A changing world.
A shared classroom.
NextGen Education brings structured, age-appropriate learning on the topics that actually shape their lives. AI, climate, identity, social change. Ready to use, designed for any teacher, and built to fit inside what your school already does.
Europe is looking for an answer. Your school could be part of it.
Something is shifting in how Europe thinks about education. Policymakers, researchers and teachers across the continent are asking the same question: how do we prepare children for a world that is changing faster than any curriculum can keep up with?
AI is already in children’s lives. So is climate anxiety. So are questions about identity, belonging and what kind of future they are growing into. These are not topics that belong only to secondary school. Children in primary school are already thinking about them, often without any structured support.
The European Union is actively funding new approaches to this. Not more of the same, but genuinely different ways of learning that cross borders, bring schools together and put children at the centre of something real. NextGen Education is being built as one of those approaches, ahead of an Erasmus+ submission in April 2026.
Five themes that matter most
Every learning journey is built around one of five themes. These are the topics children are already encountering in their daily lives, and where school currently offers the least structured support.
Climate and environment
Understanding the crisis, thinking in systems, and finding what young people can actually do.
AI and technology
How it works, how to use it ethically, and how to stay in control of your own thinking.
Mental health and wellbeing
Recognising emotions, building resilience, and learning to support yourself and others.
Social change and justice
What inequality looks like, how systems work, and what it means to participate.
Cultural identity and empathy
Who you are, where you come from, and how to engage seriously with people whose lives look nothing like yours.
Built by a young team, grounded in real expertise.
NextGen Education is being initiated by a group of young people who grew up inside these exact challenges and want to help the next generation navigate them better. They are working together with educational specialists, learning psychologists, curriculum developers and experienced teachers from across Europe.
The learning materials are not being written in a boardroom. They are being developed with teachers, tested with students and shaped by the people who actually understand what works in a classroom. By the time the first pilots begin in late 2026, every journey will have been built with that expertise behind it.
The pace of implementation is intentional. The Erasmus+ application goes in April 2026. The first pilots follow later that year, with care and proper preparation. Nothing is rushed. The schools that join now have time to get ready, get to know the programme and feel genuinely confident before their students begin.
Real topics, real activities
Each learning journey gives students structured activities around a theme they already care about. They research, discuss, create and reflect. The work is designed to fit inside normal lesson blocks and does not require specialist knowledge from the teacher.
Everything is age-appropriate and built by curriculum developers working alongside teachers. Students do not just read about these topics. They work with them.
Learning across borders
Students collaborate with peers in other European countries. They share perspectives, compare experiences and work on shared challenges together. This is not a pen-pal project. It is structured, facilitated collaboration built into the learning journey itself.
Children discover that the same question looks different depending on where you live, and that working together across difference is a skill worth practising.
We are not looking for hundreds of schools. We are looking for the right ones.
A small, carefully chosen group of schools across Europe will be the first to run NextGen Education. These founding partners are named in the Erasmus+ application, shape how the programme develops, and give their students an experience no other school can offer yet.
Named as a founding partner
Your school appears in the Erasmus+ application. Not as a future participant. As a partner from day one, with your name on a European project before it even launches.
First students in Europe
Your children will be among the first on the continent to learn this way. Working on real challenges, with real peers from other countries. That is something they will carry with them.
Shape what comes next
What happens in your classrooms defines how this grows across Europe. Your evidence, your teachers’ insights and your students’ experiences become the foundation for every school that follows.
It fits inside what you already do.
This is not an extra project piled on top of an already full timetable. The learning fits inside normal lesson blocks. Teachers do not need to be AI experts or climate scientists. The materials are designed so that any curious, committed educator can lead them with confidence.
You identify a small group of teachers who want to be part of this. They run the learning with their students, share what they find, and connect with teachers at partner schools across Europe who are doing the same thing. School leadership sets the conditions. Teachers and students do the rest.
We’d love to have a conversation
If this sounds like something your school should be part of, get in touch. We will set up a short call to explore what it could look like in your context.
All student data is GDPR and AI Act compliant by design. Nothing leaves the school without explicit consent. Privacy is not a policy we follow. It is how the system is built.