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SCRAPPIES conference at the SDG4 seminar at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥

Our innovative learning environments research group organised a SCRAPPIES workshop as part of the SDG4 seminar in 2023, at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥. Our researchers Orsolya Tuba and Matias Mäki-Kuutti led the hybrid workshop with over 70 international participants. In the workshop, the participants tested our new learning materials, the snaps, which have been designed to offer easy plug-and-play sustainability materials for teachers to engage their students in, and to have fun playing with recyclable scrap materials while creating art from them. For the participants of the SDG4 seminar, we ran an advanced version of a snap, and the participants’ task was to develop a solution for a future learning and teaching challenge, using Finland’s Future Fund Sitra’s Future Megatrend list as inspiration.

Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) aims to ensure quality education for all. The SDG4 Seminar is centred around participation. We engage with the different dimensions of educational development through research-based and practical activities involving the open exchange of ideas. Our aim is to encourage discussion on local, global and contextually relevant solutions in education. The seminar is open for all JYU students and staff, and everyone interested in education. Our event typically includes collaboration with other universities, NGOs, schools and educational networks and projects. For more information about the SDG4 seminar, please visit: /en/events/sdg4-seminar-celebrating-voices-reflecting-on-160-years-of-teacher-education-and-imagining-the 

Researcher’s Night at JYU: Creativity and Innovation in Education for Sustainable Development

During the annual Researcher’s Night programme at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, Finland, international visitors all the way from Hungary and even Uruguay attended a multi-phase showcase of projects and workshops with educational themes. The event took place during the City of Light week in Jyväskylä, and during Friday evening, more than a hundred people gathered to Agora for exciting activities, working with a humanities and science education kahoot quiz, folk tale educational materials for children, sustainable educational learning and teaching materials, and learning to make maté, the popular South American tea drink.

During the event, teachers were especially curious of the thirty snap activities that we had printed for viewing and taking home. Our local stakeholder group members were at the event to discuss and review the materials, + we had new members from South America to Indonesia becoming interested in the materials. We agreed to organise future training for interested teachers to try out the snaps in their own teaching!

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Scrappies is an Erasmus+ project (its full name is Scrappies – Enhancing Creativity and Sustainable Attitudes of Children through Play and Recycled Materials, 2022-1-PL01-KA220-SCH-000087886) run by an international (Finnish-Polish-Hungarian) consortium.

The main goal of our project is to use recyclable waste in education. Recycling is one of the most effective ways to reduce waste and is therefore an important topic in environmental dialogues. Our project teaches responsible consumption through creative educational activities within the framework of education for sustainable development.