I.E.S. "San Juan del Castillo" is a public secondary school located in Belmonte, a rural settlement with about 2000 inhabitants, about 150 kilometres from Madrid. We have 28 teachers and 160 students (12 to 18 years old) but the number has been decreasing in the last years due to the depopulation of the rural areas. We have 120 students in lower secondary school, 40 in higher secondary education, 18 students with special needs and 15 unaccompanied minor immigrants from Africa, MENAS Programme. Also that girls from families with problems who stay in a local orphanage school come to our secondary school and they are properly integrated in the school community. In general, the socio-economic level of the families is medium-low, being mostly dedicated to agriculture or the services sector. Families believe that the education of their children as a means of improving future possibilities.

Our school takes part in projects that promote healthy habits through physical activity and a balanced diet, PES. We also participated in projects to promote the reading and use of the school library. We participated in an international environmental project called GLOBE.

During last years, teaching staff has been registered on the platform Etwinning to study the development of an own project or participate in any that is already underway. Since 2017 we started taking part in European Projects. We have participated in the KA101 Erasmus+ Project “e+Ties: Otra mirada hacia la enseñanza Bilingüe” This project was organized and managed by Regional Government. We are also participating in a KA229 project about Bullying: “I See You, I Hear You, I Feel You” approved in 2019.

Our school staff. have done courses, conferences, workshops about “Young Potential Development”, “Marketing for Fun and Profit”, “Starting a Learn Startup”, “Why Marketing Merchandising”, etc.

Our motivation to join more European projects is based on the following aspects:

- Our area has depopulation problems, we need enterprising young people who create activity and wealth here. They are our hopeful future.

- For teachers, we are planning on the improvement of their teaching practices, their linguistic competence in order to be able to start quality bilingual education, and in this way to be able to work in projects with other European Schools.

- For students, since we began a bilingual education programme, it will be a good incentive, means of motivation, and a change to collaborate and communicate with students of different European countries, especially when one of the partners (Turkish) offeres bilingual education in their institution.

- the project will help increase a shared sense of "European-ness" and will give students the confidence to work with students of different backgrounds.

- In the last educational law, our official curriculum has included subjects to enhance entrepreneurship. We need to reaffirm it and know other practice examples in other countries.

Ozel Bahcesehir Ortaokulu

Özel Bahçeşehir Ortakokulu is a private institution and is the first campus established in İzmir among 5 more others. İzmir is the 3rd most populated city in Turkey and it is a very large multicultural city. Situated Bornova, the school was opened 9 years ago in 2010. We have a kindergarten department with almost 111 students(age 4 to 6),a primary school with about 424 and a middle school with almost 414 students, educated in a English-Turkish bilingual sistem. In our school we have about 120 teachers, among which 37 are English and modern languages teachers, due to the large number of English classes. We are a multicultural group of teachers, including Turks, teachers from Australia, Romania, Marocco, Holland, Cuba and Great Britain.

Our teachers are very hardworking, creative and motivated to work with Erasmus projects. We want to participate in International projects to exchange ideas and good practices through face to face meetings and virtually with other schools, in order to better approach this topic. We want to have more teachers specialised in Entrepreneurial Education and to give European dimension to our teaching. We want to give our students too chances to collaborate and work with foreign students and to learn from each other how to become successful entrepreneurs.

Ozel Bahcesehir Ortaokulu takes highquality education to every corner of Turkey with great investmentsand great results.

Students are taught in accordance with the skills of the 21st century. The key people involved in this project are the following: Merve Akalp and Diana Roxana Madrali will be the coordinators. They will be in charge of ensuring a sound communication with the partners, following the activities and the dissemination. Merve Akalp, teacher of English as a Foreign Language; with a B.S. in Molecular Biology and an M.Ed in English, has experience in entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship education based projects. She has also previously participated in an Eramus+ project. Diana Roxana Madralı, teacher of English; has experience in a variety of Comenius and Erasmus projects. Sevil Tatar, a Social Sciences teacher, and Gul Ozyildiz, English

Language teacher, will be the primary responsible for the implementation of the planned activities. If any of these people leave their possitions, they will be replaced by other volunteer teachers, as there are 120 teachers in our school.

Our school’s experience in entrepreneurship education:

- Social Entrepreneurs Fair, organised by or Social Club, where students had to create and sell original products, then donated the money to charity institutions.

- The topic is integrated and taught as part of the curricullum every year.

- Dokuz Eylül University Lecturer conducted a workshop in 2017 on the preparation of advertising, posters and promotional films of products produced with their expert guests.

- Our Erasmus team members attended various workshops on this theme.

Siauliai Dainai Progymnasium

Our school is a general secondary school but we have both primary and secondary grades. We have about 70 teachers and about 850 students in both cycles. Our school is situated in a residential area where families of average income live. Although the town is facing the problem of many families traveling abroad or other towns seeking for jobs and taking children together, our school has increased the number of students. We attract students with a huge offer of new technologies used at school, and well -qualified staff who are not afraid of facing new challenges.

Except these students who come from families with typically social and economic problems there are also special needs students - about 2-4 in each class - who have problems with dyslexia or common dysfunctions such as disortography, disgraphy that cause their learning difficulties. We would like to provide them with the new ways of learning using the newest methodology.

The school staff would like to direct the project especially to students in a bad economic situation and to these ones who have learning difficulties to ensure their successful learning through entrepreneurship and become relevant community citizens in Lithuania as well as within EU. We have very little experience with Entrepreneurial education, so our main aim to join this project is to improve our practices on entrepreneurial education and to learn from more experienced countries, because we consider that entrepreneurial skills are a must in the constantly changing labour market of the 21st century. By training our students towards being entrepreneurs and seize opportunities, we can, in long terms, contribute to the economical growth of our country.

The people coordinating this project will be: Asta Vaičiūnienė Fields of Expertise: Science, Management,Leadership, Non-Formal Education and Vilma Matuzevičienė whose responsibilities will be planning, development and overall coordination/implementation supervision of projects, developing project concepts, including goals, objectives, activities and main stages. We will also work in close connections to our Social studies teachers and ITC teachers for technological support.

We also want to take part in this project because we have never had K229 project approved in our schools, and we want to create opportunities for our students to participate in short exchanges with the other students from the partner schools.

However, as we stated above, our students' families do not have high income, so sending the students abroad in educational purposes would be impossible without getting a financial grant through this project.

Szkola Podstawowa nr 10 im. Adama Mickiewicza

Adam Mickiewicz Primary School no 10 is located in Pulawy which is about 120 kilometres from Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Pulawy is a picturesque town in central Poland, on the right bank of the Vistula River. Our town is in a beautiful area of the Lublin region. It is a unique and diversified neighbourhood with hills which adjoin vast fields and ravines. Today Pulawy is a modern friendly town and has over 50,000 inhabitants. Our school was built in 1984 and it has 464 students aged from 6 to 15 and there are 60 teachers. Our school is quite big and it sets high standards for education. Our school consists of students from various social backgrounds...and the motivation for learning is also very different depending both from students and the class as well. I think as every school nowadays we share the same issues and problems but also passions and extra activities. Classes are well equipped and the school provides computer labs with all necessary high-tech devices useful during different lessons. . Behind the school there is a big playground. When the weather is good we have our PE lessons there. We have a swimming pool and a gym as well, as there is a quite emphasis on sport and healthy competition. The climate here is very friendly and students feel safe. Among our students are these with some disabilities and they attend to integrated major classes. They obtain additional help after lessons bur also a constant support of an extra assisting teacher. These classes however consist of not only such students but also the ones learning on regular basis. Also last year they were students from Ukraine whose parents decided that their lives and education will be held here in our town of Puławy. It was a new experience for both us teachers but also students. Most students are involved in voluntary work; cleaning up the surrounding environment or raising money for charitable organizations. Students are both intelligent and hardworking. They like exchanging ideas and working together on various tasks. I think this is what makes us a good team. For the last couple of years our school participated in various projects – first The Comenius projects and later on The Erasmus + project as followed. Concerning the issue of the team running the project we plan to involve the teachers who have already had some experience from working on the last projects. Our school pedagogist who would be responsible for organizing the meetings with experts and setting up the debates; our design-technology teacher involved in all different cooking activities as well as biology teacher and our P.E. teacher who worked hard on last projects and activities connected with them. In case some of the people would have to quit their duties connected with the project work, there’s another ‘back-up’ team chosen by the school’s authorities.

Purvo Osnovno Uchilishte "Sveti Kliment Ohridski"

First primary school "St. Kliment Ohridski"  is the oldest school in the town. It was  founded in 1875.It has a long history. History showing the desire of its pedagogy staff to reach excellent results in the educational work in extracurricular life.  As European citizens we understand that active civil society with opinion, acting as an engine for the society could not exist without educated and informed people. Having in mind this mainstream, our teachers encourage the development of young people by participating in different EU projects.Total number of students is 442-devided in 20 classes.It is composed of 35 teachers with the necessary qualifications. The teaching staff consists of one head teacher, 60% senior teachers and other teachers. All are qualified and posses’ great experience - language specialists and teachers in general subjects.

Our motivation to the project is dedicated in 3 main directions:

1.The necessity of the project is dictated by the changes in the school plans and programs, enshrined in the new Law on Pre-school and School Education in Bulgaria, which make entrepreneurship education a compulsory subject from 1st to 8th grade. This necessitates teaching staff to acquire new competences, to study good European practices and to exchange experience with  similar  European schools.

2.Enterpreneurial education:  We as teachers need the mind-set, skills and knowledge to generate creative ideas, and the entrepreneurial initiative to turn those ideas into action. This is the definition of the European Commission given to explain the theoretical framework and the necessary link between the school systems and the European labor market.

3.European cooperation: We want to boost the European dimension in our school-community and give our students various opportunities of getting in touch with students from other countries and cultures.

Key staff:

Violina Andreeva-headmistress of the school. Experienced in management of EU projects.

Vaska Kocheva-deputy-headmistress. Experienced in EU projects.

Gergana Gramatikova-project coordinator and English language teacher. Experienced of EU projects,especially Erasmus+,KA1.

Liliya Stoykova-chairperson of the public council of the school. Experienced in Erasmus +,KA1,KA2 and Youth. She has been working on Erasmus + projects since 2014.

Accountant of the school.

Teachers in Economics and ICT teachers.

In case of leaving of some of the members,we have staff very well prepared to take their role.

Entrepreneurial education is studied in everyday classes from 1st to 7th grade in our school as a craft.Our students produce different things and objects from wood,metal,ceramics and etc.The objects created are sold as raising money for charity.These iniciatives are at Christmas and Easter.This year our students elaborated "martenici" and sold them.The money were given for charity.

Agrupamento de Escolas de Pedome

The Agrupamento de Escolas de Pedome islocated in Vila Nova de Famalicão, districtof Braga, northof Portugal. It was established in the academic year 2000-2001, having been restructured in 2007-2008, and it currently covers 10 educational units. 

In the current year, the school population is 1722 students from preschool education, primary and secondary school (from 3 to 15 years old).

In recent years, there has been an increment in the number of students subsidized by the School Social Action, which is related to the crisis of the Ave Valley region, particularly in the textile and building industries, which has dragged families into unemployment, often of long duration.140 teachers, 4 specialists of psychology, education and social animation and 65 technical and operational assistants work in this school, in 10 educational units.

The Agrupamento de Escolas de Pedomeintends to continue its European Development Plan, aiming at a regular, increasingly and assiduous participation in international projects and partnerships. In this sense, having  the ambition to intensify the European dimension of the group, there is an urgent need to respond to the training needs of our educational agents:  innovation and modernization of our pedagogical practices; increasing the levels of professional motivation and satisfaction of students, teachers and non-teachers; promoting awareness of the importance of the European dimension (transmitting a sense of belonging and European globalization); discussing  methods and approaches with a view to greater success in the teaching-learning process, becoming familiar with the educational practices applied and used in other countries, either through participation in Training Courses or  job shadowing.

This internationalization plan aims, in global terms, for the total development of our students, promoting the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and skills in different competence areas, according to the Students’ profile when leaving Mandatory Education, driving to a multiple literacy development, such as reading and writing, numeracy and the use of information and communication technologies, which are the foundations for learning and continuing to learn throughout life. 

In recent years, the school has internally carried on some social entrepreneurial projects to boost the students' skills and key competences. However, we believe that we need to acquire better knowledge on this project, and get more students involved in entrepreneurial activities and more teachers specialised on this topic, by the participation in this project..

Key staff:

Paulo Ramalhoto-Project manager,experienced in EU projects.

Fernando Lopes-Headmaster,experienced in EU project management and implementation.

ICT teachers and teachers in Economics.

In case any of these people leave their possitions at school, they will be replaced by other volunteer teachers experienced in working on Erasmus+ projects, among those 150 teachers of the school.