This document outlines the activity plan for a 2014-2017 project between several schools. It involves periodic meetings where teachers and students collaborate on topics like teambuilding, sustainability, entrepreneurship, creativity, and cultural diversity. The meetings are designed to share best practices, try out new teaching methods, provide workshops, and provide time for students to work together on assignments using tools like Facebook groups. Evaluation of the project's goals and impacts is carried out each year to refine the collaboration.

1. 2014 - 2017
ACTIVITY PLAN
Late summer
2014
Communication through eTwinning preparing the first meeting, and
sharing ideas and visions of how to put our project into practise.
Each partner, represented by the schools coordinators will be responsible
for part of the projects practical work, and the frames for this work will be
set up before our first meeting.
Autumn 2014
20-24th Oct
Project
meeting
in Denmark
INNOVATION AND TEAMBUILDING
Setting up our project team, deciding how we are going to cooperate in
details and profit from the multitude of ideas and experience the group
represents.
Sharing and preparing teaching material for the students meeting, and
setting up the follow-up teaching in our schools
Lecture and workshop on Teambuilding tools by headteacher and coach
Steven Kirby.
Lecture on the use of Student Teams, which has been practised on the
hosting school for some years. Advantages and challenges will be
discussed, and objectives for the upcoming students meeting will be
clarified.
Autumn 2014
9th-15th Nov
Students
meeting in
Denmark
“KIDS TAKE ACTION”
4 students from each visiting partner school will be part of this first
students meeting, and the resident students council among others of the
same age group as the visiting students.. The students will be selected
from their engagement in students council and willingness to cooperate
with peers cross-cultures.
Teams will be set up using team role tests ( Belbin), and the first
assignment for the cross national students teams, who will cooperate
through Open Source Tools over Internet for the rest of the school year,
will be to promote sustainability on all schools, conducted by the students.
The student council in Denmark will share their experiences with their
European peers from partner schools.

2. During the meeting the student teams will work on a presentation, which
they can show in classes, once they return to their schools. The objective
of this work will be activating the students at their school to act responsible
according to the environment. The progress of implementing Sustainability
they will share through a Facebook group, set up for the students who are
active participants in this project.
Early winter
2014
As follow-up on this first meeting, all partner schools will integrate newly
learned practises in at least one class, preferable in more.
These classes will make a survey before the testing period, and at the end
of the school year there will be an evaluation of the students feed-back on
the impact the change in teaching practise has had on their learning.
Teambuilding workshop by teambuilding expert Morten Poulsen from
UNO-center, Aarhus.
We will set up cross-national teams of students, who will work together on
different projects throughout the year, using Open Source Tools.
The coordinator of the project will be proactive in starting these actions.
Each school will have a board or a corner dedicated to the project where
they will report and present the most interesting aspects of the project
(what are we doing at the moment, where is the next meeting and what is
about, impressions, findings, pictures, . ..).
Winter 2014/15
As preparation for the students’ meeting in Slovenia, students’ group of
each country will prepare questions for a survey which will focus on what
skills and competences are needed by their future employees and which
of these skills schools don't encourage or develop. They will use Google
docs to do so.
Teachers in each school will discuss which lesson plan or project plan
they will present during the meeting in Slovenia. We’ll open a
document/table in Google docs where each project partner will write down
the topic and the presenter of their good practice example.

3. Teachers will study the European development plans and focus on the
skills and competences needed in the 21st century and think about the
question: how do we teach them?
Spring 2015
12th-18th April
Project and
students
meeting in
Slovenia
INNOVATION AND LEARNING SKILLS
TEACHING TOOLS I
SHARING BEST PRACTICE AND TRYING IT OUT
The aim of this meeting where both teachers and students will be present
at the same time (maybe with a day or two distance) is to share Best
Practice, try it out and give students opportunity for their own suggestions.
Participating teachers will bring a lesson plan or a project plan that has
been successful for them (e.g. flipped classrooms) and will present it.
Afterwards there will be room for discussion and what we find best, will
then be carried out with the students group to see if they also function
satisfactory with students from different countries.
Teachers from the Slovenian school will present good examples of
collaborative teaching and there’ll be a presentation on how we can
promote creativity and responsibility through formative assessment.
An expert from the movement Ustvarjalnik (Creator) will hold a lecture and
workshop for the participants on how to promote creativity and
inventiveness of students.
Before the meeting teachers will study the European development plans
and focus on the skills and competences needed in the 21st century.
During the meeting they’ll discuss in groups the question: how do we
teach them?
We will also work out an educational programme, which we will set up and
then monitor and evaluate through the project.
We will discuss and prepare a list of websites with OER (Open
Educational Resources) suitable for us. At the beginning we’ll use them as

4. resources for our work. Later we’ll publish our materials and lessons there
and thereby disseminate what we have learned. A partner will be
responsible for publishing our resources there.
STUDENTS
The students’ group will set up working teams and get the assignment to
set up working teams in their home classes, too. These teams will be
responsible for different tasks and they will manage the students’ facebook
group​.
In a workshop students will brainstorm and discuss methods that they
think might work and later they’ll try them out. They’ll also discuss what
competences need to be developed through school and education but
aren’t. They will present their ideas to teachers.
During the meeting a round table with representatives of local firms will be
organised. The talk will focus on what skills and competences are needed
by the future employees and which of these skills and competences
schools don't encourage or develop. The survey carried out by the
students as preparatory work for the meeting will serve as a frame for the
discussion.
Ustvarjalnik will run a workshop on soft skills, audacity and creativity as
preparation for our next meeting INNOVATION AND
ENTREPRENEURSHIP in Spain​.
Evaluation of the first project year will be initiated and performed in all
schools. Results from the evaluation will be compared with our goals, and
necessary changes will be made.
A new group of students will be selected for the meeting in Spain.
Autumn 2015
5th-9th Oct
INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
An entrepreneur specialist from a Young Enterprise Nest will show
partners how to help their students in the process of setting up a business.
This process contains the aspects of how to promote entrepreneurship
through creativity and marketing plans, price studies, publicity, etc. and
evaluates them.

5. Project
meeting Spain The meeting aims at providing teachers with enough knowledge about
how to develop and increase students’ entrepreneurship skills and identify
the characteristics of these skills.
Autumn 2015
22th - 28th Nov
Students
meeting Spain
THE STUDENT AS PRODUCER AND ENTREPRENEUR
Visiting and hosting students follow the entrepreneurship process
prepared by teachers during the previous meeting to prove its potential
and application. Through evaluation of the practice some changes may be
included to improve the learning output.
Students will work in international teams. These different teams will
brainstorm ideas to create a new object or service and will apply the
entrepreneurship plans to develop the object/service and show its
availability by means of a public presentation.
Student groups will also be taught about creative and innovative
principles. Teams will be set up. These teams will then work online on a
creative assignment like creating an advertising commercial, a short film, a
story, a graphic novel, etc.
December 2015
Before the meeting in Finland, student teams will be formed and set up on
the Internet. The students will ponder over the following questions:
1. Considering sustainable development, which things are well taken care
of in their own cities? What works? What could the others learn?
2. Regarding ESD, what are the biggest problems? Which ones require a
solution?
The pre-task will be a video, and it will be presented to the others during
the meeting.
Winter 2016
11th -15th Jan
Project
meeting
Finland
INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Teachers will get information about people´s eco-friendly choices in
Pietarsaari/Finland. There will be a lecture for all about recycling and the
modern waste disposal facility Ekorosk, which is unique even by Finnish
standards.
Participants will discuss how to walk the talk and how to motivate
students, raise their awareness of environmental issues and get as many

6. stakeholders as possible to act in a more environmentally-friendly way.
Winter 2016
10th - 16ht
April
Students
meeting
Finland
“Youth takes green action” in this meeting. Students will take part in
workshops. They may include “switch market”, promoting biking, flea
market tours, ecological promises, etc. Students will make a commitment
to act in an environmentally-friendly way, not only today but also in the
future, and disseminate their ideas to work for sustainability and green
agenda. With the help of the participating students´ also their classmates
and families will become more aware of these important issues.
One of the main goals of the meeting is to change ideas and best
practices and innovate new ways to act in favor of sustainable
development. Students will together develop solutions to the problems
discussed in the pre-tasks. Based on these innovations they will create a
video.
As a follow-up, the online discussion group on Facebook, already started
after the first students meeting, will be used by the students to comment
and refine ideas and innovations discovered in the Pietarsaari-meeting.
Evaluation of the results of the second project year will be performed.. All
partners will be invited to comment on the evaluation results, and if
changes are needed, the coordinator of the project will set the changes in
motion.
Autumn 2016
3th - 7th Oct
Project
meeting
Poland
INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY
Creative approach to teaching practices:
Thinking hats method by de Bono.
The jazz of innovation, which is finding the right balance between
structure and creativity. Too much creativity can turn into chaos, and too
much structure lacks innovation.
The following question will be addressed and discussed: What can we do
about the fact that many students lose their creativity and their interest in
learning during their school years? How can this be avoided?
There will be workshops focusing on the following issues:
● How can we teach creatively to achieve the best result for our
students?

7. ● Creative teachers willing to innovate their tools of teaching mean
creative students - how do we need to change our methodology to
ease the process of learning?
Autumn 2016
20th-26th Nov
Students
meeting
Poland
Developing students creativity
A creative students’ meeting, with a creative approach to teaching. Role
Play, drama, thinking hats. Honing the students’ ability to present their
opinion, the ability to speak in front of the peers and being able to justify
the view.
Autumn 2016
Winter 2016/17
Students taking part in the meeting in Vienna will do some tasks to
sensitize them to the question of cultural similarities and differences and
thus develop and increase their intercultural awareness.
● They will be paired up with a student from another country and
create a portfolio about their partner by communicating on the
internet. This portfolio should give a good idea about what being
young in the partner’s country is like. This portfolio will then be
published on issuu or LearningApps at the meeting.
● Students will work in international groups of 3-4 people. They will
use the internet to work on a specific issue relevant to the topic
such as: food, sights, traditions, festivals, geography and climate,
etc. in the different countries and present their findings to the other
participants on the internet.
● They will brainstorm clichés and common ideas about the
participating countries. These clichés and ideas will then be
discussed at the meeting in Vienna.
Winter 2017
16th-20th Jan
Project
meeting
Austria
INNOVATION AND LEARNING SKILLS
TEACHING TOOLS II
SHARING BEST PRACTISE
Everybody will bring a lesson plan that has been developed as a result of
the incredible inspiration from the first meeting on Learning Skills in
Slovenia and from other meetings. The lesson plans will be discussed in
subject groups and possible amendments will be made.
WEB 2.0 WORKSHOP
Many of our digital-native students use Web 2.0 tools in their everyday life.
As these tools open up a great opportunity for innovative teaching and

8. enhancing students’ motivation, the meeting will also focus on this topic.
Therefore, an Austrian colleague specialised in Web 2.0 teaching tools,
helped by a college from Slovenia will run a workshop for teachers
introducing these teaching tools and how they can be used in teaching.
Teachers will then work together to brainstorm and develop activities for
the following students’ meeting in Vienna.
The workshop aims at expanding teachers’ IT-skills and new media
literacy and providing them with tools to balance routine classroom work
with innovative and creative activities and techniques.
Winter 2017
19th-25th Feb
Students
meeting
Austria
TEACHING TOOLS II IN THE CLASSROOM
Web 2.0 WORKSHOP - A COMMON EUROPE OF CULTURAL
DIVERSITY
At the meeting students will work on a project using Web 2.0 tools for
writing and other creative activities. These activities will be embedded in
the topic of “A common Europe of cultural diversity”. People’s social
behaviour is very much influenced by the rules and etiquette of the
community and the cultural background they are brought up in. These
rules and etiquette, however, may be different in the individual countries of
the EU and these differences need to be addressed to avoid
misunderstandings and misconceptions.
At the meeting students will use different Web 2.0 tools to first explore the
topic of cultural differences and similarities and then for creative activities
revolving around this topic. There will be a variety of activities to choose
from, such as to name a few: blog writing, twitter, collaborative story
writing, making collages on LearningApps, creating a magazine giving
advice on issuu, creating comics, making a short film for youTube, etc.
The pre-tasks and activities which students did in preparation for the
meeting will be part of the programme of the meeting.
By taking part at the meeting students will have the opportunity to increase
their cultural awareness and practice and improve their creative and
problem-solving skills as well as their ICT-skills.
Winter 2017
In online discussion groups teachers will exchange and discuss the
experiences with the Web 2.0 activities at the students’ meeting. They will
evaluate what worked well and what needs to be improved. The activities

9. Spring 2017
will be shared with colleagues at home and published on the project’s
website.
In order to prepare the final meeting each school team will reflect on and
evaluate the three years of the project. The following questions will be
addressed in this reflection and evaluation process:
1. What changes and new practices have been implemented as result of
the project?
2. How many and which of the objectives and needs identified at the
beginning have been addressed and tackled?
3. What worked well and why? What didn’t work well and why?
Spring 2017
8th - 12th May
Project
meeting
Italy
INNOVATING TEACHING
The final meeting will focus on the summary of the project and on our
project result. The following questions will be raised and discussed: What
have we achieved? Can we share a new understanding of Best Practices
that will enhance our students learning skills?
Each school presents the findings of the individual evaluation process
carried out at their school before the meeting.There will be time and room
for a discussion of these presentations.
Furthermore, the film and booklet about the whole project will be finished.