Sustainability competences refer to knowledge, skills and attitudes that individuals and communities need to move towards a more sustainable way of life. Our project works with three facets of competences:
ECF4CLIM-project uses (JRC 2022) as a springboard. The project explores how sustainability competences can be promoted in the everyday life of schools and universities. The funding of the project is part of the European Green Deal, which forms a European roadmap to towards a greener future. The acronym ECF4CLIM comes from the full project name A European Competence Framework for a Low Carbon Economy and Sustainability through Education.
The project adopts a multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary and participatory approach, which makes use of crowdsourcing and co-designing best practices. It applies a novel hybrid participatory approach, rooted in participatory action research and citizen science, with a close cooperation with selected schools and universities.
In addition to Ģֱ, the ECF4CLIM includes partners from Spain, Portugal, Romania, Greece, and Hungary, schools and universities as demonstration sites, and the as an associated partner. The project members in FIER are associated with JYU.Wisdom — the School of Resource Wisdom in Ģֱ, and take part in curriculum development work for the Sustainable and responsible university within Responsible expertise and sustainable development -theme.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101036505. This webpage reflects only the author’s view and the Research Executive Agency (REA) and European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
