Climate Innovator Educational Platform
▶Summary
The Climate Innovator Educational Platform (CIEP) project aimed to support schools in integrating sustainability into their curriculum by creating a centralized online platform and a training guid...
▶Objectives
The overall goal was to contribute to the European Green Deals target of being CO2-neutral by 2050. We achieved our contribution by supporting schools and providers by building a quality online platform which schools can freely use to find providers of sustainability projects programs and/or labels. We're building capacity by capturing our working method which can be duplicated by other regions. We did this by -Organizing focus groups in order to identify and focus on specific sustainability providers that best address the needs of the project’s stakeholders. -Mapping best practices and methodologies applied for schools in partner countries. (What works and why) -Developing a trainers’ guide addressed to the schools and providers that will work with the platform and will design, support and evaluate the platform - Developing a monitoring framework for measurement of use and results.
▶Activities
In this project, we mapped initiatives of providers of sustainability projects, programs, and/or labels for primary schools, secondary schools, and VET institutes. This mapping was done in a to-be-developed International online platform. A complementary guide was developed for schools and providers to use the platform. When developing the platform, we took into account what the end users (schools) needed in terms of information to decide which provider they wanted to hire. We also considered that providers couldn’t share all information due to their unique selling points. Furthermore, we built capacity on a regional level to ensure our platform was adopted and used, allowing it to grow.