Climate Change Knowledge on Training Erasmus Project

Project Title

Climate Change Knowledge on Training

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: Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Background: Climate change is considered by the EC as one of the greatest challenges of the modern age. The implementation of strategies for mitigation and adaptation on climate change is mostly significant at sub-national and local level, where the efforts of local and regional authorities are essential. A resilience perspective on climate change emphasizes learning, self-organization, and flexibility as crucial ingredients for navigating complex feedbacks, thresholds, and system changes. Surveys shows, there is no clear understanding of the citizens what actions helps to fight climate change what not. This raises the question of the continuity of actions and their sustainability. Southern Europeans are particularly concerned about the impacts of climate change and see it much more as an immediate threat. They also believe it is mostly caused by human activities. On the contrary, northern Europeans are less worried about climate change and less convinced of the impact of human activities. Because of those differences there is a need for deeper analysis of the methods which local organizations are using to rise public awareness and encourage change at daily life of the citizens. Forward-looking learning and decision-support tools that involve high uncertainty are needed for project partners more than ever. The challenge is to assess how and when people learn to manage climate change, absorb shocks, take advantage of new opportunities, adjust, or completely alter their lives and livelihoods.
Objectives: The project draw upon key facets of iterative learning and reflection that may facilitate anticipation and experimentation in practice. The main objective of the project is to improve practical skills and teaching methodologies and approaches of trainers, especially who works with 35+ age adults, on the concept of climate change: >by promoting and providing learning and development opportunities for local communities, organisations and individuals; >by offering increased opportunities for the development of professional capacity and active participation of educators and supporting the adoption of an integrated strategy on climate change at local level; >by increasing awareness and sensitivity to climate change issues to a specific groups of target audience.
Participants: >30 participants from Italy, Spain, Poland, Lithuania and Romania (staff, teachers, trainers and other) will be involved to the project directly. They should have a theoretical background in the field of environmental education and active citizenship or intend to acquire more expertise in the areas mentioned above. Approximately 100 participants will be involved at the project at local level.
Description of activities: The project will develop, test and share tools and methods enriching each curriculum of each participants, in order to support them in the spreading of a creative and innovative culture on climate change. Tools will be exchanged on a web-platform that can facilitate to learn how to apply creative thinking and to develop the capacity for innovation on climate change. The project will establish a permanent network in each local context, bringing different actors and services together to create an effective support mechanism between key stakeholders.
Methodology: The educational approaches will follow the principles of non-formal education, mainly through using experiential learning where participants learn from one another and explore the themes through inputs, discussions and counselling activities. Specific tools able to strengthen the professional profile of the teaching professions will be published to support this process and to guarantee a large replication potential. All results will be shared on an interactive website platform, through publications and study programmes, and seminars in each of the local context involved in the project.
The project will develop, test, adapt and implement practices relating to: >learning and teaching methodologies and approaches for trainers, focusing on climate change; >comparative analysis of models and approaches on education and communication on climate change; >strategic use of open and already available information and educational resources on climate change; >outreach activities between organisations in different education, training and environmental sectors.
Long-term benefits: The approach adopted by the project has been designed for enhancing the quality and relevance of the learning offer in education and training by supporting the exchange of best practices on adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change. More specifically the project will offer a complementary and permanent support to the more consolidated communication campaigns on climate change, by improving the capacities of organisations active in the fields of education and training, notably in the areas of environmental development and targeted activities for specific groups.

Project Website

https://clickont.ftsnet.it/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98455 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fondazione Toscana Sostenibile Onlus & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Socialiniu investiciju valdymo centras
• Centrum Edukacji i Badan Spolecznych
• FEDERACION EFA GALICIA
• ASOCIATIA PRO-XPERT