“Learning to grow by protecting Environment and Humans”  [pdf, 11 MB]

Manuel Flieg is a teacher in a professional agricultural high school for 20 years in the field of machinery. He participated in numerous international exchanges (in Germany, Italy, Holland, Czech Republic, Belgium, Canada). He participates in meetings of the European Agricultural High Schools Association Europea and he is member of the French section Involved in sustainable development through various meetings and projects, most recently in the circular economy. He developed different courses and practical activities on composting, hydrodistillation, methanisation, aquaponics, selfbuilding tools with recycled material, plant production with recycled material and he wrote a new project on connected horticulture and circular economy.

Dr. Barbara Schmidt is farmer and agricultural engineer. She has been working since 1998 as a scientific teacher in the fields of agriculture and viticulture and as head of the Agrar-Department at the Edith Stein School in Freiburg. Her teaching activities include soil science, environment, plant production, animal production and viticulture. Since 1999 she has been actively involved in bilateral projects with France and Austria including trainees, especially with regard to viticulture and horticulture. In addition to the Apple project, the Erasmus activities refer to the pedagogical and didactical exchange of European teachers in the agricultural sector as well as the exchange of trainees in horticulture and viticulture with France and Austria.

Susanne Lemke is a vocational school teacher at Edith Stein School, an agricultural vocational school in Freiburg. She teaches gardeners in various disciplines. In the past, she took part in various exchange projects. Currently she is supervising an exchange with Austria, where the trainees can gain new working techniques and experience in their profession.

The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• General website
• In particular, goal 4 deals with ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Within this goal, target 4.7 reads: “By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development”

The EU Green Deal

• General website on the initiative
• European Green Deal Communication (in particular, point 2.2.4. talks about “Activating education and training")

Learning for environmental sustainability

• General website on the topic
• Proposal for a Council Recommendation for learning on environmental sustainability and its accompanying Staff Working Document, where you can read more about funding sources, examples, etc..

GreenComp: the European sustainability competence framework

• GreenComp is a reference framework for sustainability competences. It provides a common ground to learners and guidance to educators, advancing a consensual definition of what sustainability as a competence entails.

The New European Bauhaus

• Main website
• In addition, ongoing calls for funding are published in relation to the New European Bauhaus (Deadline 23 May).

Education for Climate coalition

• The European participatory community for students, teachers and education stakeholders to act collectively on innovative education solutions for environmental sustainability.

3 Billion Trees Pledge

• Under the European Green Deal, the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 commits to planting at least 3 billion additional trees in the EU by 2030 in full respect of ecological principles.

Flash Eurobarometer 478 – “How do we build a stronger, more united Europe? The views of young people”

• This survey asked over 10,000 people aged 15-30 across the EU for their views on what the EU’s priorities should be, and where education and training should focus in the years to come. In particular, the summary under “attachments” provides interesting data about how young people feel in relation to learning on environmental sustainability and climate change.

Further links

• Teaching materials: Classroom projects on climate change and sustainability: 2021 update
• Publication: #EcoFighters: a guide for school students into environmental activism
• “Our planet, our future” - Educational toolkit developed by the European Commission. More Information you fill find here
• Data Collection and analysis of Erasmus+ Projects - Focus on education for environmental sustainability (EU Commission) [PDF, 6,3 MB]
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change