Description
The project reflects to the need to improve the education on development issues and global interdependences within the formal education system and the need to mobilize the broad public for more active attitude towards global issues. The overall objective of the project is to raise the awareness and critical understanding of European public on the relationship between Global South and Global North, with a focus on Environmental Justice and on sustainable ways of living, through contributing to improvement of development education in the European Formal Education System (FES). The specific objective of the project is to enhance the knowledge of education authorities, civil society and the European FES concerning their responsibility and role in development issues and to support active citizenship practices related to two specific learning issues – climate change and environmental migrations. The expected results are: R1 A stronger structured dialogue between global education and FES stakeholders (European education authorities and institutions, teachers and students). This will be achieved through international seminars and workshops (Act. 1.1) and international round tables (Act. 1.2), both to be organized annually. The aim of these meetings will be to design and negotiate a joint final proposal to be presented to the European Commission and to national education authorities. R2 Access and sharing of contents and of awareness raising tools on EJ at EU level. Two main tools will be developed: an Educational Kit as a learning product for schools (Act. 2.1) and a multimedia product whose targets are schools, universities, parents and the civil society at large - an online Multilanguage platform collecting the various project's products, which will also serve as an exchange platform (Act. 2.2). R3 Increased knowledge, awareness and participation of target group, stakeholders and EU citizens on the topics of EJ. In order to diseminate the the EduKit to schools, teachers of primary and secondary schools will be trained on the use of the EduKit, in order to support them during their work in class (Act. 3.1). Also, students of will be directly involved in piloting school activities with EduKit through workshops at schools (Act. 3.2). Teachers, students and parents will be involved in different activities using technological tools and interactive methods: outdoor activities with students and families aimed at increasing the participants' critical awareness on the impact of human activities on climate change, and leading to reflection (Act. 3.3); theatre play staging a debate on environmental injustice closely related to the topics of Food and Food Security (Act. 3.4); online role-playing game as a dynamic and playful learning method, broadly and easily accessible by the youth (Act. 3.5); and an Online Observatory against Environmental Injustice managed by a group of junior researchers and aimed at collecting and monitoring cases of environmental injustice via forums and social networks (facebook/twitter, Instagram and youtube), to be disseminated on the web (Act. 3.6). R4 Increased visibility of good practices on global education implemented in EUschool curricula and in non-EU FES. The good practices will be collected through an European Contest (Act. 4.1) with active participation of students by answering the international call. The knowledge of environmental education projects on environmental justice (and related global education topics) implemented outside Europe will be improved through collection of best practices in Global South (Act. 4.2). R5 More effective information and communication on topics related to EJ at a EU level, with a focus on global learning and the EYD 2015. Viral campaign On Environmental Justice (Act. 5.1) will be implemented with the aim to reach broader audiences using fresh, accessible and up-to-date languages and formats in the digital space. 4 videos with particular stories will be viralized, as well as