The areas that the school aimed to improve were: 1) the management of multiculturalism, of multilingualism and the student absenteeism. 2) the utilization of the school Science Lab its equipment (interactive whiteboard, robotic kits, etc.). 3) the implementation of innovative, cross-curricular learning based on the educational goals of the 21st century (4C’s). 4) the evolution and expansion of European school actions to support the creation of interdisciplinary networks, which promote collaborative and integrated approaches to teaching and learning. 5) the acquisition of appropriate experience by teachers so that the school can expand its European action, but also its action as school host for teachers' job shadowing, but also to establish the collaboration with European schools so as teachers from Nea Karya Primary School to be able to participate in Erasmus + assignment teaching assignments abroad. 6) the pedagogical utilization of the new material and technical equipment of the school (robotics kit, interactive whiteboard etc).
The Primary School of Nea Karya applied for this program in order to train the teaching staff through the job shadowing on STEM education and thus to upgrade the role of the school of Science Lab, to train teachers on the use of its equipment (interactive whiteboard, robotic kits, etc.), and to increase teachers' awareness on innovative, on cross-curricular learning, on intercultural teaching practices, as the students comea from multicultural backgroud (Roma and immigrants from Albania).