"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."