Our project aimed to make GIS a practical part of the curriculum, enhance teachers' digital and spatial skills, and increase students' awareness of climate change. We also wanted to create these specific outcomes: GIS for the Future - LMS Platform: An open-source management system featuring courses, events, and climate change news for teachers. It also allows teachers to interact and share experiences. GIS E-learning Module Against Climate Change: This module offers courses for teachers, structured to support individual learning paces, and is accessible in various native languages. GIS Case Studies Against Climate Change: A dedicated section with activities tailored for learning outcomes related to climate change in Geography and Natural Sciences courses. Ultimately, we sought to provide teachers with practical resources and concrete lesson plans, contributing to environmental education and the development of new competencies through interdisciplinary and digital approaches. Through the "GIS for Gist of Europe" project, our partners developed and implemented a sustainable "green footprint" focused on global impact.
We applied for the project to address the urgent need for climate change education and to integrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into high school teaching. Our goal was to equip teachers and students with digital tools and spatial thinking skills to better understand environmental challenges and become active participants in climate action. Our project aims to improve GIS teaching in European schools and integrate it with the study of climate change, leveraging the diverse expertise of partners, from the implementation of GIS curriculum in Latvia, Belgium, and Estonia, to the technological competencies of IEA, Eurogeo, and the academic expertise of UNIZAR in teacher training. The results of our project stem from a stringent necessity: to ensure a healthy and sustainable global environment for present and future generations, especially for students. We consider GIS essential for protecting the planet and leaving a viable world for future generations, making it our duty as educators to create educational environments focused on global needs and a green signature for the future.