EDITORIAL
YES! WE ARE ERASMUS+
Since 1987, year where the Erasmus programme was born, there have been different educational programmes and initiatives that have been developed so as to overcome some of the biggest challenges and needs that the different countries that belong to the EU have had to face. The improvement of social cohesion among members, the increase of employment figures of our young, the decrease of early school dropout rates and the compromise to develop educational programmes based on the quality and equity principles have been, without any doubt, the fundamental challenges and needs that have promoted and inspired the development of such programmes.
The European Council and Parliament, aware of such needs, have designed a strategy of actions whose horizon is situated in 2002. A strategy that considers education and continuous training as the main core, able to have a postive impact on the needs and weaknesses mentioned before and overcome them in a real and effective way.
This roadmap, whose name is "Education and Training 2020" has among its main goals the increase of cooperation, exchange and mobility among students and teachers of all stages and educational and training variations that are included in the educational systems of the member countries. That is the reaosn why, between 2014-2020 the European Union has considerably financed the Erasmus+ programme. A cooperation and educational mobility programme that brings together the different European programmes developed so far, such as Leonardo, Comenius or Grundtvig, among others.
And this is the context where Yes! is born, the European school magazine. An annual Erasmus Plus project that marks a new stage in the history of these schools from Italy, Polland, Romania, Turkey and Spain, being the latter the project coordinator.
There is a lot of effort behind, a lot of time looking for information where our students have become true reporters, full of interest and professionality to transmit in a precise and accurate way information about their environment, their most important national days or the typical traditions frpm the country where they live. And the result is highly satisfactory. Both students and teachers who have taken part in the project have established a bond based on respect, diversity and mutual enrichment, feeling that each culture has a different way of living, feeling and acting that is no obstacle to live together in a globalised world as ours. Likewise, they have learnt that living among cultures is a highly positive experience and an excellent opportunity to achieve a multilingual educational project.
Finally, the process that has involved the first edition of YES Magazine includes a high number of ingredients that make it a powerful tool, a significant and competent project for the educational development of all the members that participate directly in it. We hope this is the first piece of an intense and long-term project.
SPANISH YES! WORKING TEAM
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