Sustainable Attitude For Environment in Adult Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainable Attitude For Environment in Adult Education

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 : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Adult education creates social change through enhancing social, economical, ecological prospects, improving sustainable attitude for environment in adult education and acquire the tools. Adult educators is key for achieving social change in the world. Within the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, the Commission called for a renewed European Agenda for Adult Learning where quality education and training, equity, and social cohesion become a widespread reality. This project is innovative and offers concrete suggestions on how to work and focuss adult educators to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation.
This project is innovative because it focusses on systemical approach for adult educators competencies which are based on sustainability in a broad of sense. Innovation of the project lies in development of practical material relevant for promoting sustainable attitude towards environment. Adult educators identify lack of systemical approach for SDG’s development in Europe working in non-formal adult education field. There are mentioned policy mechanisms and different declarative documents but systemical implementation guidance and daily working manuals to reach local, national, European and worldwide context for adult educators (AE) are missing. Existing lack of concrete
systemical manuals for AE to work in SD goals topic with adults in daily lifes shows relevance and innovation aspect of this project.
Project aims to extend and develop competencies for adults educators (AE) and staff who support adults in sustainability in a broad sense of challenges of environment and climate changes with a focus on less consumption, zerowaste movement, healthy lifestyle, influence of physical
activity on the physical and mental health and quality of life, active citizenship.
More specific objectives of this project are:
1. To prepare manual for adult educators based on SDGs which includes, among others, skills to lead a healthier life, knowledge about equitable and sustainable consumption, the promotion of gender equality, awareness about environmentally friendly transport and energy efficiency, as well as the promotion of sustainable, inclusive economic growth.
2. To provide material for adults learners.aimed to raise their awaraness on sustainable development ideas.
Intellectual Outputs relevant and it provides opportunities for adults educators to improve, strengthen their competencies in sustainability topic. Adult educators daily work with adults in this topic will ensure development of our common quality of life and thus give social, economic and ecological benefits to the participating countries. It is expected that the program participants will begin a deeper interest in one of the sustainable issues and in the future it will encourage them to active citizenship.
There will be three main results – intellectual outputs of the project:
1. S.A.F.E (Sustainable Atittude For Environment) case study in adult education
2. S.A.F.E manual for adult educators
3. S.A.F.E material for adults
Development of the intellectual outputs is based on andragogy principles and Malcolm Knowles concept. Also on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) competencies, Life Skills, sustainable consumption, Adult education in the SDG framework.
Target group members (adults, adults education specialist, teachers, leaders, andragogy specialists) will be selected by using via social media forms and directly sending invitations to adult education centers, adults education associations, NGOs which are actively working with
adults. Approx. 40 target group members from each project partner country will be included into project activities. In total – 200 participants.
Tthe project will have an impact on non-formal, informal adult education providers (adults educators, staff working with adults, family members, communities), adult education experts from formal and non-formal educational sector, businesses and industry, NGOs and civic society organisations, also universities (researchers, students, especially adult educators, andragogy scientists and practitians), policy makers on local, national and European levels. The desired long term impact is that the relevant authorities take leadership and involve all levels of society to help adult educators to spread ideas of S.A.F.E. On the European level, the discussion about how support the quality working together policy makers and adult educators to reach SDG’s goal. Manual for adult educators will reach at European, national and local levels adult educators and will be available for further development of adult education communities and society.
The project will contribute to strengthening international cooperation and experience on promoting sutainable development ideas. Project outputs are expected to bring a step further in the process of strenghening sustainability approach in partner countries as well as in all Europe.

Project Website

https://mokymosiklubas.wixsite.com/mysite

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 143780 Eur

Project Coordinator

Non-formal learning club “WE” & Country: LT

Project Partners

• S.A.F.E. Projects
• YOUTHFULLY YOURS SK
• EESTI PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
• More Mosaic
• IZGLITIBAS INOVACIJU PARNESES CENTRS