Community Bulletin July 2023

Summer time and climate education actions!

In the spotlight

We will soon move to our summer quarters, taking a break from publishing our newsletter in August. The break is the ideal time to share with us your innovative green education actions.

Our call is awaiting for your contribution. Remember you have until 10 September to contribute.

It is also the right time to share with us your summer reading list (books, papers, articles, games, webpages, materials, etc.) for climate education!

We wish you all an excellent summer break, away from extreme weather events that are now unfortunately becoming more common and severe here and there. Take care.

Looking forward to seeing you in September with a new bulletin!

Access the call on innovative green education actions  

Share your Summer 2023 Climate Education Reads

New challenge ahead: measuring water surface temperature by students

Featured challenge

You might remember our past challenge inviting teachers and students to engage in a playful activity to enrich the European Atlas of the Sea?

From September onwards, we will re-run this challenge giving you the possibility to collect data on water temperature at your sea, river, lake, pond, etc.

Let us know what you would need to do it. We are here to support you.

Have a look at the instructions

Community Café: 13 September

Upcoming events

Come to our Community Café to network and ask us anything! 

This monthly running meeting with community companions groups all community dynamics that make up our education for environmental sustainability social community fabric (platform functionalities, participatory challenges, etc.) 

But it also the occasion to meet and talk about any other business related to green education!

Any questions ahead of time? Comment in the event page.

Enroll

GreenComp Café: let’s learn together #1

GreenComp community

This community Café taking place on 6 September will start a conversation on understanding and getting familiar with the GreenComp Framework.

Join us and engage with the authors of this European framework!

Enroll here

Poll: Which GreenComp competence area would you like to focus on first?

GreenComp community

Vote on the competence area you would like to focus on in the upcoming café with the authors of the GreenComp.

Access the poll and vote here (scroll down)

Study: GreenComp as a tool for examining motivation of vocational teachers to create learning opportunities for the green transition

GreenComp community

Maria Sourgiadaki is proposing a research paper investigating the motivation of vocational teachers in Greece to create learning opportunities that develop sustainability competences in students, using the European competence framework GreenComp.

Read the paper

Teaching sustainability and active citizenship in the European Schools – ft. Manuel Bordoy

Education for Climate TALKs of the month

This talk gives the floor to Manuel Bordoy who is the Deputy Secretary-General of the European Schools ( https://www.eursc.eu/en ) that recently engaged in the cocreation of a complementary course on sustainable development and active citizenship to which the Education for Climate Coalition has given support.

In this talk, the rationale and the details of this interesting initiative are being explained. An inspiring example of how a whole education system tries to embed sustainability in its education offer.

Watch the TALK

Educating the actors of tomorrow’s economy, the Shift Project - ft. Vinciane Martin

Education for Climate TALKS of the month

Vinciane Martin from the Shift Project (https://theshiftproject.org/ ) explains the details of a study they conducted to take stock of the integration of energy and climate change issues in the curricula of French education management schools, as they believe green competences should be strengthened.
 
Unfortunately, this study revealed eventually that these topics are barely taught…

Watch the TALK

Youth Climate LAB: what changes do you suggest

Community posts of the month
 

The third episode of the Education for Climate Youth Climate LAB on sustainable fashion took place on 6 July.

Here are the main outcomes of this meeting that addressed individual and collective actions to make unsustainable fashion trends more sustainable from the entrepreneurial perspective.

Learn more

Educational Live Action Role Playing for Climate Change

Community posts of the month

Project GreenEduLARP aims at using the tool of EduLARP (Educational Live Action Role Playing) for Climate Change Education.

This way students but also teachers will be connecting the topics related to Climate Change learned in classroom with real-life situations, therefore more easily relating them to their own life, making connections also on how green their life and attitude is.

Learn more

Open door for green competences!

Community posts of the month

To encourage discussion and learning around how to boost green competences for a sustainable future, we are happy to host sometimes visits & local Cafés in Brussels & Ispra.

Like this one with Students from Slovakia and Armenia. Have a look what the outcome was - and if you are interested in an own session, feel free to reach out to us!

Learn more (check also the comments)

B.A.-BA du climat et de la biodiversité

Community posts of the month

Le Centre national d’enseignement à distance (Cned) a récemment publié une très intéressante formation permettant d’acquérir des connaissances fondamentales sur le changement climatique et la biodiversité, fruit d’une collaboration entre experts scientifiques et experts de la pédagogie numérique.
 
Découvrez la formation

Синтез на знания и анализ на мерките за засилено природовъзпитание

Community posts of the month

Центърът за знания за биоразнообразието на Европейската комисия е събрал нова тема за образованието и биоразнообразието на своя уебсайт. Това е синтез на знания и анализ на мерките за засилено образование в областта на природата, подчертавайки съответните политики, проекти и инициативи на ЕС.

Вижте

Any comments or thoughts? >>> Comment underneath!

Unsubscribe (click on Leave group)