“SusTAinability makeRs” the WAY to Sustainable Development Goals Erasmus Project

Project Title

“SusTAinability makeRs” the WAY to Sustainable Development Goals

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In 2015, the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, an opportunity for countries and their societies to embark on a new path with which could improve the lives of all, without leaving anyone behind. The Agenda has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and our objective is to promote the values of sustainability including in the new “2030 Agenda” and the growth of a global consciousness made of people capable of internalizing those same values and transforming them into daily and sustainable practices. Undoubtedly, this cannot be the action of a single person or of a single country, but rather the action of more individuals, entities, systems that at a transnational level can be confronted and improved reciprocally to be more effective when stimulating a real change in different contexts of action.

Beyond the global nature of the topic that we are dealing with, our action is aimed specifically at those professionals, educators, trainers, tutors who, through their role, have the possibility of reproducing a message, creating awareness and promoting a daily debate made of experimentation and innovation. Really, through the improvement of the skills and knowledge of people “multipliers” we believe that we can amplify a message by installing human “speakers” that are capable of reaching more people than through direct action.

With the idea of involving these individuals in all phases of the project we will define the participants in the project considering also whether their activities are related to any type of disadvantaged context that is affected for any factor that hinders the social inclusion of groups of people.

In particular we want to encourage multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and technological approaches in order to prepare and train our “Sustainability Maker” involving them in all the process to develop the intellectual outputs.

Actually, the project will be developed in two phases. A first phase where we will develop our first intellectual output, which will be an online platform and an APP for mobile (O1), functioning as a barometer for organizations and people in general and with the objective of analyzing and record the level of sustainability of each one; and a second phase, where the same intellectual output will be tested through 5 different pilot experiences to imagine possible adjustments.

At the same time in this second phase, taking advantage of the experimentation of the first intellectual output (O1), we will activate new working groups that can lead to design together with the support of the partner organizations of the project a Manual of good practices oriented in the field of Vocational Education and Training (O2).

The different pilot experiences in VET centers in Spain, Greece, Portugal, Belgium and Italy, will be necessary to crate the intellectual outputs and for the quality of the same. It will be possible through coordinated work with our partners in the project.

RESULTS and IMPACT

With the actions we will carry out throughout the project we will achieve:

– Empowerment of educators, tutors and all professionals who actively participate in the two phases of the project, improving the skills and knowledge of all professional people participant. We estimate to involve at least 38 professional people in the process of construction of the intellectual products.

– At least 5 educational and training centers will experience a new educational tool “, being an active part of an innovative action that can serve as an example to other organizational systems beyond the geographical area of the partners. It will increase the social recognition of the same centers.

– Promotion of the three intellectual results (available in six different languages of the European Union) in the municipal, regional and/or national educational and training strategies.

– Increase awareness about the SDG’s and their values.

Project Website

https://stairwaytosdg.eu/en/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 216966 Eur

Project Coordinator

Amycos Organización No Gubernamental para la Cooperación Solidaria & Country: ES

Project Partners

• GRYD LTD
• Mesogeiako Kentro Perivallontos
• ROSTO SOLIDARIO – ASSOCIACAO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SOCIAL E HUMANO
• idycos – imagen, diseño y consultoría social s.l.u.
• Odisee vzw
• OIKOS ORGANIZATION FOR INTERNATIONAL KOOPERATION AND SOLIDARITY ONLUS