In 2015, the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, an opportunity for countries and their societies to embark on a new path with which could improve the lives of all, without leaving anyone behind. The Agenda has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and our objective is to promote the values of sustainability including in the new “2030 Agenda” and the growth of a global consciousness made of people capable of internalizing those same values and transforming them into daily and sustainable practices. Undoubtedly, this cannot be the action of a single person or of a single country, but rather the action of more individuals, entities, systems that at a transnational level can be confronted and improved reciprocally to be more effective when stimulating a real change in different contexts of action. Beyond the global nature of the topic that we are dealing with, our action is aimed specifically at those professionals, educators, trainers, tutors who, through their role, have the possibility of reproducing a message, creating awareness and promoting a daily debate made of experimentation and innovation. Really, through the improvement of the skills and knowledge of people "multipliers" we believe that we can amplify a message by installing human "speakers" that are capable of reaching more people than through direct action. With the idea of involving these individuals in all phases of the project we will define the participants in the project considering also whether their activities are related to any type of disadvantaged context that is affected for any factor that hinders the social inclusion of groups of people. In particular we want to encourage multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and technological approaches in order to prepare and train our “Sustainability Maker” involving them in all the process to develop the intellectual outputs. Actually, the project will be developed in two phases. A first phase where we will develop our first intellectual output, which will be an online platform and an APP for mobile (O1), functioning as a barometer for organizations and people in general and with the objective of analyzing and record the level of sustainability of each one; and a second phase, where the same intellectual output will be tested through 5 different pilot experiences to imagine possible adjustments. At the same time in this second phase, taking advantage of the experimentation of the first intellectual output (O1), we will activate new working groups that can lead to design together with the support of the partner organizations of the project a Manual of good practices oriented in the field of Vocational Education and Training (O2). The different pilot experiences in VET centers in Spain, Greece, Portugal, Belgium and Italy, will be necessary to crate the intellectual outputs and for the quality of the same. It will be possible through coordinated work with our partners in the project. RESULTS and IMPACT With the actions we will carry out throughout the project we will achieve: - Empowerment of educators, tutors and all professionals who actively participate in the two phases of the project, improving the skills and knowledge of all professional people participant. We estimate to involve at least 38 professional people in the process of construction of the intellectual products. - At least 5 educational and training centers will experience a new educational tool ", being an active part of an innovative action that can serve as an example to other organizational systems beyond the geographical area of the partners. It will increase the social recognition of the same centers. - Promotion of the three intellectual results (available in six different languages of the European Union) in the municipal, regional and/or national educational and training strategies. - Increase awareness about the SDG’s and their values.
Beyond the own global nature of the topic we are dealing with, our action wants to head specifically to professionals, educators, instructors, tutors that for their role have the possibility to spread a message, creating consciousness and promoting a daily discussion made by practice and innovation. Through the improvement of the skills and the knowledge of these people who are defined as “Sustainability Makers”, we believe that we can amplify a message by installing human “speakers” able to reach a wider audience with respect to a simple direct action. With this project we wanted to use and promote a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and technological approach with the aim of preparing and training our Sustainability Makers. Our goal has been to involve these people in the whole process of building what is our intellectual output (O1). Likewise, when defining the participants in the different activities of the project, we consider and prioritize those situations related to some kind of disadvantaged context affected by any factor that hinders the social inclusion of certain groups of people.
The general idea of the project is framed in the Agenda 2030 elaborated by ONU about sustainable development. The goal is to promote values about sustainability and the growth of the global consciousness made by people able to internalize these values and transform them in day to day and sustainable practices. This goal can not be of only one person or one country, but rather the actions of more people, organizations, institutions that at transnational level can confront and improve each other to be more effective when it comes to encouraging a change in the different actions contexts. Likewise, it's also necessary to address these topics in a most strategic way at a local level and not only with one-off actions that it’s possible to execute only in primary or compulsory secondary schools, many times putting aside educational systems like VET. The challenge is to clarify that it’s possible to achieve this global Agenda only with a different perspective and transversal work in the society, where VET has an important role, and it’s necessary to incorporate these actions with educational, innovative and experimental activities