The project provides teachers with innovative materials for climate education, nowadays missing in educational markets of the partner countries, with the aim to: - Educating and supporting teachers of students aged 10 – 16 and raising awareness of climate change, - Strengthening the knowledge and digital skills of teachers and students through the use of digital technologies in education, - Increasing the use of new and innovative learning and teaching methods, - Supporting critical thinking of all participants and fostering the environmental behaviour of individuals, pointing out the necessity of lowering our impact on climate change and raising its awareness, - Supporting a sense of social responsibility for the local environment. These general objectives and overall project goal “Supporting the competencies and skills of teachers in the implementation of practical education raising awareness of climate change, its impacts and mitigation actions” were reached by developing 4 project results. In addition, the project supports the green skills of all participants, the inclusion and diversity, and key competencies of teachers and students: 6 out of 8 key skills, specified by the EU.
Based on NEEDS ANALYSES carried out in spring 2021, students aren't being prepared to face the effects of climate change, or taught to understand the solutions, which in turn leads to an inability to take responsibility for their impact on the local environment. One of the reasons is that teachers are missing relevant skills, knowledge or, more often, motivation for climate education. The key role of climate education should be not only to deliver knowledge but to change the attitude of people and to increase their activities towards the sustainability of local communities. The project responded to the following needs of the target group of teachers and students aged 10-16: - adapting education to global environmental challenges, - applying climate education more and reporting less, - to focus on the relationship of humans to the environment and their involvement at the local level, - addressing the lack of training opportunities and educational materials for climate change teachers. The project also responded to the needs of partners from Slovakia, Italy, Spain and Cyprus, especially in an exchange of good practices of partners with different backgrounds, expertise and experience, in the field of climate change education.