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The project develops institutional cooperation between schools in Levice and Fredrikstad. The need of schools in the post-covid period is IVT innovation linked to "green topics" using new methods and technologies, development of key competencies for the 21st century, sustainable development. The project grant will be used in the partner school to build a wind and water generator and solar panels, in Slovakia to set up a SmartLab powered by solar energy. The project will increase vocational, digital, environmental, social competencies of pupils and teachers and integrate new technologies into education bringing it closer to the real life. Except students and teachers the wider community will also benefit from it. The donor partner will contribute with experience in robotics, 3D printing, health and social care, school management. Both schools have agreed to integrate the principles of gender equality and social inclusion into the planning and implementation of the project at all stages. They will ensure an adequate number of girls and women, pupils with individual educational needs as well as pupils from socially disadvantaged areas in the total number of project participants in accordance with their number in the school community. All students will have equal access to innovations in education to develop their competencies, and equal opportunities in the transparent selection of participants for study visits to Slovakia and Norway. Minorities and pupils with other ethnicities will gain new knowledge and feel included because they will be given opportunities they normally not get. The School is situated in a County with powerty and a low degree of education, and by travelling all the different groups of pupils will gain knowledge that will make them more open minded towards other cultures. There is a need for more gender equality within these proffesions and the project aims to show the girls why these proffesions are atractive also for them.