As the economic crisis was starting to take its toll on European countries Turkey, Portugal, Croatia and Italy were also among the victims where youth unemployment rates reached high percentages. Young people are still pessimistic about their future job prospects, lack confidence in job skills and are reluctant to work for a start-up. Having paid the same bill, as partner schools we have come together to work collaborately in terms of sparking hope among our students through making them believe that they could create their own chances by realizing their true potential and putting it into use. In this project 24 students from different partner countries aged between 15 to 18 will come together at international workshops and take the opportunity to develop soft and entrepreneurial skills which will act as a motivation booster. As for the teachers it will provide the medium for exchanging good practices and adding up new skills to their teaching career. The main aim of the project is to develop competences (knowledge, skills, attitudes) of high school students that will guide them professionally, personally, socially - in today’s fast changing world. In order to achieve this, some of our objectives are to promote the 4C's: communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity; give students valuable insight into their strengths and weaknesses by engaging them in creative group exercises and stimulation activities; foster entrepreneurial skills to help them set up their own businesses in the future and build up mutual understanding, solidarity and intercultural dialogue between students and teachers coming from different cultural backgrounds. The planned activities will be carried out through 4 workshops embracing different skills in Turkey, Croatia, Italy and Portual: The 4C's: Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and entrepreneurship. Rather than theoretical content the focus will be on practical activities and games where students will be learning by doing. Online booklet, man-on-the -street- interviews, motivation videos, presentations about inspirational characters, SWOT analysis of students and TED talks about motivation are some of the products we would like to produce. The skills and competences aquired during the project will benefit students, teachers and institutions as a whole by creating a medium of cooperation and ensuring a motivational and satisfactory environment for enhanced learning and teaching. Students' soft skills may be improved by integrating the elements of these skills in the classroom or in extra-curricular activities. If we seize this moment and work together, we can help our students connect learning with real life and provide them with the necessary skills to prepare them for success. Teachers as well will have the chance to learn and use a wide array of skills which will guide them throughout their lives. The succesful relationships between teachers will lead to future collaboration and as for schools it will increase their European dimension. The most prominent scale in achieving success in the long run will be to see how well our students can use their soft skills in the future at university or in their working life.
As the economic crisis was starting to take its toll on European countries Turkey, Portugal, Croatia and Italy were also among the victims where youth unemployment rates reached high percentages. Young people were pessimistic about their future job prospects, lack confidence in job skills and were reluctant to work for a start-up. Having paid the same bill, as partner schools we came together to work collaborately in terms of sparking hope among our students through making them believe that they could create their own chances by realizing their true potential and putting it into use. In this project 127 students from different partner countries aged between 15 to 18 came together at international workshops and took the opportunity to develop soft and entrepreneurial skills which acted as a motivation booster. As for the teachers it provided the medium for exchanging good practices and adding up new skills to their teaching career. The main aim of the project was to develop competences (knowledge, skills, attitudes) of high school students that would guide them professionally, personally, socially - in today’s fast changing world. In order to achieve this, some of our objectives were to promote the 4C's: communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity; give students valuable insight into their strengths and weaknesses by engaging them in creative group exercises and stimulation activities; foster entrepreneurial skills to help them set up their own businesses in the future and build up mutual understanding, solidarity and intercultural dialogue between students and teachers coming from different cultural backgrounds. The planned activities were carried out through 4 workshops embracing different skills in Turkey, Croatia, Italy and Portual: The 4C's: Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and entrepreneurship. Rather than theoretical content the focus was on practical activities and games where students would be learning by doing. Online booklet, man-on-the -street- interviews, motivation videos, presentations about inspirational characters, SWOT analysis of students and TED talks about motivation were some of the products we produced. The skills and competences acquired during the project benefited students, teachers and institutions as a whole by creating a medium of cooperation and ensuring a motivational and satisfactory environment for enhanced learning and teaching. Students' soft skills were improved by integrating the elements of these skills in the classroom or in extra-curricular activities. We believed that by taking this oppurtunity and working together, we could help our students connect learning with real life and provide them with the necessary skills to prepare them for success. Teachers as well had the chance to learn and use a wide array of skills which would guide them throughout their lives. We hope that succesful relationships among teachers will lead to future collaboration and as for schools it will increase their European dimension. The most prominent scale in achieving success in the long run will be to see how well our students can use their soft skills in the future at university or in their working life.