Beyond the global nature of the issue we are dealing with, our action aims to specifically target those professionals, educators, trainers, tutors who, by virtue of their role, have the possibility to reproduce a message, raise awareness and promote a daily debate made of practice and innovation. Through the improvement of digital skills and the internalisation of the concepts and values of the SDGs by these people, whom we define as "Sustainability Makers", we believe that we can amplify a message and install human "loudspeakers" capable of reaching a wider audience than a simple direct action. With this project we wanted to use and promote a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and technological approach to prepare and train our Sustainability Makers. Our aim was to empower teachers and, more generally, the educational community, even in disadvantaged contexts, with the possibility of carrying out an innovative and action-oriented action, thus increasing the attractiveness of VET and its resilience to digital transformation.
The general idea of the project is framed within the 2030 Agenda developed by the UN on sustainable development. The objective is to promote the values of sustainability and the growth of a global consciousness made of people capable of internalizing those same values and transforming them into daily and sustainable practices. In this sense it is important to address these issues in a more strategic way also at the local level and not only through specific actions that most of the time it is possible to carry out only in primary schools or ESO, often leaving aside other educational systems such as VET. VET plays an important role in this change because it can talk about sustainability in a rather practical way, highlighting professional opportunities, but it cannot do without the value part. Therefore, through training, innovative and experimental activities we want to involve teachers, and more generally the VET educational community, to take up the challenge and responsibility of sustainability, including people in the current digital transformation process and offering them the possibility of using technological tools in the classroom.