future4.0@school.eu make your plans – make your future Erasmus Project

Project Title

future4.0@school.eu make your plans – make your 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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Five European secondary schools from Germany, Belgium, Spain, Finland and Poland would like to carry out this project. About 600 people will benefit directly or indirectly from the project work.“The future used to better once “– is a frequently quoted statement by the Bavarian comedian Karl Valentin. It has to be scrutinized thoroughly, but it still contains a lot of truth, which is important for the organization of the professional and personal development of our students. By tackling different fears about the future, the teenagers should develop their own ideas and the readiness to plan their future, to be proactive and to improve necessary and suitable competences. In the course of the three-year project, innovative and creative methods will lead to relevant and high-level basic and transversal competences in a lifelong learning perspective. The project aims at improving the necessary skills to undergo successfully vocational training and to develop self-confidence, commitment, personal initiative and the willingness to lifelong learning.Europe constantly grows together and shares a mutual labour market; in many EU-countries, the youth unemployment rate is alarming. The current life of a teenager, often characterized by surplus, materialistic value orientation and careless media consumption, increasingly leads to a passive and less performance-orientated attitude. Many European teenagers do not recognize their own abilities and do not actively plan their professional future. Accordingly, for all the participating partners there is a great need for a common project.While cooperating, teachers as well as students will gain insight into the diversity of the European cultures and languages. Working in the project ought to support the students to acquire vital abilities and competences for their personal development. By gaining a “European competence”, the students will be prepared for the European labour market that will provide better employment opportunities. The topic ”future“ will be examined from multiple perspectives. Industry 4.0 is a collective term embracing a number of contemporary automation, data exchange and manufacturing technologies. Teenagers must be able to develop the necessary skills to get along in the digital world of work. All levels of society undergo drastic changes. The demographic change as well as the mass migration of refugees into Europe will have a strong effect on the structure of the population in Europe and will pose one of the enormous challenges of the 21st century. Therefore, new concepts of coexistence have to be developed. The changing labour market and society will have a big impact on every individual, too. Topics like nutrition, physical exercise, media consumption, stress management and preventive health care will become increasingly important.The project will focus on the following aspects:• work• society• Europe• environmental issues• the individual of the futureThe contents of the project will be analysed in interdisciplinary lessons using cooperative learning methods. Transnational learning, teaching or training activities will take place in every participating country. For each meeting a specific issue will be prepared by the partner schools following the principle of team-based group work. Experts will present the findings of the group-work during the international meeting. After that, transnational groups will work on a common task.A significant final product of the project work will be the improvement of skills as well as personal and professional development. Furthermore, several products are planned: a project website, a documentation on the visit of a company using 3D-printers, construction and programming of mini-robots, a brochure ”social utopias“, a quiz on Europe, an advertising film “EU“, a poster on efficient energy use, an educational video “Fit for the future“, a virtual survival kit with vital tools for managing the future, and a word field “future“ in the different languages.The students will participate in the process of planning, deciding and organizing the project. By using English as working language and various means of communication, language and IT-competences will yield a sustainable improvement. The students will become acquainted with evaluation techniques as well.The products, experiences and acquired skills will be presented to local communities, neighbouring schools and the press. The results will be published on the corresponding website, too. Through these dissemination activities, the products can provide teaching material or ideas for other future projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 152005 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ernst-Ludwig-Schule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Jokirannan koulu, Ylivieska
• GO! Talentenschool Turnhout campus Zenit
• Szkola Podstawowa Nr 10 im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej
• Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria Nosa Señora dos Ollos Grandes