Making sustainability in education curricula happen through GreenComp

 

About the project

 

BUSTIC EDU (Building Sustainability Competences in Education) is a 3-year project (March 2025- February 2028), funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union in the field of Policy experimentation. Targeting the popularization of nature-positive education across European curricula at national level, BUSTIC EDU’s objectives are to:

  1. Design a programme for introducing sustainability competences across European schools (at early childhood, primary, and secondary education levels) in a variety of subjects; assess the programme; pilot the programme in schools in 5 European countries (Italy, Malta, Serbia, Spain, Türkiye), and update the programme based on assessment outcomes.
  2. Provide teacher training and knowledge / experience exchange opportunities for pilot teachers from 60 schools, and the wider teacher community.
  3. Create teaching and learning materials to address the needs for bringing sustainability competences to the education sector at the three levels across the programme.
  4. Encourage the wider uptake of the programme and its outputs across curricula in Europe.

 

The programme

 

With its Programme and other key outputs, BUSTIC EDU will support various education stakeholders - policy makers, national, regional and local authorities, schools, School Heads, teachers, and related institutions, in strengthening sustainability competence development and fostering its systematic integration into education and training.

 

The methodology

BUSTIC EDU will follow a methodology combining the principles of education for environmental sustainability with an application through: 1) the GreenComp sustainability competences framework, and 2) key pedagogy principles that, together, will facilitate the introduction of sustainability competences in the education sector across schools (in the three BUSTIC EDU streams: early childhood education, primary and secondary education).

Outcomes

 

“Sustainability in Education” Programme

Coming up in 2026 – stay tuned!

Teaching materials

As part of its Sustainability in education programme, BUSTIC EDU will create materials to address gaps identified by the project in sustainability education (GreenComp in particular).

Capacity-building

MOOC for teachers, workshops.

Analysis

Availability of resources for teaching and assessment.

Community of Practice

webinars, events.

The Partners

 

BUSTIC EDU’s work is powered by a highly motivated and fast-paced partnership of 7 research and education experts from:

Indire Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione per l'Innovazione e la Ricerca Educativa (INDIRE):

INDIRE – the National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research, is the Italian Ministry of Education’s oldest research organisation.

 

European Schoolnet (EUN):

European Schoolnet (EUN) is a network of 30+ European Ministries of Education who aim to inspire and support its members, as well as schools, teachers and relevant education stakeholders in Europe, in the transformation of education processes for 21st century digitalised societies.

 

Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation (DCM):

The Directorate for STEM and VET Programmes (DSVP) was set up as a result of a nationwide commitment to quality STEM and VET education for all students. The Directorate is committed to provide quality STEM and VET Education for all.

 

Ministry OF National Education (TKMoE):

TKMoE, the Ministry of National Education Directorate General for Innovation and Educational Technologies of Türkiye (TKMoE) supports the technology use, integration and mainstreaming of technologies. TKMoE has been coordinating the projects and studies conducted on the use of information and communications technology in education.

 

Fondacija Tempus (FT):

FT has participated in the promotion and implementation of EU educational programs (e.g. Erasmus+), other educational programs, as well as various cooperation programs for all levels of education and support to educational institutions and young people in the Republic of Serbia through project development, design and implementation aimed at improving formal and non-formal education and human resources development.

 

Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León (JCYL):

JCYL advocates for the promotion of equity, the promotion of educational innovation, the development of internationalization processes of educational centres and the integration of ICT in all educational processes.

 

Comunidad de Madrid (CAM):

CAM is responsible for the general development, coordination and control of the implementation of government policies in the following areas: education, universities, artistic education, scientific research and technological innovation, mainly supported by the new digital context.