A new day, create your city of the future! Erasmus Project

Project Title

A new day, create your city of the future!

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Rural development and urbanisation; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Context/background:
The world is facing unprecedented challlenges and developments. The population is rising towards 8 billion people that have to live on a small planet that can’t grow; even more challenging, this tiny planet is being exhausted and polluted to support the people in their demands for food, housing and comfort. If this will continue without drastic changes we are heading towards very worrying situations. Therefore it is needed that students combine their strengths, knowledge and demands to think about creating a better future. Since most of our students are living and/or studying in growing cities, combined with the fact that cities worldwide will only expand in the future, they should be actively involved in creating cities of the future. They are the future residents of the big cities and deserve to live there in healthy, safe and sustainable conditions. If they learn more about the evolution of cities and the key elements that decide if a city or city part can be positively evaluated, they will be able to describe and create a city that is an answer to their mostly unconscious dreams and needs.

Our main goal with this exchange project is to (further) develop international mindedness:
“Become conscience and agile, make the world future-proof ! ”
The student develops a realization that he/she is part of and influences our international community and learns to make choices in the interest of a sustainable world.
International mindedness is an attitude of openness to, and curiosity about, the world and different cultures. It is concerned with developing a deep understanding of the complexity, diversity and motives that underpin human actions and interactions.

Our objectives and related activities are:
1) Common values, civic engagement
Planned activities to reach these objectives are:
lessons about city development, guided tours in both Stockholm and Eindhoven, information sessions about the influence of history on the current situation in both cities, having group meetings and assignments about creating a city that the students would like to live in the future. By combining those elements the students form Sweden and the Netherlands will develop common values about the challenges of cities in the present and future. By creating the city of the future, based on the analysis of the cities as they function right now and communicating their resulting products to civic people and organisations, our students will develop a great deal of civic engagement

2) social inclusion
This goals will be reached on two different levels. Firstly, social inclusion will be integrated in the project because our students will become aware of the huge differences between the different parts of the cities. Very expensive, clean and safe neigbourhoods will be visited as well as neigbourhoods where the standard of living is poor and safety and equipment is on a low level. The resulting insights have to be used by the students to create a city of the future that takes these differences into consideration. Secondly, our exchange students will be supported by other students that would like to join and support our project. Students from other years are invited to film the activities, join discussions and create a website on which the activities, goals and results are communicated and shared

3) environmental and climate goals
these goals are an important part during the entire project. By addressing the developments and significance of sustainability during both lessons and assignments, the students will take these goals as an important base for taking actions regarding the creation of the city of the future. To achieve this result we will use some of the UN sustainability goals during the project and to formulate the related assignments in such a way that inclusion of these goals will be guaranteed.

number and profile of participants:
Both schools will have 15 student and 2 staff representants, making it a combined group of 34 people.

methodology:
The students are trained to execute both desk- and fieldresearch, based on an academic approach of the problems they have to deal with.

description of the results and impact:
various films, maquettes and/or brochures of the city of the future, set up by the student groups and based on the acquired knowledge of the challenges of a modern city. The results will be shared with other students, parents, staff, archite3cts, project developers and local authorities. This could lead to new and unexpected insights for the stakeholders and might influence the outcome of future decisions regarding the city developments. Another potential longer term benefit could be the growing awareness of the participating students that they should be actively involved in thinking about their future, because they are the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 31334 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stedelijk College Eindhoven & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Upplands-Bro gymnasiet