2023 awardees known! | Inspiring green education projects

We are very happy to announce that we have concluded the selection process for the EducationForClimate's call for innovative green education actions! 

Believe us, it was really difficult to find the little differences in the so many inspiring projects we received (69 high-quality ones!), letting shine through all your driving ambitions for participatory climate education. 

Congratulations to all of you!

The selected projects will join us live on the online stage during the EducationForClimate Day 2023 on the 15th of November 2023 at 14:00 CET.

Register now to interact with of our growing community and meet our winners.

We hope that these good examples will inspire you for your learning activities.

The Awardees -  How to boost Green Competences?

COMMUNITY VOTE

All projects have blogged about their initiative here on the platform. Based on the community's engagement rate with them (liking, commenting, etc), we are happy to take the community's most inspiring/ useful pick with us to the COP28.

eTwinning project "How do I look forward to Christmas"

LIFELONG LEARNING

focuses on how to integrate sustainable development and climate action into education and training systems & explores how different actors, including learners, educators, trainers, and policymakers, can collaborate to develop and implement relevant competences and skills.

1. Schools Count! project

2. The Greencoin project

3. Sustainability Skills programme

SOCIAL ECONOMY

explores the role of social economy actors in the transition to a green society & focuses on how we can better link education with industry expertise to contribute to the development of green competences and skills (mapping and matching).

1. Transforming Fashion Education: Creating Changemakers for a Greener Future

2. CircularCityChallenge: Teaching students stakeholder analysis for sustainability and circularity

3. Active Collaborative Transitions

DIGITAL INNOVATION

focuses on the intersection of digital innovation and green competence development & explores how digital technologies can be leveraged to support the development of green competences and skills, and how to ensure that digital innovation supports sustainable development goals.

1. CZarco - Behaviour change towards sustainable mobility

2. Girls Go Circular

3. Global Warning: Teaching kids about climate change to urge action, not fear

Methodology 

1. Screening of projects according to communicated and pre-set criteria (see underneath), each asked for in EU Survey specifically. Exclusion from next step if not met (true: outside EU / platform blog missing/ not submitted in English at all). 

2. Weighting: 10 points each for AMBITION, MULTIDISCIPLINARITY, PARTICIPATORY APPROACH, TANGIBILITY, e.g., project scoring out of 40, & 12 points each for COMMUNITY (impact beyond classroom). Averaged point ranking aggregated from multiple evaluators for all projects.  

3. Final ranking and selection according to highest aggregated points received out of 52.  

4. Community vote: call to like + engage with submissions after call closure via various community (action) bulletins with deadline 15.10.2023. Afterwards, counting of likes + comments of each submission topic. Weighing applied to sum: 1*like plus 2*comments.

What is this all about?

• We launched an open call for innovative green education actions from the 12th of June to the 20th of September.

• We recevied 69 high-quality submissions across learning levels and approaches!

• Our aim was: (1) to learn from the community what their green education actions are to highlight the state of art in European initiatives in a community showcase; (2) to illustrate education innovation in the field and engage with the green learning actions to inspire and get inspired; (3) build-up a participatory green learning examples collection on the community platform. 

• Our communicated submission evaluation criteria were: (1) main project base in any EU Member State, (2) complete project description & concrete actions having happened within last 5 years; (3) participatory project design & management; (4) covers at least 1/5 Education for Climate innovation areas; (5) addresses at least 1/12 GreenComp competences; (6) includes one of the innovative learning and teaching methods listed in the Council recommendation on learning for the green transition and sustainable development; (7) tangible project evidence/content; (8) community reception. 

• From all the replies received (both EU survey & platform blog), 3 community examples per domain were selected, with notification about the selection outcome at the beginning of October. 

• The selected projects will join us live on the online stage on the 15th of November 2023 at 14:00 CET in English & the community-engagement one will participate actively in a COP28 online session.