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YouthtopiaGO!

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2019-1-NL01-KA229-060468
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 193,815 EUR

YouthtopiaGO!

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YouthopiaGO! is a logical sequal of our two former European projects. The first Comenius-project focused on Europe's troubled past, balancing between democracy and dictatorship. Students explained they were frightened by Europe’s problems, therefore in the second Erasmus+ project Youthtopia2020 they worked out a blueprint for the ideal Youthtopian city and presented it at the EP in Strasbourg. However, we should not stick to describing problems and politics only, but solve the problems and work on problems Europe is facing. It is time for action: YouthopiaGO! One of the main objectives is to deliver critical European students, able to deliver real life solutions for problems in the field of the refugee crisis, education, (healthy) ageing and sustainability and economy, not only on the European scale, but also locally in the places where they live. Also, we want to improve the level of teaching by introducing new didactical tools like scrumming and using a Talent Meter. The students also benefit; scrumming will help them to function better in a team and to succesfully finish projects. Further the Talent Meter will help to form stronger teams, based on talents. YouthopiaGO! consists of a trustworthy network of six schools already working together for years. All headmasters from participating schools have signed a Project Agreement Paper, showing their support to the new project. For good management, we have worked out a Working Agreement Doc and a Teachers Manual so that every school knows their tasks. Per school, we will select at least 4 ambassadors (14-17 years) to come to the Project Week. By bringing a new teacher to all PWs, we shall ensure that the project affects as many pupils as possible, since we expect them to promote and to integrate the project into their own lessons.In each phase, the common preparation of the different topics will be done by two appointed schools. On the first day of the PW there will be an International fair, where the different countries can present themselves. At the start of the meeting we will use keynote speakers and experts from companies or authorities to trigger the students interest for the topic they have to work on. Besides that, we will organise field trips and cultural visits. Based on their talents, students are divided in LABgroups to work on products they have to present at the end of the week at the closing event, in front of parents and other stakeholders of the project. The aim is to let the students work as independently as possible; at key moments of the project teachers give clear instructions, but most of the time teachers have a coaching role. For the local public, the students will perform a Dissemination Activity in the local city centre.In the first meeting in Bulgaria, students will briefly present their own school. After that, students shall reflect on nowadays issues regarding education. As Turkey plays an essential role in the European Refugee Crisis, it is therefore host of the second meeting about Social Inclusion. In this week, participants will get a better understanding of the circumstances and difficulties of this humanitarian crisis. Phase 3, will be held in France where we will address the topics (healthy) ageing and sustainability. Students will critically review their lifestyle habits, by examining their personal family life. In Spain (4th phase), within one week students will solve in groups an economical problem and develop a Start-Up using the business model canvas, available online. It will provide them with tools for the future European labour market. In the final meeting in NL we will focus entirely on Active Citizenship and combine the products to one clear Toolbox with practical solutions that we will offer and present to EMP's in Brussels.By focussing on real life cases, we will turn our students into active, responsible European citizens, capable of solving problems on a European scale, but also in their local community. Teachers and students will learn how to scrum in class and can form more efficient teams by using a talent meter. Within all schools, two appointed Youthopia- ambassadors will spread news of the project.By using scrumming, students will be more efficient in future groupwork, when working on big but also small projects. Also, the talent meter will give them a clear profile of their talents. In combination with the knowledge of the business model canvas, students are better prepared for the European labour market. Further, the more experienced teachers will teach the other teachers how to use these new didactical tools in their own lessons and how this could be a new way of teaching to future students. At the end of our project we shall share all the developed materials and a list of good practices on our website and eTwinning. The finale of the project will be the burial of a Timecapsule in which we bury the results of this project and that will be opened in 2040. (See annexes for more info)

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