NextGen Education
Future-ready learning for every school in Europe
NextGen Education is a learning programme that runs alongside the existing school curriculum. Practical, future-ready and built for every child, educator and school across Europe.
What is NextGen Education?
NextGen Education is a European learning programme that connects children across countries to work together on real challenges like climate, AI, mental health and social change. It runs alongside the existing school curriculum, bringing schools across Europe together in a shared network.
Children work together across European schools and cultures on real challenges around climate, social change, mental health and technology. They learn with and about artificial intelligence in a way that is age-appropriate, ethical and genuinely useful for their lives.
Teachers get a clear, intuitive environment that makes their job easier, not heavier. Every resource is ready to use. Every session fits inside the existing timetable. The platform handles the complexity so educators can focus on what they are actually good at: teaching.
School was never designed for the challenges children face today.
Children are growing up inside new challenges
Climate anxiety, digital confusion, cultural disconnection, questions about identity and mental health that school as it currently stands was never designed to address.
Teachers feel the weight of it
They see this every day. But they are already stretched, managing classrooms, covering curriculum, navigating systems that have not changed fast enough. They do not need more to do. They need better tools for what they are already trying to do.
AI is already in the classroom
Children are using it. Most do not know how it works, what it means for their thinking, or what responsible use looks like. Without guidance, they are left to figure it out in ways that are shallow at best and damaging at worst.
NextGen Education fills that gap. Without putting extra strain on teachers, without replacing what schools already do well, and without leaving any child behind because of where they live or what device they have access to.
Why this matters now
The world children are growing into looks nothing like the one school was designed for.
The challenges are real
Climate anxiety, digital overload, questions about identity and mental health. Children carry these into the classroom every day. School wasn't built to address them. NextGen was.
The challenges don't stop at borders
A child in Lisbon and a child in Helsinki are growing up inside the same questions. But they've never worked on them together. NextGen connects children across Europe to learn from each other, not just alongside each other.
Teachers are stretched, not incapable
Teachers see what's happening. They don't need more theory or more tasks. They need ready-to-use sessions on the topics that actually matter, ones that fit inside the timetable they already have.
The old model can't keep up
The world changes faster than any curriculum committee can move. NextGen updates its learning journeys as the world evolves, covering climate, AI, social change and mental health, so schools don't fall behind again.
Every child, every school
Not every school has the same devices, the same budget, the same infrastructure. NextGen works in any reality. No child excluded because of where they happen to live.
A generation learning together
The generation that will have to face these challenges together should start learning together. Across cultures, across countries, across perspectives. That's not idealism. That's preparation.
A generation of empowered European students
NextGen Education is being built as a cross-European network, connecting schools, educators and children across cultures and countries to learn together, not just alongside each other.
The challenges children face do not stop at national borders. And the skills they need, like critical thinking, collaboration, ethical reasoning and cultural empathy, grow stronger when they are developed in contact with perspectives different from their own.
Ready for a world of tomorrow, shaped by the challenges of today.
Be part of the first wave
We are forming partner schools and country partners now, ahead of two Erasmus+ submissions in April 2026. Whether you are a school, funder, or education organisation, there is a role for you.