"Beyond and ""Louder than"" Words"

"This project aimed at introducing more innovative approaches thus providing more attractive education and training programmes both new and/or improved, in line with expectations and needs, to cater for the needs of disadvantaged groups and to deal with social, linguistic and cultural diversity. At the same time, through CLIM and other inclusion-based methodologies, it gave the opportunity to foster high-performer students' motivation. What's more, on a school level, it had a great impact on strategic planning or professional development for staff in line with individual needs and organizational objectives. It also increased management competences and internationalization strategies, reinforcing cooperation with other European partners. A surprising experience from previous transnational cooperations was learning even more about one's own practise than about the others'. Therefore we believe that mirroring practises and studying new methodologies through different European perspectives is a strong instrument and value in our own effort to improve and enrich teaching methods and students' learning outcome. Furthermore, methodologies were studied at conferences and carried out at student camps during the meetings. Feedback from students were prompt and useful for teachers when implementing the methodology at their own school and modifying their own curriculum. The activities included in this project helped us make a programme and realise the following objectives:- listen to young people's views and provide opportunities for them to have their say about the school;- establish positive and respectful relationships between young people and supportive teachers;- build teamwork and cooperation between students;- set fair rules and expectations consistently applied;- encourage young people to take responsibility for their learning and behaviour, focus on both ""low self-esteem"" and ""high-performer"" students.The participating Institutions considered and still consider that this partnership enforced the European dimension and cooperation among the countries and developed the capacity to perform active team work, planning and doing joint activities. The project has enhanced pupils' experiences of modern and future communication technologies through a series of intercultural dialogue exchanges on platforms where they have been given opportunities to see that distance is no longer a barrier to effective and immediate communication and cooperation."