Green GUARDens: Environmental Sustainability and Green Entrepreneurship Competence-Building in Kindergartens

Green GUARDens: Environmental Sustainability and Green Entrepreneurship Competence-Building in Kindergartens is an Erasmus Plus project which targets kindergarten teachers and their students (3.5 to 6 years old), including those who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (DHH).

Basic information

Research information

Teacher information

Description

The urgency of global climate change requires the redefinition of interdisciplinary educational goals and contents in school curricula related to green entrepreneurship education and sustainable development.

Using the framework of the UN’s goals for sustainable development (SDGs), the Green GUARDens project ensures that kindergartens become more sustainable and that teachers serve as role models, demonstrating greener behaviours to their students through formal education that utilises experiential and gamified learning to enhance this experience.

 

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

 

Basic information

Coordinator

BUPNET GmbH – Bildung und Project Netzwerk, Germany

Partners

• Citizens In Power (CIP), Cyprus
• WEBIN (Western Balkans Institute), Serbia
• The Turin Institute for the Deaf, Italy
• “Vasile Pavelcu” Special Technological High School, Romania

Programme

Erasmus+ (programme-erasmus-plus)

Project Acronym

Target groups

education authorities, policy makers, primary school students, researchers, teachers, other

Topic

Applied sciences, Biology, Earth science, Ecology, Environmental sciences, Technology, Education, Other

Start year

2022

End year

2024

Url

https://greenguardens.com/

Contact person

https://www.bupnet.eu/

Objectives:

1. To cultivate an understanding of environmental sustainability, while fostering the development of young environmentally conscious citizens.
2. To foster the democratisation of climate action by engaging children, including Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing students in the process.
3. To take environmental sustainability and green entrepreneurship education a step further, by approaching kindergartens as enterprises with Corporate Social Responsibility rather than merely educational institutions.

Papers

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The Green GUARDens project will develop:

1. A Virtual Learning Lab for teachers’ training, containing theoretical modules, interactive multimedia resources, and micro-challenges on environmental sustainability, green entrepreneurship, and inclusion and accessibility for Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing in education.

   The Virtual Learning Lab will help teachers develop sustainability and entrepreneurship competencies, as well as understand ways to make their kindergartens greener.

2. Pedagogical Sequences with gamified activities and small experiments based on ocean pollution, air pollution, and deforestation for teachers to adapt in their classrooms.

3. The ‘Green GUARDens of the Future’ Audiovisual Implementation Report featuring practical reporting, best practices, and audiovisual recordings with recommendations and awareness-raising on adopting the project’s methodology in kindergarten classrooms.

Teaching materials

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