Why we built
NextGen Education.
The gap between what children face and what school prepares them for keeps growing. We are building the programme to close it.
NextGen Education exists because the gap between what children face and what school prepares them for keeps growing. Climate, technology, mental health, identity, justice. These challenges are real, urgent, and shared across Europe. But most schools still address them in fragments, if they address them at all.
We started building NextGen because we believed that gap could be closed. Not by overhauling the system. Not by adding more to teachers’ plates. But by creating something structured, practical, and ready to use that brings the real world into the classroom and connects children across borders to learn together.
That belief has become a programme. Learning Journeys that run inside the existing timetable. Company Challenges that connect schools to the working world. A Learner Contribution Profile that sees the whole child. And a Portable Learning Identity that follows them through life. All of it grounded in real experience building technology, designing learning systems, and connecting people across borders.
This is not a theoretical proposal. There is a working platform, a demo, structured content, and a growing European network. NextGen Education Europe is preparing the first funded wave through an Erasmus+ partnership for 2026.
Built by people who believe children deserve better
NextGen Education is initiated and led by Future Proof Intelligence, an organisation focused on how emerging technologies and learning systems can serve human-centred futures. The project is driven by two people with complementary strengths and a shared conviction: that children deserve better preparation for the world they are actually growing into.
Platform architecture, digital learning environment, data infrastructure, and GDPR and AI Act compliance. Matt is responsible for everything that makes the programme technically possible and trustworthy.
Overall vision, European network building, partner outreach, and the strategic direction of the consortium. Daniel is the person connecting schools, organisations, and funders across borders.
As the Erasmus+ partnership takes shape, the team is growing to include leads for curriculum design, learning psychology, project management, evaluation, and communications. If that sounds like you, take a look at the roles we are looking for.
Learning that crosses borders
The challenges children face do not stop at national borders. A child in Portugal and a child in Finland are growing up inside the same questions about climate, technology, and identity. But they have never had a structured way to work on those questions together.
NextGen Education is designed to change that. Not by creating one programme and pushing it into every country. By building a network where schools across Europe run shared learning journeys, adapt them to their own context, and learn from each other’s experience. What works in one classroom travels to another. What fails gets fixed before it spreads.
This only works as a cross-border initiative. The diversity of perspectives is not a complication to manage. It is the engine that makes the learning deeper, the evidence stronger, and the results more useful for everyone.
A growing European consortium
Two Erasmus+ submissions are now in preparation for April 2026: KA240-SCH (European Partnership for School Development) and POL-EXP T02 (European Policy Experimentation on ethical AI in education). We are working with schools, school authorities, and partner organisations across several European countries to build both consortia.
The whole network shares tools, results, and insights through platforms like eTwinning and the European School Education Platform.
The coordinating organisation is currently being confirmed. This page will be updated as partners join.
Where this sits in European policy
NextGen Education is not built in isolation from what Europe is already working toward. It directly supports the priorities of the Digital Education Action Plan, the European Education Area, and the emerging European approach to trustworthy AI in education.
But the alignment is not cosmetic. The programme was designed around these priorities from the start. Climate as a core learning theme, not an add-on. AI literacy grounded in ethics and democratic values, not just technical skills. Inclusion by design, so that no school is excluded by its infrastructure. And real classroom evidence that can inform how policymakers think about education across the continent.
Built for the world children are growing into, not the one we grew up in.
Be part of NextGen Education
If you are a school, an organisation, a funder, or someone who believes in what you have read here, there is a way to be part of it.