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Summary card of the project “My school is my home” The Secondary Vocational School of Agriculture takes part in the project as a partner and it is the only participant that provides its students a genetral education in parallel with professional qualification. Despite the differences in educational systems, the different social environment and the psychological aspect of each participant and the different profile of the schools, the project succeeded in uniting all the participants. We discussed the teenagers’ problems together and looked for approaches to get them over. We exchanged good practices related to raising teachers and students’ motivation, spending their free time usefully, career progression of teachers and students. We shared and exchanged innovative methods (approaches) of learning and teaching we worked together, played sport, admired the scenery visiting beautiful places (sites) of each country. It was found that the differences between us and the different cultures made the project attractive. Our Bulgarian school team are entirely satisfied with our participation in the project, because we managed to share our experience with the partners by learning while working. We offered our partners the innovative method of teaching “students teach students”, we shared ideas how to organise some activities for students in their free time and work on projects. It was a pleasure for our school to be the host of the meeting during the Christian Celebration Tsvetnitsa (the Ortodox “Palm Sunday”). Our partners became aware of a great variety of professions in our school which brings together the most beautiful things in the world – flowers, bread, wine, cars. The students and the teachers are pleased that we were able to make a composition of mosaics, which reminds us of the beneficial partnership. Our willingness of learning foregin languages and getting to know different cultures was repeatedly increased. The aothority of our school has raised among the native inhabitants and in the region. We presented our good team work, common actions at the conference “Innovative methods of teaching and learning”. Shared experience, all the things learned during the period of two years of our partnership will leave deep marks not only in the mind and the heart of each participant, but they will remain in the future, beacuse the clause to make our school our home is an eternal aspiration of every teaching organization and every nation.