The challenge flow
Participatory community challenges are there for you to inspire and support creative and innovative education initiatives and actions around sustainability.
To make a real difference – in three steps:
To participate in a challenge, create an idea in the Challenge Hub. This is your space to start, join or follow discussions on education for sustainability topics. Ask for help, seek support, share your expertise, and contribute to your own or others’ ideas. It is also a place to find inspiration and momentum for collaborative action.
Before proposing a challenge, consider the following questions:
- Has your entry gained community traction?
- Have you commonly identified an education for climate content/activity idea or problem leading to a set goal, i.e. a tangible education for climate output?
- Does your potential challenge relate to one of the five Coalition priorities?
- Does it cover a UN SDG sustainability domain?
- Have you already found community members beyond your own entity that would like to participate in this endeavour – a more impactful and facilitated ideation process (the challenge core group)?
- Are you willing to be, together with at least two others, the committed challenge facilitators moderating and following up the challenge process and its dedicated review process?
If your idea gains interest, the Education for Climate Secretariat will set up a participatory challenge for you.
To get started, challenge facilitators will need to provide the following:
What’s the name of your challenge?
Try to formulate the title as an ambition or aspiration. This is the first thing other community members will see.
What is the challenge you want to address or the problem you want to solve?
What is the challenge about?
Prepare a short introduction of around 200 words explaining your ambition.
Tell a story about what you want to achieve, who you want to reach, why it matters, how you would like to approach it, and who you would like to involve in the collaboration.
Can you make it visual for others?
Have an image ready that represents an aspect of your challenge. This will be used as your challenge banner.
When preparing your challenge:
- Make sure that all content is in English, so it remains accessible to the wider community.
- Tag your challenge content carefully and include as much relevant information as possible to help others discover it.