This project emerges from the need to support School in facing 21st century challenges. It is urgent to captivate students interests in School which is the biggest ally to tackle alienation and edify active citizens.

In Portugal and Greece, maybe as in the majority of countries, the educational system still focuses its methodology on the teacher, who unrolls the content to be learned according to a national curriculum; communication is mainly unidirectional, reducing the student to a passive role in his/her own learning process.

Several teachers and psychologists are publicly defending that, with all the spontaneous learning that youngsters are accessing in social media, what should actually be the focus of modern school are the competences of critical thinking, digital literacy, human values and even mindfulness, alongside with the necessary theory framing of that spontaneously learned content.

We are aligned with that current of thought. Thereby, Project B-Part’s first goal is to work students’ critical and creative thinking, as well as other key-competences, in the search for common solutions using student-centered dynamic methodologies, empowering them to act and improve their reality, in class context.

Even if curricula, teaching and evaluation methodologies won’t be reconsidered at a political level yet, small changes can be introduced by teachers starting now, if they can be equipped with some different approaches and easy-to-use tools. Here lies the second goal of this project: supporting teachers hands-on, respecting their time, bureaucratic and curricular constraints.