Futurerasmus – Our future Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Futurerasmus – Our future Europe

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: Environment and climate change; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

How can our students develop a personal connection with Europe and (further) develop their European identity? How can they learn through experiences of self-efficacy that they can be part of creating their future, a future that is also in the interest of the European community? Our project “Futerasmus – Our Future Europe” tries to find answers to these questions.
We believe that looking forward into the future will change our attitude to the here and now. 4 schools, 8 to 16 teachers and 96 students will (re)think their own and other’s visions of the future to create their own future-compliant solutions.
Every school will have an Erasmus workshop with 24 students. First, the group will close up on the topic future visions by developing different drafts of the future and presenting them to each other. Afterwards, each group will work on topics, which will prepare the meetings in the host countries. Video conferences on the results will make it possible to become acquainted but also to open up and even change one’s own perspective. When in the host countries, multinational small teams will work on a topic, which is specific for the city and its inhabitants. The results will be made public on our website in form of video documentations. Between ourselves, we will communicate through E-Twinning.
In Prague, our multinational team of circa 50 students will explore and map the city with its different architectural styles between modernity and tradition. Afterwards, they will develop an answer to the question “What is Prague missing?” in small groups. The groups will work on site for two to three days and develop new concepts. Experts and architects from Prague will give workshops and lectures to extend their knowledge. The students will develop an urbanistic and ecological suggestion for a future Prague. In the process, they will also compare Prague to the other European home towns.
The meeting in Finnland will concentrate on future work and abilities. With activity-centered methods we will follow the question how students imagine their future. They will learn more about themselves and the others and will get to know important options for taking their future into their own hands. They will think about the work environment of today and the modernization of it. At the Universtity of Turku, they will learn the theory of “Future Thinking”. They will also visit high tech companies for robotics and artificial intelligence as well as modern and traditional manufacturing plants of the Finnish wood industry. The project will make it possible for students to learn how to face unknown challenges of the future in a flexible and competent way. We hope they will learn to take responsibility for their future, for other people and the environment.
In Sèvres, France, we will focus on the possibility of a harmonic and ecological coexistence of architecture and nature as well as urban and peri-urban life. Urbanization and the challenges of individual mobility in the city are problematics which solution starts with reflecting on each person’s attitude and leaving old paths to walk new ones. The students will work together with city planners to explore concepts for the mobility of tomorrow. All visionaries need allies, the students will be active, critical, and constructive ones and will thereby profit from becoming players in public spaces, rethinking their attitude towards mobility and understanding the complexity of mobility.
In Hamburg, Germany, the project will focus on the possibilities for sustainable projects that an urban city offers in its immediate vicinity. Our school has the official status of a climate-friendly school and finds it important to recycle, to offer climate-neutral food in the cafeteria and to save energy. After visiting the museum “Futurium” in Berlin, the ideas from the visit will be discussed with the climate club to get new inspiration for the school community and the Erasmus project. Our project could focus on the school garden, f.e. creating benches with plants that reduce CO2 or finding a home for a bee colony.
A European celebration will conclude the week and the Erasmus collaboration. We will watch video documentaries of the projects, share experiences and knowledge the students gained with the school public.

Project Website

http://padlet.com/amebus/xw6thrts853gotgy

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115384 Eur

Project Coordinator

Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Pitkäjärven koulu
• Lycée Jean-Pierre Vernant
• Gymnazium, Praha 10, Pripotocni 1337