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8 good reasons to join the EducationForClimate Day 2024
There are at least 8 good reasons for you to join the flagship event of the Education for Climate Coalition.
Would you like to discover them and join the already more than 600 persons enrolled?
Featured challenge
First Bulgarian National Scientific and Practical Conference "Green Education for a Sustainable Future": a well-deserved success!
The Education for Climate Bulgaria country group coordinators have decided to take up the challenge of organising a national event to promote green competences and climate change education and build capacity in their country.
That was a large success!
Upcoming events
Community Café: Goodbye and Hello! 17 December
A fresh chapter awaits the Coalition in 2025.
After four intense years of effort and pleasure working with all of you, members of this wonderful community, the time has come to hand over the reins for the current Secretariat.
This Community Café will be the right time to say goodbye to you all, and hello to the new Secretariat.
Enroll to the Café
You missed the NOVEMBER Café on the European Climate Pact?
The recording is now available
GreenComp community
Resource library on learning scenarios
The new resource library on learning scenarios building on the GreenComp framework is finally out!
GreenComp café - A new phase! 11 December
This final GreenComp Café of 2024 will be an opportunity for the outgoing Secretariate to say farewell to the GreenComp community, take stock and look back on fond memories together, welcome the members of the new Secretariat and look to future activities together!
Education for Climate TALKS of the month
The Climate Academy: Climate Education for System Change, ft. Matthew Pye
In this TALK, Matthew Pye, secondary school Philosophy Teacher in Brussels, author, and Founder of the Climate Academy, explains the objectives and details of this very innovative education programme.
He presents its 3 pillars that can be summarized as followed: 1. Systems understanding (learn), 2 Civic engagement (mobilise) 3. systems entrepreneurship (lead).
Watch the TALK
“The biggest challenge we have is to win hearts and minds”, ft. Patrick Kirwan
Patrick Kirwan is a Science and Biology Teacher in Ardscoil Na Mara secondary school in Tramore in Ireland. He is also the director of the Irish Schools Sustainability Network.
In this TALK, he shares is views on how to concretely build confidence and inspire climate and biodiversity action in school.
Community posts of the month
Learning for Sustainability and Citizenship Education: Lessons from the Portuguese School System
The European Working Group “Schools- Learning for Sustainability “ met from 16-18 October in Lisbon for a Peer Learning Activity hosted by the Portuguese Ministry of Education Science and Innovation.
That was the occasion to discuss the strong connection between sustainability and citizenship education in the Portuguese school system.
Learn more
Learn from Becoming Climate Artivists
Climate Creativity and One Resilient Earth recently completed their Erasmus+ project ‘Becoming Climate Artists’ and they invite you to both access the learning material and join their transnational online community of support.
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Migratory Birds – Educational game on the SDGs
As part of the EU-funded project Play&Acts4SDGs, the serious game ‘Migratory Birds’ was further developed and translated into several languages (English, French, German).
Art-based environmental education, inclusive approach
Check out this very nice poster summarising the content of the online modules developed by the Erasmus+ project LeMOON.
The project that aims to develop an eCurriculum on Climate Change and Environmental Education for Secondary Education Students in an online Learning Platform.
More information
The UK Eco-Schools impact report 2023-2024 is out
The 2023-24 impact report of the Eco-Schools programme in England reveals an interesting set of success stories contributing to inspire and empower young minds to take action for a sustainable future.
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