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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------the same stories, we prove that these stories have a magic power for all European children. Besides, we achieved together a performance based on the same story and a big book with our nice pictures and stories. The pedagogical innovation of the project was to put in value the children’s stories, taking into account those stories known in the universal literature and the similarities between our own stories. Forty-seven schools were involved and this fact gave to this project a huge European dimension. For each of the stories we talked about we gave tasks to our pupils: thus, the little pupils of our team achieved drawings and the older some texts. We had also the opportunity to show to our partners how rich are our literatures and to talk about the most important tellers of our countries. The project “Children stories” was very well integrated in our curriculum. Talking for instance about “Ugly Duckling”, we had the opportunity to send to our partners the transcript of the story and the video and audio presentations in English, as well as in Romanian. We have sent to our school partners other Romanian stories which delighted so many generations of children in our country, such as: “Praslea the Brave and the Golden Apples”, “The Little Bag with Two Pennies” or “The Goat with Three Kids”. The pupils of “Liviu Rebreanu” School from Mioveni Town, Romania were proud to talk to their European friends about Ion Creanga, our famous teller and his marvelous stories, as well as about his well-known work: “Memories of My Boyhood”. Ana Tudor is a teacher of English and an eTwinning Ambassador 2013. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Values of Life” - eTwinning Project 20152016 by Kostas Loukas Introduction In the beginning it was just the thought that the center of education is not only teaching numbers and words to children, but life itself. A life based on rules, which are based on acceptable values. And there was our title…“Values of life”. https://twinspace.etwinning.net/12493/home We realized the fact that the primary purpose of education is not only to develop knowledge, skills, competences and attitudes, but also to embed fundamental values like respect, cooperation, dialogue, peace and democracy. These values are common in a European society in which pluralism, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail. In the light of the Paris Declaration on Tuesday the 17th of March 2015 on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and nondiscrimination through education, we decided to contribute to the protection and strengthening Europe’s spirit of freedom by embedding those 63