The "Echo" project wishes to build an architecture - material and digital - with a high educational impact, aimed at empowering and increasing the skills of a wide public, mainly composed by adult learners, in the field of Environmental Sustainability, leveraging on the attractiveness of the creative medium, on the effectiveness of digital tools, as well as on the skills of non-formal and informal education. The purpose of this variety of actions and languages is to develop a strategy which is able to introduce the elements of Environmental Sustainability Education into the curriculum, reducing the gap between the anthropic and the environmental: an educational center - with extensions of cultural animation, as well as digital ones - which radiates a new attitudinal and critical-analytical culture through the formula of intersectoral cooperation. The goal of the partnership is to contribute to the development of a multi-agent and holistic Environmental Education, rather than "specialized and technical" approach. An educational intervention on the environment in fact presupposes a link between the learner and Sustainability, a model of action as well as behavioral guidance, but also greater civic-democratic awareness.
The project “Education for Environmental Sustainability: Creative Learning Centers and Digital Tools” is a multidisciplinary and multi-action educational path based on the specific needs of the European adult learning community in the field of Sustainable Development, Sustainability and Environmental Protection. The thematic core of "Echo" is therefore very complex: environment, sustainability, promotion of individual and collective ecological attitudes are European and global challenges that require "complex thinking" and equally stratified design approaches. The organizations therefore came together to produce a strategic path able to re-thinking educational spaces, concretely creating new ones and "orienting them to the future", putting together adult education and languages of creativity, cultural offer, digital innovation. The project and the partnership move from common assumptions, intimately linked to the recognition of the needs of the contemporary adult learning community in Europe, as well as to the specificities of the main fields here involved. The starting point is the recognition of the gaps in the various European education and training systems in the field of Sustainability and Environmental Protection.