NAME OF THE PARTNERSHIP: YOUTOPIA2DAY

PARTNERS:
1)POLAND : Gimnazjum 14m Juliusza Slowackiego w. Katowicach
2)TURKEY: Icikler Ilkogretim Okulu
3)HUNGARY: Kecskeméti Főiskola Petőfi Sándor Gyakorló Általános Iskola és Gyakorló Óvoda
4)SPAIN: Colegio Santa Rosa Fundación Educativa Santo Domingo

This partnership is expected to have the following impact on the students:
- students will learn:
a) how to be accepted,
b) how tolerance and the respect of the varieties is important in life
c) what is responsibility and how it influences the others
d) how to be motivated to work
e) how to get self-confidence
f) how to behave properly to the situation
g) improve English
h) get ICT skills
i) develop the spirit of cooperation
This partnership is expected to have the following impact on the staff:
a) development of the English language as language of communication within the project
b) development of the spirit of cooperation
c) development of a new teaching approach
d) development of cross-curricular work
e)application of the new technologies in the classroom

As the project focuses on pupil involvement, it will be integrated into the curriculum and learning activities in each of the participating institutions.
Students will be motivated to research for the project from different perspectives:
     - English: improvement of students’ usage of English language through e-mail contacts, making the presentations,posters and then presenting them at the project meetings, writing/translating different texts - creating a dictionary,writing the articles to the newspaper, improving their argumentative skills;
     - History/ Social studies: cementing students’ knowledge on the historical and cultural facts of the partner schools and of the topics dealt within the project;
     - Mother language(s): analysis and (re)writing of short texts, writing opinion texts and searching for the utopian world in the national literature;
     - Geography/ Social Studies: studying the systems at local, national and European levels and choosing the best ones.
    - Music and Arts: making exhibitions, concerts and performances;
    - IT: preparing the PP presentations, creating the website and the project newspaper

The results, experience and end products will be disseminated among the participating partner institutions through:
     - art exhibition (photos, posters, videos) produced by the students;
     - project meetings;
     - the school newspaper, school magazine and the project website;

  The results, experience and end products will be disseminated among the local community through:
     - school and local newspapers
    - meeting with the local authorities;
    - exhibition of the project products;

The results, experience and end products will be disseminated among the wider lifelong learning community through:
     - common website;
       - on-line forum;
     - schools’ websites;
    -public exhibitions
    -school newspaper or/and magazine;
    -meeting with the surounding schools.