Community Education in the field of environmental and climate protection as potential for civil society engagement Erasmus Project

Project Title

Community Education in the field of environmental and climate protection as potential for civil society engagement

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Community Education in the field of environment and climate protection as potential for civil society engagement.

PROJECT PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS: Kärntner Bildungswerk Betriebs GmbH (AUT), Asociatia Euro Adult Education (ROU), Kyttaro Enallaktikon Anazitiseon Neaon KEAN (GRC)

Strategies for adaptation to climate change must aim, among other things, to encourage citizens to work together on sustainable solutions to future challenges in order to maintain their own quality of life. Rural and urban areas face different challenges when it comes to how civil society commitment can meet the challenges of climate change. The project partners’ experience with community education processes in different areas will be used to learn from each other and to implement components for successful community education processes in the field of environmental and climate protection.

The overall aim of the project is to activate civil society engagement in the field of climate protection. Furthermore, the project aims at developing options for action for citizens in rural and urban areas, raising awareness of climate change issues and promoting a change towards a more sustainable way of life. Through the exchange of experiences with different framework conditions in rural and urban areas, components for successful community education in the field of environmental and climate protection will be identified and published as output of the project in guidelines. These guidelines are a concrete result of the project which include community education methods that can be applied in the field of environmental and climate protection for citizens in urban and rural areas to activate and motivate them to design their own living space.

These results will be presented at a final conference to the respective local network partners of the project partners and their main local, regional and national stakeholders (at least 10 organisations).

The project offers institutions concrete support in form of these guidelines to activate citizens in urban and rural regions to participate in shaping their own living space. Stakeholders are made aware of community education methods through the project, which we expect to increase the appreciation of community oriented approaches.

Since each partner institution works in the field of community education and the guidelines provide concrete methods after the end of the project, the project partners’ efforts to put them into practice are very high. The topic of environmental and climate protection will accompany all partner organisations in their future work. The guidelines provide a basis for this work that can be called up at any time.

In the best case, the community education methods carried out will promote structures of voluntary engagement, which can then be used for challenges other than those of environmental and climate change.

Project Website

https://bildungswerk-ktn.at/erasmus-bildung-cedup/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 47000 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kärntner Bildungswerk Betriebs GmbH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA EURO ADULT EDUCATION
• KYTTARO ENALLAKTIKON ANAZITISEON NEON KEAN