Steps to 2030 World-teaching about 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

In the project Steps2030 World participated five schools, from five countries, with the aim to do small steps in the direction to reach 17 UN goals until 2030. Gimnazija Jurija Vege Idrija, coordinator school, with partners: Burggymnasium Friedberg, Tabor College Werenfridus, I.I.S. V. SIMONCELLI and PRHG Rijeka carried out different actions to achieve the project‘ goals. Partners reached the following objectives: - Students developed empathy and awareness of global problems, searched for concrete actions and realistic actions for sustainable development at schools or at their homeland and implemented them. Students also developed and improved the key competences, such as critical thinking, communication in foreign language and team working. - Teachers improved their professional skills by learning new teaching methods and strategies, communication in foreign language and also additional ICT skills.- All participants extended their knowledge about EU in general, their institutions and function and also the knowledge regarding the participating countries. Activities that took place were:-Learning, teaching and training actions.-Concrete activities, workshops and actions in each school with clear goals to reach,-Joint activities to achieve the project objectives.Projects results are: -the booklet with workshops’ descriptions and lesson plans in combination with other project activities,-the a video about the project.We also had concrete, practical results. Some other results are also important, like plastic reducing in schools or at home. The schools realized during the project that dealing with 17 UN goals in schools is vital also after the project. Teachers will use the booklet as inspiration to continue with the education about sustainability. The video has a purpose to be wide spread in order to encourage people to carry out the similar actions: e.g. reducing plastic, saving electricity and water, ...