#FutureNow – Schools for Sustainability

Education is not only knowledge, education is not only a skill. In the higher-level science classes of our grammar school in Helsinki, education is also intellectual curiosity, ethnic conscience, the skill to see the essential and the will to act.

The Thomas Mann Gymnasium is a German grammar school situated between Leipzig and Dresden in the east of Germany. We are extremely pleased to have the chance to make new contacts as part of the Future Now project. As part of the 8th class profile course on climate change and sustainability our team of students is looking forward to getting to grips with the sustainable development goals and exchanging ideas with the Paisley Grammar School in Scotland.

We rejoice in difference, celebrating our multicultural and multilingual community and therefore welcome the collaboration with our German partner school in Wuppertal. We believe that in combining our cultures we will become stronger as a whole in tackling the obstacles our generation faces. 

Paisley Grammar School in Scotland was founded in 1576 and has three core values of Respect, Compassion and Integrity. Our school has 4 German teachers, including our Head Teacher, and about 1400 pupils enjoy education at Paisley Grammar School.
 

Mercy College are part of Team 4 and have been partnered with Albrecht-Weinberg Gymnasium in Rhauderfehn, Germany.  Over the course of the next year, we are looking forward to working together to promote sustainable lifestyles in school and form habits to bring home and adapt into our everyday lives.

At CFG, a grammar school with 1476 pupils and 129 teachers in Wuppertal, Germany, we focus on European projects, modern languages, natural sciences and sustainability. We are therefore looking forward to combining all these aspects in our #FutureNow project with our partner school in England.

As a school with an educational focus on culture and arts, we are looking forward to participating in this intercultural project about sustainability.
 

Our school participates actively in national economic and ecologic student competitions. In class, we focus on innovative, research oriented and scientific teaching.

Together with our partners from Marks Gymnasieskola in Sweden, we are looking forward to developing and sharing ideas about several SDGs. 
 

"Marks Gymnasieskola – A school of possibilities – Eine Schule der Möglichkeiten” .

The Steiner School Munich Schwabing with 450 students is centrally located next to the English Garden in Munich and has a large theater. The cosmopolitan school has been campaigning for sustainability for years via its “Fixingforfuture” school repair workshop.

Our grammar school is situated 20km North of Copenhagen and has currently 1100 students in grades 11 to 13. Students from our 12th year are looking forward to exploring innovative ideas and solutions for sustainable and climate-friendly city planning, together with the Friedensburg Oberschule in Berlin.
 

Learn with, from and for one another in Berlin’s biggest bilingual European School (German/Spanish) together with 1,300 students and 120 teachers of over 80 nationalities.

“Slowly and quietly - peacefully and friendly // Coming together is a start - Solidarity is progress - Collaboration is success // To promote and support knowledge - to enhance culture - to create opportunities//.”

Some years ago a group of 4-6 teachers (Science, English and Ethics) started working on a „Education for Sustainable Development“ (ESD) – Profile at our Pre-University College in Bielefeld, just next door to the Bielefeld University Campus.