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KULTURE: Enhancing Environmental Education through Methods and Principles of Permaculture

2022-3-AT01-KA153-YOU-0001028172022Mobility of youth workersfinalizedGood practice
Countries: AT|EL|ES|SI|XK|IT|NO · Grant: €59,833
Environment and climate changeGreen skillsQuality and innovation of youth work

Objectives

The main aim of this project was to introduce youth workers in partner organisations (and also a general interested public) to permaculture as a set of principles, knowledge, mindset and practices that can be fruitful for environmental education, communication around environmental sciences, fight against climate change, community-building, environmental protection and stewardship as well as place-making and climate adaptation. The objectives of the project were: O1: raising awareness among youth workers about the opportunities given by and the effectiveness of permaculture in environmental education and in addressing relevant social, environmental needs; O1.1: showing how permaculture, with its holistic approach, complies and contributes to 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in particular to SDG4 which calls for an inclusive and fair education aimed at a sustainable development; O1.2: showing how permaculture teaching methods promote critical and systemic thinking, interactive and exploratory learning environments, collaborative decision-making, responsibility for future generations and individual and collective action; O1.3: showing how permaculture represents a framework effective in addressing societal and political challenges at local and global level, how it contributes to community developments; O1.4: showing how permaculture provides a framework for educators as effective agents of change; O2: enhancing competences of youth workers by introducing them to principles, ethics and methods of permaculture (O2); O2.1: providing an introduction to principles of permaculture and to the ethical framework that informs practical applications by permacultural practitioners; O2.2: introducing to the conceptual framework of permaculture; O2.3: introducing to analysis of behaviors and consumption choices, to design thinking in permaculture; O2.4: introducing to social permaculture and to urban permaculture; O3: providing skills for designing practical educational sessions for youngsters, inspired by non-formal education,by learning-by-doing methods and by gamification, in order to convey knowledge and methods of permaculture: O3.1: designing toolkits and methods of environmental education inspired by teaching methods of permaculture that can be useful to youth workers; O3.2: enhancing competences of youth workers in delivering outdoor sessions, in investigating environmental issues and consumption habits, in transmitting green skills; O3.3: enhancing competences of youth workers in fostering environmental activism of youngsters within their communities; O3.4: building skills of youth workers in delivering practical permacultural activities; O4: enlarging networks between youth organizations and permacultural ones and providing specific tools for the implementation of permacultural practices in educational activities: O4.1: promoting permaculture as a fundamental pillar of environmental education; O4.3: raising awareness about permaculture addressing youngsters and other youth associations; O4.4: creating networks between youth organizations and permacultural ones; O4.5: reaching out the general public and strategic actors to promote the principles and methods of permaculture.

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