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<p class="p1"><b>1) Kick off Meeting (January 2015) </b></p>
<p class="p2">The kick-off meeting was organized over three days, by Instituto Cervantes in Bucharest in January 2015. It involved all project partners, including one person from each partner school. The role and the expectations of each partner were reconfirmed, as well as the deadlines, the milestones and the progress indicators both with respect to training, piloting, evaluation and communication). Moreover, a communication plan with emphasis on implementation rules for visibility of “Erasmus+” funding programme was presented. Finally, the school directors compared the STEM curricula &amp; practical teaching methods in each country, presented the rough outlines of our methodology, and choose the science labs for each country. The subjects already defined are: Physics for Greece and Romania, Chemistry for Bulgaria and biology for Poland.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>2) Train the trainers (2-6 Febrauary 2015) </b></p>
<p class="p2">In February 2015, Goethe-Institut organised a one week joint training event where an initial training methodology was taught to one trainer from each Cultural Institute office in each country. The trainers defined are the persons who will be supporting the implementation of the project in the primary schools at national level and acting as mentors to teachers throughout the project pilot phase. The content of the event provided by Goethe-Institut Athen concerned:</p>

<ul class="ul1">
	<li class="li2">Action research methodology</li>
	<li class="li2">CLIL/STEM tandem teaching</li>
	<li class="li2">Development of lesson plan templates (lesson flow + accompanying worksheets) to be used in conjunction with the mobile labs as well as “sample lessons” for each STEM subject area. These templates will also be available in English.</li>
</ul>
<p class="p3"><b>3) Training of Teachers</b></p>
<p class="p2">Training of teachers occurs in the first two years of the project, through a mix of local meetings, on-line mentoring and transnational joint trainings. It accompanies implementation of the project in schools, and serves to train teachers, support them in their implementation, share results and learn from one another.</p>
<p class="p2">Instituto Cervantes is responsible for co-ordination of the training of teachers including organisation of local debriefing meetings hosted at Instituto Cervantes. The trainers will work together to deliver this training and to provide mentoring via the on-line platform provided by Goethe-Institut Athen.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>4) Second partner meeting (from 22.06.2015 to 24.06.2015)</b></p>
<p class="p1">The second partner meeting took place in Warsaw in MSCDN and we reviewed the first year´s project outcomes and set the next steps for the second pilot phase.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>5) Joint Training Events </b>(<b>25-30 June 2015 and 26-30 June 2016)</b></p>
<p class="p1">It is important that some of the training and production seminars be joint, i.e. involve all participating teachers from all four project countries (BG, EL, PL, RO), as this will allow us to verify whether the Schools: Future Labs methodology is indeed “plug and play” for any language or country as we intend it to be, and to make adjustments as necessary. For this reason two of the five Continuing</p>
<p class="p1">Training and Production Seminars are held jointly and attended by all participating teachers and their trainers.</p>
<p class="p1">The joint Training and Production Seminars will:</p>
<p class="p1">• Allow us to pilot the draft Teacher Training Course on all teachers together, thereby testing the international “workability” of this Intellectual Output;</p>
<p class="p1">• Allow all teachers to review and practice the lesson plans that have been finalised by SHUMEN, thereby also testing their international “workability” but additionally, feeding back into the process of creating new outputs through the exchange of ideas and experiences between all participating teachers;</p>
<p class="p1">• Allow all participating teachers to share their experience and results, feeding back into the work of other teachers and into the project outputs. The Training of Trainers is planned as a joint activity because it is more efficient to provide training to all trainers at the same time and also because the training will be enriched from the joint participation of all trainees. Additionally, as the initial structure of lesson plans will be developed during these trainings, this will add to the international workability of this project output.<b> </b></p>
<p class="p1"><b>6) National School Fairs (June 2016- June 2017)</b></p>
<p class="p1"><b>7) Partner meeting (1-3 July 2016)</b></p>
<p class="p1"><b>8) Closing Conference 2017</b></p>
<p class="p2">A closing conference will be organised in June 2017 at the Instituto Cervantes in Bucharest, which will include the participation of all participating partner schools. The winners of the science fairs in the three other countries, foreign language and STEM Teachers’ associations and Teacher Training Centers and Education Ministries from all project countries and beyond.</p>
<p class="p2">The purpose of the closing conference will be to present the results of the project, both in real terms (exhibition of research projects) and in scientific terms (results of evaluation), and to discuss how the School Future Labs Methodology could be taught to more teachers through continuing education, and ultimately incorporated in the practice of a broader number of schools.</p>
<p class="p2">We estimate the participation of 100 persons: 50 local and 50 international.</p>
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