Welcome to the first Community Bulletin of 2025!
In the spotlight
Our annual activity report for 2024 is out!
Want to know how active our climate education community was thanks to you, our members? Read and explore the community report:
Report | The EducationForClimate Coalition in 2024
Upcoming events
Community Cafe - 2025 Priorities
Over the course of 2024, we engaged with the community through multiple touchpoints, gathering insights on key priorities for 2025. These priorities are now identified. You can learn about them and find out how you can both benefit from and help with their development as we work together towards a sustainable and inclusive future.
If you want to help shape the future of climate education, join our next Community Café on 19 February at 16.30! This collaborative space will bring together our advisory group, country group coordinators, and all community members who wish to contribute to co-design the next concrete steps for the Coalition, based on our new 2025 priorities.
Featured challenge #1
Debating solutions to water contamination: a role-play game
The Joint Research Centre's (JRC) water laboratory has just published the role-playing game on water pollution with which the Education for Climate community was associated.
Caterina Cacciatori and her colleagues have indeed developed a role-play game on debating solutions to water quality contamination based on participatory democracy principles.
It is designed to engage students (aged 16-18 years) in a debate to find solutions to water quality contamination issues. It is inspired by the Model United Nations, and based on the principles of participatory democracy laid out by the Council of Europe.
By playing this game, teachers and students will foster their critical thinking, public speaking, and debating skills, while learning about environmental issues, in particular on water, and the role of science in policy-making.
Featured challenge #2
A competence framework for research integrity & responsible innovation
Sadly, environmental concerns are not foregrounded in most guidelines for research ethics and training in research integrity. RE4GREEN aims to address this gap.
If you're interested in being an expert participant, send a one-line introduction to the community organisers.
GreenComp community
The first GreenComp report is out!
Want to know how active the GreenComp community has been thanks to you in 2023 and 2024?
As the Education for Climate Coalition started a new chapter in 2025, it is now time to reassess the priorities for the GreenComp community in 2025!
Join our first GreenComp Café of 2025 on the 19th of March.
Education for Climate TALKS of the month (republished)
Assessing the impact of sustainability and climate change education - ft. Jelle Boeve-de Pauw
We will learn about project ‘IMP>ACT’ which is developing an assessment framework for “action competence”. Learn more about the objectives and the expectations of this project by listening to this TALK.
Education for Climate TALKS of the month (republished)
The better you know your subject, the less you are vulnerable to disinformation - ft. Kari Kivinen
Disinformation is a real threat to our democracies and makes it difficult for any learner to navigate online information. Learners needs to have the right tools and competences to be able to discriminate between accurate and misleading data. Let us hear what international education expert Kari Kivinen has to say on the topic of disinformation and digital literacy.
Community posts of the month
Soil Education: a STEM Integrated Approach MOOC
Join this course and learn about the importance of soil education and how it can be integrated in your STEM teaching. You will understand how teaching about soil health can steer your educational activities towards tackling real-life problems, integrated teaching and other innovative pedagogies. You will also learn how tackling soil health issues can help you discuss and make more relevant to your students’ life many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and EU policies.
Community posts of the month
A call from the Club of Rome: contributors on education for sustainability
The Club of Rome (which plays a leading role in shifting our global priorities towards sustainability since the 1970s (Limits to Growth) ) has published a call of great relevance for this community. They are looking for the contribution from educators, researchers and practitioners who have explored new learning paradigms and their ability to foster systemic transformation for better futures on both the local and international scales. Deadline: 15th March 2025
Community posts of the month
The IMP>ACT project has launched its first explainer video
This explainer video presents the key concepts and ambitions of the IMP>ACT project.
Community posts of the month
Explore the CRISEPAC Project Tools
The CRISEPAC Project is a groundbreaking initiative addressing the impacts of climate change in Europe through innovative education and tools for schools. Project partners have created innovative learning materials to tackle natural risks in Europe.
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