This is a project supported by the Swedish Council for Higher Education, sto develop students' self-esteem, personal responsibility, cooperation and respect for the needs and interests of others; to help students understand the need for sustainable/cohesive relationships between people and in their environment; to strengthen practical problem-solving and teamwork skills; and to foster a positive and competent attitude towards personal health and well-being.

Period: 2022-09 to 2023-09, duration 12 months.

For For students in grades 6-8 (12-15 years old).

Partners: VMU Lyceum "Sokratus" Lithuania (coordinator), Kuldiga Secondary School In Latvia, Tallinn Lasnamäe Gümnaasium In Estonia and Stockholm Rödabergsskolan Sweden.

Result sought - new teaching methods, integrating some schools, their pupils and the community. A more environmentally friendly approach thanks to the experience gained and practical examples from partner countries.

• On 20-24 March 2023, NordPlus Junior project partners travelled to Kuldiga, Latvia, for the third project meeting. During the meeting, the project participants solved group tasks, played a film game, and spent time in educational activities in the city's museum and park area. The children and teachers of the Lyceum had a lot of interesting creative activities where they improved their IT skills, made films on sustainability, learned Latvian language and songs, and visited the Kuldiga Digital Innovation Centre where they discussed the possibilities of artificial intelligence and virtual environments. The pupils were actively involved in the sustainability workshop activities: making soap, recycled paper seed jars, friendship bracelets, creating and answering interactive questions related to sustainability. The meeting ended with Latvian folk dancing and sports lessons at the Nordplus project camp, followed by healthy snacks for a party with lots of dancing, games and singing. During the meeting, the project participants deepened their knowledge about sustainability, improved their IT skills and of course enjoyed interacting with each other, as beautiful friendships have already been formed.
• From 12-16 December, the project partners met in Stokhlom, Sweden, the second NordPlus Junior country. At the Rödabergsskolan School in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, students compared Christmas traditions in Sweden and Lithuania, used the Goosechase app and engaged in a team game of Christmas activities. On Tuesday, the meeting was civic and creative: we celebrated St. Lucy's Day with Christmas carols, visited the Swedish Parliament (Rikstag) and made gingerbread houses, and on the third day of the project's visit, we focused on sustainable Christmas in 18th- and 19th-century Swedish homes and the special inhabitants of the Baltic Sea bed. The fourth day of the visit was devoted to healthy living, solutions for saving the planet and getting to know the Swedish language through discussions and interactive activities in practice.
• The project held its first partners' meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 9-14 October. The students and their teachers took part in the education "Let's build a planet", in the City Lab, a sustainable development workshop where they learned Lithuanian, sewed a friendship kilt and made eco-friendly soap. They also explored the architecture of Vilnius Old Town from a sustainability point of view and took part in an interactive open-air sustainability workshop "Open gallery". The project partners had the opportunity to visit Anyksciai and get to know "Sustainable development in the 20th century" The meeting ended with a meeting of students Stop motion Presentation of "Sustainable Development Challenges and Solutions" videos.

Designed to develop and strengthen the implementation of CLIL methodology in partner schools.

Period: 2020-09-01 to 2023-08-31, 24 months, extended for 1 year.

For For students in grades 4-8

Partners: Spain (coordinator), Italy, Lithuania, Greece, Poland

Result sought - Implementing CLIL in schools, motivating teachers for bilingual education, preparing for international programmes.

Link: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/111756/home

• As part of the project, 8 students from Columbus class accompanied by Spanish teacher Maria Martinez Bort and music teacher Augustė Andrijauskaitė went on a mobility visit to Madrid (Spain) from 6 to 13 March. The pupils stayed in homestays, took part in various activities at the school with the other project participants to strengthen their Spanish language skills, and the teachers learned how to put bilingual education into practice in the classroom.
• On 2-6 May, a group of students from Columbus class, together with English teacher Gražina Vaitkunske, History teacher Lina Kopcikaite and Non-Formal Education teacher Vitalija Latožaite, took part in the Erasmus+ project "CLIL Connection. Exchanging and improving CLIL Practices Through Europe" in Greece. Here they got to know the area and its history. The pupils presented their countries and schools to each other. On Wednesday morning, the Columbus class started with an activity where they did group robotics activities and met a humanoid robot. In the afternoon, they met the Mayor of the Athens district of Egaleos and visited the Greek Parliament, the President's and Prime Minister's residences. The Greek organisers organised a very warm and cosy farewell ceremony.
• From 8-14 October, a group of Shakespeare class students, accompanied by maths teacher Alma Mikalauskiene and primary school teacher Justina Šimanskienė, visited Italy, where they spent a week doing various activities, making music, dancing, writing their wishes for the world and putting them on a wish tree. During the week, the students also made musical instruments, visited the Musical Instruments Museum, where two brothers collect instruments from all over the world, played the theremin - the only instrument in the world that can be played untouched - interacted, played games, listened to songs from different countries, and sang karaoke together. They also visited the beautiful city of Milan. The participants happily returned to their home countries and are looking forward to the next meeting in Lithuania - at our Lyceum!

Designed to strengthen the community, overcome learning problems and improve students' academic performance, using the arts and its forms as a foundation.

Period: 2020-09-01 to 2023-08-31, 24 months, extended for 1 year,

For For students in grades 3-8

Partners: Spain (coordinator), Croatia, Lithuania

Result sought - Deepening Spanish through art as a method.

Link: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/123770/home

• From 27 March to 1 April, 13 students from the MPolo, Columbus and DaVinci classes of VMU Lyceum Socratus, accompanied by their Spanish teacher Maria Martinez Bort and their first year teacher Jovita Aksamit, started the Erasmus+ project "Los valores a traves del arte/ Values through art" in Croatia. The students learnt about the country's history, educational features, visited famous local sites, studied and interacted with Croatian students.
• From 23 to 27 May, our Lyceum hosted the third international meeting of the Erasmus+ project "Los valores a través del arte/Values through art" No. 2020-1-ES01-KA229-082202, during which project partners from Šibenik Secondary School (Croatia), including 4 teachers and 12 pupils, as well as pupils from Spain (by distance learning), joined our pupils in a wide variety of activities to learn about the best possible way of getting to know the European values, through the arts and beyond. Throughout the week, the pupils improved their communication and cooperation skills and had several opportunities to showcase their creativity. On Tuesday, divided into 5 different teams, the Croatian and our Lyceum students used natural materials found in nature: leaves, stones, flowers, twigs and conkers to create some really beautiful mosaics, which, when laid on the meadow, delighted the inhabitants of the surrounding houses. On Thursday, with theatre teacher Sigita, the pupils created short sketches, showing how much can be shown without speaking: through emotions, movement, facial expressions, etc. On the last day of the meeting, all the participants, together with music teacher Eirim Velička, tried out body percussion, and got so seriously into it that the rhythm went from Vilnius to Spain! And of course, during the meeting we paid a lot of attention to learning about the history and culture of the partner countries: the students prepared presentations and quizzes about their own country, we visited the State Cognition Centre, and we learnt about Lithuania's magnificent history during our visits to Trakai and Kernavė (thanks to our English teacher Gražina and history teacher Lina for the fun experiences and good mood). The project partners had a unique opportunity to get to know the whole school community by participating in the "Socrates Feast"! We are glad that the Spanish teacher Maria "looked after" the project partners throughout the week, spreading good cheer to everyone and involving the Spanish partners (even when participating from a distance) in the activities in a very skilful and active way.

It is designed to broaden pupils' understanding of European citizenship and to give them responsibility for carrying out sustainable development projects.

Period: 2020-09-01-2023-08-31, duration 24 months, extended by 1 year

For: for students in grades 4-8

Partners: France (coordinator), 3 other French schools, Spain, Lithuania

Result sought - Strengthening the civic community of students.

Link: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/132044/home

It is designed to use the principles of multi-level and co-curricular education to improve students' basic social skills, to teach them singing, dancing and theatre techniques that will enable them to carry out artistic works and projects, and to increase their self-esteem.

Period: 2019-09-01-2022-08-31, duration 24 months, extended by 1 year

For For students in grades 4-8

Partners: Spain (coordinator), Italy, Lithuania, Greece, Romania

Result sought - Making the arts at school an equal and important part of the core competences.

Link: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/81768/home

• The project runs from 27 February to 5 March 2022. In Valencia (Spain), primary school teacher L. Bukauskienė and theatre teacher S. Pikturnaitė went on a mobility visit. The teachers learnt best practices on how artistic disciplines can enrich the educational process, established contacts with teachers from other foreign schools and brought new ideas and methods to our Lyceum!