"Modern science - especially natural science are a very interesting and important topic for the future of Europe. For the employees of the future, for pupils and for teachers, influencer and trainer this subject and the social skills will be also most important. But we see that science mainly is teached to young people in schools using the methods of formal education. On the other hand pupils, trainers, influencers and teachers come to outdoor centres and looking for active-oriented methods. Companies are looking for workers with social skills and knowledge in natural science. Young people want to increase their knowledge of the culture of other European nations and want to travel and see pupils from other states. Because of this we have made an exchange program by using intercultural, outdoor, environmental and experience education and active-oriented methods. The innovative idea was that not only whole school classes will take part in this project, but 5-6 pupils from different schools from Germany, the U.K., Croatia (as a new member of the EU) and France. Germany and France are used in partnership activities for many years, the partnership with Croatia and the U.K. was new und has been grown up during the project. there has been a teach the teacher program so that teachers from different schools and nations come together, learning active-oriented methods, use a common language (english) and get knowing a lot of the different cultures and of new teaching methods. They also get knowledge to improve their own competences. This teach-the-teacher Exchange was planned on the beginning but during the first Project team meeting the idea was grown that it make more sense and is more value to make this Exchange at the end, parallel with the fifth student Exchange. For the last, the sixth, Student Exchange program we have the chance to make a great evaluation with this pupils who are the ambassadors for the schools. So the sustainibilty of the project and a follow up and on-going is possible. The second step has been the student exchanges - two a year for three years - so there was a lot of sustainability possible. The network and partnership between the partners has been strengthened and is (without the U.K. - sorry because of the Brexit) on-going. The students increased their knowledge of the culture of other nations - so they can easily travel to other countries, also as an employee or take part on another volunteer or Exchange program in future. The students increased also their own competences for natural science and social skills, so they will be interesting for employers. The students and all participants found out the European ideas, the value of the European solidarity and will be interested for the E.U. and for political activities and engagement. So there is a big value for Europe. Because more than 300 participants took part in the project. To realize this aims formal (school) and non-formal partners worked together for three years and will working together the next years. Most of the pupils used a foreign language and all participants met others from a different cultural background. So the participants will be sensible European citizens. There is a nice and good conclusion I think - one pupil quotation from the evaluation sheet: ""I know now that we - the young people - can change the European Union, can make a lot against rassism and should build on a good or better Europe in future. We are responsible for peace on our continent""."

The idea of of the online magazine UNITING FUTURE ONLINE (UFO, www.unitingfuture.com) was to deal with challenges in education, with problems due to immigration and the connected EU values. During meetings, innovations such as cooperative open learning, individualized teaching and self-responsible learning were partly put into practice by all the participants and as a consequence it enabled discussions and exchanges of best practice examples both for students and teachers also in the innovative way in our online magazine. Students at each partner school formed editorial staffs and were responsible for the articles. The main topics of the online magazine were: spirit of Europe, solidarity, integration and inclusion of migrants, uniting future, diversity and democracy. Five partners from Ybbs/Austria (technical college HTL Ybbs), Zagreb/Croatia (Vladimir Prelog Science School)high school), Venlo/the Netherlands (Valuascollege), Maribor/Slovenia (Zavod Antona Martina Slomska) and Vänersborg/Sweden (Fridagymnasiet), dealt with one specialised topic each, Five short term exchanges, hosted by the partner schools, contained common learning in workshops, practising foreign language skills and investigation of issues for further writing. There were also activities like writing articles for the magazine, web design and layout, participation in online discussions, reporting and doing research on topics, workshops on journalistic skills, dealing with contents on the internet, source criticism and local excursions in connection to the theme. These activities took place during the exchanges but also steadily at the partner schools. Among other things, students wrote articles and reports about their daily lives and school lives, in order to make the magazine more appealing to their age group. Schools benefited from increased quality of teaching activities (writing, speaking in a foreign language) because of the more practical way of writing for a realistic situation and real audience. Due to contact with other schools, teaching institutions experienced alternative teaching concepts (COOL, individualized learning...).Students acquired skills in web design and layout; apart from that, they gained experience in taking photographs and in dealing with online contents.Contributors developed journalistic skills and learned to develop their own opinion and to speak their mind They developped an understanding for journalistic work, the importance of facts for reporting and democratic ideas.Long term benefits of this project range from future use of the website for EU project to sustainable change of attitudes of participating students concerning the matters covered. In some schools, debating clubs turned into an ongoing instrument. .