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What is the call about?
The Education for Climate Day 2025 will happen on 23 October this year. We are looking for good practices in climate education to feature at the event. Share your work to inspire others and help scale across Europe.
Call for Inspiring Good Practices
Which innovative green education projects have you implemented in your learning environments?
What are we looking for?
Following the previous edition, we are looking for contributions in 3 thematic areas, building on 2025 community priorities.
For each theme, we are curious: Do you run or host an innovative education project? Then tell us and share your actions with the community!
1. Schools as living labs for sustainability
Positioning schools as sustainability hubs that foster environmental awareness and embed green practices into everyday life through infrastructure, behaviour, and community engagement.
Do you work on transforming schools into active participants in sustainability efforts?
Specifically, how can schools function as centres of ecological action and awareness where students, staff, and the wider community engage with real-world environmental challenges? What models exist for supporting these whole-school transitions, and what roles do design, policy, and pedagogy play?
Additionally, how can these initiatives remain rooted in local context while aligning with broader goals ensuring that what works in one school can inspire many others?
2. Good practices integrating GreenComp framework within STEM teaching and learning
Exploring how sustainability competences take root in STEM education through inventive, real-world learning that merges scientific thinking with environmental responsibility.
Do you work with STEM educators or learners?
Specifically, how can the GreenComp framework be meaningfully embedded into the teaching and learning of STEM subjects? What kinds of methods, such as hackathons, workshops, games, or hands-on experiments, best promote system thinking, responsibility, and agency among learners?
Additionally, how can these practices remain deeply engaging and context-specific, while being adaptable and replicable across diverse educational settings?
3. Citizenship education
Empowering future generations with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to navigate global challenges through education that builds climate-conscious, tech-savvy, and socially engaged citizens.
Do you work with learners or educators on citizenship education?
Specifically, how can teaching and learning approaches foster active citizenship in the context of the twin transition, the digital and green transformations shaping our future? What kinds of innovative, action-oriented methods can best support this goal?
Additionally, how can these initiatives help young people connect global challenges to local realities, while remaining relevant, inclusive, and scalable?
How to submit your action?
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.
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?
From all submissions, we will select three projects per theme that will be part of 3 European community showcase sessions to leverage their work during the Education for Climate Day 2025.
Get inspired by the 2024 project collection
The selected projects’ coordinators will come for a travel-funded visit to Brussels for the Education for Climate Day 2025 on 23 October 2025 to participate in the hybrid sessions and meet other participants across the European Education Area active in climate education.
What is the timeline?
- The call is open from 12 June to 5 September 2025.
- From all the replies received, we will select 3 community examples per theme. You will receive a notification about our selection outcome at the end of September.
- The awarded projects will join us live on the hybrid stage on 23 October 2025.
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:
- MAIN PROJECT BASE: in and across any European Education Area Country
- PROJECT/ ACTION STATUS & IMPACT DESCRIPTION: started, ongoing or recently completed within the 5 last years with concrete implementation actions having happened plus a description how they have made a difference for the better – whether small, big, local, international (all welcome from all education levels)
- PARTICIPATORY PROJECT DESIGN & MANAGEMENT: shaped and run 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
- INNOVATIVE 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: provides telling evidence in the form of concrete & codified content, like material/ activity / process / learning action (in any EU language), or in form of any illustrating photos, pdfs, videos, documents, URLs, etc.
- COMMUNITY RECEPTION: is pitched and showcased as a blog in any style format on the platform & is then liked by the community
Each thematic area will be reviewed by a dedicated panel made up of at least three representatives 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.