2025 Community Priorities

The EducationForClimate Coalition is the European participatory community united by the shared vision of supporting teaching and learning for the green transition and sustainable development. Together with the GreenComp Community, it equips current and future generations with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to live, work and act sustainably to address climate challenges.

Over the course of 2024, we engaged with the community through multiple touchpoints, gathering insights on where the community is heading to conduct a thematic saturation analysis to determine 2025 community priorities.

Good news: these priorities align seamlessly with our five co-defined overarching goals, providing a clear direction for the future.

Building on the strong foundation set in 2024, the 2025 priorities deepen our commitment while expanding on the community-voiced themes.

Explore each priority below to see how you can benefit from and contribute to its development as we work together toward a sustainable and inclusive future. Let's focus on the people and the skills needed to be prepared for the future. 

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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. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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.

Moving Forward

The outcomes of this process are not just a set of priorities but a roadmap for our community's journey towards a more sustainable, educated, and resilient future. 

Each of these priorities interconnects with the others, creating a guidance for action that we will be able to take up throughout the year together. As educators, learners, stakeholders, scientists, policymakers and anybody interested alike. Across all learning levels and fields of experience.

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As we embark on this journey, it is inspiring to see such a strong commitment from our community members, coordinators, advisors and mentors towards these crucial areas.

Let's work together to turn these priorities into realities for a sustainable today and tomorrow.