We applied for this project to exchange good practices as regarded empowering partner organizations to deliver the European Green Deal, with the following general objectives: - to develop competences of Partners, in the field of adult education and lifelong learning in order to: - favor the alignment of their operations and strategies to the delivery of the European Green Deal, to bring bottom-up contribution: in making Europe the first climate neutral continent in the world, in making also the adult education domain fit to meet this challenge on the path to reach EU climate targets in a fair, cost effective and competitive way; - to raise the awareness of the recipients of their learning provisions as regards the potential to transform our societies and our economy through the European Green Deal to enable behavioural changes for individual preferences, cultural values, and more generally support active engagement for sustainable development; - to reinforce the capacities Partners’ trainers/teachers, staff as a whole as regards concrete actions to be undertaken towards achieving the goals set by the Green Deal specifically as regards: emissions reduction, improvement of health and wellbeing, creation of jobs and growth.
We applied for this project to exchange good practices as regarded empowering partner organizations to deliver the European Green Deal, because the Partners were convinced that current societal challenges and crisis (the return of war in Europe, the energy crisis, the recent covid pandemic just to name a few) return of war in Europe) have given an acceleration to the necessity of transformation that were pre-existing, for instance as response to tackle climate change, to mitigate them and or adapt to them. In some field of education there’s evidence of developing trends on greening, with many organizations already involved in initiatives on environmental sustainability on its mainstreaming in connection and cross-fertilisation with other on-going transformation processes, such as for instance digitalisation, social inclusion and enhancement of learning and teaching. The Partners intended to bring their contribution in aligning to green practices, across the board within their provisions, encompassing learning and teaching, vision, planning and governance, active learners and staff participation, energy efficient management of office spaces and resources, partnerships with local and wider communities, and research and innovation.