Urban permaculture education in Europe's school education

<< Background >>We applied for this Erasmus+ project to address several crucial needs shared across our consortium partners. Our main goal was to build the capacities of all partners by creating digital educational tools focused on green skills and sustainable practices.PKD aimed to expand its impact on secondary education professionals by digitizing its permaculture education resources, allowing for broader dissemination of their sustainable development knowledge. Zeleno doba wanted to influence its staff’s digital skills but lacked the funding to fully implement and share its sustainable education initiatives digitally. This project provided a way to enhance its international network and create accessible digital resources for educators.4change needed more accessible tools for their NFE activities in rural schools of Romania, as they teach sustainable development topics but lack modern and engaging materials (digital resources such as learning nuggets). SŠ Braće Radić required up-to-date, innovative digital tools to support sustainable agronomy education. They needed resources and training to equip their staff with relevant skills in sustainable development topics, especially permaculture.<< Objectives >>This project aimed at achieving following objectives:a) Foster an intersectoral collaboration between diverse professionals with a primary goal to develop digital pedagogy and didactics, based on good practices, that support teaching professionals towards innovative approaches for the purpose of green skills development in secondary school educationb) Increase the capacity and readiness of school institutions for the purposeful use of digital technologies in education, learning, assessment and engagement, promoting the innovative use of digital education content related to learning for the green transition<< Implementation >>Activities are: A1: Project management - Project management and coordination, Quality Assurance, Dissemination & promotionA2 Multiplier events organized in order to reach the maximum impact and enable the exploitation of the project results.A3 Urban permaculture: online manual for school education - OER, educational manual in digital format that focuses on Introducing Permaculture to the school education sector – primarily to school education professionals such as teachers, educators, NFE experts delivering workshops in schools and public services employees in the school education sector that will be able to use it in teaching ecology topics to pupils (14-18).A4 e-learning education for urban permaculture - resources. The e-platform is envisioned to host the e-manual read only and print only versions as well as to contain all lessons and digital learning nuggets in the shape of modules providing easy-to-use and user-friendly digital space.A5 TTLA for staff - organized 3-day Short-term joint staff training event between M10 and M11 of implementation in Croatia. TTLA is aimed at teachers, educators, youth workers and others associated stakeholders of our consortium that can benefit from the results of our project.<< Results >>Results are as follows: 1 Set of thematically designed lessons derived from NFE & digital education methods applicable in the context of secondary school education.1 e-learning platform consisting of digital learning materials such as the manual, lesson plans & digital learning nuggets. 1 staff training for 17 relevant participants implemented in Croatia improving and adding value to the produced OERs.3 multiplier events in 3 countries disseminating the results to a wide network of stakeholders in education field. Through these events we shared information about our derivates and showcase theusability to the relevant local stakeholders in each partner country so as to increase the recognizability and usability of our OERs.