The goal of SUPPORT was to promote and enhance the quality of education for sustainable development by linking schools, research institutions and communities in a web-based network.
Education for sustainable development (ESD) aims to help young people become lifelong learners and active and responsible citizens. To achieve this, new kinds of educational frameworks are needed, which enable pupils to understand complex issues and provide them with opportunities to acquire relevant skills, reflect critically and develop their own values and attitudes regarding sustainable development.
The goals of SUPPORT were to generate and spread knowledge about how ESD can be effectively supported through cooperation with actors in the local community. Interaction and cooperation among key stakeholders and best-practice exchange were the main themes at conferences, workshops and seminars organized by SUPPORT, as well as at the web-based school campaign “CO2nnect – CO2 on the way to school”.
Specific objectives of SUPPORT were to increase participation in science studies by making these more attractive, reduce the gender imbalance in science education and promote entrepreneurship by supporting a school culture of innovation and responsibility.
Country: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Other
Coordinator: 2007-2009: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, www.umb.no
2009-2010: Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, www.udir.no
Programme: LLP
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Target groups: general public, parents, primary school students, secondary school students, teachers, trainee teachers, vocational school students
Topic: Biology, Ecology, Environmental sciences
Start year: 2007
End year: 2010
Contact person: Contact persons after the end of the project:
Mari Ugland Andresen, Norwegian Centre for Science Education, University of Oslo, m.u.andresen (at) naturfagsenteret.no
Christine Affolter, ENSI (Environment and Schools Initiative), secretariat (at) ensi.org
Contacts to SUPPORT partners: http://support-edu.org/partnerlist
The main outcomes of SUPPORT include:
Conclusions and learning outcomes from SUPPORT were:
To download the SUPPORT publications, please visit http://support-edu.org/Publications
During the project, SUPPORT developed new teaching materials to support education for sustainable development. They include:
- The CO2nnect website (www.co2nnect.org) which is an international school campaign aimed at promoting education for sustainable development, while focusing on the theme of transport and climate. All uploaded data is stored in a shared database, to encourage analysis and discussions about the transport systems locally and globally. The entire website is a teaching tool, and important pages for teachers are:
The book “Biodiversity in Education for Sustainable Development, Reflections on school-research cooperation” includes best-practice examples: http://support-edu.org/webfm_send/609
For more information about SUPPORT for teachers and schools, please visit http://support-edu.org/node/100
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