commitment to achieve all tasks and a pleasure to study together. usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1Euir99dywwFGt8sj_ouRZoYbt0wdY1bn/view?usp=sharing