Background and context The European VET schools play an important role when it comes to shaping the future work force within a wide range of sectors, for instance Transportation and Logistics. Many of the schools work at a sporadically level with sustainability, but do not have an explicit sustainability agenda or vision at a strategic level. This we believe is not out of unwillingness or lack of interest, since the VET schools and educations consist of highly innovative professionals dedicated to finding practical and smart solutions to everyday problems, which have great impact on all of us, and add value to the sectors as such. Nevertheless we see a great potential to embrace the explicit agenda of UN World Goals for 2030 Agenda as a common strategic aim and clue of how to communicate about and set forth concrete ambitions to work innovatively and systematically to improve practices and processes within the VET schools - and in close collaboration with surrounding stakeholders. Besides from adding value in the sense of seeking new solutions through partnerships inside and outside the VET field, we believe that a heigthened focus on UN Goals 2030 will indirectly attract more young people to seeking skills from within the VET sector. The 5 partner schools and associated partners behind "Click on Climate" will be involved at 3 organisational levels into the innovative design process, leading to heightened awareness and competences to act for change: A: Management level, B: teaching level and C: stakeholder level. For each of the activities involved, we will be inspired by methodologies from within: Change theory, Didactics of Innovation and entrepreneurship, (like eg. CIE Model, Design Thinking etc), ICT and digital learning, Qualitative research methods. Description of activities First we do a "Mapping of practices" (IO1) and produce an analysis of "Sustainability matureness" of the stakeholders and industries that work together with the 5 different partner schools.The result is a baseline report, which includes also concrete challenges and cases to be incorporated directly into the teaching of students. Together the partner schools will analyse the implications of the data collection to their specific school. From the mapping of stakeholder and school perspectives, we move to the management level by developing a tool for implementing Climate goals and sustainability issues into the specific strategies of each partner school, and start to implement it locally at each school (IO2). We believe that in order to actually change the agenda and move forward at the 5 schools, it is necessary to offer the teachers and trainers a concrete Online course that provides them with an introduction to the UN World Goals goals - both at a holistic level, but also at a more sector specific level. The 3. activity (IO3) is therefore dedicated to produce 2 courses for students and staff at VET in general and specifically in departments offering VET programs within Transportation and Logistics. When the two courses are developed and have been tested, they will be used to develop add on curriculum activities, hitting different spot in the life time of a whole VET education within Transport and Logistics as well as kick off the Learning activity we call "Sustainabilty Camp" At this camp all partner schools (students and trainers) meet and work together with real climate challenges that have been collected during the mapping of practice. At the camp the students will be working in cross-cultural groups to find the best solutions to the existing problems from the 5 different countries, and their trainers will be trained by their fellow trainers to go back to their own schools and make their own "sustainability events" - in the form of camps or other activities in relation with the online courses. The camps are created to give the students systematic innovation competencies and have proven to be succesfull when it comes to strenghening: Motivation, cross-sectorial skills and entrepreneurship (with a focus on social and economical sustainability). Several innovative multiplier events will take place, representing the numbers of partners involved. What are the main objectives and results - Heighten awareness and competences to act in accordance with the UN Goals 2030 at both management, teaching and stakeholder levels within the partner schools by creating and testing new tools and innovation activities at all schools. - By focusing on the one specific sector of Transportation and Logistic we wish to: 1: Secure co-ownership, relevance and results. 2: Facilitate cross sectorial inspiration and dissemination into other VET sectors. 3: Prepare students for international work lives by providing them with skills to work cross culturally on the sustainability agenda.
The achievement aim for ClickOnClimate has been to provide a 3 level-implementation of sustainability at 5 schools and thereby secure a boost of hand-in-hand success at both strategic and action level. Through this holistic approach we have aimed at creating a common platform between the organisational "top" and "bottom", paving the road for an actual and long-lasting sustainability focus. Therefore, the innovative project design, which brought strategy, stakeholders and students into the same project frame. The project has aimed to heighten awareness and ability to act in accordance with UN SDGs 2030 at both management, teaching and stakeholder levels in the partner schools by creating and testing new tools and innovation activities at all partner schools. By the project's sector-specific design we wanted to: 1: Secure co-ownership, relevance and results. 2: Facilitate cross sectorial inspiration and dissemination into other VET-sectors. 3: Prepare students trained in Transportation and Logistics for international work-lives by providing them with experience and skills to work cross culturally with the sustainability agenda.
Effective education and training for sustainable development pivots on governance and the ability to train, upskill, reskill and empower those, who are able to take advantage of the job growth and job creation potential in our changing economy. The project thus adressed the needs to: - Make sustainability and UN SDGs 2023 part of school strategies and actions, using innovative ways to interact with students and staff, and doing so in collaboration with surrounding stakeholders - Make vocational schools' efforts to include environmental aspects and SDGs in the classroom less sporadical and random - Contribute to developing green sectorial skills strategies and methodologies, as well as future-oriented curricula, which meet the needs of individuals in an innovative way. - Make better use of digital technologies for teaching and learning - Create synergy between transnational partners and stakeholders in addressing sustainability and climate issues as global challenges, and in order to create transnational outputs - Gain more experience with testing new tools, innovation activities and digital teaching and learning The project design was innovative and complementary to other projects already carried out by the participating schools. This is described in further detail in section 3. Here we would like to highlight the project's ambition of: - Extracting the best from TEC´s approximately 10 years of developing successful innovation camps in collaboration with partner schools in Denmark and stakeholders and companies who share challenges as cases for the students to work with. - Dual sustainability meaning that VET schools together with the sector zoom into common challenges and invite the students to take action and come up with solutions - Cross-national collaboration among students and trainers in 5 different VET Schools to develop concrete solutions to real and actual climate challenges within a specific professional field (Transportation and logistics) - Using methodologies from Change Theory and Innovation- and Entrepreneurship Diadactics (The Danish KIE-Model, Design Thinking etc.) as well as digital teaching and learning techologies. - Hopefully helping the VET-sector break new ground in regard to stimulating recruitment to VET-training programmes, as increased socital and educational focus on UN SDGs 2030 may help create more interest for VET-skills and motivate more young people in particular to apply for VET-traning programmes. - Building digital education readiness - Working cross-culturally and action-focused on the sustainability agenda - Taking a 3-level approach to organisational/whole-school sustainability change (A: Management level, B: Teaching level and C: Stakeholder level.)