The main goal of the Climate Connect project has been to "transform schools into hubs for climate change advocacy ". To achieve that goal we identified and followed 3 objectives: 1. Disseminate youth-led climate actions and campaigns at EU level to promote good practices and give real examples to young people. Testing an innovative practice, we wanted to prepare learners to be real actors of change. Through piloting 4 schools eco campaigns, students could learn about climate-change challenges from trustworthy sources and work to enable behavioral change in their peers. 2. Innovate the secondary school curricula by using innovative learning approaches, developing creativity, and cross curricular collaboration regarding climate change. The youth-led approach of the project promoted creativity and soft skills development while students analyzed and then developed their campaigns. 3. Raise the voice of all young people, especially with fewer opportunities, regarding climate change. The project focused on creating instruments and methodologies to ensure that students with fewer opportunities could also participate and benefit, especially by developing key competencies and raising their voice regarding climate change
Climate change has been ranked among the most serious problems facing the world today. It is clear that school needs to play a central role in developing the capacity of individuals to act for climate change. Connecting with others to multiply the impact is a key step to ensure that solutions can be transferred from different countries. The Climate Connect project is based on these priorities and takes into consideration youth-led good practices to develop the capacity of schools to provide high-quality cross-curricular opportunities to their students to be active and be actors of change. The project is developed at European level with the collaboration of 4 schools from different countries and it has addressed the identified students' needs of reformеd formal education methods - to create learning environments that are more participative and individualized;to increase opportunity for informal learning opportunities through access to museums, libraries, volunteering, international exchanges, and extracurricular activities. Teachers across the curriculum are given a chance to collaborate regarding a common topic such as climate change. 2 NGOs have met their need to engage young people in volunteering for climate change actions.