Intergenerational Learning Communities towards Environmental Sustainability

Europe is the first continent to declare climate and environmental emergency. Part of the priorities mentioned in the European Green Deal is activating education and training to engage students, p...

The project overall goal was to strengthen intergenerational learning within community to promote environmental awareness and change of behavior towards environmental sustainability through 6 R’s of sustainability. The project had the following objectives: - To increase environmental awareness through an active, critical approach involving people of different age groups. - To increase digital competence of the involved target groups while boosting their awareness on environmental issues. - To support local community intergenerational learning providers with tools and resources on environmental sustainability. - To highlight innovative and effective models and approaches of intergenerational learning in local communities through environmental education activities using 6 R’s of sustainability: rethinking, refusing, reducing, reusing, repairing, recycling. - To discover and identify core principles, different structures and approaches of sustainable local community involvement in intergenerational learning to raise environmental awareness through experience exchange and best practices. - To present challenges to implementing intergenerational learning in local community and forward recommendations for supporting work in this area.

To reach the goal many activities of the project were carried out simultaneously. The first activity of ILCES was development of recommendations and guidelines for forward-looking community learning centres which had several tasks: exploring the existing situation, networks, activities carried out in local community in the organisation of adult/intergenerational education, developing methodology and structure of recommendations and guidelines, development of recommendations and guidelines for forward-looking community learning centres. The first activity was strengthened by learning activity "Effective networking in adult education". Parallel with the first activity the development of Impulse handbook which included 6 modules following Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) with 6 units of interactive activities following 6 R's of sustainable development was created. This activity was supported by learning activity "Environmental awareness and sustainable development".The Impulse handbook is transferred into interactive e-learning platform. Multiplier events were organised in each partner country.

There were four tangible results in the ILCES project: 1. Impulse handbook. 2. Recommendation and guidelines for forward-looking community learning centres. 3. E-learning platform. 4. ILCES project website https://ilces.eu/ in five languages containing previously mentioned results. Result 4 is additional to the initial application. It was decided to develop website to make project results more available for broader public not only within partner countries.