It will be a 2 years KA2 - Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices KA229 - School Exchange Partnerships Project named "Our Past our Future". Six schools are involved in the project: the DR.KEMAL NACI EKSI ANADOLU LISESI, Istanbul, Turkey; the IES Sierra Luna, Los Barrios, Spain; the 3o Geniko Lykeio Katerinis, Katerini, Greece; the Liceul Tehnologic " Dr. Florian Ulmeanu", ULMENI, Romania; Rezekne State Gymnasium No1, Rezekne, Latvia; the I.I.S. Fermi Filangieri from Formia, Italy, as COORDINATOR There will be 6 LTT meetings, with 4 students and 2 teachers of each country involved in each meeting and the students will be hosted in families. Our Strategic Partnership addresses to the horizontal priority of European rules: Social and educational value of European cultural heritage, his contribution to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion, and also promoting a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning, and promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship activities among young people. Besides, our Strategic Partnership addresses to Italian priorities for the school education sector 2019: school dropout and disadvantaged conditions, allowing the success of all students, including those coming from a migration background, to consolidate the collaboration between all actors involved in the school sector, as well as families and other external stakeholders. Also, to promote a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning, based on increasing linguistic diversity in schools, such as encourage learning and early awareness of languages. Finally. to integrate the use of new technologies to support language learning and supporting the integration of the linguistic dimension between programs. Recently, the whole Europe has been involved in a job crisis never known before and especially young people have great difficulty in finding a job. The Young were hardest hit by the crisis. If we take a look at young people NEET (aged 15-24), we can see very different rates among European Countries It ranges approximately 15 -17% in Spain, to 18-20% in Italy, to 17-20% in Greece, 17-20% in Romania, 10-12% in Latvia, about 20% in Turkey. Young people are more likely to be overqualified, in non-standard and precarious forms of employment and as a result have lower social protection. Risk of poverty, risk of social exclusion and risk of unemployment are great problems for them, and we aim to focus them to develop skills, ideas and new possibilities to find a job. In Europe the cultural sector represents 4.2% of GDP and it is the third sector with more employers, about seven million people, the 3.3% of the working population. Furthermore, the sector continued to increase even during the economic crisis. In fact, the number of jobs in the sector grow by 0.7% a year between 2008 and 2012, when the economy lost 0.7% % of jobs overall (ERNST & YOUNG, 2014). The archaeological sites, the contemporary architecture, the medieval castles, and in general the traditions and the arts constitute the cultural heritage of Europe and are the beating heart of the identity and of the collective memory of European citizens. The rich and varied cultural heritage of Europe is an attractive center for tourists visiting the area. This is why local heritage has become an important economic factor. We plan to use eTwinning to put in contact students before each mobility, and also for implementation/follow-up, uploading the project into Twinspace for dissemination use. The starting point of the project will be the study of each country students' most relevant historical and/or natural monuments of their territory. 2 International groups working (by PPT) on the topic will be created. Before and after each meeting will be applied tests to the students who probably will be involved in the mobilities. The students will have to fill online their Europass Curriculum Vitae. DURING the meetings some language lessons will be hold by the guest sts; the 2 international groups will improve their Power Point; at the end of each meeting they will present their works and there will be a debate between the 2 groups. As concrete results will have: a poster of each meeting; a brochure of each meeting; the PPT of the students; their europass CV; creative activities from each meeting. Also, a web site in which will be uploaded all the activities of the meetings, and from which everyone will be allowed to download all. Participation in this type of partnership is an opportunity for schools to change in a European dimension, to stimulate innovation and improvement processes and to promote the values of inclusion and tolerance.
It had to be a 2 years KA229 - School Exchange Partnerships Project named "Our Past our Future", with Six schools involved in the project: the DR.KEMAL NACI EKSI ANADOLU LISESI, Istanbul, Turkey; the IES Sierra Luna, Los Barrios, Spain; the 3o Geniko Lykeio Katerinis, Katerini, Greece; the Liceul Tehnologic " Dr. Florian Ulmeanu", ULMENI, Romania; Rezekne State Gymnasium No1, Rezekne, Latvia; the I.I.S. Fermi Filangieri from Formia, Italy, as COORDINATOR But from the very beginning the spanish school left the partnetship, and we had to rethink about tasks and number of mobilities in each meeting. Also, in march 2020 the covid epidemy exploded and the project was strongly influenced from it. In fact in each meeting there were problems and some schools couldn't send the students and could apply the meetings only online. Also, the students were supposed to be hosted in families, but because of covid effects they were obliged to go to hotels. Also because of covid effects some meetings were online. There were 5 LTT meetings. In the second meeting in Latvia, the Romanian school had only virtual mobility because of covid affected. In the third meeting in Turkey because of Covid restrictions the Italian school attenden this meeting only online. In the fouth meeting in Romania because of the war in Ukraine, the Italian students could attended this meeting only online. Our Strategic Partnership addressed to the horizontal priority of European rules: Social and educational value of European cultural heritage, his contribution to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion, and also promoting a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning, and promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship activities among young people. Also, it promoted a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning, based on increasing linguistic diversity in schools, such as encourage learning and early awareness of languages. Finally it was integrated the use of new technologies to support language learning and supporting the integration of the linguistic dimension between programs. The archaeological sites, the contemporary architecture, the medieval castles, and in general the traditions and the arts constitute the cultural heritage of Europe and are the beating heart of the identity and of the collective memory of European citizens. The rich and varied cultural heritage of Europe is an attractive center for tourists visiting the area. This is why local heritage has become an important economic factor. We used eTwinning to put in contact students before each mobility, and also for implementation/follow-up, uploading the project into Twinspace for dissemination use. The starting point of the project was the study of each country students' most relevant historical and/or natural monuments of their territory, and for this reason were created 2 International groups working (by PPT) on the topic. Before and after each meeting some tests were applied to the participants students. The students filled online their Europass Curriculum Vitae. DURING the meetings some language lessons were hold by the guest sts; the 2 international groups improved their Power Point; at the end of each meeting they presented their works and there was a debate between the 2 groups. As concrete results we had: a poster and a brochure of each meeting; a PPT made by the students each meeting; their europass CV; creative activities from each meeting. It was also created a web site in which have been uploaded all the activities of the meetings, and from which everyone is allowed to download all. Participation in this type of partnership was an opportunity for schools to change in a European dimension, to stimulate innovation and improvement processes and to promote the values of inclusion and tolerance.