Time travel: the world we want in 2121 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Time travel: the world we want in 2121

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Our planet is shared by over seven billion people. While a small number of people use the majority of global resources and enjoy unfettered access to public services, too many people face extraordinary challenges in building dignified lives, free of poverty, powerlessness and fear. These inequalities result in unacceptable human deprivation. Our fragile planet is also under increasing environmental stress to the extent that we are transgressing planetary boundaries. According to the Future Generations (Wales) Report 2020, ‘never has the need to think and plan for the future been so relevant’. Thinking and planning long-term is something humans are capable of, but it requires certain ways of thinking and skills – these skills will be critical for our young people as they add their voices to questions such as: How we balance the needs of current and future generations? How we foster empathy for people that have yet to be born? How we balance resource use and our impact on nature to avoid dumping multiple problems on our children and the generations to come? How we become ‘good ancestors’?

The aim of this project is to capture the imagination and creativity of pupils and teachers taking them on a journey through time into the deep past to explore their place in history, then to imagine 100 years into the future. The project has 3 parts all of which stimulate the development of creative skills and develop active citizenship :
1. to take an expedition into the deep past to explore our place in history and share experiences through creative responses
2. to imagine and share visions of the future we want to see in 100 years time through storytelling, letters and visual techniques
3. to identify and start to take collective action in your class, school and wider community to build towards that positive future

It will achieve this through teacher training ahead of each project exchange and pupil exchanges to share and create visions together.

Throughout the project, we’ll develop and pilot intellectual outputs so these kinds of activities can be used by other teachers and in the wider youth sector, that also make the best use of the blended learning techniques honed during COVID. These include baseline data produced in a way to engage learners, school communities and policymakers, online teacher training module in the project techniques and activities, recorded webinar and workbook in some of the creative techniques and an exemplar gallery to stimulate ideas.

The target of the project is teachers and learners in primary and secondary schools, including special schools with some beneficial impacts in school communities and, of course, for future generations as more people become accustomed to long-term thinking, take account of our impacts on current and future generations and seek to live with everyone able to live a life of dignity and respect within planetary boundaries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 293142 Eur

Project Coordinator

International Links (Global) Ltd & Country: UK

Project Partners

• CRICKHOWELL HIGH SCHOOL
• Sustrans
• 5th Primary School Of Thiva
• COLEGIO PUBLICO SAN ANTONIO
• IES Eduardo Linares Lumeras
• Aliartos Secondary School
• Jändelskolan