By providing easy to use resources to the educational community, our project aimed to respond to the needs of teachers and schools, and to bring environmental and ecological transition education to as many people as possible. In developing this project, we also wanted to bring together the fields of school and popular education with the scientific community and local expertise in ecological and social transition.
If we are to take massive, collective action to achieve the necessary social and ecological transition, the education system needs to continue its transformation by increasingly integrating environmental education and education for change into classroom practice. Various national and European surveys have shown that the lack of resources for training and creating teaching materials is a major problem for educators. The aim of our PACTE project (Sharing, Learning, Understanding for Ecological Transition) was therefore to provide effective educational resources, free and widely accessible to teachers and educators, to enable schoolchildren (and others) can understand and take action, both individually and collectively, to combat climate change and, more generally, environmental degradation. The aim of the project was to strengthen environmental education and sustainable development initiatives in educational circles. In our view, this is essential if the ecological and social transition is to be massively stepped up and the current social and environmental challenges overcome.