We want our students and even parents and teachers to become aware of the world they live in. And to be a part of it and to take responsibility for its evolution. We wanted our students to practise their real life skills in a scenario-based safe learning environment while interacting with other members of the world. Each activity in this project was connected in a chronological sense and they all aimed to make our students practise their critical thinking and creativity skills by pushing them to ponder over a future that might happen.
In a healthy and thriving democracy, citizens can freely express their views, choose their political leaders, and have a say about their future but democracy in the EU faces challenges from rising extremism, election interference, the spread of manipulative information. The European Climate Pact is an EU-wide initiative inviting people, communities and organisations to: • Connect and share knowledge • Learn about climate change • Develop, implement and scale up solutions. In this project we aim to realise these expectations. However, it is quite controversial whether we can achieve this and gain our students the ability to do so. In theory, each school has something related to these topics in their curriculum, but practice makes perfect and we wanted to make sure that our students have the chance to practise before becoming adults in the real world. We organised activities in order to improve our students' competencies like creativity, problem-solving, communication, collaboration and critical thinking skills as well as their foundational literacies like ICT, financial, cultural and civic literacies; and character qualities like curiosity, adaptability, leadership and social and cultural awareness.