Climate change, environmental degradation, and fast-paced digital disruption are no risks for the future — they’re here and they are changing our daily lives. These changes should also affect the way how young people learn, especially about them. Schools cannot treat them as side issues or wait for reform from above.
UpSpace is a small European project, launched by 8 organisations from 4 countries (4 schools and 4 organisations), which will work on integrating changes in the education into classrooms. Our task is to blend school subjects and prepare students to navigate through the changing world.
Education systems across Europe have already begun talking about sustainability, green skills, and inclusion. But schools are still missing practical support—tested examples, step-by-step guidance, and a chance to connect their classroom to the real world. Teachers don’t need more theory. They need time-saving resources and methods that fit their schools. Students don’t need just facts. They need purpose, collaboration, and a sense that what they do in school matters.
UpSpace helps teachers and students face these changes with practical tools they can apply immediately. It provides updated, multilingual teaching materials tailored to different subjects and age groups; flexible blended learning models that combine in-class and digital activities; opportunities for cross-border collaboration between schools; and structured formats for student-led projects that address real-world challenges within their communities.
Future-oriented education is about preparing people to deal with the world as it is — and what it is becoming. It is about giving students a role in shaping the future, not just reacting to it.
This is what UpSpace supports: simple, usable, multilingual content. Hands-on activities. A digital platform. And a community of teachers, students, NGOs, and experts across Europe, all working toward the same goal — making school education more connected, relevant, and ready for tomorrow.