Enabling the 2030 Agenda through education for sustainable development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enabling the 2030 Agenda through education for sustainable development

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: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is universal, holistic and indivisible, with a special imperative to leave no one behind. The achievement of Sustainable Development Goal n° 4, which ensures inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, plays a central role in building sustainable, inclusive and resilient societies. While education in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is most explicitly formulated as a standalone goal (SDG4), it also has reciprocal linkages across the board. There are a number of education-related targets and indicators in other Goals, including health and well-being, gender equality, decent work, responsible consumption and growth, and climate change mitigation: that’s why, the Partner Organizations share the stance that education is a key enabler for sustainable development and are eager to explore its critical interlinkages with the other goals and targets set within the 2030 Agenda and how can the co-benefits be promoted and tradeoffs reduced. Although progress has been made towards achieving SDG4, the context is rapidly changing with ever new skills demands and many barriers to education access and educational outcomes remain in place, as remain challenges to the monitoring of achievements; this can present opportunities and challenges towards renovated learning environments, reinforced capacities of teachers and enhanced quality of education. This can be a decisive moment to take stock of how to accelerate progress towards SDG 4, and to affirm the significance of education to the rest of the 2030 Agenda; in fact, as education provides the means to transmit knowledge, values and skills across generation, enabling societies to set the foundation for thriving in the future, public awareness of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs appear as highly relevant to different spheres of society as well as directly to communities, a step towards the next phase of implementation, fostering sustainable and long-term transformations, including through integrating SDGs into education curricula, is important.
Especially in a rapidly changing world with technological shifts, global integration and climate pressures, educational needs are being called into question in terms of how learning systems match with constantly changing demands.
Social, political, environmental and economic changes, as well as accelerated technological innovations, have profound implications for education and training systems. Accordingly, commitments are needed to support lifelong learning opportunities for all to ensure necessary competencies for personal development, decent work and sustainable development, with attention to climate change, adaptation and mitigation; i.e. education institutions are called to provide lifelong learners with the competences to be active citizens in democratic and sustainable societies, including efforts to promote education for sustainable lifestyles, Sustainable Development Goals and active participation, appreciation for cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue, solidarity and more peaceful, tolerant and inclusive societies. This requires attention to pedagogy, curricula, teaching and learning materials, assessments, initial teacher training and continuous professional development, inter alia.
This strategic partnership is rooted on the need to exchange good practices as regards the so-called “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, adopted by all United Nations Member States, in 2015, providing a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future, rooted on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, as an urgent call for action, in a global partnership. The Agenda recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth, all while tackling climate change and working to preserve oceans and forests.
In this perspective the Partner Organizations are willing to center their common key needs and goals:
– to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all (Sustainable Development Goal 4), further strengthening international cooperation in adult education;
– within this shared global vision towards sustainable development for all, gaining those competences which can help make the 2030 Agenda a reality also in their contexts;
– recognizing how a broad ownership of the SDGs have to be translated into a strong commitment by all stakeholders and especially by those entities who can spark actions locally and nationally;
– highlighting the role of education as a standalone goal (SDG4) in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable, while at the same time investigating its interlinkages and interactions with all the remaining Sustainable Development Goals.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52020 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ten for Sustainability – X4S & Country: IT

Project Partners

• INTERFUSION SERVICES LIMITED
• MOBILIZING EXPERTISE AB
• Vardakeios School of indigent children
• Neotalentway