In the spotlight
Call for innovative green education actions: and the winners are…
We are very happy to announce that we have concluded the selection process for the Education For Climate's call for innovative green education actions!
This year, the choice out of 69 high-quality submissions was so close that we are happy to mention honorary runner-ups for all 3 call domains (Lifelong learning/Social Economy/Digital innovation).
Congratulations to all of you!
Education for Climate Day 2023: Register and spread the voice!
The flagship event of our community, the Education For Climate Day 2023, will take place on 15 November. Register now and chose the cocreation session of your liking: Green competences - Cop28: policy and research – Community Agora – Inspiring green education initiatives – Country Groups – Youth Climate Lab.
We also invite you to help us spread the word about it by using our communication toolkit.
Featured challenge
What is the water temperature at your sea, river, lake, pond, …?
Since September we re-started the community challenge “Be a scientist! Mapping climate change at seas & waterways”. We invite schools to engage in this playful scientific activity to share their measurements of water quality to enrich our map. Are you in?
Upcoming events
Community Café – 23 November 2023, from 17:00 to 18:00 CET
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.
Session’s agenda: Welcome + Getting to know each other 5’/Community News 10'/Open Community Topic/Question Time 15'/A Challenge Hub initiative 10'/Community Feedback 5'
Weekly Onboarding Session
We remind you that newcomers are invited to join Onboarding sessions every Friday at 16:00 CEST.
EVERY COMMUNITY MEMBER IS WELCOME to join that slot to address informally any kind of issues, from the most crucial to the most trivial.
GreenComp community
Sustainability conversations: the GreenComp game
"Sustainability Conversations: the GreenComp game" is a conversational game during which players discuss and assess their priorities to build a sustainable future.
Join that dedicated space on our platform where we invite all players to share their conclusions creating a topic at the end of the game. We also encourage all the players to read and compare the conclusions - that are already posted in this space - and engage with the other participants.
What is your desired SDG - EducationForClimate goal - green competence combination to focus on in your learning activities?
GreenComp Café – Let’s learn together #3 – 8 November, from 14:30 to 15:30
Once again, we are organising a GreenComp café to learn and engage around the European sustainability competence framework!
This community café will continue the conversation to get familiar with the GreenComp Framework, but this is also a time to connect with other community members and ask questions related to the GreenComp community and green competences.
Education for Climate TALKS of the month
“We have to completely reinvent the reasons that kids go to school”, ft. Conor Galvin
Conor Galvin is a researcher and a lecturer at UCD Dublin where he directs the PhD Education programme. He is also an official member of the EU working group on sustainability in school education that has been set up by the European Commission.
Conor is personally convinced that the existential crisis (his words) we are facing requires us to rapidly review the objectives we assign to education and the way we organise it: “we have to completely reinvent the reasons that kids go to school”.
Watch the TALK
What is the EU doing on green education? ft. Deirdre Hodson and Stefan Zotti
Learn with our colleagues from DG EAC (the department responsible for EU policies on education, youth, sport and culture), Deirdre Hodson and Stefan Zotti, what the EU is currently and concretely doing on learning for the green transition and sustainable development, a very important agenda in education that is about “big picture education transformation”.
Community posts of the month
Environmental Sustainability Education Advocacy and Policy Document Released
In the scope of the Environmental Literacy Networking Project initiated by the Turkish Yuva Association in partnership with the Kyoto Club in 2020 and financed by the European Union, a significant step was taken towards environmental sustainability education in Türkiye.
Developed and published in collaboration with members of the Environmental Literacy Network (ELN), the 'Environmental Sustainability Education Advocacy and Policy Document' was created with the aim of enhancing environmental awareness and supporting educational efforts in both formal and non-formal education structures in Türkiye.
Learn more about this document and its recommendations
Join the poster campaign about IPCC syntheses
The association "Pour un Réveil écologique" (France) and the Green Office of the University of Liège (Belgium) invite you to participate in the poster campaign about 3 IPCC syntheses validated by climate experts!
In Belgium, the campaign will start around mid-November, roughly 2 weeks before the COP28. But you are free to launch your own poster campaign when you are ready to!
Learn more about the initiative
IGC 2024: call for paper for a session on Climate action, climate justice and young people
A Call for papers is now open for a session on Climate action, climate justice and young people to be held during The 35th International Geographical Congress in Dublin on August 2024.
Full details about the call for paper
Plan Climat Biodiversité et Transition Ecologique Enseignement Supérieur
Le Plan Climat Biodiversité et Transition Ecologique de l'enseignement supérieur publié en juin 2023 par le Ministère de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur précise la feuille de route pour les années à venir en France: sensibilisation et formation des étudiants, enseignants, personnels, décarbonation des campus, innovations, nouveaux métiers, partage de connaissance... Un guide pour l'action climat dans l'enseignement supérieur en France.
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