Author's Bio Jelena Kovačević is an English teacher, promoted into teacher excellent advisor  at Ekonomska škola Požega, Croatia. She has coordinated multiple international projects promoting intercultural learning, digital literacy, and global citizenship. Jelena is a five-time consecutive recipient of the Most Successful Teachers Award  by the Croatian Ministry of Education and an alumna of the SUSI for Secondary Educators  program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State

In August 2025, the eTwinning project   Voices Beyond Words, Hearts Beyond Borders  was registered on the European School Education Platform (ESEP). The project was founded and coordinated by English teachers Büşra Akdeniz (from Turkey) and Ivana Opačak (from Croatia), and it includes another school from Turkey and four schools from Romania, Poland, Italy and Tunisia. The project promotes intercultural dialogue, empathy, linguistic diversity and shared human values that go be

Teachers/Founders of the project:  Vincenzina Pace Gražina Likpetrienė Partners: Monica Casella and Barbara Simonetti, Gianni Lottino and...