The materials that account for more than half of the world’s industrial carbon emissions are steel, cement, paper, plastic, and aluminum. The demand for these materials will doubled by 2050. This production of CO2 will rise, and this production will contribute significantly to climate change -and also creates other risks like reducing the supply of drinkable water and land that could be used for growing food. The question is “how can we meet the growing demand for materials without destroying the environment?”. The answer is by studying how we could Reduce materials, making stuff more efficiently and Reuse the materials —it should be possible to cut emissions in half without big sacrifices. Governments can lessen their climate impact and drive up revenue and consumer satisfaction by moving toward a circular economy (CE)Our project is addressed to teenagers aged 14-16 who are the European citizens in the nearest future. At this project there are five partner countries, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, Greece and Cyprus. In student exchanges totally 125 students will be implied, while the rest of them (more than 1000) will be involved too, as they will participate in other activities and/or will be affected by results of the project. Teachers from different areas are involved in the project, especially those dealing with Art, Science, Technology, Computer Sciences etc. Some of the objectives we are going to achieve through this project are: +Development of environmental awareness- Study and observe environmental issues of the world and their everyday life, realize how important they are and try to eliminate them. Students are going to be the protagonists of the improvement of their environment, at school and outside school and will try to establish new ways and a new awareness of reusing and reducing materials among fellow students by being role models. Presentations, videos and leaflets will be prepared to support environmental protection, and a survey will be held to estimate the environmental awareness. -Increasing the levels of achievement and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics- they are going to study scientific methods that are already exist for the Reduce and Reuse of materials, evaluate them and exchange ideas, so to improve their scientific knowledge about the subject. Questionnaires will be analyzed, so mathematical skills will be promoted. -Their Innovative and creative skills will be promoted, since they will create unique, artistic and useful objects out of waste. They must think outside the box.-Enhance their knowledge and adjustability by getting to know the new scientific terms of ‘CE’ model and try to adjust them in their everyday environment and compare it with the already existing model of linear economy. -Develop student’s entrepreneurial skills philanthropic awareness, by organizing their own business that sells their creations so to collect money for students that have economic issues. We want to teach them how they can create businesses where they will contribute to the society welfare taking into account local/regional/world society needs in future. They will learn how to follow the rules of fair trade and meet the environmental needs in terms of being nature friendly and ecological. Outcomes of this project are development of key skills and competencies, such as: critical thinking, communication, financial literacy, collaboration skills (ability to cooperate in multiracial, multicultural and multilingual environment) language, cultural awareness, creativity, digital, social, analytical, moving. During the activities we will use various methods of work - presentations, videos, workshops, discussions and debates, interviews, excursions, seminars, lectures, role-play activities etc. The project will have a desired impact on the participating schools, it will help to start or extend their international partnerships and activities. The schools will be more popular, and people will learn more about school activities. People not connected with schools so far can learn about the school’s activities and maybe find some kind of cooperation. The students and teachers of the partner schools will improve their skills and will become more interesting for the labor market. Motivation of the students and teachers for future international cooperation will increase and the awareness about Erasmus+ programme and other matters regarding the EU. The project will help the participants to become aware of Environmental issues and use their creativity and innovation skills to Reuse and Reduce materials. This can be involved in school’s curriculum. The schools will also strengthen cooperation with local authorities and Universities and will be also able to offer future students the gained experience. And above all, the participants will gain and develop their competences and will become more educated, more cultural and more interesting for labor market.

"This project entitled "" from Columbus to Atlantis"", was not a history project, but a vehicle for students to explore how the world is interconnected and even if we live in different regions and even if we are facing a world where problems seem to be solved by erecting ever more borders we share a common humanity, we wanted to raise a global perspective among our students. By the time the project had finished, this theme of ERECTING BORDERS WHILE SHARING A COMMON HUMANITY became a major and poignant thread. Our project fell victim to covid19, as a result borders which had never been in place for hundreds of years were re-established, students unable to work in school, students unable to travel from town to town never mind from country to country, the words Isolating and distancing became common parlance.....but despite this, this darkness fell upon every one of us regardless of gender, nationality, colour age or creed. The nightmare that was COVID emphasised the common humanity that binds us. And while our project always sought to raise the global horizons of our students through studies of environmental issues, through examining how pollution impacted on us all regardless of the imposition of borders, we did respond to the situation by including COVID as a further illustration of the inter connectness of us all, and we used the covid experience as a means of emphasising the human spirit. The project has four Chapters which collectively led to a progressive focussing of issues, the first meetings continued unchanged. ""View through the window"" was an introduction but concentrated on looking at a world with very limited horizons. However by using this we can introduce ourselves and explore where students see themselves in the world. This represented what we see now, how we saw the world on a daily basis, however the end product is the recognition that we share a lot more than we would expect. And although this was the opening activity, which we really expected only to do once, we revisited this with a photographic exhibition of covid in our towns in the early days of covid. The second chapter "" European Odyssey"" took our students away from their homes and regions but the intellectual and emotional movement is as a tourist, it was designed to allow the students to acquire a superficial impression of their neighbours. In order to address this section our students created tourist brochures depicting their regions. We then progressed to a section called ""The voyage from zero to one."" When Christopher Columbus sailed to Hispaniola, Europe still worked on the Roman number system but by the time he died we had acquired the Arabic Zero, the content here is hung on a framework by which mathematics has evolved from Roman Numerals to the digital age....and the digital age connects us far more closely than ever, the ability to make and maintain friendships across borders, the impact of events in location X now has an instant and observeable result in region Y. Following the meeting in Slovenia we started work on project topics which had technical, scientific issues, this included activities involving the design of model satellites, some elementary programming using an arduino or raspberry pi. Design of an Eco restaurant, Sustainable energy production, harnessing the power of water and eco housing. These objectives were all carried out successfully and the results are visible in the twin space, on the web site, and in the results platform The final part is entitled ""Dear Mir"" We planned to use the model of the space station circling the earth every 45 minutes and the views from space to show how beautiful and fragile our planet is, but critically that we are all citizens of this planet, we cannot stand in splendid isolation. Therefore during the application stage we wanted to illustrate that environmental issues affect us all, so this section was intended to look at recycling, green energy, green transport, sustainable development etc.....and it did include all of these features but we chose to include work chronicling our students' experience of COVID. It was certainly not something we considered during the application but the underlying impact had a direct relevance to our overarching agenda of describing us all as citizens of the planet."