Title: "Contigo somos +" TASKS 1. Embedding European citizenship and an international dimension in the curriculum and ethos of our school. We want to achieve something which may sound abstract but can become tangible in many different pratical ways by working in collaboration on concrete topics with colleagues in schools elsewhere in Europe and across departments at Madonna della Neve school. 2. Enhancing teaching and learning standards through sharing best practice from foreign partner schools. Enriching the education that the school provides will involve a wide range of subjects and departments that will all benefit from the Erasmus+ initiative. Besides, the teachers involved will also gain management experience both from running the project and disseminating the results of their mobility in the whole school. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our project of teachers' mobility developed in a secondary school in which teachers have been constantly considering how teaching and learning standards can be enhanced so that teachers can become more aware of their action in class and more conscious of the strategies and methodology used with students. This goal can be achieved only by reflecting on the use of innovative tools and methods, different from the ones we already know. Sharing practice with foreign colleagues would inspire our teachers to adopt new strategies in order to: 1. help strong students outperform national standards 2. develop for the better skills and competences of weak students or students with learning problems 3. promote more interactive and less academic activities such as : problem-solving, cooperative learning, workshops and use of laboratories... 4. enhance students' motivation 5. embed a European dimension into daily lessons, promote awareness of European, and extensively global, citizenship. ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGY We mean to start by involving in the project three main subject areas: science, sport/PE, foreign languages although our ambition is to open up to other areas such as mathematics/physics and history. Our school has been working for over a decade in departments (subject areas), so the heads of departments involved together with the headteacher will select the staff participating in the project. Together with our partner schools (which we have been working in collaboration for years on bilateral exchanges with students) we identified the following stages: A) work-shadowing and observation in class (with a grid to fill in) in an agreed and significative number and variety of subjects in order to give foreign colleagues a good picture of the best practice of the school. Observations will be debated later. B) planning of modules shared by same departments of partner schools on the topics as pinpointed at number E of the form and arranging of same assessemnt test for students. C) sharing of results of tests with reflection on assessing parameters. D) possible exchange of staff among schools, teachers will swap and replace colleagues in partner school giving lessons on agreed topics. PARTICIPANTS Teachers involved will have to relate to the headteacher, the heads of department and the whole school staff on the activities done. They will be directly responsible for the positive outcomes of the project and will be expected to promote and disseminate the results, firstly inside the department, then among the whole group of teachers and finally outside the school uploading positive educational developments using appropriate portals, the blog and site of the school, e-twinning portals, local mass-media (press, radio) and any other possible way of communication. RESULTS AND IMPACT ENVISAGED As already highlighted the entire school will be, in the end, the one to benefit from this project that will help staff improve the school's good pratice and embed in the curriculum and ethos of the school both European citinzenship and internationalization. We are positive that enhancing teaching standards will lead to a tangible improvement in students' learning strategies and skills too. Besides, the staff involved will benefit personally, culturally and professionally and these benefits will be cascaded down to through departments and through the whole school.