TeachSUS - Teaching for Sustainability

WE EMPOWER TRAINERS AND LEARNERS WITH LEARNING RESOURCES ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY

Description

The general objective of the project is to create a common, new, non-formal education structure for sustainability. This will enable institutions and organisations involved in education, adult training and professional development from all over Europe to plan learning experiences that empower their students and beneficiaries to develop and evaluate alternative visions of a sustainable future. It will also help them to work creatively with major stakeholders from the economic sector to assure the practical link between education for sustainability and real economy and community needs.

The project (TeachSUS - 2018-1-RO01-KA204-049253) has been funded with support from the European Commission, Erasmus+ KA2 action. This material reflects the views of the author – the TeachSUS consortium – and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Basic information

Coordinator

Universitatea de vest din Timisoara, www.uvt.ro

Partners

Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara (Romania)
DENKSTATT Romania SRL, Timișoara (Romania)
Universitatea „Politehnica” din Timișoara (Romania)
BICERO Ltd, Fram (Slovenia)
Legjobb Vagyok Tehetségmentoráló Közhasznú, Budapest (Hungary)
Fundação da Juventude, Porto (Portugal)

Programme

Erasmus+ (programme-erasmus-plus)

Project Acronym

Target groups

education authorities, general public, parents, researchers, teachers, trainee teachers, university lecturers, other

Topic

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

Start year

2018

End year

2020

Url

https://www.teachsus.eu/

Contact person

Prof.dr. Gabriela MIRCEA, gabriela.mircea@e-uvt.ro

Sustainable Excellence Centres in Romania, Hungary and Portugal will bring together higher education institutions, private companies, NGOs and consultancy organisations. These centres will create a structured and collaborative environment to support cooperation between stakeholders from different domains working on sustainability.

Each centre will provide information, guidance, coaching and counselling activities, delivered by trainers and tutors from private companies and NGOs. The Sustainability Excellence Centres will also organise Living Lab events focused on sustainability challenges, as well as presentations of new technologies and examples of green businesses.

In addition, the centres will connect private companies, universities and NGOs to sustain a shared HUB, encouraging youth trainers to learn, exchange knowledge and develop new skills.

The new ITC online learning platform will improve accessibility for learners and trainers by offering a modern training structure and methodology. These can be adopted across teaching practices, regardless of the curriculum, allowing sustainability topics to be integrated into other subject areas such as economics, geography, geology or chemistry.

The TeachSUS – Project-Based Learning Guide will support educators who want to connect learning with real-life challenges and help students develop key 21st-century skills. It promotes Project-Based Learning, Service Learning and other interactive and integrative teaching strategies and tools to approach curricula through sustainable development issues.

Targets

Adults – teachers, trainers and mentors from institutions and organisations involved in education, including adult, professional and youth training. They need a broader perspective on education as a whole to understand both the simplicity and complexity of sustainability. Educators require new approaches to transferring knowledge and developing attitudes related to environmental and social topics.
University students aiming to become teachers or HR specialists/managers. They need new methodologies and tools to support their development as future professionals in education and HR/management fields.
NGO employees.

TeachSUS - Teaching for Sustainability

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