... although there's still an inadequate degree of consciousness about it at alllevels. The topic is not explicitly taught in most of our schools and doesn't find an appropriate place in curricula. To prepare students for success with an adequate digital literacy, avoid an increasing digital divide and ensure equal opportunities to everyone, educators need to understand how AI technologies can be leveraged to facilitate learning, accelerate inclusion,solve real-world problems and how teaching can and should change accordingly. Unfortunately there's no relevant offer for teachers PD in this area so far and best practices examples are veryfew and hard to find.

Four EU schools with very different backgrounds (2 rural ones - mountains and sea island;2 hurban -a medium town and a big city ), finalities and levels of expertise (3 science focused general education ones and one very large and experienced higher vocational ) have decided to pool up and collaborate in tackling such a challenge from a bottom up perspective sharing their own vision for future schools and offering their students the opportunity to experience first hand the value of international collaboration at european level. The driving principle is that we should not limit ourselves to a simple utilitarian vision of AI. Instead, we could try to imagine how learning can be nurtured and transformed exploiting personalized adaptive learning potentialities.

The project will have a main focus but not be limited to humanoid robots as human-machine interaction will be a critical point in the near future dense with ethical and social implications . With their human like appearance and physical presence they call for a more natural and intuitivehuman-robot interaction, are highly motivating for all students and have proved particularly effective with special needs kids such as those in the autistic spectrum for improvement of cognitive tasks and social abilities. They allow for a cross-field approach involving a multiplicity of areas from language empowerment to STEM with an emphasis on coding and promote newteaching & learning approaches and methodologies such as problem solving, real task based learning, team working, design thinking, civic engagement contextually developing 21st century skills and new competences such as critical and lateral thinking, creativity, capacity to tackle problems through algorithms, take decisions in uncertainty condition based on data and probabilistic models.

Driven by the same idea of sharing and giving back to society that will make dissemination a major focus of the project along with being an ethical guideline for students, great attention willalso be paid to open source solutions in the strive for affordability and sustainability of results.