Education on Sustainable Development and Civic Engagement

<< Background >>The project objectives were set on the basis of discussions and a need analysis carried out in the months before the application deadline, in order to build a proposal in line with the aims and needs of the organisations involved.The major needs identified were for: - Increased awareness on sustainable development as key everyday mobilising practice - Higher number of adult people engaged in active initiatives about sustainable development - Collections of better practice, reusable by other organisations, individuals and stakeholders - Higher quality of educational activities focused on environmental sustainability for adult learners - Higher number of international cooperation initiatives on sustainable development.<< Objectives >>The project objectives set at application stage were: - Raising awareness on the key importance of sustainable development as everyday practice - Engaging adult people in active initiatives about sustainable development in their everyday lives - Collecting better educational practice reusable by other organisations, individuals and stakeholders - Raising the quality of educational activities focused on environmental sustainability for adult learners - Stimulating exchange of better educational practice for further cooperation.<< Implementation >>The project activities did foresee four project meetings (two in virtual format - instead of the in-presence Kick-off Meeting, cancelled because of the health situation -, two in-presence, respectively in Oldenburg and in Groningen), aiming at exchanging and collecting better practice on sustainable development as everyday practice and factor of civic engagement, and a bigger training and dissemination event (held in parallel with the German-Dutch Esperanto Congress in Oldenburg), aimed at proposing non-formal education activities and workshops and to present the project to a large adult audience, in order to engage more adult people, especially at risk of marginalisation, in civic engagement initiatives on sustainable development.<< Results >>The main tangible output of this project was a collection of lectures on sustainability, in which the main topic has been addressed from different perspectives, in addition to the environmental point of view.