Welcome to just maps!
Schools Strenghtening Global Citizenship
by Mapping Local Communities
Welcome to Just Maps!
Just Maps guides students on a journey of discovery and action. It starts with mapping their neighbourhoods and moves on to researching environmental issues, social injustices, and global challenges.
The project supports both teachers and students, helping young people build critical thinking skills and a strong sense of justice. By encouraging research and real action in their local areas, Just Maps helps students become active global citizens and involved members of their communities.
Co-funded by the European Union, this Erasmus+ project helps schools look closely at where we live and study, taking action to create fairer and more sustainable communities.
THE KEY PHASES OF JUST MAPS
The Just Maps journey can be divided into three distinct but closely interconnected phases: building an understanding of participatory mapping through training for teachers, educators, and other professionals; actively involving students in the creation of maps, from identifying an area of interest to mapping it; and engaging local communities, policymakers, and other young people.
Across these three phases, participants take part in a wide range of activities, including exploring their neighbourhoods, discovering what it means to be active global citizens, identifying social and environmental issues and developing solutions, interacting with policymakers, and engaging local communities and other young people.
Learn more about each phase of the project by clicking above!
THE JUST MAPS JOURNEY & OUR PROGRESS
This is the journey of Just Maps, along with our progress!
Each step is part of one of the key phases of Just Maps and for each one, several activities have been designed and carried out to support students – the Just Mappers – become active global citizens!
Click on each step to discover more about the journey and our progress!
NUMBERS AND RESULTS ACHIEVED IN JUST MAPS UNTIL DECEMBER 2025
A year and a half after the start of the project Just Maps – Schools strengthening global citizenship by mapping local communities, these are the first results.
More than 9 schools involved in 4 European countries and in Kenya, 225 educators trained, and more than 340 students actively involved in the participatory mapping process in their cities.
The students who took part in the first phase of mapping local areas in search of social and environmental injustices will now work on creating digital and paper maps, which will be presented by the students themselves during the transnational meeting in Zaragoza in October 2026.
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