Join us for a key moment in the EducationForClimate journey as we prepare for an exciting new chapter in 2025!
As the Coalition welcomes its new Secretariat, we invite you to help shape the future of climate education. This Community Café will be a space for collaboration, bringing together our advisory group, country group coordinators, and all community members who wish to contribute to co-design the next steps for the Coalition, based on the priorities we gather during 2024.
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The agenda for the Cafe is following:
Welcome + Presentation of the new secretariat
Community News
Discussion on priorities for 2025
After a short introduction into the priorities, you will have an opportunity to join a breakout session of your preference and discuss with your peers why this particular topic is important to you and how you would like to implement it through Education for Climate Community.
The priorities:
1. Teacher Training: Empowering Educators
Empowering educators is central to our mission. In 2025, this focus expands to emphasize networking and good practice exchange, enabling educators to share successful strategies and resources across borders. Collaboration with higher education institutions will foster advanced pedagogical methods, bridging the gap between research and practice in climate education. A special focus will be on EdTech solutions, highlighting (digital) learning and credential technologies to enhance accessibility and engagement.
2. Greening Schools: A Holistic Approach
Schools continue to serve as hubs for sustainability action. In 2025, the focus shifts to school leadership and whole-school approaches, establishing schools as living labs for sustainability to embedding climate consciousness into everyday school practices.
3. Green Competences: Cultivating Sustainability Learning
The evolution of green competences into sustainability learning reflects our commitment to lifelong learning. Pooling and applying good practices and exchanging on their lessons learnt remains cornerstone of this priority. STE(A)M will be the particular 2025 focus: supporting innovative teaching and learning experiences through STEM approaches and exploring actions through art and cultural heritage, broadening the scope of sustainability education.
5. Youth: Building a Sustainable Future
Youth engagement remains pivotal. The 2025 priorities introduce discussions on participation incentives to drive meaningful student involvement. By fostering student engagement at all levels, we aim to empower young individuals as active contributors to sustainable solutions, ensuring their voices shape the future of climate education.
5. Climate Action: Learning Groups
From 2024's climate resilience theme, climate action through learning groups is following as logical continuation. Climate action emphasizes practical learning and action in community groups. In 2025, we spotlight nature-based solutions in biodiversity and agriculture fields, while fostering citizen science initiatives to engage rural and corporate communities in actionable learning. Topics such as climate justice, security, and cross-border collaboration will be explored.
Summary of breakout sessions and good-bye
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