"In 2015, the UN's 193 countries agreed on a World Future Treaty, in which 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were set, with the goal of transforming the world by 2030 in terms of sustainable economic, social and environmental development. With its focus on Energy and resources, Environment and climate change, climate justice, EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy the present project builds on these SDGs and focusses a wide range of it. The project combines education for sustainable development with democratic and European education. It will empower students to engage actively, to take responsibility for themselves and their actions, and to encourage them to become involved in the SDGs for a livable world. The project is intercultural, interdisciplinary, multi-perspective and aligned to the concept of holistic learning. Four secondary schools from Finland, Greece, Poland and Germany participate in this project. Some of the schools got to know each other by former bi-national Cooperation or exchange projects. It is the first joint Erasmus project of the participating schools. All participating schools appreciate the value of international exchange projects. Together, they face the above mentionned global challenges of the project that will decisively shape the future of the students who graduate. The project is aimed at students between the ages of 14 and 17 yearsContent issues include climate justice, careful use of resources, critical consumption, waste prevention, and energy transition towards renewable energies. During the course of the project students will recognize that global challenges cannot be mastered on a national base, but can only be managed together in a strong and united Europe. In the spirit of Climate Justice, the solutions have to consider the well-being of all people worldwide.According to the motto ""think globally - act locally"" the topics will offer the opportunity to examine political, social, economic and ecological aspects from an interdisziplinary, multi-perspective and international approach. Finally, perspectives for a socio-ecological transformation will be developed. In the sense of a democratic and European education, pupils will be able to form their own judgment based on a critically reflected analysis, to deal with forms of political participation, classify and evaluate conflicting goals and conflicts of interest. Students are empowered to develop individual and socio-political action alternatives and will be encouraged to participate for their future.Global or international cooperation can only succeed on the basis of mutual respect, fair interaction and mutual trust. So the project also contributes to intercultural understanding. It will increase intercultural competences as well as language skills. The project not only aims to connect youth in the EU, but to empower them to become an active EU citizen and to sensitize them in the sense of education for sustainable development within the meaning of the SDGs. At the same time, it also promotes the strengthening of the profiles of teaching professions by promoting the exchange and collaboration of teachers from different disciplines from different educational and learning cultures. Both groups will benefit from an open and holistic education through international cooperation in scholastic as well as extracurricular learning venues and broaden their perspective and competences.The results of the projects will be published by digital means. In consultation with the students for example by e book, internet-platform, film, audiobroadcast etc. In this way, the students will expand their media and digital competences. The results are disseminated via the school homepage, press reports and school events and made accessible to the general public."

"We carried out the project ""Be a Responsible Citizen in the Digital World of Tomorrow"" (Erasmus-plus-bereci.com) in cooperation between schools in Germany, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Finland and Poland.Our project was based on the observation that despite the distribution and availability of a wide range of digital media, there are still deficits in ICT skills and the awareness of opportunities and risks is not yet fully developed among all school stakeholders. Another challenge for society and for our schools is cyberbullying as an excessive form of bullying.Therefore we focused on teaching strategic and integrated ICT skills. Furthermore, we wanted to encourage and empower students to take over social responsibility in the world of today and tomorrow as ""digital citizens”.The aims of the project were the: the implementation of ICT techniques in the lessons, exchange of experience, initiation and optimisation of digital competencies among students and teachers, improvement of the quality of teaching, competent, reflective use of digital media to improve individual learning techniques, respectful use of new media, use of innovative and student-oriented pedagogical approaches, promotion of innovative and creative thinking, promotion of social cohesion, realization of mobility as well as the promotion of entrepreneurial way of thinking.The participating countries Germany, Finland, Italy, Greece, Croatia and Poland have worked together intensively according to the Erasmus standards “to communicate, to collaborate, to share”. Through intensive joint work not only material results such as films, posters, ebook, learning units and a website were realised but also a performance rehearsed. In doing so, social, emotional and intercultural skills have been acquired and language skills have been expanded. In addition, the students had the chance of an insight into various professions through company visits.An intensive exchange in times of corona times revealed that the project has connected us within these three years. National and particular interests have taken a back seat to our concerns about our partner schools and our pupils.Moreover, the lockdown and the pandemic in general showed us that digital competences are fundamentally important. These competences enabled us to have a virtual exchange, which will continue beyond the project period. We met up every week online in order to discuss, talk about current topics and sew face coverings.For the students, Erasmus+ is more than only a project which enables them to improve their language skills. A student explains it as follows: “It is for sure the best decision I've ever made. I really love Erasmus, its unpredictability and challenges which motivate me to try harder, to do my best, to come out from my comfort zone and to try myself in different areas. It taught me a lot about other countries, languages, cultures and about myself in the first place. It helped me accept my virtues and my flaws and taught me to believe in myself and embrace diversities. I've made a lot of friends who became like family to me. I've realized we are all different but Erasmus+ connected us and taught us we are all worthy.”Thus, the project contributed to education, employment and innovation in line with the key objectives of the EU and promotes in particular the aspects of youth on the move (achieving mobility, promoting social cohesion, encouraging creativity), growth (intelligent, sustainable and inclusive), which reduce unemployment and ultimately improve the quality of life. Both the key qualifications and the subject matter promoted reflection on future career opportunities and contributed to the ability to consciously choose a profession.An orientation towards global tasks such as employment, research, innovation and social justice was the basis of this project.In this way, the project made an important contribution to education for responsible action in a globalized society in the sense of ""European Citizenship""."