Education for sustainability

This initiative connects youth, local communities, and open-minded people from all over the world to collaboratively solve real-life challenges while using high-tech and indigenous knowledges. The Kabakoo Learning Experience equips young people in the Sahel with the skills to generate value by starting businesses, getting jobs, and stewarding climate-resilient communities.

This project, coordinated by LIFELONG LEARNING PLATFORM (LLLP) aims at ensuring more inclusive organisations, more inclusive education approaches and actions, through a capacity building process to better face and respond to current and future societal challenges.

The Climate Ambassadors scheme exists to provide free expertise and support to nurseries, schools and colleges to develop and deliver impactful climate action plans.

Citizen Social Science is defined as involving equal collaboration between citizen groups (co-researchers) that are sharing a social concern and academic researchers.

Profiles Enhancing Education Reviews (PEER) provides systematic and comprehensive descriptions of countries’ education legislation and policies related to the themes of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report. Data collection for each chapter is driven by a thematic framework, which draws on the concept note for every edition of the GEM Report. The profiles focus on the themes of the GEM Reports and also cover additional topics on key SDG4 issues.

In the summer of 2016, the Institute of Sociology launched the longitudinal study “Paths into the Future”, which analyzes the socialization of a specific group of young people in Vienna from a holistic perspective. The focus of interest is on various, interconnected areas of the youth life phase.

CapFoodS is the meeting place for Captive Foodscape Studies community. It contains news, events and other important information in the growing field of Captive Foodscape Studies (CFS) Foodscape studies is a growing area of research among scientists engaged in the study of foodways and it claims to be offering a well suited conceptual foundation that can be used to accommodate the holistic approach that is needed to understand the complex social interactions taking place in relation to eating in an early age in preschool.

Database providing a couple of different learning materials.

This LEARN! Flash report focuses on how education on traffic safety and sustainable mobility can be linked and supported to ensure that children receive high-quality education that teaches them to move around safely and sustainably.

Youth Town (“Ungdomsbyen”) developed a process tool which can be used to adapt existing, or design new, activities with a sustainability focus.

In the context of "school" (due to the corona, among other things) there were increasing technical and infrastructural issues Prerequisites for the use of digital media created, but the potential of digital change in the context of "inclusion/dealing with heterogeneity" for equal opportunities, individualized learning in an inclusive school context is hardly exhausted.

Meet Eric, a young talented boy from Kenya who uses waste electronics to create electric torch that would potentially light up many homes living without electricity in the slums.

DataSkop is a platform for data donations. Data donations can help shed light on the black boxes of social media algorithms and automated decision systems. With the help of these "data donations", the students are to find out about the function of algorithms; e.g. the functioning of recommendation systems like Youtube Videos.

This book “Teacher’s Guide for Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean”, released by UNESCO, gives an overview on the topic education for sustainability. Education must effectively empower all people to make responsible and informed decisions, both individually and collectively, thus preparing them to successfully deal with present and future challenges and to commit their active participation in the construction of common future for all.

Education for Sustainability executes a variety of educational programmes such as workshops, teacher training and a 10-week climate literacy course for 6th class up to transition year. It is the vision to create a world where young people are actively engaged in taking action for sustainable development by making environmental education and sustainability a fundamental part of the national curriculum.

The Whole School Approach supports schools to embed the principles of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) for 2030 in a fundamental way.

This initiative partners with rural school communities in East Africa to improve the quality of secondary education.

Education and Sustainability need to reflect the active process of evolving into becoming citizens who understand that we are all inherently intertwined with nature, and the natural processes of becoming that all life on this planet shares.

The Sustainability Challenge (SC) is a renowned inter- and transdisciplinary university course jointly offered by the 4 largest universities of Vienna – University of Economics and Business, Technical University, University of Natural Resources and Life Science and University of Vienna – and coordinated by RCE Vienna (Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development, located at the University of Economics and Business).

The sustainable schools project is a program of Shelburne Farms located in Shelburne, Vermont. The Sustainable schools Project works with schools to cultivate responsible, informed citizens, engaged in building sustainable communities.

This Guide is designed to help leaders and practitioners of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in improving their understanding and implementation of education for sustainable development (ESD) using a whole-institution approach to greening their institutions.

The Global Citizens for Sustainable Development Teachers’ guide aims to introduce teachers to Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It provides secondary school teachers with ideas and activities to help students become global citizens and sustainable development actors

More and more schools around the world are adopting whole-school approaches to climate action. In a whole-school approach, students’ classroom learning about climate change is reinforced by the formal and informal messages promoted by the school’s values and actions.

The successful Your Sustainable school programme started in Wellington is going nationwide. With help from the Ministry for the Environment, it is offering free Train the Trainer workshops to help teachers roll out sustainability focussed, climate action, waste reduction systems at their kura/school or kōhanga/early childhood centre.

With the aim of integrating Sustainable Development as a cross-cutting element in all university courses in the science/technology field, the research group of Engineering Sciences and Global Development (EScGD) implemented the project “Integrate and Promote Global Issues in Scientific-Technical Education”.

Sustainable St Albans is a charity (no. 1173118) set up by a group of ordinary people across St Albans, Harpenden and the villages. Together we find positive and creative ways to act locally to raise awareness and address the challenges of climate change; live more sustainably and move towards a low-carbon economy.

Continually increase the number of schools in the region that reduce the impact of their buildings and grounds on their local watershed, environment and human health through best practices, including student-led protection and restoration projects.