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How to boost green competences for a sustainable future? 

Susanne SZKOLA
Susanne SZKOLA • 22 May 2023
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Dear community, 

Last year, we called on you to get to know which innovative green education projects you implemented in your learning environments. 

The outcome was inspiring: you shared soo many good practices and project examples with the community that all let shine through your driving ambitions for participatory climate education. 

So, this year, we are happy to repeat this call within the framework of the European Year of Skills and our focus on boosting green competences. 

This community call concerns our shared need for curated good practices in climate education where we ask ourselves "How to implement green education solutions & what is already out there?" 

Taking the three vividly engaging Policy & Practice labs forward that happened during this year's EducationForClimate Policy Forum, we are happy to launch this year’s call on three themes: 

Boosting Green Competences and Education Transformation in and for 
 

  1. 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

The Lifelong Learning Lab 
 

  1. 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)

The Social Economy Lab 
 

  1. 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

The Digital Innovation Lab 
 

For each lab theme, we are curious: Do you run or host an innovative green education project? 

Then tell us and share your actions with the community! 

From all submissions, we will select three projects per theme that will be part of a European community showcase session to leverage your work during the Education for Climate Day 2023. 

And among those three selected per theme (see criteria below), each one will get one exciting prize, up to the winners' preferences:

  • come for a travel-funded visit to Brussels during the European Education Summit at the end of November 2023 & meet and greet other participants
  • be the featured spot in and EducationForClimate TALK
  • get a digital workshop with a Joint Research Centre scientist

Plus, a community praise goody: the community entry with the most likes will be part of our COP28 online session.

HOW? | What to do now 

We are looking forward to all community inspiration received! 

WHY? | The Education for Climate Day, urgent climate action and good practice examples 

The Education for Climate Day 2023 will happen on 15th November this year. 

Under the theme of "Boosting Green Competences for a Sustainable Future" we will focus on many Education for Climate issues, from climate change challenges over green education solutions to innovative implementation actions. 

This community call concerns our shared need for curated good practices in climate education where we ask ourselves "How to implement green education solutions & what is already out there?"  

We want to illustrate education innovation in the field and engage with your projects to inspire and get inspired in a truly participatory approach facilitated by the Education for Climate Coalition. 

WHAT? | The Call 

We want to learn from you what your green education actions are to highlight the state of art in European initiatives in a community showcase. 

To introduce your project and share your green education solutions with us and the community, please: 

The survey will take you roughly 12 minutes and you will be able to save your application at any step to continue later.  

You can be as creative and short for your blogpost on the platform as you like! 

Only COMPLETE applications (survey AND blog) will be considered. 

This call is running from the 12th June 2023 to the 20th September 2023. 

From all the replies received, we will select 3 community examples per theme that will join us live on the online stage on the 15th of November 2023.

You will receive a notification about the selection outcome at the beginning of October 2023. 

WHAT are we looking for? | Evaluation criteria 

We want to illustrate education innovation in the field and engage with your implementation projects to inspire and get inspired in a truly participatory approach facilitated by the Education for Climate Coalition. 

The call for green education actions asks for:  

  • MAIN PROJECT BASE: in and across any EU Member State(s) 
  • PROJECT/ ACTION STATUS & IMPACT DESCRIPTION: started, ongoing or recently completed within the 5 last years with concrete implementation actions having happened plus a description how they made a difference for the better – whether small, big, local, international (all welcome from all education levels)  
  • PARTICIPATORY PROJECT DESIGN & MANAGEMENT: shaped and run by at least two education actor categories as listed in the survey 
  • EDUCATION FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION AREA COVERAGE: covers at least 1/5 
  • GREENCOMP ENGAGEMENT: addresses at least 1/12 competences 
  • INNOVATIVE LEARNING ENGAGEMENT: includes one of the learning & teaching methods listed in the June 2022 Council Recommendation on learning for the green transition and sustainable development in order to embrace learning goal(s) and illustrates its didactics/ pedagogy 
  • TANGIBILITY: provides telling evidence in form of concrete & codified content, like material/ activity / process / learning action (in any EU language), or in form of any illustrating photos, pdfs, videos, documents/ pdfs, URLs etc. 
  • COMMUNITY RECEPTION: is pitched and showcased as blog in any style format on the platform & is then liked by the community 

WHEN? | Call Timeline 

  • The call is open from the 12th June to the 20th of September 2023.  
  • From all the replies received, we will select 3 community examples per theme. You will receive a notification about our selection outcome at the beginning of October. 
  • The selected projects will join us live on the online stage on the 15th of November 2023.

Questions, help needed?

Comment here or write to us!

Day 2023 Programme

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