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JUST MAPS – Schools strengthening global citizenship by mapping local communities

All projects, JUST MAPS, School & Youth, Sustainability

Project number: 2024-1-ES01-KA220-SCH-000249236

Duration

36 months (from 1/12/24 to 30/11/2027)

Partnership

ASOCIACION PLAN DE ACCION GLOBAL PARA LA TIERRA GAP ESPANA (Leading Partner, Spain)
Global Action Plan Ltd. (Partner, Ireland)
Fundacja GAP Polska – Plan Globalnego Dzialania na rzecz Ziemi (Partner, Poland)
InEuropa SRL (Coordinating Partner, Italy)
Learning Unpacked Applied (Partner, Kenya)
Pestalozzi soc.coop. (Partner school, Spain)
Artxandape Ikastola (Partner school, Spain)
IC Umberto I (Partner school, Italy)
Aga Khan Academy Mombasa (Partner school, Kenya)

Associated partners

XXXV Liceum Ogólnokształcące z Oddziałami Dwujęzycznymi im. Bolesława Prusa (School, Poland)

Trinity Comprehensive School of Ballymun (School, Ireland)
Kenyan AP Yonder Africa (Associated partner, Kenya)

Description

The project aims to bring students to act as global citizens in their communities, and to train teachers as facilitators of this process.

In line with Just Action’s experience, students will be guided to act by being involved in a transnational participatory process that starts with the mapping of their action areas (their ‘neighbourhoods’). They will gather important information to analyse and improve, as global citizens, the life of their communities: facts and issues regarding the environment, inequalities, social justice and history will be the topics of their research. Based on the data collected, they will build a local digital map. The maps from the different partner countries, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the different areas, will be systematised by the young people themselves: each country will elect a delegation of local mappers who will take part in the Transnational Council of Mappers, charged with examining the status quo and imagining actions for improvement. They will do this together, noting how local problems are interconnected, and keeping a non-Eurocentric gaze capable of taking them beyond Europe (Kenya). Once back home, they will try to implement the proposed solutions, with their local community, and launch an awareness-raising campaign for their fellow citizens.

Objectives

Just Maps aims to encourage children’s engagement and awareness as global citizens, reinforce students and teachers critical and intercultural skills by collaborating with EU & Global South peers and develop a justice-based approach to local and global interconnected issues. This will be done supporting teachers’ professional growth as facilitators of behavioural change, introducing a whole new approach that will bring innovation into Global Citizenship Education in primary and secondary schools.

Target groups and beneficiaries

– Primary and secondary school students (8-15 years old) from different countries from the Global North (Spain, Italy, Ireland and Poland) and Global South (Kenya). The age range is the same as Just Action project, to give continuation to the project’s action-oriented approach.

– Primary and secondary school teachers: they will actively take part in the methodology-design process, they will be trained and share the acquired knowledge with their colleagues in a horizontal learning process. They will experience an action- based learning process as facilitators, and they will work on monitoring and evaluating results, also by using the Just Action’s reflection tool, based on a “head-heart-hands” approach.

– Local communities from the partner countries: they will become part of the learning process, and they will benefit from children’s participation with fresh ideas to solve community issues.

Just Maps’ results

1 International training programme for teachers

6 video-reports of students-local administrations’ meetings

6 digital maps of the neighbourhoods

6 elected Mappers’ delegations

1 International workshop for students as “Council of Mappers”

1 Transnational Manifesto of Just Cities

6 digital stories of local alternative scenarios

6 local student-led actions

12 students’ advocacy campaign plans

12 students’ campaigns

6 campaigns evaluation reports created by children.

22 October 2024

GoodFood – Sustainability in Catering Schools

All projects, Education & Training, Sustainability

Agreement Number: 2024-1-DE02-KA220-VET-000248007

Program and Call

KA220 VET – Cooperation partnership in vocational education and training (VET)
Call 2024, round 1

The project: objectives and results

Food is one of the central issues in the climate change agenda. It has become increasingly evident that for production and distribution to evolve in a sustainable direction, food choices must also become more conscious. Markets are also beginning to change: consumers in the food industry are becoming more sensitive to the ethical and environmental implications of their behaviors, and food service companies need professionals ready to respond to these needs. It is critical that future industry professionals are fully aware of the importance of their choices and that they acquire sustainable habits and bring them into the workplace.

For this reason, GoodFood aims to create resources and educational materials that help hospitality schools in the sustainable training of future chefs. The goal is to help students develop sustainable habits that they can apply not only in school, but also in their future workplaces, through building specific knowledge and skills, as well as implementing real sustainability action. GoodFood aims to help students become active members of society, contributing to the equitable and sustainable development of their communities.

The partnership includes 4 members of the international sustainability network Global Action Plan International (already part of the Erasmus+ Foodtalks project dedicated to canteen sustainability), 3 hospitality schools from Spain, the Netherlands and Germany, and an Italian foundation that is very active in the field of food sustainability that will also help reach out to some Italian hospitality schools.

Project outcomes include:

– a methodological framework applicable in any European hospitality and catering school;

– a framework of actions dedicated to hospitality schools, replicable in any European school;

– an online platform with training content on health, environment, social justice and economy (manuals, questionnaires and other resources);

– online tools based on the train-the-trainer method, focusing on empowerment, behavioral change, and conscious choices in terms of environmental and social impacts;

– case studies related to hospitality schools in each partner country that can serve as inspiration for other schools.

Target groups:

Direct target:

– Students

Through the project, they will learn how to integrate sustainable habits into their activities at school, in extracurricular projects and in the future workplace.

– Teachers

GoodFood will support them in enriching their curriculum through the exploration of topics such as empowerment, behavioral change and conscious choice, with a critical approach aimed at addressing food issues holistically.

– School organization

The project will also assist leaders and staff in developing strategies and perspectives based on an equitable and sustainable food system that can overcome existing barriers and support students’ educational experience.

– Companies in the food service industry (not only restaurants, but also hotels), directly affected as hosts of trainees from hotel schools and future jobs for female students. It will be here that students will put into practice the sustainable knowledge gained in school.

Indirect target:

– Local stakeholders active in terms of sustainable development

They will become the hotel schools’ natural partners through concrete actions, specific projects and targeted partnerships.

– Food suppliers of the school system (local producers and distributors)

They will be invited to participate directly in the school’s sustainable path.

– Families

Students, teachers and managers will be their reference points for sustainable food habits.

Project phases:

Programme development (methodology, content and platform)

Stakeholders engagement

Design and development of contents

Design and development of the online platform

LTTA Transnational meeting

Implementation and evaluation

Contents’ testing and workshop

Implementation of the materials at national level in the 4 countries

Evaluation

Project leader:

agado Gesellschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung UG (Germany)

Partnership:

Stichting Global Action Plan Nederland (Netherlands)
InEuropa SRL (Italy)
ASOCIACION PLAN DE ACCION GLOBAL PARA LA TIERRA GAP ESPANA (Spain)
Berufsschulzentrum Ansbach-Triesdorf (Germany)
Fondazione Castello di Padernello (Italy)
IES ESCUELA DE HOSTELERIA DE LEIOA BHI (Spain)
Stichting Regionaal Onderwijs Centrum Noord-Oost Brabant (Netherlands)

Duration

24 months (1st December 2024-30th November 2026)

Budget

400,000 €

16 September 2024

SURF – Sustainable Rural Future

All projects, Education & Training, Sustainability

SURF – Sustainable Rural Future

Agreement number: 2023-1-ES01-KA220-ADU-000151613

Program and Call

ERASMUS PLUS – Call 2023 Round 1 KA2

KA220- SCH – Cooperation partnerships in Adult Education

Ongoing project

Short description

The project aims to improve knowledge about climate change in rural communities through the creation of an educational itinerary (integrating formal and nonformal education) in order to foster learning for green transition in rural areas. In addition, SURF seeks to promote the development of integral solutions and connect people through the consolidation of a European Rural Network. The project will use the participatory action-research (PAR) approach in order to emphasize the participation and action of community members in targeted rural areas to create a learning pathway that strengthens existing capacities and provides solutions to local problems by involving local communities in decision-making.

Objectives

The main objective is to create an innovative training itinerary for adults to increase the opportunities of rural areas in the context of green transition and climate change adaptation by:

– Improving rural communities’ knowledge of climate change;

– fostering social participation to involve communities in decision-making processes;

– contributing to sustainable rural development;

– creating a European rural network to promote information exchange.

Main activities

The most relevant activities for achieving the objectives are:

– Creation of an online platform containing all project materials;

– training course on climate change adaptation in rural areas and participatory research-action approach;

-local training events for implementation of the PAR approach to identify opportunities, challenges, difficulties of rural communities;

– creation of a Good Practice Guide;

– formation and consolidation of the European Rural Network.

Expected results

Tangible results: online platform; updated content; discussion forums; climate change educational materials; online course on the PAR approach (manual, course and training); guides; webinars; workshops; a connected rural network; events.

Intangibles: discussions among people with similar concerns; ongoing social participation in different locations; increased knowledge and skills of educators and local community members.

Coordinator

– Fundación de la Comunitat Valenciana para una Economía Baja en Carbón – Low Carbon Economy Foundation (ES)

Partenarship

– InEuropa Srl (IT)

– Universitat Jaume I De Castellon (ES)

– Center Za Trajnostni Razvoj Podezelja Kranj – CTRPK (SI)

– Univerza V Ljubljani (SI)

– Associazione A.R.C.E.S. (IT)

Duration

The project will last 24 months (4 December 2023 – 3 December 2025)

Budget

250.000 €

24 April 2024

RUSTIK

All projects, Research & Innovation, Sustainability

RUSTIK

Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for improved policy processes

Program and call for proposals

Horizon Europe, Research and Innovation Actions, Action “Resilient, inclusive, healthy and green rural, coastal and urban communities” call 2021

Active project

Brief description

RUSTIK is a transdisciplinary research project that aims to enable rural community actors and policy makers to design better strategies, initiatives and policies, to facilitate transitions towards rural sustainability through an advanced understanding of the diverse functionalities, characteristics and future of rural areas, their potentials and challenges. To prepare for the growing social and ecological challenges, the project includes an analysis of current adaptation requirements and support for effective rural policy-making processes.

InEuropa srl supports OI Pomodoro da Industria Nord Italia in management activities.

Objectives

The objectives of the project are:

To provide a sound methodological framework for functional rural areas;
To define databases that integrate data of different types and from different sources;
To devise better strategies and governance approaches for policy makers and rural stakeholders;
To develop better approaches for rural impact assessment and decentralized rural proofing.

Actions

Starting from the basic idea that practical solutions must be collaboratively created in real-world settings, the project’s main activities involve Living Labs in 14 European Pilot Regions in the 10 European countries involved. They are the main tool for collaboration with stakeholders, and serve as a platform for implementing, evaluating and understanding social and technical innovations in a real-world context.

These are the key elements of an action-oriented multi-actor approach to researching rural diversity and social transformation, used to bring stakeholders together to develop and test new ways to solve problems in their regions.

All project activities are supported by a comprehensive communication and dissemination strategy to maximize the impact of RUSTIK.

Results

The main results of the project are:

The implementation of 14 databases at the regional level and 1 RUSTIK information system at the European level.
To improve the knowledge and capacity of stakeholders by disseminating innovative methods of data collection and analysis to ensure understanding of the diversity and dynamics of rural areas.
To devise innovative methods and processes for designing and evaluating policies and strategies, e.g., a standardized model for decentralized rural proofing, approaches for designing interventions, improving the policy governance framework.

Lead partner

Institute for Rural Development Research (DE)

Partnership

Council for Agricultural Research and Analysis of Agricultural Economics – IT
MCRIT – Multicriteria Planning – ES
University of Gloucestershire – UK
University of Eastern Finland – FI
Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research – AT
Galician Enterprise-University Foundation – ES
Euromontana – FR
University of Ljubljana – SI
Faculty of Agriculture- University of Belgrade – RS
Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences – PL
European Leader Association for Rural Development – BE
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski – BG
GAL MontagnAppennino- IT
Regional Development Agency Eastern Serbia – RS
Allium, Employment Centre, Zoo Soc. Ent. – SI
Association of the city of Troyan, Apriltsi and Ougarchin – BG
OI Pomodoro da Industria Nord Italia – IT
Regional Council of North Karelia – FI
University of Santiago de Compostela – ES
Rhein-Hunsrück Regional Economic Council – DE
Spittal-Millstättersee-Lieser-Malta-Nockberge Regional Association – AT
Foundation for the Development of Polish Agriculture – PL
Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce – PL
Decentralized Municipal Entity of Sant Miquel de Balenyà – ES
Galician Agency for Rural Development – ES
University of Strathclyde – UK
Gloucestershire Rural Community Council – UK
MapitaOy – FI
Monmouthshire County Council – UK
Ersilia Foundation – ES

Duration

The project has a duration of 48 months (September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2026)

Total budget

The total budget is €5,886,818.88, 100% subsidized by the EC. It is supplemented by a Research and Innovation fund earmarked for the participation of United Kingdom entities amounting to €1,099,629.70

Funding body

European Commission – EuropeanResearch Executive Agency

8 April 2024

SHINE – mainstreaming Systems tHinking In Natural sciences and Environmental education

All projects, Education & Training, School & Youth, Sustainability

SHINE – mainstreaming Systems tHinking In Natural sciences and Environmental education

Agreement number: 2023-1-DE03-KA220-SCH-000158255

Program and Call

ERASMUS PLUS – Call 2023 Round 1 KA2

KA220- SCH – Cooperation partnerships in School Education

Ongoing project

Short description

Education for sustainable development gives learners of all ages the knowledge, skills, values and agency to address interconnected global challenges including climate change. The call for teachers is to develop strategies, tools and methodologies to achieve such key competencies to address the required complexity. Managing and solving sustainability problems require people with systemic competences who are able to see the whole in the individual, presenting a breadth of vision for a complex world. Since Systems Thinking (ST) is one of the key competencies in the education for sustainable development, it is crucial to train in-service teachers on the ST approach to give them the possibility to implement ST at school in science education classes. The SHINE project aims at bringing the ST approach in Natural Science education involving in-service teachers and students in the target age of 8-16 years old. SHINE aims at introducing the ST approach at school by training in-service teachers and by developing, validating and testing innovative didactic tools to effectively introduce and practice ST with students in natural science and ecology education. ST offers a new language in understanding how the world works, it enables students to see the parts of the whole and the network of relationships simultaneously, and consequently it tries to reveal the structure that creates change by questioning how events occur over time.

Objectives

SHINE’s overall objective is to prepare future citizens to face climate change challenges by promoting the introduction and mainstream of ST skills in natural science education. To reach this objective, SHINE sets 5 specific sub-objectives:

Educate in-service teachers on ST principles and how to apply them in natural science;
Support students in developing ST approach by introducing game-based learning and innovative didactics approach in science education;
Sustain scientific skills and the deep learning of complex topics such as ecosystems and climate change;
Promote collaboration among different school grades (8-16 y.o.)

Main activities

– Development of a training course for in-service teachers replicated in each partner’s country and involving at least 25 natural science teachers.

– Design of a serious game (digital/board with different levels of difficulties accordingly with target age) to support students in practicing and experimenting ST applied to climate change issues.

– Creation of a digital toolkit containing specific didactic modules to introduce ST at school in natural science classes, assessment tools to evaluate the students’ improvement in ST reasoning in a long term perspective;

– Organisation of a set of digital and in-person transnational events to boost both students and teachers from partners’ countries to cooperate in understanding and finding possible common answers to the climate change effects occurring now and in a future perspective.

Expected results

Effectively supporting teachers in implementing and assessing ST at school with students of different ages by training them on the approach and co-producing specific didactic tools.
Applying ST in natural science and sustainability disciplines for assessing the student’s progress in a long-time perspective.
Enhancing the promotion of more engaging didactics and boosting the active involvement of students by cooperation “inter pares”
Facilitating and mainstream the introduction of ST into education as a way to deepen science principles and especially as a lens for understanding problems such as climate change and environment protection.

Coordinator

Hochschule RheinMain (DE)

Partnership

– InEuropa Srl (IT)

– Libera Università di Bolzano (IT)

– Tallin University (EE)

– Virtual Campus Lda (PT)

Duration

The project will last 36 months (1^st October 2023 – 30^th September 2026)

Budget

The grant is € 400.000,00

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22 December 2023

ATTUNE

All projects, Education & Training, Sustainability

ATTUNE

Activate the University for Climate Change

Programm and call

Erasmus+, KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education, 2022, Round 1

Ongoing project

Brief description

ATTUNE is a programme that directly addresses Climate Change on the university campus and promotes as well as encourages action by all members of the university community. It is an innovative learning programme that contributes to a university becoming increasingly sustainable. The project is aligned with the new New European Bauhaus initiative that connects the European Green Deal to our daily lives to build a sustainable and inclusive future.
The original ATTUNE programme formed part of a project Re-Activate+, which GAP Spain conducted in the Basque Country. This project aimed at changing people’s habits using the Ecoteam approach, branching out into other communities (schools). In 2018, the first version of the programme was launched at the Leioa campus of the University of the Basque Country (UPV) and its success compelled other UPV campuses to adopt programme, followed by other universities around Spain.

University life goes beyond formal educational activity. Campuses are not only places where people gather to study and work, but also affect many other areas, such as recreational & sports activities, mobility, consumerism, food, leisure, etc. Universities also impact on the local population and directly influence the sustainability of the area where they are located. The university community is an ideal environment to influence behavior to produce a more sustainable society.

ATTUNE recognizes that each university is different, not only in the way it functions, but also in its objectives in responding to the Climate Crisis.

ATTUNE specifically addresses the following priorities:

– common values, civic engagement, and participation: the programme is designed to involve and engage all members of the university community – students, teachers and staff – based on common values that help to mitigate the impact of climate change.

– promotes interconnected higher education systems: whereby the programme not only unites faculties and campuses of the participating university, but also other universities in the numerous existing networks.

Objectives

The main objectives are:

to enable members of the university community to move from knowledge to action;
contributing to the Green transition: in addition to their traditional functions (teaching, research, etc.), universities can also be a role model for environmental sustainability based on their infrastructure and operations. To ensure that they become increasingly sustainable, it is vital that all the community participates in the process.

Other objectives include:

Create a methodological framework that can be used by any European university
Develop actions adapted to the university community so that they can act against Climate Change in their daily activities
Test & validate the programme in 5 European universities that will act as an example for other universities in their networks

Activities

ATTUNE is structured in two different phases to promote change in habits:

Phase 1: during the first academic term, the entire university community (students, teacher and staff) are invited to join an online program – structured as a set of questionnaires and manuals – focusing on environmental and social issues relating to sustainability. The objective is to reduce the carbon footprint in the context of daily activities on the campus
Phase 2: the second and third academic term is based on creating 1 or more “research-action” teams that focus on a particular issue, such as waste, mobility, etc. They research the problem, design an action program and deliver the action program to the rest of the university community. This “research-action” team is made up of students, lecturers, and staff. At the end of this Part results and impact measures are collected and then shared with the stakeholders and the public at large.

The materials and structure of the program, which are based on projects previously implemented by GAP Spain, are in place and don’t need to be re-invent.

The main activities are:

3 Meetings: The kick-off meeting in Bilbao, LTTA in Italy and dissemination event in Germany
Development of contents, materials, and methodology
Online platform development in 6 languages. The structure will involve 2 parts: Implementation and validation process by testing in the participating universities, and the development of guidelines which will include several manuals
ATTUNE programme set up & running in 5 universities.

Expected results

The main expected results are:

Proven & workable methodology: a valuable tool to mitigate the impact of the Climate Crisis in the European higher education sector
Reliable data: the validation process will generate a wealth of data which can be collated and analyzed
Motivated participants: the users will experience behavioral changes
Online platform: a working tool that can be adapted to different cultures and easily translated to make it more accessible and local.

The programme can be repeated on the campus over many years. So, it’s not a one-off program for the university.

Coordinator Asociación Plan de Acción Global para la tierra GAP (ES)*

Partnership

InEuropa Srl (IT)*
Agado Gesellschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung UG (DE)*
Fundacja GAP Polska – Plan Globalnego Dzialania na rzecz Ziemi (PL)*
Mikado Danismanlik Hizmetleri Ltd. Sti. (TR)*
Università degli studi di Siena (IT)
Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (ES)
Ozyegin Universitesi (TR)
Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej IM.MARII GRZEGORZEWSKIEJ (PL)
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim (DE)

*GAP organisations

The GAP organization in each country will lead the programme and work closely with the university, either through its sustainability office or the team / person responsible for sustainability in the university. The university role will be one of promoting the programme and encouraging participation and action, while the GAP organization provides the material and delivery systems.

Duration

The project has a duration of 26 months.

Budget

The grant is € 400,000.00

3 October 2023

Project A(RT)CTION for Climate Change

All projects, Culture, School & Youth, Sustainability

A(RT)CTION

A(RT)CTION for Climate Change

Programme and Call for proposals

Erasmus + KA220-YOU Cooperation Partnerships – Youth – call 2021

Project number: 2021-1-EL02-KA220-YOU-000029005

Open project

Brief description

A(RT)CTION is a transnational project co-funded by the Programme Erasmus + KA2 – Cooperation Partnerships – Youth within EAC/A01/2021 (Call for proposals 2021).

InEuropa srl is partner in the project.

Objectives
A(RT)CTION project was born out of all partner’s shared vision to contribute to the fight against the most pressing issues of our time, that is climate change. It is a multi-dimensional project that will enable behavioural changes for individual preferences, consumption habits, and lifestyle by training and educating young visual artists and youth workers on how to be true agents of change and green entrepreneurial practitioners. In the specific, the project intends to contribute to a more sustainable future by capitalizing on the influential power of arts and green entrepreneurship to raise awareness about environmental issues and foster positive behavioural change. The involved young artists will be able to employ their artworks as a tool to raise environmental awareness and trigger change at transnational level.

Deliverables

The project foresees the achievement of 4 main deliverables:

Artists ‘as Green Actors of Change’ Curriculum: development of the research methodology and implementation of questionnaires and interviews with the target groups; development of the structure of the Curriculum, with interrelated topics connected to the issue of climate change and how young visual artists can address it; testing of the Curriculum prior to its dissemination.
The ‘Green E-learning Platform & Cross-cultural Network for Collaboration’ Platform: design and development of the platform; transformation of the Curriculum into e-learning materials; assembly of the Curriculum into a cohesive course ready for piloting via the interactive platform.
‘Artists for Climate Change’ Toolkit: creation of this tool with content and resources aimed at young people and arts professionals.
Book/e-Book for Young Artists on ‘How to become a Successful Green Social Entrepreneur/ Actor of Change’: aimed at young artists, it will offer practical advice and guidance regarding green arts and entrepreneurship, with a special focus on how visual artists should employ their art to raise awareness toward green issues, inspire appropriate behaviour, and influence people to be more environmentally conscious.

Results
The main expected results of A(RT)CTION are:

Strengthening the sense of initiative of young people, through the promotion of green entrepreneurship and creative learning;
Increase in the number of young artists and youth workers who act as true agents of change and help the society in which they live to face the challenges of climate change;
Increased quality innovation and recognition of youth work (in the arts sector) as well as productive knowledge exchange, and stimulation of intercultural dialogue with people across Europe;
Developed sustainability competences of educators and education leaders and support the planned approaches of the participating organisations regarding environmental sustainability.

Applicant
ORGANOSI GI (GREECE)

Partners

CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LTD – CARDET (CYPRUS)
INEUROPA SRL (ITALY)
FUNDACIO INTERARTS PER A LA COOPERACIO CULTURAL INTERNACIONAL (SPAIN)
AMAZING YOUTH (GREECE)
ARTIT ATHENS ΜΟΝΟΠΡΟΣΩΠΗ ΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΗ ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΥΧΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ (GREECE)
KENTRO MERIMNAS OIKOGENEIAS KAI PAIDIOU (GREECE)

Duration
24 months (8 December 2021 – 7 December 2023)

Website
under contruction

Budget
The project received a grant of € 255.650,00.

Co-financing Organization
Erasmus+ National Agency – NEDIVIM Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation – GREECE

3 October 2023

JUST ACTION – Teachers and students towards a sustainable transition

All projects, School & Youth, Sustainability

JUST ACTION – TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE TRANSITION

Action on Global Citizenship – empowering student voices for climate action at primary and post primary level

Project number: 2021-1-IE01-KA220-SCH-000031615

Lead Partner
Global Action Plan Ltd. (Ireland)

Programme
Erasmus+ Programme – KA2 Cooperation partnerships in school education, Call for Proposals 2021

Brief description
Action on Global Citizenship (AOGC) is a programme that aims to empower teachers in primary and secondary/high schools to engage their learners critically in the theme of climate action through a Global Citizenship Education (GCE) lens and to support learners in taking relevant, meaningful action to the climate issues they encounter.

The project stems from a growing awareness of the globalised and interconnected nature of climate action and the need for systemic change starting with young people, supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Action.

Creating the space for exploration within the school environment will enable students to actively engage in transforming the world around them for the better.

In this context, a partnership of environmental education organisations from the GAP International Network from Italy, Ireland, Spain and Norway have designed the Action on Global Citizenship programme to support the acquisition of knowledge (head), values & attitudes (hearts) and skills for action (hand) so learners can take appropriate actions to address climate and sustainability challenges.

Given the ability to reach a large number of learners and their influence as educators, the programme has a strong focus on supporting teachers.

Objectives
The overall project objective is to implement a sustainable, scalable Global Citizenship Education programme at primary and secondary that has been designed and piloted through a participatory design methodology and will reach teachers and learners across the programme countries.

Specific objectives of the programme are:

to provide appropriate educational resources for primary and secondary teachers and their students
to provide a training programme for teachers at both levels, supported by an online Resource and Learning Platform for teacher and student access
to make learners feel empowered to participate as an active global citizen and take action on climate and sustainability issues and challenges that matter to them most
to create greater opportunities for school to school collaboration via eTwinning
to grow, scale and sustain the programme through the regional education systems in each country, thus increasing access of the programme to schools, teachers and learners nationally and transnationally
to build capacity of the programme partners to manage the design life cycle of educational programmes

Activities

Secondary School Action on Global Citizenship Programme: a toolkit that supports teachers in secondary schools to guide learners together in tackling local issues identified by learners that are related to the climate crisis and exploring them critically through a global lens and collectively creating meaningful actions and campaigns that address these issues. Included will be a student workbook that will support learners during the programme.
Primary School Action on Global Citizenship Programme: a toolkit that supports teachers in primary schools to guide learners together in tackling local issues identified by learners that are related to the climate crisis and exploring them critically through a global lens and collectively creating meaningful actions and campaigns that address these issues. Included will be a student workbook that will support learners during the programme.
Action on Global Citizenship Teacher Training Programme: the programme will support primary and secondary school teachers and give them the competencies to integrate the GCE programme in their teaching and learning practices. The deliverables for this output will be in the form of training materials (presentations, activity books, learning resources, support videos) and support documents for the programme such as learning outcome documents, lesson plans and administration forms.
Action on Global Citizenship Resource and Learning Online Platform: resource platform for schools to access a comprehensive repository of open education resources and learning materials that will support the teaching and learning process as they undertake the Action on Global Citizenship programme in their school. The platform will be multilingual in English, Spanish, Italian and Norwegian. Designed into the overall programme will be an emphasis on international school collaboration using eTwinning.

Expected outcomes

The Action on Global Citizenship programme piloted in 8 primary and 8 secondary schools, with 32 teachers and up to 1000 learners
200 teachers trained in Action on Global Citizenship training
12,000 learners reached by the programme and connecting to other European students via eTwinning

Target group
The main target groups and beneficiaries of the project are students, teachers and school managers from primary and secondary schools.

Partnership
Lead partner: Global Action Plan Ltd. (IE)
PP1: Framtiden i våre hender (NO)
PP2: ASOCIACION PLAN DE ACCION GLOBAL PARA LA TIERRA GAP ESPANA (ES)
PP3: InEuropa Srl (IT)

Duration
The project has a duration of 36 months (from 01/11/2021 to 01/11/2024)

EU grant
The project has a total cost of di 258,538.00€

3 October 2023

e^4 — tools in higher Education for an Embodied & creative Energy Education

All projects, Education & Training, Research & Innovation, School & Youth, Sustainability

E^4 — tools in higher Education for an Embodied & creative Energy Education

Programme and Call for Proposals

ERASMUS PLUS – Call 2021 Round 1 KA2

KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education

Brief description

Given the urgency of environmental and technological change in the face of challenges such as climate change, the main need recorded is raising awareness of possible solutions and necessary measures, also given the challenge of educating the coming generation in these matters.

We feel the urgent need for both supporting and reforming teacher education (for teachers of primary school and lower secondary or middle school levels) at academic institutions in matters concerning energy (energy solutions, energy and the environment, energy and society).

On this scenario, we intend to create:

Innovative materials for teacher education in the field of energy technology.
A network of academic institutions and external stakeholders dealing practically with matters concerning energy.
A dedicated web platform were both learning materials for university courses and material, knowledge, and opportunities provided by the network are available.

Objectives

Develop and/or enrich higher education curricula (in teacher education for primary and lower secondary school levels), following a didactic approach based on “tools of imagination” like storytelling, gamification, embodied simulation, digital simulation, and play to facilitate science communication;
train academics charged with teacher education in innovative pedagogies and approaches to teaching science courses (including the use of appropriate aids and materials);
promote learning and teaching partnerships between universities and the private energy sector;
upskill future science teachers with new approaches to teaching to encourage girls for scientific carriers and fight against gender stereotypes in scientific and engineering careers;
support the strengthening of science skills of EU citizens and professionals to make conscious choices and use creativity and a critical mindset to contribute to lower CO2 emissions towards EU 2050 targets.

Main Activities

Creating guidelines for a Network of academic and private/public partnerships.
“Imaginative course” Curriculum for teaching through imaginative tools.
Interactive web platform supporting the Curriculum and the Network.

Results

Increased competences and skills of partners’ staff.
Increased competences in teachers of primary and secondary schools: 20 teachers (5 for each of the 4 countries involved) will participate in a transnational training session to get acquainted with the offline workshop activities proposed.
30 prospective teachers in each country will join local testing and implement full testing of the blended course (web and software-based activities plus workshop activities). We expect 75% to 85% of participating teachers to be women. Thanks to local testing the project will reach about 1000 students in the 4 countries.
300 participants will be interviewed as part of project assessment.

We expect the project to produce a change in teaching approaches at all levels:

At university level, improving academics’ science teaching approaches, also blending online and in presence courses, improving the efficacy of their courses both at university and jointly with the private and public energy sector.
At school level, helping student teachers and in-service teachers to be more motivated for and engaged in new imaginative teaching methods, will lead to innovation in school curricula. Teachers will be able to adapt their teaching approaches to the new generation’s learning capacities and skills needs through the application of creativity fostered by imaginative tools.

Lead partner

LIBERA UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLZANO (Italy)

Partners

– InEuropa Srl – Italy

– Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika W Toruniu – Poland

– Esciencia Eventos Cientificos Sl Aragón Zaragoza – Spain

– Universitat de Valencia – Spain

– Sustainable Innovation Technology Services Ltd Mid-West Castletroy – Irleland

– Università degli Studi Di Modena e Reggio Emilia – Italy

– Dublin City University – Ireland

Duration
The project will last 36 months (28 February 2022 – 27 February 2025)

Website
https://energy4teachers.eu/

Budget
The project received a grant of € 395 506,00

3 October 2023

UNLOCK THE CITY!

All projects, Culture, Employment, Sustainability

UNLOCK THE CITY!

Theatre as tool for post pandemic sustainable transformation of the European urban landscape

Programme and call

Creative Europe Programme, Culture strand – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP call for medium-scale cooperation projects.

Open project

Brief description

UNLOCK THE CITY! is a culture-driven regeneration project that aims to develop an integrated working method that combines technical-scientific and design-oriented research with theatrical practice, the latter being used as a tool to trigger sustainable development processes in the post-pandemic city.

By operating in places or areas that played a key role for citizenship during the Coronavirus pandemic, the project explores the concept of limit (economic, social, physical, etc.) in the intra and post-pandemic city, on 3 different levels: building (Object), community (Subject), relationship between urban area and theater (Relation).

Ineuropa srl supports FONDAZIONE PICCOLO TEATRO MILANO in the project development and in the overall management and reporting activity.

Objectives

to activate processes of urban regeneration guided by culture through the creation of theatrical performances that experience the creative reuse of spaces and environments in 4 European cities, promoting the habitability, accessibility and sustainability of places;
to encourage the active participation of different urban subjects (local groups and associations, citizens, students, professionals) in promoting community empowerment through cultural regeneration;
to promote integration, international collaboration between artistic-theatrical practices and awareness of urban contexts for academic figures;
to promote the dissemination of the experience through an outreach strategy aimed at institutions and the population.

Actions

The project develops surveys on the territory focused on the study of the landscape in the post-pandemic city and preparatory to the creation and realization of 12 theater performances entrusted to several European artists. These activities are linked and implemented by workshops and thematic training courses for university students and contribute to generating qualitative and perceptive growth in terms of habitability, accessibility and sustainability of urban spaces, with particular reference to 4 European cities: Milan, Antwerp, Barcelona, Piatra Neamt. Capillary communication and dissemination actions support the project throughout its duration.

Results

The main expected results are:

increasing international cooperation between theatrical and academic institutions;
the creativity of artists is put at the service of our communities for their well-being;
creation of connections, communication, dialogue and exchange between different stakeholders: academic institutions, students, local communities, local administrators, general public;
specific survey on our European cities to identify the criticalities of the places and their possibilities for sustainable development after the pandemic experience;
an innovative cultural approach to the regeneration of urban spaces, starting from the 4 cities involved in the project.

Lead partner

FONDAZIONE PICCOLO TEATRO MILANO-TEATRO D’EUROPA (IT)

Partnership

POLITECNICO DI MILANO (IT)
HET TONEELHUIS STICHTING (BE)
TEATRUL TINERETULUI (RO)
FUNDACIÓ TEATRE LLIURE-TEATRE PÚBLIC DE BARCELONA (ES)
HOGSKOLEN I OSTFOLD (NO)
AKADEMIE MUZICKYCH UMENI V PRAZE (CZ)

Duration

The project has a duration of 36 months (1 March 2023 – 28 February 2026)

Total budget

The grant is € 969.439,00 on a total budget of € 1.384.914,00

Funding agency

European Commission – EUROPEAN EDUCATION AND CULTURE EXECUTIVE AGENCY (EACEA)

3 October 2023