Stay and discover how educational communities around the world are creating butterflies that come together in a magical exhibition celebrating cultural diversity.
What this is
No competition. No curriculum. Just classrooms, scissors, paint, and the belief that a small object can carry a long story across a border.
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One project. A world of stories.
Butterflies arrive from classrooms across continents, each one carrying a little piece of where it came from. Together, they turn distance into connection.
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Small wings. A journey across the world.
Painted, folded, and signed by hand, no two butterflies are ever the same. Each one travels far from the hands that created it to become part of something bigger.
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A piece of who you are, told in colour.
Symbols, patterns, memories, traditions. Students transform their wings into expressions of identity, creating a living mosaic of cultures and personal stories.
The project began in Budapest. It continues wherever a community decides to take part.
See the living mapChapter 02
It begins with one pair of hands.
Then a classroom
A name, a language, a colour that is only theirs.
Then the world
Many individual stories become one shared world.
The living map
We are a growing community of educators and learners across all six continents — different in culture, language, shape, and size, yet connected by the same desire to create, share, and learn from one another.
Select a butterfly to read the classroom behind it.
The first butterflies
Scroll, and one butterfly makes the crossing. The line behind it is only the part of the journey that has already happened.
Two years ago, this dream began with two educators, Juan and Linda, and one shared belief: that education could bring people closer, no matter the distance. What started as their determination to connect classrooms has since grown wings of its own.
Zaragoza
España
Kayseri
Türkiye
Zaragoza
España
Kayseri
Türkiye
The first butterfly
One drawing carried the whole idea across: a face from Zaragoza on one wing, Kayseri on the other. Two cultures on the same body — everything after it is an answer to this one.
How it was made
Scroll sideways — small notes from the making
The exhibition
They spread beyond the classrooms — into every room of daily life.
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01By the end of the week the building itself had become the artwork.
Selected wings
Confirmed: 20 — in coordination: 24
Here, you’ll discover the butterflies created by each educational community, along with the stories, people, and places behind them. With every new contribution, another point appears on the map — slowly weaving a living network of classrooms, cultures, and communities across all six continents.
Chapters, not entries in a directory.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Hungary
Budapest · Joined 2023 · Exhibited
Where the Danube divides two historic shores and bridges bring them together again beneath the evening lights.
Words for this school
No messages yet. Be the first to write something kind.
Selected wings
Sample · more wings in flight
Twelve of 128 wings from Budapest — the first selection.
This wall keeps growing: the best butterflies of every school land here as they arrive.
Argentina
Acassuso · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where jacaranda-lined streets descend toward the Río de la Plata and the horizon begins in silver.
Words for this school
No messages yet. Be the first to write something kind.
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Acassuso.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Antarctica
Base Esperanza · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where winter is measured in darkness, summer in endless light, and every journey begins across the ice.
Words for this school
No messages yet. Be the first to write something kind.
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Base Esperanza.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Argentina
Mar del Plata · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where fishing boats return beneath the cries of seabirds and the Atlantic shapes the rhythm of the city.
Words for this school
No messages yet. Be the first to write something kind.
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Mar del Plata.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Spain
Zaragoza · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where the Ebro passes beneath old bridges and the cierzo carries stories between Roman stone and Mudéjar towers.
Words for this school
No messages yet. Be the first to write something kind.
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Zaragoza.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Mauritius
Moka · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where green mountains rise behind the central plateau and fields of sugarcane move with the island wind.
Words for this school
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Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Moka.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Türkiye
Kayseri · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where Mount Erciyes stands above the Anatolian plain and volcanic stone gives the city its quiet strength.
Words for this school
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Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Kayseri.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Romania
Șimleu Silvaniei · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where the Măgura hills overlook orchards, tiled roofs and the meeting place of Romanian and Hungarian traditions.
Words for this school
No messages yet. Be the first to write something kind.
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Șimleu Silvaniei.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Indonesia
Tuapejat · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where the rainforest reaches the sea and island journeys follow tides, reefs and narrow channels through the Mentawai archipelago.
Words for this school
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Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Tuapejat.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Bulgaria
Veliko Tarnovo · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where houses climb the hills above the Yantra River and the old fortress watches over the red rooftops.
Words for this school
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Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Veliko Tarnovo.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Kyrgyzstan
Osh · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where Sulayman-Too rises beside one of Central Asia's oldest bazaars and the roads of the Silk Route still seem to meet.
Words for this school
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Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Osh.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Jordan
Sweimeh · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where pale mountains descend toward the Dead Sea and salt gathers along the lowest shoreline on Earth.
Words for this school
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Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Sweimeh.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Greece
Corfu · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where olive-covered hills meet the Ionian Sea and Venetian streets open unexpectedly toward blue water.
Words for this school
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Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Corfu.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Costa Rica
Guanacaste · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where the tropical dry forest turns gold before the rains return and volcanic mountains stand beyond the Pacific coast.
Words for this school
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Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Guanacaste.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Greece
Heraklion · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where the Cretan landscape meets a harbour shaped by centuries of departures, arrivals and Mediterranean exchange.
Words for this school
No messages yet. Be the first to write something kind.
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Heraklion.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
China
Wuhan · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where the Yangtze and Han rivers meet among lakes, bridges and a city continually remaking its horizon.
Words for this school
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Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Wuhan.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
New Zealand
Aoraki / Mount Cook · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where a small alpine village rests beneath Aoraki, surrounded by glaciers, immense skies and the Southern Alps.
Words for this school
No messages yet. Be the first to write something kind.
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Aoraki / Mount Cook.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Cambodia
Kampot · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where the river moves slowly beneath the Bokor hills and pepper fields extend through the warm coastal countryside.
Words for this school
No messages yet. Be the first to write something kind.
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Kampot.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
Chile
Puerto Varas · Joined 2026 · Participating
Where wooden houses face Lake Llanquihue and the snow-covered Osorno Volcano rises beyond the water.
Words for this school
No messages yet. Be the first to write something kind.
Selected wings
Awaiting arrival
Twelve chrysalides, hanging for Puerto Varas.
Each one opens the day their butterfly arrives.
How educational communities participate
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A folder arrives: paper, instructions, and the story so far.
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Every student makes one. Nothing is graded, nothing compared.
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The butterflies travel and join the collective artwork.
Thousands of students have not created their butterfly yet. Perhaps yours will be next.
Every butterfly added to this artwork represents a student whose story becomes part of something larger.
There is no competition. There are no winners.
Only a growing collection of cultures connected through creativity.
Your classroom could become one of them.
Receive the project
Stage 01
Create together
Stage 02
Share the butterflies
Stage 03
Become part of the exhibition
Stage 04
Inspire another educational community
Stage 05
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.”
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This place is waiting for a story.
