Education for sustainable development

Teacher

Scope

Designing learning programmes, learning materials and resources for education for sustainable development.

ECVET points: 3.5

Target groups

Staff at all types of education and training organizations, NGOs and organizations organizing education programmes for sustainable development:

Directors / headmasters
Teachers / trainers

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the training course, the participant is expected to:

Understand the challenges of sustainable development
Understand the principles and objectives of education for sustainable development
Be able to set objectives and design educational programmes for sustainable development
Be able to cultivate values, critical thinking and cooperation, through training programmes
Be able to use different learning techniques
Understand and be able to implement the principles of the sustainable school

Methodology

Presentations
Examples and case studies
Workshops and exercises facilitated by the trainer

Thematic units

Challenges of 21st century
Sustainable development
Education for sustainable development, principles and characteristics
Training methods for education for sustainable development

Learning material

The learning material consists of presentations and support material in English language.

Cost

Tuition fees:

5 days courses – 400 euro per person
6 days courses – 480 euro per person

The cost includes the learning material and the certificates: Certificate of completion, Europass Certificate Supplement, Europass Mobility.

Cultural activities (optional): 80 euro per person.* The cost includes:

a walking tour of Piraeus and welcome dinner
a guided tour of Athens, visit to Archaeological sites and
common dinner with live music in Athens.

The cost of local transportation and the entrance fees to sites and museums are not included.

*Due to the COVID-19 situation, currently we are not organising the usual cultural programme. Instead, we propose a guided tour of Athens with a professional guide (visit to Acropolis hill, the Parthenon, Plaka and Monastiraki). Cost: 150€ up to 20 people. The cost is shared between those who attend the tour. Costs for transportation and entrance fees to Acropolis are not included in the above amount.

All costs can be funded by Erasmus+ programme KA1 mobility of staff.

Training sessions

Location	Dates	Duration	Cost
Piraeus	13-17/2/2023	5 days	400€
Piraeus	3-8/7/2023	6 days	480€

Further information

Lila Anthopoulou, tel: +30 2104286227, e-mail: lila@idec.gr

Testimonials

What people say about this course

Full of friendly people and sensitiveness for sustainability

Arife Kibaroğlu, Kastamonu Provincial Education Directorate, Turkey

Useful, interesting and wery well adapted to people’s needs.

Lucica Stanciu, Liceul cu Program Sportiv, Romania

It was a very interesting course with a good learning methodology. Thank you IDEC!

Virginia Ghiră, Liceul cu Program Sportiv, Romania

Wonderful and enjoyable

Celile Bora, Kastamonu Provincial Education Directorate, Turkey

I’ve found solutions about the problems that I have at my home-country, region and institution. The participants in the group were fantastic. We have really made good connections, hopefully we will continue them in another common project.

Mihaela, UPI – ljudska univerza Žalec, Slovenia

Thanks for the time spent together! Thank you for good organization of courses!

Inta, Competence Centre of Vocational Education „Daugavpils Vocational school”, Latvia

Amazing social program and very well organized course.

Kaisa, Sipoonjoen koulu, Finland

Thank you for everything. Xenia, for a lovely Monday tour and help for finding information. George, for the lovely teaching, fun and feedback. Lila, for the communication before the course.

Kersti, Tabasalu Gymnasium, Estonia

Thank you for excellent experience, Greek hospitality and learning outcomes. Great staff and teachers. I have made new friends, we connected really well.

Tatjana, Srednja skola Hrvatski kralj Zvonimir, Croatia

The course was really interesting and relevant for me as an adult, as European citizen and as a teacher. Meeting with other European countries’ teachers was really interesting.

Cécile, Ecole Jules Julien élémentaire, France

Very interesting course, because in our days it is very important we know more about sustainable development and how to teach our students and other community members.

Anabela, Agrupamento de Escolas Padre João Rodrigues- Sernancelhe, Portugal

An interesting and complete course that offers you a general vision about Sustainable Development and the social program was well organised.

Candela, Centre Públic de Formació de Persones Adultes “Enric Valor”, Spain

It has been a fantastic experience to share this course with people interested in sustainable development.

Àngels, Centre Públic de Formació de Persones Adultes “Enric Valor”, Spain

Thank you very much for this course. All was for me very good – trainer, delivery, logistic support.

Kamila, ZS s MS Oravská Jasenia 141, Slovakia

Everything was good and like it. I’m interested in different environmental problems.

Eiri, Paikuse Lasteaed Mesimumm, Estonia

Overall it was an educative and interesting session.

Muhammad, Educationist & Builder, Pakistan

The sustainable development course in IDEC has brought me and the participants from Greece, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic and Colombia close to one another in all respect. It was a great opportunity to think globally for the matter that is common to all.

Kashif, Commander Builders (SMC-Pvt) Ltd., Pakistan

The course in sustainable development met all of my expectations. Our trainer, George Velegrakis, was very skilled.

Christian, Vuxenutbildningen i Karlshamn, Sweden

Education is the key to transform the world!! Implementing a good understanding of current environmental issues to the students of different age around the world, will give us an opportunity to change the course of earth history. Great course, admirable work. Thanks IDEC and George.

Isabel, Castilla La Mancha University, Spain

Course Features

Lectures 29
Quizzes 0
Duration 5 days
Language English
Students 0
Assessments Yes

Day 1 4
- Lecture1.1
  
  Introduction to the training course, syllabus, methodology, learning outcomes
- Lecture1.2
  
  Challenges of 21st century
- Lecture1.3
  
  The world in the 21st century, political, economic and demographic situation
- Lecture1.4
  
  Climate change
Day 2 6
- Lecture2.1
  
  Energy
- Lecture2.2
  
  Water
- Lecture2.3
  
  Agriculture and food production
- Lecture2.4
  
  Waste management
- Lecture2.5
  
  Sustainable development
- Lecture2.6
  
  The current development model
Day 3 6
- Lecture3.1
  
  The commons
- Lecture3.2
  
  Definitions and aspects of sustainable development
- Lecture3.3
  
  Ideological approaches of sustainable development
- Lecture3.4
  
  Education for sustainable development, principles and characteristics
- Lecture3.5
  
  Objectives of education for sustainable development
- Lecture3.6
  
  Characteristics: holistic approach, interdisciplinary, systemic
Day 4 8
- Lecture4.1
  
  Principles: critical thinking, values, political dimension
- Lecture4.2
  
  Cultivating critical thinking
- Lecture4.3
  
  International and european policies for education for sustainable development
- Lecture4.4
  
  The sustainable school
- Lecture4.5
  
  Training methods for education for sustainable development
- Lecture4.6
  
  Community councils
- Lecture4.7
  
  The future laboratory
- Lecture4.8
  
  The role of cooperation for education for sustainable development
Day 5 5
- Lecture5.1
  
  Methodology for fostering cooperation
- Lecture5.2
  
  Case studies of successful cooperation between schools and community
- Lecture5.3
  
  Reflexion – evaluation of the training course
- Lecture5.4
  
  Certificates – Europass Mobility
- Lecture5.5
  
  Closure and farewell

George Velegrakis

Graduate of the Electrical and Computer Engineering School of the National Technical University of Athens -NTUA (2007). He holds a M.Sc. in “Environmental Policies and Development” from the Rural and Surveying Engineering School, NTUA (2009). He has also followed the postgraduate program “Urban and Regional Planning” of the Architecture School (NTUA). He is since 2012 a PhD student at the Geography Department of Harokopio University Athens (HUA). His thesis is titled “Extractivism and socio-ecological movements in times of crisis: The case of gold mining in Halkidiki, Greece”. Furthermore, he is interested in radical geography, socio-ecological movements, urban geographies as well as reflections on theoretical debates about ecosocialism, degrowth and Marxist political ecology. Between October 2012 and September 2015 he was a Fellow of Marie Curie Actions – Initial Training Networks. He is member of the European Network of Political Ecology – ENTITLE (www.entitleblog.org).