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December | 20.12.2023 at 5 PM
AGENDA
1. Welcome – Secretariat
2. Agenda co-setting – all group members and Secretariat
a. Short report: Where does Education for Climate stand? - Secretariat follow-up action points
- How do you see the community in 2024?
- impact assessment
b. Elements of common agenda / items of interest
3. Conclusion and way forward – all group members
4. AOB
November | 22.11.2023 at 5 PM
AGENDA
1. Welcome – Secretariat
2. Agenda co-setting – all group members and Secretariat
a. Short report: Where does Education for Climate stand? - Secretariat follow-up action points
b. Elements of common agenda / items of interest
3. Conclusion and way forward – all group members
4. AOB
OCTOBER | 18.10.2023 at 5 PM
present: Anestis, Anna, Daniela, Irene, Judith, Tremeur, Valeria, Susanne
AGENDA
1. Welcome – Secretariat
2. Agenda co-setting – all group members and Secretariat
a. Short report: Where does Education for Climate stand? - Secretariat follow-up action points
- EducationForClimate Day 2023 - GreenComp & Inspiring Projects
- ethnographic sustainability research - where/how included in this programm (in research session?) > mapping challenges & similar work streams in country group session
- Essential to include values in GreenComp work > in the GreenComp session, values are tackled in-game + new café coming up on this topic in sub-community on GreenComp
- The Challenge Hub & The Youth Space - as complimentary group of the Youth Climate Lab
- What does youth mean? > Focus on the young, but open to everybody (youth as thematic focus, but not closed age range)
- Youth space as connection space on this, from which purpose-led challenges are derived: the Youth Climate Lab > a year-long exercise with youth to engage to find solutions on a pressing issue in co-creation mode, e.g. actionable recommendations
- Launch of the next Youth Climate Lab season 2024 (based on poll open now!) at the Day 2023
- Ambition: To connect with teachers for better outreach and in-class actions - but how?
- Feedback:
- interesting, enriching for students to connect - not only for young, but with youth as stars!
- Q: will you go to schools to offer participation opportunities? > summer schools with international angle?
- landscape education as cooperation partner for youth engagement (Daniela)
- teacher-trainer aspect relevant: option 1: reach out to official institutions doing teacher training in contact with regional schools to multiply via teachers (Anna offers to be link in Trentino; option 2: reach out to specific cliamte education school streams to design common challenge (take into account age!)
- local language important
- hook onto teacher training days - use stories, good practices/ examples
how to be attractice to students: different age groups + transversal approach
6-10: glossary for learners; 10-14: games, 14-18 career guidance on green jobs; transversal: certification - independent (blockchain? + apps)
- apps: specific on engagement. to measure environment, add to context etc
b. Elements of common agenda / items of interest
- Communication style, channels and main hooks:
- presentation/ videos, short to use - one channel, easy to re-use - mail us!
- JRC scientist video production for community on research for sustainability (in classrooms), example: ES challenge
- Slovakia - environmental festival : identify in every country to multiply - reshare in one space online event outcomes
- Q: knowledge production for whom (teachers/older students) > general agreement: the same, as all learning to adapt to new world: content might be same for learning activities - shape learning landscapes together
- Q: do we have something on facebook around climate education? > Erasmus+ channel communication + individual members, no groups (fragmentation - and no co-creation)
- Erasmus+ good, but needs to be featured also on other EU/ stakeholder channels, like on Climate Action
- General: applauding new community action mailing > our call: help us with posts of the month
3. Conclusion and way forward – all group members
- Looking forward to seeing you on November 15th at the Day - please spread the word (communication material ready by the beginning of next week)
- We will thus postpone our next Advisory Group meeting, that would happen on the same day, to a week later: Monthly advisory group meeting | November 22nd
4. AOB
SEPTEMBER | 20.09.2023 at 5 PM
AGENDA
1. Welcome – Secretariat
2. Agenda co-setting – all group members and Secretariat
a. Short report: Where does Education for Climate stand? - Secretariat follow-up action points
b. Elements of common agenda / items of interest
- Agenda to be reverse order
- transnational vs. local sustainability actions, e.g. overarching platform aim to connect across countries in English with country groups used to connect and facilitate where necessary
3. Conclusion and way forward – all group members
4. AOB
AUGUST | 16.08.2023 at 5 PM
ATTENDED
Valeska
https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/user/1180/information
“Let’s keep schools as places of learning. It is today too hot and people can’t concentrate. We went from 45min to 20 min of teaching. Teachers have difficulties to work. I am worried.”
Anna
https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/user/5953/information
“We have 42 degrees in Rome today.”
Giusi
https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/user/6705/information
“36 degrees in Venice.”
TOPICS
Valeska — How do we get Education for Climate (E4C) more into the schools? What campaigns to run?
Anna — We created a green teacher training, a crash course. It will be available at the beginning of the school year. How could we work better together to overcome country boundaries using the community?
Giusi — We also have a new course built by our team that promotes co-creation, and education with nature. A proposal for teachers/educators/architects/designers who want to create a green learning environment. I would like to present it to the community. Where would be the best place for?
Frederic — Let’s get your feedback on the new Challenge Hub https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/incubator/about and on the new LinkedIn/Instagram carousel visuals mockup.
DISCUSSION
How can I share and contribute the best?
• The “How to contribute book page” is still very valid and important. https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/howtocontribute. Each new member receives a message on their page to promote it when they are verified and onboarded.
• The new Challenge Hub also aims to increase the promotion of participation: https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/incubator/about. Feedback from the group: very well done and clear.
• Idea suggested/ requested. "For some questions, and request for collaboration, would it be possible to have a Miro board as you sometimes do to ease collaboration and to go beyond the simple comments?" Yes. Please request ad-hoc.
How do we get Education for Climate (E4C) more into the schools. What campaigns to run?
• Flyer is available and will be translated and published in all EU languages during the next few weeks. https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/topic/flyer2023
• A paper postcard version in English is tested this month. More soon.
• The calls page helps to have a quick overview of what happens in the community https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/calls.
• Social media carousel visual presented and coming soon.
Overall feedback: Very good! The more visual, the better. The wording used in the carousel visuals is simple, action-driven and easy to catch. Very good too.
• Certificates and awards for schools would be a great way to go. Good news, it is coming. We are testing a new gamification module. Here is the description so far for the community recognition badges and certificates: https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/Community_recognition
Valeska thinks schools will love it! BADGES ARE GREAT NEWS
Crash course from Anna is using GreenComp!
Let’s connect with Valeria, Tremeur and Giusi next week to explore the use case it represents and the possible presentation in a next GreenComp café at the https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/GreenCompCommunity
JULY | 19.07.2023 at 5 PM
AGENDA
1. Welcome – Secretariat
2. Agenda co-setting – all group members and Secretariat
a. Short report: Where does Education for Climate stand? - Secretariat follow-up action points
- Summer Plans & Strategic Orientation
- EducationForClimate Day 2023 Session variety & actions angles: Youth Climate Lab | GreenComp Learning & Game | Inspiring Green Education Projects | Country Group Session with national agencies | Community Agora together with policymakers | COP28 session with scientists and stakeholders | New European Bauhaus: Higher Education Actions in Green Education
- Certification & Gamification
- Learning Community: Challenge Incubator re-positioning as matchmaking for same problems/ solution provision/ mentoring
- Postcards in all languages for outreach (+open communication material)
b. Elements of common agenda / items of interest
- According to you, what has priority? Should we focus on something that is not yet on our list?
A few main points emerged from the discussion that requires further thinking to lead to concrete actions:
- - Disinformation is still a very serious issue that fools people, pupils but also teachers. It is a threat to our democracies, an opinion shared by all participants.
- What could the coalition do to strengthen competences to fight
- disinformation? (priority aligned with Coalition priority “bridging science
- with education”, and under “Embracing complexity in sustainability”, the
- GreenComp competence “Critical thinking”:” To assess information and
- arguments, identify assumptions, challenge the status quo, and reflect on
- how personal, social and cultural backgrounds influence thinking and
- conclusions.”
- - Mapping/collecting the good practices related to climate education/ESD at EU level (and beyond) is a necessary exercise: to learn about the main innovations, share their outcomes and feed possible collaboration, and for the Coalition to possibly take a stand and make clear recommendations based on this mapping exercise (manifesto/white paper ?)
- - Engaging with policy designers/makers is important to make sure the Coalition can lead to systemic change. Hence the importance of making concrete policy recommendations (see precedent point).
Action to take: follow up the discussion during next advisory group and start the co-design of a community action.
3. Conclusion and way forward – all group members
4. AOB
Links shared in the chat during the meeting:
https://www.rcenetwork.org/portal/
https://en.unesco.org/themes/education-sustainable-development/toolbox
https://www.unesco.org/en/education/1974recommendation
https://www.rcenetwork.org/portal/
https://en.unesco.org/themes/education-sustainable-development/toolbox
https://www.unesco.org/en/education/1974recommendation
JUNE | 21.06.2023 at 5 PM
AGENDA & Notes
1. Welcome – Secretariat
2. Introduction round for new members – all group members
3. Agenda co-setting – all group members and Secretariat
a. Short report: Where does Education for Climate stand? - Secretariat follow-up action points
- Call for innovative green education actions now open & save the date for EducationForClimate Day 2023
- Happening on 15th November 2023 - a mix of various sessions to engage community foreseen: check its page for updates
- Challenge outcome ready: water map - what would you need to re-run this from the new school year?
- Will ask broader community in Bulletin to make challenge conditions known before summer for next school year. Help needed to circulate!
- GreenComp Cafe - playing a discussion game on climate education development priorities
- Game well received, interesting findings that seem consistent across rounds so far: social justice and sustainable cities/communities trending, climate action & strong partnerships for the goals perceived as standard necessities. Developing green competences & bridging science with education as first steps - under the condition that decisionmakers are involved/ support / understand actions in close link.
b. Elements of common agenda / items of interest
- new examples of good practice in community's countries
- need to ask for better sourcing of similar questions / problems & various suggestions and examples of approaches/ experience to address them - task for summer: re-position challenge incubator
- role/ positioning : "Green developments and climate education action" vs. sustainable development
- multi-faceted debate on layers of embeddment of themes in sustainability vs, climate and which is more concrete (to understand & act), which is more encompassing (in terms of themes), what is more dominant in curriculum language to justify better community actions/ policy. Tbc.
- GreenComp developments, related to the above updates
- Shared new action insights from Romania that will be streamed into GreenComp community: Most teachers apply in principle, but don't know framework well. Learning activities would be appreciated.
4. Conclusion and way forward – all group members
5. AOB
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*follow-up in-between monthly meetings in Advisory Group platform group
Done dear Daniela Hrončová - looking forward to seeing you in 2 weeks!