Let’s be Prepared for Tomorrow’s World Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s be Prepared for Tomorrow’s World

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

‘Let’s be Prepared for Tomorrow’s World’ came into existence because of four schools’ joint desire to work together on a new European project on the transformations which characterize contemporary Europe. Developments in Artificial Intelligence mean that students can expect their working lives to be very different from their parents’. The rise of social media and the internet are having profound consequences on our relations with one another and the way we are informed. Today’s youth are troubled by threats to the well-being of our planet as witnessed by the climate strikes supported by students across Europe. All these concerns have been the source of inspiration to film makers and writers whose works are often dystopian. The objectives of our project are varied.
As far as students are concerned, we aim to improve their communication and digital skills. Our objectives are also to encourage them to become more active citizens, to adopt a more positive attitude towards the European project and European values (increasingly under threat), and to enhance their critical thinking. Teachers will, through the activities we propose, integrate more collaborative cross-curricula methods and improve the relevancy of their teaching by associating people living and working close to our respective schools when dealing with the subject of ‘Tomorrow’s World’. Schools will be more open to internationalization and increase the European dimension of the education provided.
There will be a class of about 25 students, aged between 16 and 18, working on the project in each of our four schools from very different socio-economic and geographical backgrounds. The two years of the project will be divided into four semesters, each focusing on a different aspect of the question: Literature, Sociology/ Politics, Economics and Geography. All the activities we propose are the result of prolonged and intense discussion among partners intent on improving their professional development and learning from each other’s teaching methods.
We have elaborated a varied, realistic common work programme over the two years. The work on a particular aspect of the ‘Tomorrow’s World’ at our individual schools will culminate in a Transnational Learning Activity during which students will compare their results, broaden and widen their understanding of the question under discussion. In turn investigators, interviewers, reporters, writers, actors, film makers, secretaries, webmasters students will construct their own learning processes, their own relationships and become more truly European citizens. Working together with students from partner countries, whether it be before (via collaborative activities on the project Twinspace), during or after Transnational Learning Activities will be the hallmark of this project. All results will be posted on the Twinspace providing teachers across Europe with inspiration to undertake similar projects beyond the formal duration of this project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129826 Eur

Project Coordinator

Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium Seelze & Country: DE

Project Partners

• 3rd General Senior High School of Thiva
• Bryne vidaregåande skole
• LYCEE GRANIER