After an extremely nationalist period during the last century, where the internal borders of our continent suffered a lot of changes and numerous confrontations took place because of them, it seems it is time to think about what brings us closer more than what separates us. This project is presented with the aim to make the students think about the concept of Europe from a geographical perspective. Several geographical sources from all over the world have been used to gain knowledge about the evolution of our continent. The ultimate aim is to make students aware of how the European reality changes according to an exhaustive geographical knowledge of the considered European lands which have dramatically been changing throughout History. Even though it would be unacceptable for a Greek or a Roman to consider a “Hyperborean” as European, the fact is, once these lands were explored and as time went by, that we developed a common culture despite our differences and nowadays we not only consider these peoples as Europeans but also we are involved along with them in the European Union common project. To become convinced of that, it is necessary that present time students have a geographical and evolutionary overview of our continent, from ancient ages up to present time. As this project would need a lot of time, effort and means we have decided to provide teachers and students with a generic view from which they can work, expanding it and designing it according to their own needs. Thus, the present project is somehow like pattern to work on in a future to get a much clearer picture.

After a tragic time over the last century, marked by death and destruction because of the change of the internal borders of the European states, among other factors, it seems that time has come to ignore these borders somehow and to create a common space for understanding. This doesn’t mean that our students should not learn these borders, their meaning and their history. The aim of the present project is to make the students think about the consequences and history of these territorial divisions through a slight study of three European states: Spain, Germany and The Netherlands. The final intention is that our students are able to know by themselves the geographical and historic evolution of the different European states and to link this knowledge to the different historic stages shared by the European countries. As this project would need a lot of time, effort and means we have decided to provide teachers and students with a series of templates which can serve as a pattern so that both teachers and students can devise their own teaching or learning materials on the area they want. The ultimate aim is to try to make our students understand the present divisions in Europe and their meaning through time.