The project “Education for Social Change: The role of Education Trade Unions in addressing sustainable environmental development” aims at building the capacity of education trade unions to prepare their affiliates to address environmental questions and climate emergency for sustainable development in education and training through social dialogue and collective bargaining with the view to address the impact that climate emergency and environmental sustainability measures have on the education sector in the European region

Advisory Group

  • Jean-Luc Barbery ACOD—Onderwijs Belgium
  • Jacob Svejstrup DLF Denmark
  • Claudio Franchi FLC-CGIL Italy
  • Damijana Meza ESTUS Slovenia

Funding

This project is funded with support from the European Commission.

The project concludes with a Closing Conference in Brussels bringing together national education trade unions and other European stakeholders in education and climate change and environmental policies to present the outcomes of the project and favour the reflection on the project topics. Participants at the Conference have the opportunity to discuss and validate practical guidelines for education trade unions on addressing environmental issues and sustainable environmental development in the education sector. The event serves also as the première for the screening of the film documentary on the educational institutions’ good practices, prepared in the framework of the project