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Policy Forum 2024 | The programme is building up!
Only one month to go before the EducationForClimate Policy Forum 2024!
The flagship policy event of our community will be the place to engage in a direct dialogue with policymakers and practitioners in the field of climate resilience aligned with our co-set 2024 community priorities.
The programme is building up nicely. Check it out, register to the event if you still did not find time to do it, and help us spread the news about it!
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Community Cafés as live challenge gatherings
The EducationForClimate Community Cafés are convened every month and gather community members willing to share, learn about their peers’ projects, but also actively engage with their fellow members to seek advice and give support.
In that sense, these meetings of the community can be seen as live challenge gatherings since they offer the possibility to do synchronously what the Challenge hub of the EducationForClimate Community proposes to do asynchronously.
Note that every appointment focuses on a given project presented by a community member and shared in advance with the members, aligned with our community priorities of the year.
Join our Cafés in full co-creation mode!
Upcoming events
EducationForClimate Coalition joins Youth4Ocean/EU4Ocean at the European Youth Week in Brussels! – 12 April
Join the Education for Climate Coalition and the EU4Ocean Coalition to make collective change for the green and digital transitions happen! Together, we achieve sustainability through science, education and engagement.
We welcome everybody to our joint booth at the European Parliament in Brussels on that day!
Learn more
The Youth Climate Lab season 2 has started!
The second season of the Youth Climate Lab of EducationForClimate has started with the following theme: “How to approach AI and climate change in learning communities”.
Young participants are meeting various experts on AI and if the access to their cocreation gatherings is limited, the expert presentations are accessible to everyone.
Check them out!
Note that their next “Lab” will take place next Monday 25 March and will focus on disinformation. You will be soon able to access the experts’ presentations.
Community Café – 24 April
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.
This session will be the occasion to introduce the IMP>ACT project, a new Horizon project that develops an impact assessment framework that can be used by diverse education actors to monitor and evaluate sustainability and climate change education (SCCE).
Session’s agenda: Welcome + Getting to know each other 10’/Community News 5'/A Challenge Hub initiative 20'/Open Community Topic/Question Time around challenge 25'
Enrol to receive a Webex invitation
GreenComp community
GreenComp gathering: let's share use cases – 27 March
This one year anniversary session since the launch of the GreenComp community in March 2023 will be the opportunity to hear the initial findings of the report contracted by the European Commission around use cases bulding on the GreenComp.
Additionally updates on the project EDUCLIMAD, creating assessment tools for students in primary school and organising climate assemblies, will be shared with the participants.
Education for Climate TALKS of the month
Schools Count! Learning to look critically at mobility around the school - ft. Glenn Godin
Do you think that making school routes and school environments should be safe enough so that children and their parents can walk and cycle there comfortably and car(e)free ?
This is exactly the aim of Schools Count!, a project that relies on a citizen-science and a participatory approach which was among the winners of the 2023 EducationForClimate call on innovative green education actions.
Watch the TALK
CircularCityChallenge: teaching students stakeholder analysis for sustainability and circularity - ft. Antonija Bogadi
“CircularCityChallenge practices education as a public service for the public good, rather than focusing on testing. The CircularCityChallenge curricula aim to help transform the way we teach and learn sustainability.”
Interested? Watch this TALK to learn more about this new innovative project that was among the winners of the 2023 EducationForClimate call on innovative green education actions.
Community posts of the month
IMP>ACT: assessing the impact of sustainability and climate change education
The goal of this new Horizon project is to develop a set of tools that allow different users to map out the impact of sustainability and climate change education.
Assessing that impact is still in its infancy, which is partly because the learning outcomes of this education are complex and go beyond standard testing. It involves learning outcomes such as knowledge of opportunities to act, the motivation to act, and confidence in one’s own influence to support combating climate change.
More information
Project PEDIA: the first five schools have been transformed to zero energy buildings and climate resilient Schools
Pedia project is a roadmap for greening school buildings in Cyprus and an exemplar case study of collaboration amongst the public sector (Ministry of Education-Unit of Education for Environment and Sustainable Development) and private Sector (Cyprus Energy Office).
Learn more about the project
Coding for Climate
So far, 1200 teachers across more than 45 countries have joined this initiative where teachers and their students can find a solution for climate change through their preferred ICT-tools: Minecraft, Scratch, Micro:bit, AI, App prototyping, web, etc.
More information
Check out the Scientix Nature-Based Solutions in Education Award supported by NBS EduWORLD
Check out the Scientix Nature-Based Solutions in Education Award supported by NBS EduWORLD. Pin your NBS activities on the SDC24 Map and win a chance to attend the Science Projects Workshop in Brussels.
More information
Sustainibility competences (GreenComp) can help learners behave more sustainably
This policy brief tries to address the following question: ‘Can GreenComp’s competences really help learners behave in a sustainable way and, if so, how?
And the answer is yes!
Find here an overview of ongoing calls for participation in the community. It is updated regularly.
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