Sometimes teachers assume that young people are not very interested in global issues. Gender inequality, poverty and famine are seemingly happening very far away and students fell helpless to make positive changes, so they rather narrow down their interest to the matters they consider more relevant for their lives. In the resolution, adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015, the UN announced the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. The research made by the schools involved in the project Steps2030World has given a worrying result-only few students have already heard about SDGs. Teachers are trying to awake and develop students' interest in global issues, but cannot find the tools to make lessons interesting enough in order to motivate students to think thoroughly about the issues. The 21st century is marked by the rapid technological advancement and teachers constantly realise that they lack the skills to handle the new teaching approaches and that it is urgent for them to make professional progress. The project Steps2030 World deals with learning methods and activities that are related to most of the SDGs. There are two main project's objectives. First, we want to increase knowledge, interest and actions in direction to SDGs among students and show them that each step towards a bettert world, even the smallest one, is important. Second, the project aims to develop teaching methods and strategies, such as technology implementation, interdisciplinary teaching, problem solving and critical thinking. Participant in project Steps2030World have five mobilities and during each there are activities related to the SDGs. The participant are constantly actively involved during their mobility and have different tasks that lead them to learn about SDGs and strengthen their learning, literacy and lifelong competences. The teachers exchange lessons plans, observe new teaching approaches and discuss their profession and broaden the horizons of their general education. Each school in the project has some specific knowledge and some good practice examples to share, which greatly contributes to the success of the project. There are three main expected results of the project. First, the students are expected to develop empathy to and awareness of global problems, which is necessary in order to improve the situation in the world. Second, the students are expected to search for concrete actions and realistic actions for sustainable development at schools or at their homes. The third aim is for the students to develop and improve the key competences and the teachers their professional skills. Desimination of the the project results is very important and will be done at each school through publications on school web sites, in the local newspapers and on the radio . A booklet with lessons and activities as well as a short video about the project's acitivities will be made. The results and the achievements of the project Steps2030World will be spread and will thus contribute to the improvement of modern education not only in the participants' organizations but much wider.
In the project Steps2030 World participated five schools, from five countries, with the aim to do small steps in the direction to reach 17 UN goals until 2030. Gimnazija Jurija Vege Idrija, coordinator school, with partners: Burggymnasium Friedberg, Tabor College Werenfridus, I.I.S. V. SIMONCELLI and PRHG Rijeka carried out different actions to achieve the project‘ goals. Partners reached the following objectives: - Students developed empathy and awareness of global problems, searched for concrete actions and realistic actions for sustainable development at schools or at their homeland and implemented them. Students also developed and improved the key competences, such as critical thinking, communication in foreign language and team working. - Teachers improved their professional skills by learning new teaching methods and strategies, communication in foreign language and also additional ICT skills. - All participants extended their knowledge about EU in general, their institutions and function and also the knowledge regarding the participating countries. Activities that took place were: - Learning, teaching and training actions. - Concrete activities, workshops and actions in each school with clear goals to reach, - Joint activities to achieve the project objectives. Projects results are: - the booklet with workshops’ descriptions and lesson plans in combination with other project activities, - the a video about the project. We also had concrete, practical results. Some other results are also important, like plastic reducing in schools or at home. The schools realized during the project that dealing with 17 UN goals in schools is vital also after the project. Teachers will use the booklet as inspiration to continue with the education about sustainability. The video has a purpose to be wide spread in order to encourage people to carry out the similar actions: e.g. reducing plastic, saving electricity and water, ...