We wanted to achieve following main objectives: O1: Informing and sensitizing students - Knowledge creates awareness and awareness leads to action. O2: Skilling up students - Students gather knowledge on climate change, energy, mobility, housing, IT; understand complex interrelationships and train applying fact-based communication skills. O3: Empowering students - Shaping self-awareness in young people to see themselves as shapers of the future for civic engagement and participation in the social transformation, showing stamina and resilience. O4: Advancing Education for Sustainable Development - Teachers get an exciting and innovative educational package and are informed, trained and empower to implement ETA-Day themselves at their school. O5: Achieving more public awareness for climate change and energy transition. By creation of a homepage, involving various multipliers and dissemination of content on social media, newsletters etc. O6: Creating a network with new partners on a European level and consolidating synergetic transnational relationships. With an increase of competences, intercultural, transnational exchange, learning from each other it leads to further development of the own organization
We applied for this project, because it is important to educate young people on the key issues energy, mobility and housing and to involve them in making decisions for a world they will have to live in tomorrow. Europe is facing a huge challenge: we must manage to drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, transform the entire energy sector and make all areas of our lives more sustainable. The necessary change is a task for society as a whole and students today are part of the solution. With the “Energy Transition Action Day” we educate students 15+ about climate change, but most of all we invite them to become active, to contribute their ideas and visions for a climate-friendly, sustainable future and thereby initiate positive change in their place of resident. At the same time, we are counteracting the climate fears and concerns of the younger generation, which are demonstrably on the rise. Through learning content on energy, mobility and housing, the playful planning of their city of the future with fact-based decisions and the direct exchange at eye level with representatives of their municipality, they experience themselves as effective and realize that change is possible and can succeed.