A look at a country's youth is always at the same time a look at the future of a country." (Sinus Survey) - What is presently on young people's minds? What moves them? What identities do they form? What are their values? - Questions like these were at the heart of the German Sinus-Survey, which was published in April 2016: 14 to 17 year-old teenagers were interviewed extensively and without being limited by any list of fixed topics. The results of this survey are highly fascinating and sometimes downright surprising. It is not just such narrative interviews that can reveal many things about the workings of an individual's mind.

Also young people's questions provide important clues about their identities, give away their hopes, but also their fears and uncertainties. Collected in a systematic fashion, such questions can reflect a macrocosm of thoughts, of ways of life, and of individual as well as collective identities. Especially at a time of vital challenges to a united Europe against the backdrop of severe global crises, focusing on the questions of young people from different European countries offers the possibility of figuring out what is on young Europeans' minds and what they expect from Europe. If young people cannot find satisfactory answers to their questions in their local, regional or national contexts, they can use Europe as a kind of "think tank", which they can tap for the knowledge and experiences available in other European countries and which can help to answer their questions. If Europe can provide answers to the central questions of its youth, it can give them guidance and promote their commitment to the idea of a united albeit diverse Europe. This is why, in addition to collecting these questions, looking for relevant answers to them is a vital part of this project. Comparing the questions and the various answers from different countries will certainly reveal both a European common ground and national, regional and cultural differences, which can then be discussed, understood and relayed.

METHODS AND PHASES

Stage 1: Students collect questions in their home countries - without any limits or focus on certain fields or areas. The questions can be on anything that crosses their minds or that they wonder about.

Stage 2: Students try to find experts to answer their questions in their countries. They transfer these questions/answers into English and collect them on the project's platform.

Stage 3: In transnational working meetings, students from all partner countries discuss and compare their "national" results and determine parallels and differences. Students learn to look to other countries to find answers to what they want to know. They cooperate in preparing the presentation/dissemination of their results.

Stage 4: The answers are presented in a variety of ways, products and media, as well as for different contexts (cf. IV). IV.

OUTCOME AND IMPACT

The outcome of the project can be categorized as follows:

A. learning/teaching materials by students for students of different age groups and/or abilities and in different media (film clips, screencasts/learning videos, presentations, website, brochure/e-book)

B. concepts and materials by teachers for professional development/in-service teacher training on a local, regional and/or national level (dissemination of outcome and strategies)

C. sustainable documentation of project outcome and processes in various digital media (blog, website, eTwinning)