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What Vocational Education can do for Climate Action
FunderEuropean Commission
Funder Contribution €60,000.00
Funded underERASMUS+ | Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices | Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and training
Project code2021-2-PL01-KA210-VET-000047985
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"<< Background >> VET education can be a powerful tool to enhance the individual’s capability of responding to local issues in a global context. The main aim of the project was to make community-based environmental VET education a more central and visible part of the response to sustainability issues. It was also inspired by the European Climate Pact, launched on 16/12/2020, which underlines the need of a space for people across all walks of life to connect and together develop and implement climate solutions. Environmental education and awareness-raising for VETs can: - empower informed decision-making; - play an essential role in increasing adaptation capacities of communities and competences-development in environmental education; - empower people to adopt sustainable lifestyles; - strengthen critical thinking and awareness of taking individual responsibility and changing habits for a positive environmental change; - engage VET professionals in the process of increasing environmental awareness and promoting pro-ecological behaviours.The project highlights the individual agency by introducing the concept of citizen science and promoting awareness of the impact of climate challenges, encouraging changes in individuals’ attitudes and behaviour. << Objectives >>The project was meant to help VET members and learners understand the impact of environmental challenges and increase ""environmental literacy"" of VETs by strengthening the capacity of local communities through active environmental education. In addition to that, the idea behind the VEforCA project was to promote education for change as well as to develop critical active citizen-ship and advocacy for sustainable development. It also pursued the following specific objectives: - Increasing opportunities of VETs to engage with their communities in environmental and climate actions while enhancing their ability to think critically; - Developing an open e-learning programme for VET educators empowering them to support community engagement for the environment; - Developing a set of resources to increase and measure eco-consciousness among VETs; - Encouraging a shared decision-making process and co-design of environmental policy initiatives by applying a multi-stakeholder approach; - Ensuring wide and sustainable access to the project results among VET learners, educators, CSOs, and policy-makers.<< Implementation >>The activities implemented in the project included: • Participatory field-study research, complementing a desk-based research on citizen science ap-proaches, environmental challenges and actions, which was prepared in a form of an interactive report (constituting Result 1 of the project);• Development of e-learning programme (constituting Result 2 of the project) empowering VET educators to promote community-based environmental action;• Delivery of a pilot environmental awareness-action with VET learners with the newly-created Sus-tainability kit, and of the eco-consciousness assessment package (R3 and R4 respectively);<< Results >>During the course of the project’s implementation, the following concrete outputs and results were created:- R1 - Interactive report: citizen science approaches, environmental challenges and climate action;- R2 - E-learning programme;- R3 - Sustainability kit: 6 fields to make a difference every day;- R4 - Eco-consciousness assessment package;The developed pedagogical resources empower VET educators to connect learners with the envi-ronmental challenges, and contribute to change in attitudes by leading them towards more sustain-able habits. The created project results are available in three language versions: English, Polish and Italian."
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"<< Background >> VET education can be a powerful tool to enhance the individual’s capability of responding to local issues in a global context. The main aim of the project was to make community-based environmental VET education a more central and visible part of the response to sustainability issues. It was also inspired by the European Climate Pact, launched on 16/12/2020, which underlines the need of a space for people across all walks of life to connect and together develop and implement climate solutions. Environmental education and awareness-raising for VETs can: - empower informed decision-making; - play an essential role in increasing adaptation capacities of communities and competences-development in environmental education; - empower people to adopt sustainable lifestyles; - strengthen critical thinking and awareness of taking individual responsibility and changing habits for a positive environmental change; - engage VET professionals in the process of increasing environmental awareness and promoting pro-ecological behaviours.The project highlights the individual agency by introducing the concept of citizen science and promoting awareness of the impact of climate challenges, encouraging changes in individuals’ attitudes and behaviour. << Objectives >>The project was meant to help VET members and learners understand the impact of environmental challenges and increase ""environmental literacy"" of VETs by strengthening the capacity of local communities through active environmental education. In addition to that, the idea behind the VEforCA project was to promote education for change as well as to develop critical active citizen-ship and advocacy for sustainable development. It also pursued the following specific objectives: - Increasing opportunities of VETs to engage with their communities in environmental and climate actions while enhancing their ability to think critically; - Developing an open e-learning programme for VET educators empowering them to support community engagement for the environment; - Developing a set of resources to increase and measure eco-consciousness among VETs; - Encouraging a shared decision-making process and co-design of environmental policy initiatives by applying a multi-stakeholder approach; - Ensuring wide and sustainable access to the project results among VET learners, educators, CSOs, and policy-makers.<< Implementation >>The activities implemented in the project included: • Participatory field-study research, complementing a desk-based research on citizen science ap-proaches, environmental challenges and actions, which was prepared in a form of an interactive report (constituting Result 1 of the project);• Development of e-learning programme (constituting Result 2 of the project) empowering VET educators to promote community-based environmental action;• Delivery of a pilot environmental awareness-action with VET learners with the newly-created Sus-tainability kit, and of the eco-consciousness assessment package (R3 and R4 respectively);<< Results >>During the course of the project’s implementation, the following concrete outputs and results were created:- R1 - Interactive report: citizen science approaches, environmental challenges and climate action;- R2 - E-learning programme;- R3 - Sustainability kit: 6 fields to make a difference every day;- R4 - Eco-consciousness assessment package;The developed pedagogical resources empower VET educators to connect learners with the envi-ronmental challenges, and contribute to change in attitudes by leading them towards more sustain-able habits. The created project results are available in three language versions: English, Polish and Italian."
