We shape our future Erasmus Project

Project Title

We shape our future

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: Social dialogue; Health and wellbeing; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

With our project “We shape our future” we want to actively participate in the positive transformation of our world for its people, nature and prosperity. We want to strengthen universal peace and want to raise awareness that inequality and poverty are the greatest global challenge. We want to work with our students towards the goals of Agenda 2030 because only with collective participation we can shift the world onto a fair and sustainable path. We need to get students to take over responsibility for the world’s future.
Especially after the coronavirus pandemic, we have to reshape our world and our daily lives and the goals of Agenda 2030 are the best tools to use in order to promote a new awareness. European schools and young people have a central role to play if we want to foster international solidarity and a new concept of citizenship

The project “We shape our future” is accomplished by five schools (GER, BG, IT, SP, HR). In this project we want to empower our students to actively take part in shaping a sustainable future. With our project we want to focus on the values that lie in diversity, equal opportunities, sustainability and well-being.
We bring our creativity and work force together to create material for activities, so that fellow students and the local community will get involved in our process to shape our future.
We will explore the impact of non sustainability on oneself, our own family and friends, our own future plans, the neighbourhood, city and the planet. We ask and answer the questions of how students can contribute in their daily life. We discuss the impact of inequalities in our daily lives (e.g. gender gap, health inequalities) and research on different kind of diversity and inequalities. We create material to raise awareness and share it. We plan activities/events and perform them. We build international contacts.

We have decided to focus on five goals of Agenda 2030: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Reduce inequality within and among countries. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. Of course, we also have the focus on quality education, peace, justice and strong institutions and a strong and reliable partnership.

In working on an intellectual topic, students build up awareness. In creating material, they take over responsibility. In exchanging experience, they practice communication and in planning and performing activities for others they experience their impact. All these steps will lead them to seeing the chances of participating for a better world.

At the respective schools we prepare (learning) material for activities and events that will first be carried out at the own school. Then we exchange materials and experience so that the partner schools can carry out the same event. In the second year we want to bring our events to the next level and cooperate with out-of-school organisations in school and out of school. We want to collaborate on a local and regional level.

We want to try a new concept for the international meetings. We will meet for three small workshop meetings with 10-18 participants, while we want to organize two big workshop meetings for 80 students. We believe that getting more students together in a meeting can have a synergetic effect on networking, friendships and the involvement back home. The big meetings will not take place at the schools but in a remote group accommodation to give all students much time together and the students of the hosting country the opportunity to stay with the guests. Travelling students will be aged 13-16. Everybody will improve their English language skills. The host will care for arrangements whereas the guests will organize and offer the workshops.

In Italy media experts help us with the concept of later media results. In Spain students get the opportunity of helping in an organization that works towards reducing inequality. In Bulgaria we focus on health living. In Germany we focus on the impact of our consumption on our environment and students learn about the healthy impact of fresh food. In Croatia we will work with a video-making expert so that we finally will have a promotion video for our goals.

On a long-term basis, students of all partner schools improve their language skills, their awareness of healthy lifestyle, the value of equal opportunities, the value of diversity and the conditions of sustainability. In general, this project is a great opportunity to combine digital, physical and intellectual abilities as well as language skills. The overall objective is the development of continuous learning in a European collaborative environment with positive effects on the relation among the community in order to form a strong personality of the teenagers

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164868 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sophie-Scholl-Realschule Karlsruhe & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO TECNICO STATALE COMMERCIALE E PER GEOMETRI “ENZO FERRUCCIO CORINALDESI”
• Joan Ekzarh Specialized Language School
• IES ARQUITECTO PEDRO GUMIEL
• Osnovna skola Laslovo