Click on Climate – sustainability learning for Transportation and Logistics Erasmus Project

Project Title

Click on Climate – sustainability learning for Transportation and Logistics

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 vocational education and training

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; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Background and context

The European VET schools play an important role when it comes to shaping the future work force within a wide range of sectors, for instance Transportation and Logistics.
Many of the schools work at a sporadically level with sustainability, but do not have an explicit sustainability agenda or vision at a strategic level. This we believe is not out of unwillingness or lack of interest, since the VET schools and educations consist of highly innovative professionals dedicated to finding practical and smart solutions to everyday problems, which have great impact on all of us, and add value to the sectors as such.
Nevertheless we see a great potential to embrace the explicit agenda of UN World Goals for 2030 Agenda as a common strategic aim and clue of how to communicate about and set forth concrete ambitions to work innovatively and systematically to improve practices and processes within the VET schools – and in close collaboration with surrounding stakeholders. Besides from adding value in the sense of seeking new solutions through partnerships inside and outside the VET field, we believe that a heigthened focus on UN Goals 2030 will indirectly attract more young people to seeking skills from within the VET sector.

The 5 partner schools and associated partners behind “Click on Climate” will be involved at 3 organisational levels into the innovative design process, leading to heightened awareness and competences to act for change:
A: Management level,
B: teaching level and
C: stakeholder level.
For each of the activities involved, we will be inspired by methodologies from within: Change theory, Didactics of Innovation and entrepreneurship, (like eg. CIE Model, Design Thinking etc), ICT and digital learning, Qualitative research methods.

Description of activities
First we do a “Mapping of practices” (IO1) and produce an analysis of “Sustainability matureness” of the stakeholders and industries that work together with the 5 different partner schools.The result is a baseline report, which includes also concrete challenges and cases to be incorporated directly into the teaching of students. Together the partner schools will analyse the implications of the data collection to their specific school.
From the mapping of stakeholder and school perspectives, we move to the management level by developing a tool for implementing Climate goals and sustainability issues into the specific strategies of each partner school, and start to implement it locally at each school (IO2).

We believe that in order to actually change the agenda and move forward at the 5 schools, it is necessary to offer the teachers and trainers a concrete Online course that provides them with an introduction to the UN World Goals goals – both at a holistic level, but also at a more sector specific level.
The 3. activity (IO3) is therefore dedicated to produce 2 courses for students and staff at VET in general and specifically in departments offering VET programs within Transportation and Logistics. When the two courses are developed and have been tested, they will be used to develop add on curriculum activities, hitting different spot in the life time of a whole VET education within Transport and Logistics as well as kick off the Learning activity we call “Sustainabilty Camp”
At this camp all partner schools (students and trainers) meet and work together with real climate challenges that have been collected during the mapping of practice. At the camp the students will be working in cross-cultural groups to find the best solutions to the existing problems from the 5 different countries, and their trainers will be trained by their fellow trainers to go back to their own schools and make their own “sustainability events” – in the form of camps or other activities in relation with the online courses.
The camps are created to give the students systematic innovation competencies and have proven to be succesfull when it comes to strenghening: Motivation, cross-sectorial skills and entrepreneurship (with a focus on social and economical sustainability).
Several innovative multiplier events will take place, representing the numbers of partners involved.

What are the main objectives and results
– Heighten awareness and competences to act in accordance with the UN Goals 2030 at both management, teaching and stakeholder levels within the partner schools by creating and testing new tools and innovation activities at all schools.
– By focusing on the one specific sector of Transportation and Logistic we wish to: 1: Secure co-ownership, relevance and results. 2: Facilitate cross sectorial inspiration and dissemination into other VET sectors. 3: Prepare students for international work lives by providing them with skills to work cross culturally on the sustainability agenda.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 297766 Eur

Project Coordinator

TEC, TECHNICAL EDUCATION COPENHAGENS/I & Country: DK

Project Partners

• Stichting voor educatie en beroepsonderwijs Zadkine
• Ylä-Savo Municipal Federation of Education
• EUC SYD
• CENTRO DE FORMACION PROFESIONAL XABEC