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EducationForClimate update: NEW country groups, NEW home page and other NEWS for a good start of the year!
We wish all our members an excellent New Year, and hope that this 2024 will be rich in green educational resolutions.
And to get the year off to a good start, we are delighted to welcome a number of new country to our community, adding to the EU member states the now full list of partner states in the European Education Area, including Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Türkiye.
A warm welcome to them all!
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This start of the year is also the occasion to introduce the new home page of our collaborative website and a refurbished menu.
We hope that this will simplify your navigation and improve your user experience.
Last but not least, a new version of our flyer is now available with a new “How to contribute” poster that will enable you to explain the aims and functions of our community simply and visually.
Discover the new community flyer
Featured challenge
2024 Community Priorities: shaping our challenges in the coming year
Following the recent voting on the EducationForClimate Coalition's 2024 community priorities and after having consolidated the voting of community members with our Advisory Group, we are now glad to share with you the priorities that will shape our actions and challenges in the coming year.
All priorities are nicely aligned with our 5 co-defined overarching goals: teacher training, green competences, Youth, greening schools and climate resilience.
Upcoming events
European Educational Leadership Network Week: EducationforClimate webinar - 16 February
The EducationForClimate Coalition will be present during the European Educational Leadership week.
We will propose a workshop under the title “Education for Climate Coalition: community co-creation for sustainability” involving community members to illustrate the diversity of the community and the possibilities it offers.
Join us on 16 February and let’s spread the voice.
Community Café – 21 February
Come to our Community Café to network and ask us anything! This monthly running meeting with community companions is for you the occasion to learn about the last news of the community and to share any information or idea you may want to talk about.
Session’s agenda: Welcome + Getting to know each other 5’/Community News 10'/Open Community Topic/Question Time 15'/A Challenge Hub initiative 10'/Community Feedback 5'
Enrol to receive a Webex invitation
GreenComp community
GreenComp 2024 activities
Community members recently met to brainstorm the GreenComp community’s activities for early 2024.
Members plan to start on developing learning scenarios building on the European sustainability competence framework, distinguishing educational level and competences developed.
Let's create learning scenarios!
Next GreenComp Café - 14 February, from 17:00 to 18:00 CET
First Café in a series of two co-creation workshops that will support the validation of an evaluation rubric to help schools rank and select innovation projects based on the their compatibility with the GreenComp framework codeveloped by The Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the European Schools.
Education for Climate TALKS of the month
What is Cyprus doing on green education? ft. Aravella Zachariou
In Cyprus, education for sustainable development (ESD) is a main priority. It is embedded in a national strategy for sustainable development that sees sustainability as a cross-cutting issue.
Learn more about the strategy and the main initiatives of the Republic of Cyprus regarding ESD with Aravella Zachariou, Head of the unit in charge of education and Sustainable Development of the Ministry of Education sport and youth.
What is the Czech Republic doing on green education? ft. Vítězslav Slíva
Czech Republic has a long term plan (10 years) which is now reaching its second implementation part with sustainable education being tackled as a cross-cutting topic.
Vítězslav Slíva, ministerial Councillor in the Department of Strategy and analytics of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, explains in this TALK the strategy and initiatives of the Czech Republic education ministry regarding sustainable education.
Community posts of the month
Digital Seminar series "Science is everywhere. Let’s talk about…"
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission is hosting another edition of Digital School Seminars in Italian for the school year 2023/24 to tackle three important topics addressed by JRC researchers: Planet, Safety and Society.
Towards a new water management (sea water, fresh water) as facing water restriction in some countries
3 teachers-students in an International Teaching Master Program from Villeneuve-D’Ascq in France are looking for partners to contribute to their projects focusing on ecological awareness and water management. Help them out!
Lehrkräfteworkshop: Messen, verstehen, agieren: Klimawandel im interaktiven MINT-Unterricht
Digitaler Workshop zum Klimawandel im Unterricht für Lehrkräfte. Die Fortbildung gliedert sich in Vorträge und praktische Übungen mit Hilfe von digitalen Tools.
Eduquer en anthropocène, ouvrage collectif dirigé par Pierron & Wallenhorst
Partagez vos réactions et commentaires sur l’ouvrage collectif dirigé par Pierron & Wallenhorst, « Eduquer en anthropocène » (2019, éditions Le Bord de l'eau), ouvrage qui aborde également les politiques éducatives relatives au développement durable.
Kompetence za 21. Stoletje
Spoznajte nov priročnik "Kompetence za 21. stoletje", ki je nastal v okviru projekta "Akademija za kombinirano učenje", ki ga spodbuja Ministrstvo za kohezijo in regionalni razvoj.
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