The future is real Erasmus Project

Project Title

The future is real

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

“The Future is Real – My FutuRe” stands for young people, between the ages of 14 to 17, creatively learning from each other using innovative ICT-skills. The project involves students and staff-members creating and learning from immersive experiences engaging in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). The work-method will show that, in order to make learning content authentic, borders don’t even have to physically be crossed.

The motivating and engaging tasks will be done in two years’ time by hundreds of students in The Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Great Britain. The students will be challenged to show their peers where they are from, who they are and what they do. Social inclusion is therefore one of the project’s main focusses. A large number of students will get the opportunity to stay in a host family and truly learn and appreciate the local life of a fellow European and a total of 124 students will join in the student mobilities. Hopefully, this will result in a lifetime long understanding and friendship.

During these two years 4 student mobilities will take place according to a certain pattern. One of the keys is that teachers will inspire other teachers during the staff mobilities. The staff mobilities are needed to take the upcoming tasks to the next, higher level. The 124 students will actively work as teachers’ assistants, for the upcoming months after each mobility, creating new lesson plans. Besides being assistants these students are tutors for other students in a peer-to-peer learning setting.

Amongst the expected results are:
A. Improvement of the student´s abilities to use foreign languages, media and ICT;
B. Development of the work in teams’ skills, especially focused in project-based tasks and the creation of international teams;
C. A list of activities to be developed by students, that can become part of the school´s curricula;
D. Creating rings of future cooperation among the partner schools in several ways, including multilateral associations;
E. Providing teachers with a real experience in the international educational systems and subjects / school management in every country, creating a wider point of view to discuss and innovate;
F. Designing educational materials to let other schools take advantage of the tasks created, the methods used, and the results of the learning activities.

The improved competences will be a profit for each student’s career in their coming working lives as well as in their private sector. The companies and organisations the pupils are going to work for in future will profit from those competences too and they will be encouraged to work in other European countries.

AR and VR, as a never before used ICT-tool in an Erasmus+ KA2 school’s only project, will have an immense impact on learning and teaching lines within the future. It will increase mobility, ICT and other media skills, intercultural and languages competences. Working with AR and VR in the classroom and literally crossing borders without having to travel is an innovative and unique way of teaching and learning. It is barely used by any other secondary school and it is in its infancy, which makes it a significant tool to be explored and applied.

We really would like to share all of this via all kinds of dissemination tools on local, regional, national and even international level. The project’s eTwinning Twinspace, will be the center of My FutuRe. Outcomes and results of all activities to do with My FutuRe will be presented on the project website and best practices will be highlighted. One special dissemination tool is the website containing a database of new lesson materials, new curriculum and evaluation tools. By sharing, learning from and looking at each other, adapting the school’s curriculum and keeping the network alive we believe it has an effect which will last life-long.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 78829 Eur

Project Coordinator

SintLucas & Country: NL

Project Partners

• IIS “Stendhal”
• FURNESS ACADEMIES TRUST
• IES Maestro Juan de Avila