1st PRIMARY SCHOOL OF AMFISSA (Greece) is one of the four Primary Education institutes in the town of Amfissa, capital of the Municipality of Delphi . Founded in 1933, it occupies a historic two-storey stone building and it employs 18 teachers of various subjects. Our school functions within a Restated Unified Educational Programme and operates from 08.00 to 16.00. During the recent years it was one of the 99 Experimental Primary Schools of Greece. There are 143 pupils with 11% students from foreign countries and 8% Roma children. In our 14.00 to 16.00 classes there are 38 pupils. In these classes we provide children with the opportunity for supervises homework at school and fill the gap between the end of school and the return of parents from work. The school staff is stoongly interested in creating engaging learning experiences for all pupils, as inclusive education is a foundation for equitable societies. Next to 1st Primary School there is a state-funded Special Needs Primary School which serves children with several types and severities of disabilities such as blindness, autism, Asperger's and physical and emotional desorders. Both schools share a common school yard and canteen, cooperate in joint activities, and a number of special needs children sometimes join our regular classes, so there is a mutual sustaining relationship between the two schools. Therefore we -pupils and staff- recognise diversity and think highly of it, work for inclusion in education and believe that all learners can profit form changes, when barriers to access and participatin are reduces for particular learners. The staff of our school recognizes, respects and responds to the growing need for inclusion in the learning environment, would like to improve its teaching methods and offer learning opportunities of equal quality for all students. Therefore, we would like to learn and exchange inclusive strategies with our European colleagues. Strategies in which students with different skills and achievements levels learn together and take responsibility for both individual and group achievement. In addition, living on the European side of the Mediterranean Sea, we would like to make our pupils environmentally friendly citizens to help keep our water clean, and with this project be part of an ecological literacy school community. Through interschool cooperation exchange methods to teach, pupils have environmentally friendly attitude, inform them about the catastrophic effects of water pollution, share information and exchange good practices. As a school, we have no previous related experience in KA2 projects, althoug some members of our staff have participated in KA2 during the recent years.

1st Primary School of Amfissa

The I CIRCOLO SAN CATALDO (Italy) is a public school with 5 primary school buildings and 3 kindergarden school in the middle of Sicily, in the province of Caltanissetta in a small urban area. In our school there are about 1000 children (from 3 to 10 years old),30 children with disabilities integrates into classes and followed by especialized teachers, and about 25 children of Morocco, China, Romania. Teachers are about 100. Children attend not only front lesson, but also language workshops through heuristic methods according the principle of "learning by doing", "learning by playing", cooperative learning and peer tutoring. The use of new technologies, the growing interest in the study of languages, bring the school and the staff to acquire new skills in order to maximize results in the interaction between the use of ICTs and the teaching-learning process. Fundamental assumptions that inspired the didactic action are: To Customize the times and methods of learning in order to encourage full development of personality, taking into account the potential and individual abilities; Teaching strategies heuristic and metacognitives favoring operational capabilities, creative and critical abilities of the pupils. To extend the networking activities, in order to optimize resources and develop educational paths congruent with educational environmental emergencies;To promote a ful awareness of Europian citizenship rights and democratic principles. Attentive to intercultural dimension our school has been participating in an active way ,for more than ten years, to Comenius school partnership and Erasmuns Projects, opening cultural horizons, improve language skills and experiment new methodologies sharing good practices, a common international education with other countries, whose effects and impact could involved the school and the community to open their minds, and build a better life for future generations. School's motivation to join this project is based on:Good and permanent relations with partners abroad thank to Comenius and Erasmus projects, and twinning with European and international schools. Use of technological tools in the teaching-learning process. Etwinning and use of Skype to connect with European schools. Participation in European projects with the involvement of many students and teachers to transnational mobility. Increasing interest from students and teachers to global issues for active citizenship. The school has always given importance to the training actions to strengthen the methodological and teaching skills of teachers to be exercised with full knowledge and new motivation. A team of primary teachers, interested in innovation and new methodologies, cultural exchange to increase motivation. Staff involved in this project, in planning, coordination and evaluation activities will be coordinated by Elisa Amico, responsible for language and Erasmus Projects and Ornella Riggi, digital animator.

Direzione Didattica Statale 1º Circolo “E. De AMicis”

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DONA FILIPA DE LENCASTRE (Portugal) provides public education ranging from Pre-Elementary School to High School, distributed in four different close buildings, with around 2000 students in total. Apart from Elementary Education which has a common frame, with 350 pupils, at Secondary Education level students can pursue their studies in three distinct areas of studies: Science and Technology, Socio- Economical Sciences and Languages and Humanities. The whole educational community plays an important role in the pursuing of our objectives, and collaborative work with other institutions has been fundamental for the pursuit of our students school success. The school is located in the centre of Lisbon and includes students from all social-economic backgrounds, as well as students with disabilities -around 20 in year 5 and 6, providing help in several service areas- social assistance, psychology and a group of trained teachers for students with special needs. Our main school goals are orientated towards students academic results, high quality teaching level, the promotion of respect for the whole community, and society in general, and for the environmental issues as well. Furthermore, the school mission aims at opening the communty to different national and international interactions, so we have been participating in various national and international projects, which we consider, methodologywise fundamental in the approach to education. Number of teachers in the school: 140 Participants: All pupils from years 5 and 6 will participate (352: 10-12 years old) Their teachers of English, Maths, Sciences, History and Geography and Arts. Parents wil help with voluntary work, helping in workshops, giving lessons and lectures on subjects of their expertise. The school is highly motivated to join the project as our main goals (as mentioned before - democracy, citizenship, sustainability, etc., are part of our school project). We usually implement interdisciplinary task -based work in the different curricula and have been participating in different international projects throughout the years in different platforms - etwinning, class exchanges, Comenius, Clil, etc., within the following subjects: Sustainability, migrations, intercultural migrations, conservation of species, etc. The contact person has got a lot of experience in developing school projects and the other teachers will stay with us for the next four years.

Agrupamento de Escolas D. Filipa de Lencastre

Escola Nadal is a school of Infant and Primary Education located in the city of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, with 2 groups per level from P3 to 6th with a total of 450 students and 30 teachers. The educational center project gives great importance to the learning of the English language and the school is involved in various projects (mentioned below) of implementation and improvement of English language learning as well as the promotion of European awareness. Education in values and the improvement of communicative competence are objectives of the improvement in social equity and our center tries to compensate as much as possible the educational aspects in which families, due to their social and cultural characteristics, can not access. Approximately 50% of our students come from economically depressed areas with high rates of unemployment and immigrant population. Our motivation to work in European projects is based on transmitting to our students and their families the need to improve communicative competence and specifically English as a language that allows us to interact with other students and teachers from other EC countries and open up the school to the internationalization of education, develop the skills of our students as learning to learn and learn throughout life to prepare them to be competent citizens in the changing society of the 21st century. The school should give the opportunity to work collaboratively in international projects to our students and teachers. Knowing other educational systems, methodologies, sharing problems and educational approaches enriches the teaching practice. Exchange work, presentations, prepare video conferences, travel and meet other students with whom you can interact in a common language motivates to learn to be interested in the culture of the other, to accept differences as a cultural and social enrichment among many other benefits that arise of this type of actions. Fulfilled projects: Comenius 2005-2008: YOU + ME = US Comenius 2009-2011: TRANSMISSION OF CULTURAL CELEBRATION Comenius 2012-2014: HEALTHY ME, HEALTHY YOU, HEALTHY US Erasmus + Ka1 2016 aimed at improving methodological training in ELT and in CLIL methodology in Bournemouth UK E Twinning: "The town and the city", a collaborative project with the Pielaveden yhtenäiskoulu school in Pielavesi (Finland), Erasmus Ka1 2017 Job shadowing in Pielavesi Finland. In the center, an Erasmus team of 6 teachers will be set up, directly linked to the project, responsible for the organization, monitoring of the activities, their evaluation and dissemination. Formed by the coordinator, a cycle representative (4) and the director. The 100 students of 5th and 6th will be directly involved in the activities that will be adapted to involve the rest of the students of the center. Some representatives will travel at international meetings.