E-tools for E-schools project targets common problems for the educational systems of EU countries such as the existing gap between available technologies and their application in teaching process. The project aims to equip teachers with practical skills and tools for learning resources preparation and use, and to provide them with wide range of teaching ideas and pedagogical instruments concerning the introduction of ICT. The proposal is focused on an innovative approach for teachers training providing more strategic and integrated use of ICTs and open educational resources that will not only straighten the profile of teaching professionals but will also support the implementation of European Commission Action Plan on Opening up Education.EFES project is transnational initiative that will be implemented in Bulgaria, Italy and Greece by organisations with significant experience in teachers training, methodology development and educational research. The expected project outputs are not nationally limited and their application changes the whole concept of the teaching process as not enclosed in the classroom, stimulate trans-school cooperation and networking. The applicant organisations will systematize best examples of e-learning activities and will jointly develop new training tools, and approbate new and modern way of training, based on blended-learning methodology. The blended or hybrid approach combines online with traditional face-to-face class activities in a planned, pedagogically valuable manner and allows flexibility and self-regulation of education without the time and space constraints.Two significant project outputs will remain in use after the lifetime of the project – WebTV and LMS platform. The Web TV will be an e-tool for training teachers how to use ICT in educational process and will combine the best seminar practices, target the existing needs, provide practical examples and templates. This innovative tool will allow unlimited number of teaches to strengthen their digital competences on demand and without any financial constraints. In other words, the WebTV will instruct teachers how to use open source platforms in order to prepare e-lessons for class- and homework. The LMS platform is a learning management system for primary and secondary school teachers based on open source software and divided in different sectors and categories of users. The platform will offer a complete set of services and tools supporting blended learning, such as services for the effective use of multimedia as a powerful learning means, collaborative development of educational templates and learning scenarios reflecting different educational approaches and needs, and services for the creation, management and monitoring of web-based and mobile (location-based) educational assignments.These two intellectual outputs will be applied and tested in three piloting schools - one in Bulgaria, one in Italy, one in Greece. The schools are selected to have good digital provision but limited digital-supported teaching. The piloting stage will provide significant and contextual feedback from the direct target group in each country. The platform and the Web TV will be fine-tuned and improved afterwards and will became more easily accessible and user-friendly. Afterwards, a series of dissemination events are planned in each country in order to popularise the outcomes among the target group and the relevant stakeholders. The final project results will be available in four EU languages – Bulgarian, Italian, Greek and English, and will be adjusted according to the cultural, social and educational context in each country. These products will be integrated in the management and pedagogical framework of the participating organisations. This will not only enlarge the scope of their work but will make the number of the potential users unlimited. In long term perspective, the project goal is to support the ongoing educational reforms in EU countries by providing teachers and students with the skills required by the labour market and the economy, and by mobilizing all stakeholders to change the role of digital technologies at education institutions.

Learning Schools is addressing a common problem within the educational systems of most European countries – the loss of knowledge and expertise with teacher retirement, attrition and migration. Most schools do not have any mechanisms for knowledge capturing, synthesising and sharing within the organisation or others use only separate tools, which are not organised as an efficient system. The aim of our transnational team of experts is to enhance individual, team and organisational learning in schools. The direct target group of the project is school principals, school leaders and teachers from Bulgaria, Spain, Italy and Turkey. In order to achieve the project’s goals we are creating the first knowledge management system and platform for schools in the participants’ countries, which will contain a set of synchronised tools.The project will be developed in the framework of the learning organisation and schools as learning organisations, which has integrated most of the achievements of the management thought for the last 25 years. The diverse cultural, economic and educational context of all the countries will allow for rich country specific analyses of the characteristics of the learning schools in each country, the best practices they apply and the existing level of knowledge management. All the findings will lead to the development of an integrated model of learning schools (MLS), an elaborate assessment instrument for comparison of the achievements of all the users of the platform and the existing best practices. The country specific analyses will feed examples for the knowledge management system, which we are devising as well. All these tools will be synchronised on a platform, which will make them user-friendly and accessible for school principals and school leadership at large. The platform will lead to the development of learning community of schools network. All the registered users will be able to share best practices and expertise. The expected impact of the project is beyond the borders of the applicants’ countries. The integrated interactive resources will be available in English, Bulgarian, Italian, Spanish and Turkish languages. It is an innovative contribution on national, regional and EU level. All the findings and outcomes of the project will benefit researchers and policy makers with instruments for enhancement of the educational systems reforms.All the instruments integrated in the platform and the platform itself will be tested in several schools in each of the participants’ countries. The schools are selected to have good digital equipment, but incomplete knowledge management set of instruments. The piloting stage will provide significant and contextual feedback from the direct target group in each country. The platform and the instruments integrated it will be fine-tuned and improved afterwards in order to become intuitive and user friendly. The participants in the piloting stage are school leaders and teachers.A series of dissemination events are planned in each country in order to popularise the outcomes among the target group and the relative stakeholders. Two types of events will be conducted – national one in Bulgaria and regional in all other countries. In long term perspective, the project goal is to support the ongoing educational reforms in EU countries as it raises awareness about the need to capture, synthesise, share and asses knowledge on organisational level and will prove the benefits of that.

"NB! In order to make it easier to track and verify the reported activities and products, we have created a username and password for Erasmus+ Agency .Username: erasmus.bgPassword: erasmus.bg2021Access to the community section with partners is from: http://cei.u4ili6teto.bg/Access to the platform (IO2) and its products (IO3) is from: https://www.nhd-play.eu/Access to the game (IO4) is from: https://www.nhd-play.eu/game/The main aim of this project was to develop a culture of behavior and to increase the knowledge and skills of primary and secondary school students to respond to emergencies such as natural and human-instigated disasters and crises, responding to the changing environment in Europe, based on modern approaches and social constructivism through the use of ICT-based tools. In the process of formation of this new generation, the three groups of stakeholders - students- teachers - local community (authorities, experts, parents) were involved as the learning process is rooted in co-operation between those who teach and those who learn . On this basis, the Partner Consortium focused its resources, knowledge and expertise on several specific objectives: 1. Raise student awareness by providing them with web-based training materials and instructions for acting in critical situations. 2. Build behavioral habits in various critical situations by developing an ICT-based gaming approach. 3. Social inclusion of children and students with disabilities through the provision of appropriate materials (curricula, instructions, game models, online courses) to work with them in emergencies. 4. Forming active learning around the subject of security through the provision of appropriate materials (curricula, classroom, thematic discussions, etc.) for teachers to increase crisis literacy. 5. Active involvement of the local community, including parents, experts, public authorities in the process of ensuring a secure environment for pupils through the distribution of the products under the project. This project was realized through the implementation of 6 activities, including the development of 5 intellectual products and the pilot activities for testing the platform and the educational game with representatives of the target groups. Activities in general are: - Action 1 ""Holistic Training Educational model"" - including desktop analysis of the situation in partner countries regarding the study of the level of relevance of the ""security"" topic in the learning activity, the analysis of the training models on the topic, the preparation of materials and topics to be included in the platform, on-line courses, and the manual. - Action 2 ""E-learning platform"" - developing a distance learning platform based on modern ICT where self-learning materials and knowledge self-assessment will be uploaded. - Action 3 ""Online Courses""- developing of 3 courses presenting six different thematic areas - natural disasters (earthquake, floods, fires), anthropogenic disasters (terrorism, violence) and first medical aids. - Action 4 ""Educational game"" - development of game covering topics from natural - human disasters, aiming at forming a culture and automating the students' behavior for reaction in such situations. - Action 5 ""Piloting"" - testing of the platform testing and on-line game to the students to determine the level of impact and the effects of applying these approaches. The project is International and in its implementation took a part Center for Educational Initiatives, Bulgaria; Society and Safety Foundation, Bulgaria; Fundacio d'ecologia del foc i gestio d'incendis pau costa Alcubierre, Spain; University of Crete, Greece and Fondazione Centro studi Villa Montesca, Italy. All of them have significant experience in the field of civil protection education and contributed as well to the realization of all project activities."

Education to religious pluralism is a key to achieve civil awareness and social cohesion in the construction of a democratic model of European citizenship. The project faces this need providing teachers of primary schools with specific methodologies, in order to respond to the complexity of multicultural and multi-religious societies, starting from the laboratory of citizenship that school is and must be. In the field of education legislation, most EU Countries highlight the importance of promoting a culture of participation in school which is modeled on democratic values, including respect for others, tolerance, mutual trust, solidarity and cooperation.The main objectives met are related to the implementation of tools addressed to support religion teachers and in general teachers of humanistic areas to develop an attractive, modern and safe learning environment where religion is seen as an added value for promoting tolerance and preventing radicalism. In this sense, all the IO produced are addressed to promote an education to religious pluralism. The project has been focused on an innovative, participatory-based, pedagogical model whose goal is to ensure intercultural and inter-religious mediation. The application and the experimentation of the Model provided teachers with new methodological skills to develop and apply an innovative pedagogical method to teach religion in participatory form. The Life Model, being participatory, has ensured this goal, through a wide experimentation phase in schools and many meetings and focus groups with other teachers and stakeholders. Therefore, the project addresses both the content of religious education and an innovative pedagogical method, applying the participatory approach to religious education in order to promote an intercultural citizenship “from below” triggered by the children. The consortium, composed by 5 project partners (FVM, EDRA, CEI, EGECED and FUSJ) has been built with the aim of having the highest spectrum of competences needed to accomplish all the project aims. Each member of the network has strict relationships with the regional institutional and the local social system and had the task to involve religious associations with a specific program of social and cultural inclusion. The academic background and resources of most of the partners ensured a qualified approach in this specific area of spiritual and religious studies. In fact, different religious approaches are represented in the partnership: the network represents Islamic (TR), orthodox (EL, BG) and catholic expressions (IT, ES). The project has been articulated in the following activities: project management; quality assessment and evaluation; project implementation diffusion and dissemination of the project outcomes; mainstreaming, multiplication and valorization of the project results. In particular, the implementation activities consisted in:•a research phase aiming at providing an in-depth analysis of religion education approaches in the countries involved and the definition of the needs of the stakeholders about the religion plurality in schools;•short-term joint staff training events (C1, C2) for teachers and educators;•elaboration of the Pedagogical Didactic & Participatory Model (PD&P) starting from the knowledge gained by teachers during the training activity C1. This activity developed a pedagogical model of education to religious pluralism, defined trough a participatory method considering also the needs identified by teachers, experts, families and representatives of different religions in the area.•Piloting with EU primary/secondary schools of the educational model developed through the participatory process.Apart from the research work conducted in each partner country, which draws a map of the situation at national level, the main result of the project is the creation of the scientifically based method that allows the connection between participatory educative contents and cultural and religious diversity, reinforcing the competences of teachers and headmasters to be confronted with a multi-confessional approach, social identity and the relevant decrease of social marginalization in groups at risk. The piloting in EU primary schools represented also a big result, considering that 11 schools, about 30 teachers and 1018 students were involved at European level. Concerning the impact, the Pedagogical and Didactic Participatory Model (PD&P), applied to the multi-cultural teaching and learning of religion, was proposed as a didactic reference in primary schools and provoked great interest among teachers and headmasters, who are willing to replicate it, possibly on a larger scale. The LIFE Manual, conceived also for exploitation purposes, represents an important document for the transfer of the methodology to other potential stakeholders.

<< Objectives >>This project aims to raise quality and enhance youth work engagement in peace and reconciliation processes through digital tools and non-formal educational intruments. Through our project, we will build capacities of youth workers and youth leaders through transfer of skills, experience, knowledge, attitudes and empowerment based on non-formal education activities, practice community activities and development of new methods and tools for efficient, innovative, relevant and modern approach.<< Implementation >>The project activities are:- The image of the other study to conduct a qualitative and in-depth study of the main problem areas leading to hatred and division between the participating countries.- Youth workers toolkit - to equip youth workers with practical instruments for promoting intercultural understanding and acceptance of diversity- NoConfilct Videos - to raised awareness of young people about the importance peacebuilding and no conflict transformation - Free open – space platform<< Results >>The expected results are: -built capacities of youth workers and youth leaders in using and shaping non-formal tools to promote intercultural understanding and acceptance of diversity;-strengthened abilities of youth workers to create and use video content for engaging young people in conflict transformation and reconciliation process; -raised awareness of young people about the importance of peacebuilding and no conflict transformation and role of youth work and young people in it