The project overall goal was to strengthen intergenerational learning within community to promote environmental awareness and change of behavior towards environmental sustainability through 6 R’s of sustainability. The project had the following objectives: - To increase environmental awareness through an active, critical approach involving people of different age groups. - To increase digital competence of the involved target groups while boosting their awareness on environmental issues. - To support local community intergenerational learning providers with tools and resources on environmental sustainability. - To highlight innovative and effective models and approaches of intergenerational learning in local communities through environmental education activities using 6 R’s of sustainability: rethinking, refusing, reducing, reusing, repairing, recycling. - To discover and identify core principles, different structures and approaches of sustainable local community involvement in intergenerational learning to raise environmental awareness through experience exchange and best practices. - To present challenges to implementing intergenerational learning in local community and forward recommendations for supporting work in this area.
Europe is the first continent to declare climate and environmental emergency. Part of the priorities mentioned in the European Green Deal is activating education and training to engage students, parents and the community in the changes needed. To reach the proposed climate neutrality there is a need for new, innovative learning approaches to educate all community members (not only students at school) on environmental and sustainability issues. Therefore ILCES project aimed to strengthen intergenerational learning within community to promote environmental awareness and change of behavior towards environmental sustainability through 6 R’s of sustainability: rethinking, refusing, reducing, reusing, repairing, recycling. The project objective was achieved through creating a set of activities to challenge local communities to learn, discuss and understand the importance of behavioral change regarding environmental sustainability using ILCES e-learning platform. Besides ILCES project explored existing networks in the framework of local community between organisations and provided new ways, approaches, possibilities and models to ensure sustainable collaboration between involved stakeholders to develop forward-looking learning centres.