Ensuring a safe and healthy planet for the future requires not only policy reform, but a transformation of our economy and society. Our planet is on track to warm by around 3°C by 2100. We need to be a force critiquing current ways of operating and informing young people of alternatives to the current growth paradigm. Young people also need to be mobilised and encouraged to influence decision-making processes. Combining both practical and theoretical education will ensure that we are able to establish policies that are truly environmentally sustainable. Doing so not only benefits those of us now, but shows that we value the lives and desires of those yet to come.
Education & Skills
Strategic Priorities
Sustainable Organisations
To tackle the complexity of climate issues, there is a need to build capacity in organisations to better align their strategies and actions to a 1.5° conform pathway. To increase momentum towards a societal transformation there is a need for organisations to not only recognise the link of their work to climate justice but also to develop their individual and organisational political agency, skills and competencies for effective action.
As set out in the European Green Deal, the European Commission developed the GreenComp in 2022, a comprehensive European sustainability competence framework. GreenComp identifies a set of sustainability competences to feed into education programmes to help learners develop values, knowledge, skills and attitudes that promote ways to think, plan and act with empathy, responsibility, and care for our planet and for public health.
In the context of the European Year of Skills, GCE will play a key role as a facilitating entity for sustainable change of mentality and actions in organisations by promoting, cultivating, training and expanding these green competences.
Aims:
Empower and assist Member Organisations and youth organisations to mainstream sustainability principles across their work through developing a better understanding of the interlinkages between climate and their work, identifying steps towards applying sustainability throughout organisational processes, and implementing these changes.
Policies addressed:
GreenComp 2022, European Year of Skills
Deliverables:
- Develop a handbook for Member Organisations on sustainable event planning and management
- Organise and deliver trainings and green competencies in for Member Organisations in collaboration with the trainings team
- Establish an inter-MO exchange and empowerment group of individuals working towards climate education
- Empower Member Organisations to make better use of the European Commission’s Education for Climate Coalition platform
