D.5

What is the added value of your project towards a more intensive European cooperation?
 * D 5. EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE **

The PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION project will address some scientific research and innovative teaching strategies; teachers' improvement of methods and team-work. Thus we expect the project will have a great impact on the development of our professional qualifications. The teachers’ goal is generally **to help children combating problems at school and barriers to learning**. We are going to compare European educational systems, determine our common field of theoretical and practical research, and collaborate to achieve the goals of our project. Collaboration on the European level will help us gain a much deeper/better insight into the concern problem. The teachers will feel confident if they get positive feedback on their work from their colleagues from different European countries who face the same problem. The most important and valuable part of the project is the teachers’ collaboration: they are going to analyse students’ areas of failure, debate why this problem occurs and search for a solution, share their expertise, as well as exchange and jointly work on innovating teaching materials. Similar or identical problems may happen in all schools and teachers may endeavour to solve them individually. However, a team of collaborating teachers from different European countries, with different educational traditions, who face the same problem, may find much better solution. A DAY TOGETHER IN EUROPE is an event which will take place in each school during mobilities. It will be an opportunity for visitors to present their country to the host staff, students, local community, invited authorities and mass media. Apart from this, we intend to organise OPEN LESSONS during mobilities: visiting teachers will get a unique chance to conduct a lesson and practice their teaching strategies with host students and get feedback from them. Teachers who participate in the international projects develop their intercultural attitude and linguistic abilities. Additionally, teachers who are accustomed to European cooperation, hand down this aptitude to their students, even subconsciously. Students who can observe their teachers working on the European level become convinced that such a European approach is natural and desired. In case of Comenius Partnerships projects borders between countries in Europe are vanishing indeed, because Comenius mobility is treated not as a foreign visit but a visit to a PARTNER school. 2431drf