Context and background: The OECD spread during CERI (Conference on Innovation, Governance and Reform in Education-Paris, 2014) evidence on how schools have to cope with diversity in the future. They noticed that diversity in education is one of the future challenges for schools the next decade. The current challenges are: - Practice, research and policy are disconnected; - Schools have to integrate diversity in their school models; - Teachers and students are disconnected. The OECD noticed that: - Teachers are not equipped to incorporate local diversity into their practice; - Schools are not ready to realize the integration of diversity in their models; - Schools and teachers are not ready to implement what is asked. Objectives of the project: 1. To support school (teams) in coping with diversity in order to enhance student learning by: a. Supporting schools & teachers in connecting practice, research and policy according to diversity; b. Integrating diversity in school models; c. Connecting teachers and students according to diversity; d. Developing tools and didactic modules that support a, b, c; e. Develop non-formal activites to help in cope with diversity, using interdisciplinary approach and innovative teaching tools. Participants: Teachers, students, managers, families, friends organisations, friends school, decision makers, policy makers, participants with fewer opportunity (social, cultural, economics). Primary target group: school teams in school education: involving teachers, heads, senior and middle management and internal support staff. Secondary target group: external support staff: advisers, counsellors and policy makers 6 persons per partner will be involved in 3 transitional project meetings. 24 persons per partner will be involved in 4 Training activites (Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils). Activities: SchoolAccess Website: The Italian partner will be in charge for the development and update of the official website of the project in which all the partners will collect their products, photos and videos of activities and events, dissemination activities and information about the project in general and about the transnational meetings. Common Frames of Reference on diversity - CFR on Diversity This IO is the common frame of reference on diversity, regarding the core ideas of the project. E-book in which we will collect all the pedagogical tools developed within the project. DVD Transmedia Storytelling This product will be a DVD in which the Greek partner will collect all the experience made by thier students in the field of nature and music. Will be used the Transmedia storytelling tool, a technique of telling a single story across multiple platforms and formats including, but not limited to, games, books, events, cinema and television, mobile. Exhibition Think about your perception of diversity Exhibition based on the art works realized by all the learners in each partner's country, focused on perception of diversity in their own community. Theatre Multiple Thoughts Theatre to overcome shyness and help pupils to express themselves in order to better cope with diversity. Theater at the school can become a lever to prevent school failure and promote success for all students. Methodology: the project will use the European examples of good practice on diversity as the starting point. From there on, the project will look on how teams & schools can be supported to use diversity as a strength in education to realise better learning. The partnership will learn together during 5 LTT-activities and work sharing continuous their expertise. The project creates a Common frame of reference (to realise the needs formulated in the rationale of the project. During the visits echange in each partners country participants will take part in specific workshop related to the topic developed by the guest partner. In this way all the partner will be able to reproduce the teaching activities at local level in their own countries. Impact and results: The desired impact is that school teams can cope with the diversity in their classrooms and schools and that they can use the challenge of diversity to enhance learning by all students. So schools and school teams have a renewed frame of thinking on how practice, research and policy are connected and on how schools can integrate diversity in their models to enhance the learning of students through using the diversity. Their renewed frame of thinking is based on the CFR, developed by the partners during the lifetime of the project. They have access to a lot of handy tools to cope with diversity to enhance learning by the use of diversity in their groups. Teaching in diversity has become a stance and a culture in their school. The results of the students will be optimized, which makes that students have better results, are more willing to come to school, are less excluded and there will be less drop out by the students.