Back To The Future 2.0 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Back To The Future 2.0

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: Creativity and culture; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The “Back to the Future” project aims to implement the “Future” course in European education from kindergarten to university. Due to the ever-changing world, society is often taken at a faster pace and many people only realize the changes when the very latest challenges already present themselves.
That is why in education, in addition to history, mathematics, language, art, sports and sciences, the subject future also have a place in the curriculum. “Education is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change the world,” said Nelson Mandela. By communicating with the children in a creative way about the future and developing projects, children will appropriate a long-term vision so that they can have an impact on their own future. Thanks to interaction, they give color and content to their own future. They discover scenario thinking and also manage social changes. Young people should talk, think and act from an early age on topics such as mobility, housing, relationships, sustainability, diversity, jobs, etc.
By talking about this, by developing projects about this, children will realize much more clearly how we live today and what we know, they will get an idea about what we think we know, but above all they have a huge influence on what we want with our future.
The creativity of young people is much greater than that of adults, so ideas can arise that can be reflected at political and social level. By allowing young people to enter into constant discussions about all kinds of topics that they are facing in the future, we are creating sustainable adults who can set and secure their goals in the long term.
By organizing these projects across countries, in this case with Ireland, Spain, Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom and Belgium, the differences that cultures sometimes entail can also be adjusted to each other. The future is not known, but if we can discuss this together, across borders, then cultural differences can also be transcended. Through conference calls, we can bring children into contact with each other on all sorts of topics and spread ideas.
The following partners will participate in the project with the aim of developing a cross-border future vision on a wide variety of themes:
940912390 Ciep Mestre Pere Gaurau, from Spain
929259271 Dr. Cahit Unver Primary School from Turkey
902042286 Goetheschule Bremerhaven from Germany
947924741 Scoil Mhuire from Ireland
941980387 Germoe Community Primary School from United Kingdom
901988645 VGB De Zonnebloem Kindergarten and Primary school from Belgium
Each school will invite the other schools to work together on a future project. The aim is to include various themes, such as mobility, sustainability, diversity, habitability, knowledge about the present, etc. in these project weeks. Lectures will also be organized during the visits and exchanges will take place between the children and the home schools via conference calls.
The ultimate goal is to motivate schools to talk much more about the future, to work and to live, so that in the long term the subject future will be implemented in education.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree! Students take control on your education. Be captains of your learning and bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world. Work on your own projects now and let them guide you to your future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 118955 Eur

Project Coordinator

Vrije Basisschool -De Zonnebloem & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Dr.Cahit Unver Primary School
• Scoil Mhuire
• Germoe Community Primary School
• CEIP MESTRE PERE GARAU
• Goetheschule Bremerhaven