The aim of the Erasmus+ project “Designing with Lego: The Eco-Cities of Tomorrow” (Youngsters4Ecocities) is to support sustainable living by providing teachers with the necessary knowledge and tools to foster young peoples’ understanding of natural systems, urban landscapes and ecological city planning. Young students will learn about ecological city planning by using LEGO® bricks. Landscape architect and city planner Ian McHarg (1920 – 2001), for whom environment came first in his work, inspired this project. His concept (Design with Nature, 1969) forms the basis for the tool development.

One of the main results of our project is this platform, which you are about to experience. It hosts the two other results of our project:

• a curriculum for teachers (for students aged 6-14) based on the Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities (UN SDG 11), focusing on building ecological cities.
• a Training Methodology and Manual for Teachers & Educational Staff: the methodology exemplifies the project’s paradigm shift through an integrated set of online interactive maps that will include the history of city-building techniques. The trainer manual provides teachers and educational staff with tools on how to teach both ecological urbanism and ecological building techniques.

The products and the platform will be available in all partner languages.