We wish you all an excellent summer with this last newsletter before taking a summer break.
Time to rest for those who can, but also to reflect on our future and joint green education projects!
The EducationForClimate Secretariat
In the spotlight
2024 Call for innovative green education actions: multiple languages now available!
You have until 8 September to respond to our call and give visibility to your innovative green education project.
You can now find all the EU language versions of the call description in the EducationForClimate country group streams for better dissemination.
Featured challenge
Discover the 2024 Challenges!
Take advantage of your summer break to find out about the inspiring ideas and challenges shared by your fellow EducationForClimate peers!
You'll find a wide range of proposals here, whether it's an invitation to support the design of a role-playing game on water, a MOOC on learning for sustainable development, a photo competition, or anything else to which you can make a valuable contribution.
Your peers are waiting for you!
More information
We also invite you to check this new board on the EducationForClimate platform (only accessible to logged-in community members) that offers you the opportunity to connect with like-minded climate education enthusiasts to post and seek job (shadowing), traineeship. mentoring, funding & collaboration offers.
Upcoming events
Community Café – 25 September
Come to our Community Café to learn about green education projects, network and ask us anything!
"Gaming with AI and climate change": the starring participants of the second season of the Youth Climate LAB (YCL) will present during this Café their practical recommendations and the pilot learning scenario.
Join to discover their work, provide feedback and discuss how to implement their suggestions.
Enroll
You missed the JUNE and July Cafés? You can now watch them again, the recordings are available!
June Café on UNESCO Greening Curriculum Guidance and Green School Quality Standard.
July Café on a water role-play and a EU MOOC on learning for sustainability.
GreenComp community
Discover the Sustainability conversations: the GreenComp game!
A simple and enjoyable conversational card game to learn and play with the SDGs, the GreenComp competences and the 5 priorities of the EducationForClimate community.
GreenComp ongoing activities – summer recap
The GC community is still working on the creation of learning scenarios or similar materials around GreenComp (check the comments) and on mapping existing assessment tools based on the GreenComp framework (you need to log in to access both links).
As a little summer present, we would also like to give you the possibility to download, edit and share a self- certification for all GreenComp community members!
GreenComp café – 18 September
This café will resume our monthly meeting after the summer break. Join us and engage with other community members on different experiences using the framework.
Education for Climate TALKS of the month
University for SDGs, an Innovative idea of cooperation – ft. Noemi Grippi and Alessandro Padovan
Find out from two of its members what the University for the SDGs is all about.
This recent Italian organisation aims to create an interdisciplinary network of young leaders and professionals to promote the Sustainable Development Goals through the organisation of activities and events involving academia, businesses, institutions and third sector entities.
Watch the TALK
“Everyone has to understand we have to go back to schools”, ft. Patrick Paul Walsh
Patrick Paul Walsh, Vice President of Education and Director of the SDG Academy at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) shares with us his personal journey towards sustainability, explains what the SDG Academy does in practice and what our priorities should be in terms of climate education action.
Community posts of the month
Girls Go Circular Ambassadors Programme
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Community has launched the Girls Go Circular Ambassadors Programme, designed to empower young talents aged 14-19 who have graduated from the Girls Go Circular learning programme.
Find more about this opportunity https://eit-girlsgocircular.eu/ambassadors-programme/ and apply by 30 July 2024.
Learning platform on Low Carbon Travel - ATRE project
Tourism is responsible for around 10% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and is a key economic sector in many regions.
The objectives of ERASMUS+ project "Acting for European Responsible Tourism (ATRE) are to mobilise a network of European stakeholders interested in the sustainable development of tourism and to co-produce tools to educate adults in the issue.
Learn more about the project
Art, Design & Sustainability – ARDES project
The Erasmus+ ARDES project developed and validated a short learning program (SLP) for higher education about Art, Design & Sustainability.
The open-access course was peer-reviewed by experts in the fields of design and environmentalism, and was successfully validated in a project pilot with more than 130 students and 10 teachers.
More information
New study: "Youth and climate crisis: participation and learning in complex, adaptive systems"
Read this article by Spannring and Weachter and share your thoughts about what it shows.
It is essential “to make the educational institution as far as possible a microcosm of the emerging sustainable society […]” (Sterling 2001, p. 33). This implies a transformative, constructive and participatory approach with a strong sense of emergence to both “education for change” and “education in change”.
Read more and react
NBS Education Summit
The NBS Education Summit on 26 September 2024 is a pivotal conference at the intersection of science, policy, and Nature-based Solutions (NBS) practice.
This hybrid event will present interim insights from the project NBS EduWORLD, culminating in policy recommendations and guidelines for EU policymakers.
ПЪРВА НАЦИОНАЛНА НАУЧНО-ПРАКТИЧЕСКА КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ НА ТЕМА „ЗЕЛЕНО ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ ЗА УСТОЙЧИВО БЪДЕЩЕ“
Синдикат на българските учители - Общински координационен съвет - Пазарджик, Национална група България - Коалиция образование за климата - Европейска комисия и Община Пазарджик, с подкрепата на Регионално управление по образованието – Пазарджик и представители на български посланици на European Climate Pact и Scientix, организират научно-практическа конференция за учители, директори, педагогически специалисти и ученици, работещи по проблемите на промените в климата, използването на зелената енергия и изграждането на ключови компетентности в областта на екологичното образование и възпитание.
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