General Information
Ahead of Education for Climate Day 2026 on 22 October, we are looking for strong examples of climate education in practice. Share your work to inspire others.
Call for innovative green education actions
Which innovative green education projects have you implemented in your learning environment?
What are we looking for?
Following the previous edition, we are looking for contributions in 3 thematic areas, building on our community's 2026 priority of Intergenerational Fairness.
For each theme, we are curious to know: Do you run or host an innovative education project? Tell us and share your actions with the community.
1. Youth leadership and intergenerational dialogue for climate action
This theme focuses on projects that empower young people to take an active role in climate and sustainability action while supporting schools as living environments for sustainability. It highlights projects where learners, educators, families, local authorities, civil society organisations and other community actors work together to embed green values and practices into everyday school life.
The theme places particular emphasis on partnerships that make sustainability tangible, locally relevant and shared across generations. It recognises that intergenerational fairness depends not only on preparing young people for the future, but also on giving them agency to help shape it within their schools and communities.
Key questions:
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How does your project enable young people to take an active role in climate or sustainability action?
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How are learners involved in designing, leading or influencing concrete activities or decisions within the project?
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How does the project bring together schools, families, local actors or community organisations?
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How does the project contribute to a whole-school or whole-institution approach to sustainability?
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What makes the partnership locally rooted and potentially transferable to other contexts?
2. Citizenship education and institutional action for sustainability
This theme focuses on projects that support citizens, learners and communities to understand, discuss and act on green and sustainability issues. It is open to projects led by civil society organisations, companies, public institutions, researchers, cultural actors, non-formal education providers or other organisations working to make sustainability education more accessible and action oriented.
The theme highlights projects that connect knowledge, research, institutional expertise or professional practice with education and public engagement. It gives space to initiatives that go beyond the school setting and involve wider groups in learning, participation and shared responsibility for the green transition.
Key questions:
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How does your project support citizens, learners or communities to engage with green and sustainability issues?
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Who leads the project, and how are different target groups involved?
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How does the project translate research, institutional expertise, professional practice or community knowledge into accessible learning?
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How does it encourage participation, responsibility or behaviour change?
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What makes the project inclusive, practical and relevant for different groups?
3. GreenComp: envisioning sustainable futures in teaching and learning
This theme focuses on projects that bring the GreenComp framework into practice, with particular attention to the competence area of envisioning sustainable futures. It highlights projects that help learners imagine possible futures, understand the long-term consequences of today’s choices and develop the competences needed to contribute to more sustainable pathways.
The theme also recognises the role of educators, trainers and facilitators in creating learning experiences that support future thinking, learner agency and sustainability competences.
Key questions:
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How does your project use GreenComp or sustainability competences in teaching and learning?
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How does the project help learners imagine, compare or work towards more sustainable futures?
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How does it connect present-day choices with future environmental, social or economic impacts?
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What practical tools, methods or activities support learners in developing futures thinking?
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How can the approach be adapted by other educators, trainers or learning communities?
How to submit your project?
To introduce your project and share your green education action with us and the community, please do two things:
Only complete applications (including survey and blog) will be considered.
N.B.: You need to be a verified user to do so - join an onboarding session to update your user status!
Your data will be used and processed in accordance with the Education for Climate Coalition Data Protection Notice. By submitting a project, you confirm you own the copyright of all media (e.g., images, music) used for the submission or have a license to use them and that your submission does not infringe any privacy rights, copyright or other intellectual property laws or rights of any person. Any form of plagiarism or copyright infringement will result in disqualification.
Who is eligible?
The green education action must be:
- based in and across any European Education Area Country (EU 27 plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Turkey).
- started, ongoing or recently completed (within the last 5 years) with concrete implementation actions having happened.
- Submissions that already participated in previous editions are eligible in case new workstreams, materials or other elements have been developed.
We welcome submissions across all formal and informal education levels from students, educators, and stakeholders alike - whether small, big, local or international, public or private.
What is in it for you and the community?
Among the submissions, three projects per theme will be selected to present their work and discuss the outcomes at the Education for Climate Day 2026.
The representatives of the selected projects will be provided a fully funded visit to Brussels for the Education for Climate Day 2026 on 22 October to participate in the hybrid sessions and enjoy an opportunity to interact with the other participants from across the European Education Area active in climate education.
What is the timeline?
- The call is open from 18/06/2026 to 6/09/2026 .
- From all the submissions received, we will select 3 project examples per theme. You will receive a notification about the selection outcome at the end of September.
- The awarded projects will join us live on the hybrid stage on 22 October 2026.
What are we evaluating?
We want to illustrate education innovation in the field and engage with your implementation projects to inspire and get inspired in a truly participatory approach facilitated by the Education for Climate Coalition.
The call for green education actions asks for your project to fulfil the following criteria:
- Location of project: in and across any European Education Area Country
- Ambition: This criterion responds to the question “How inspiring, courageous and innovative is the submission?”. This criterion should be evaluated in view of the specific call section.
- Relevance: How is the project actually addressing the topic?
- Interdisciplinarity: Within this criterion, importance will be given to how many and which education for climate innovation areas are covered. It also considers which and how many GreenComp competences are addressed.
- Participatory nature of the project: Considering that the community is based on its participatory elements, a crucial element will be given to this aspect. It answers the question “Is the submission shaped and implemented by at least two education actor categories as listed in the survey?”.
- Education for Climate Innovation Area Coverage: covers at least 1/5
- GreenComp Engagement: addresses at least 1/12 competences
- Innovation Learning Engagement: includes one of the learning & teaching methods listed in the June 2022 Council Recommendation on learning for the green transition and sustainable development in order to embrace learning goal(s) and illustrates its didactics/ pedagogy
- Tangibility: this criterion responds to the question “Does the submissions provide telling evidence in form of concrete and codified content, like material, activity, learning action or in form of photos, pdfs, videos, documents etc?”.
- Community impact beyond learning and teaching environments: this criterion focuses on showcasing projects that do not only have an impact in teaching and learning communities, but it also addresses and links with community needs.
Each thematic area will be reviewed by a dedicated panel from the Education for Climate Secretariat (EACEA, DG EAC, and experts). After an eligibility check, the panel will evaluate each project based on five criteria: ambition, multi-disciplinarity, participation, tangibility, and community impact. Each criterion is rated from 1 to 10, with community impact weighted more heavily, contributing up to 12 points, for a total of 52.