Schools: Future Labs (SFL) project was submitted for funding under the Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices- Strategic partnerships in the field of education, training and youth of the Erasmus+ programme.

The main objective of this project is to increase the employability of young people, by getting them interested in STEM subjects and in the habit of using a foreign language. To reach its objective, Schools: Future Labs develops and tests a teaching methodology based on Action research, involving task-based exploration of STEM subjects in combination with Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). This methodology is student-led, self-directed and includes project planning and implementation skills. The purpose of this project is to widespread the methodology at least in the participating countries.

The efficacy and effectiveness of this methodology is evaluated, both in quantitative and qualitative terms. The evaluation results have showed that 82% of the students want to continue learing with the SFL methodology.

The project has 13 partners in 4 countries, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. It has been piloted in up to two upper clsases in primary schools (5th and 6th class) so as to enable the participation of schools that teach ES and DE as a foreign language.

The project is carried out over a three-year period, from 1/09/2014 to 31/08/2017.

Year one: Training of trainers, training of teachers, use of mobile labs, followed by project partnership meetings and joint training/de-briefings at which the draft project outputs were presented.

Year two: Continued testing of methodology ending with finalization of all formal teaching materials (lesson plans/teacher training course/toolbox) and evaluation.

Year three: Schools continue using the mobile labs but no longer in "pilot" phase. Focus on dissemination and exploitation, showcasing of results.

The outputs of the project are:

• A series of "plug-and-play" STEM-CLIL teaching modules, applied to a variety of STEM subjects and applicable to any foreign language.
• A teacher training course for the Schools: Future Labs methodology
• A virtual student learning portfolio which will document each student´s learning outcomes.

Schools:Future Labs intends to encourage the implementation of the national STEM and language curricula in schools, by proposing and evaluating an innovative, bottom-up methodology that is engaging both for teachers and their students.