Cities of the Future, Future Citizens Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cities of the Future, Future Citizens

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Entitled Cities of the Future, Future Citizens (C2FC), this projects focuses on the city now and the city of tomorrow. In the current world ecological crisis, we will study it through three axes : the sustainable city, the smart city, and the resilient city.

Our first objective is for students to become better skilled in the topic itself, but also in languages and ICT, as well as broaden their cultural horizon. We also aim to strengthen their ability to work in groups. Our second objective is to strengthen the students’ motivation while fighting against school dropout.

With this project, we are aiming to directly reach about 80 students, especially those who are economically and culturally deprived. We also are targeting a dozen teachers. Each year, students will work on the topic that we have defined : first, they will analyze concepts and think about the topic. Then, they will investigate into their city in order to identify the problems it is currently facing or will soon face given the ecological crisis. Finally, they will think ahead and imagine solutions to the ecological issues faced by the city of the future.
Meanwhile, students will also be asked to suggest a civic action at the local level. About 40 pupils will be meeting at the end of each school year. During this meeting, they will first share their achievements. Secondly, they will be working in multinational groups of 4 students – each student being a reprensentative of their country. Each group will have to create a short, instructive video that illustrates of one the issues tackled during the year, as well as the proposed solutions.
The methodology will include both classical research and meetings with the city’s key-figures : local politicians, research centre, innovative companies. The project will also be framed and organized by two coordination meetings : one will be held at the beginning of the school year, the other will be held at the end.
This project should therefore lead to the production of about 40 formal productions : presentation of research, presentation of civic actions, and production of at least 16 instructive videos made in multicultural groups. The students’ language, ICT and intercultural skills, together with their ability to work in groups should improve.
We are expecting a positive impact of the project on the partner schools as it will put them into motion, thereby adding positive value and making them more attractive to the neighbouring schools. The connection between partner schools and neighbouring schools should be strenghtened.

Unfortunately, the health crisis and its impact on education greatly impacted the initial project since the second year was largely cut. The extension of the project in the hope of a rapid improvement was only an illusion which only reinforced the disarray.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 68660,91 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Jean-Baptiste Delambre & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Nemska ezikova gimnaziya “Goethe”
• LICEUL TEORETIC SFANTA MARIA
• Istituto Superiore E. Mattei