Let’s Act! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s Act!

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning; Energy and resources

Project Summary

1. Context
Knowledge and understanding of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 global goals is still insufficient among young people, and so is awareness of the duties and responsibilities that are implied by them. Young people will inherit this increasingly globalized and interconnected planet and will also be charged with taking better care of it than previous generations did.

Online learning is highly suitable for SDG education, as it connects people across borders and continents thus fostering multiple perspectives needed to understand the complexity of the world in the 21st century. However, the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighted that most educational institutions and teachers are less than adequately prepared to deliver online and blended learning in a meaningful way.

2. Objectives
This project aims to:
– Deliver a high-quality, inclusive, digital SDG Learning Platform focusing on topics related to “Preserving the Planet”
– Support teachers adapting to online and blended teaching using innovative online pedagogical methods and digital tools
– Evaluate the effective use of various tools in online and blended learning

3. Participants
The primary participants of this project are the teachers who cater to students in the age-range 12-16. Many of these teachers urgently need the appropriate training tools which will allow them to be better equipped to handle blended and online teaching in the future. While the SDG Learning Platform will provide the teachers with an innovative digital resource which will facilitate SDG education, the tailor made teacher training tools will allow them to optimise the use of such resources and integrate various digital tools and pedagogies available and suitable for online and blended learning.

4. Description of activities
The design and delivery of an interactive SDG Learning Platform with a module on “Preserving the Planet” targeting the age-range 12-16 will deliver an innovative digital educational resource for teachers and students to use. The content of the module will be based on scientific data and evidence provided by leading experts in the various fields, while the presentation of the material will be designed by online learning pedagogues and communication experts. The Platform will be designed to support curriculum-focused learning, by mapping the modules and lessons of the course to the national curriculum of the countries involved.

The supporting teacher training tools will be designed and delivered by leading teacher training experts and will be tailor made to the needs of the teachers having to incorporate the SDG Learning Platform and module into their teaching. The teacher training tools will be delivered in three formats: an SDG Learning Platform manual, a series of video tutorials and a series of best practice videos.

An evidence-based research report will be published at the end of the project on “The effective use of various digital tools in online and blended learning” and will include a formative evaluation of the project impact on both teachers and students. This will take place in the form of quantitative and qualitative assessment.

A best practice report on community engagement will be published at the end of the project and will include a selection of innovative ways for the students to take action regarding the SDGs within the local community.

5. Methodology
The SDG Learning Platform will be built by IT experts, the content produced and peer-reviewed by experts in the field.
The Teacher Training Tools will be designed by experts and will directly involve the participants in the testing and execution phase.
The data for the research report and best practice report will be collected and analysed by experts resulting in the publication of open access final reports.

6. Results and impact
– A fully tested open access SDG Learning Platform and module on “Preserving the Planet” (engaging 4000 students and 150 teachers).
– Open access teacher training tools which will support and guide teachers in ways to engage in the online SDG Learning Platform (engaging 150 teachers).
– The research report will be made widely available to the relevant and interested research communities and educational organisations.
– The best practice report will be made available to the next generation of SDG Learning Platform participants and made available to relevant and interested communities.

7. Longer term benefits
The SDG Learning Platform and the module on “Preserving the Planet” and the teacher training material (manual, video tutorials and best practice videos) will be available free of charge to students, teachers and schools for at least three years after the completion of the project.

The European knowledge network on SDGs for schools will continue to grow its membership over the course of the project period and strive to develop other modules on SDG relevant topics in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 289474 Eur

Project Coordinator

MUNDU – center for global education & Country: DK

Project Partners

• RFH-Koeln gGmbh
• Erasmus Learning Academy
• Fondazione AEM
• 138 SUZIE “Prof. Vasil Zlatarski”
• Colegiul National “Vasile Alecsandri” Iasi