In the clim@venture project we wante to develop a digital youth-exchange program making school-exchanges independent of real-life travel and hence resilient against current and future crises-restrictions. Our clim@venture provides virtual learning journeys and student mobility that are both: climate-friendly (because virtual) and covid-lockdown resilient. Our partners also brought a lot of experience with gamification, storytelling and adventure-based, transformative learning that guaranteed an unforgettable learning journey experience with blended learning elements. Towards this goal we wanted to offer local micro-adventures and experiences where participants virtually visit and interact and become climate reporters. They will share their passion and learnings about sustainability /climate protection and get new ideas from their peers on how to contribute to the 1.5 climate goals of the Paris agreement as active European citizens.
With the signing of the Paris Agreement, climate policy has become an educational priority. Enabling students to actively shape a CO2- free future shall be achieved through climate education as an integral part of school programs. Additional - COVID has not only put tremendous challenges on educators and learners to change from in-site lessons to online learning while combatting lack of digital and media literacy and consecutive disinformation, it has also put a halt on most mobilities and youth exchanges. An essential tool for creation of common values, civic engagement /European citizenship and exchange of good practices and transnational collaboration are exchange programs such as Erasmus mobilities and DiscoverEU. Creating a green Erasmus exchange for schools with virtual mobility and blended/global climate missions called the clim@adventure, has become the central objective of our partnership: Through our partnership we wanted to achieve more reach, more motivation, more reduction of CO2- emissions by creating a standardized and digitilized virtual peer-exchange for European schools with local climate missions.