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  • Introduction | April 12, 2023

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      The online Active Learning Event for primary school include synchronous and assynchronous sessions focused on the piloting and validation of the  TAP-TS Learning and Teaching Packages for Primary School.

      In this online Active Learning Event, participants will engage in live and assynchronous international discussions between pre-service teachers, teachers, and teachers’ educators about teaching sustainability.

      In the next table you can see the global organization of the online Active Learning Event for Primary School.

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      Synchronous session | April 12, 2023 | 17h30 - 18h00 CET Book
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      WEBINAR SLIDES

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      Asynchronous session | May 9 to 14, 2023 Page
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      During the asynchronous session we are getting deeper into valuing sustainability and sustainability thinking. 

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  • Sustainable Futures Education: Digitality, entrepreneurship, decoloniality and serious games at secondary level


    Strengthen your sustainability education competences through engagement with TAP-TS learning and teaching materials as part of an international community of practice!

    This course includes Online Webinars and a three-day Active Learning Event in Dresden. The online webinars promote engagement with specific aspects of Sustainable Futures Education (SFE) and foster the design and testing of innovative teaching concepts. The event in Dresden is a chance for further engagement, reflection and exchange of practical learning and teaching activities.

    This multilingual project uses English as a shared main language of communication. Online seminars are held mainly in English, with language support such as subtitles, translation and translanguaging available. No prior knowledge of SFE is necessary




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      Course Padlet - Who is joining us? URL
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      Welcome to the course! Please share something about yourself on our course Padlet, and see who else is with us. You can add reflections on your learning and experience trying out activities with your learners on your padlet profile as the course progresses.

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      WELCOME WEBINAR: 

      Monday March 4th 14.50-16.20 CET

      The course begins with a foundation webinar, when all participants come together and meet colleagues working in different national education contexts. During the webinar, participants exchange personal understandings of sustainable futures and explore narratives of sustainable futures in international discourse, including the role of education. We will review the structure of this hybrid course together, and invite participants to register for online and face to face sessions.  Participants are invited to explore the ideas presented in this session through links to further resources, and the course padlet.



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      Welcome Webinar: Monday March 4th 14.50-16.20 CET Link URL
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      Here is the Zoom link for our welcome webinar on Monday March 4th 14.50-16.20 CET
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      Follow up task - Sustainable Futures_Theory of Change File
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      This handout outlines different 'theories of change', of  sustainability problems and solutions. Read thorugh the handout, and consider the reflection questions. You can discuss your answers with someone, or write them down.

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      Welcome Webinar Presentation File
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      Welcome Webinar Video URL

      If you missed our welcome webinar, please, feel free to watch it here, or look through the presentation slides.

      Password to access the video: MULV.0y3

  • WG1: Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Education

    Entrepreneurship education plays a key role in supporting young people to adopt a positive mindset. The entrepreneurial mindset is referred to a certain way of thinking by which young people confront disadvantages, mistakes and problems in life. The entrepreneurial mindset enables young people to overcome those challenges, be decisive and take on responsibilities for any of their behaviours and activities.

    What does sustainability have to do with entrepreneurship education?

    Sustainable entrepreneurship education teaches young people on the one side how to successfully use current resources to achieve sustainable growth while not risking future generations ́ ability to access resources. On the other side sustainable entrepreneurship competences enable young people to value sustainability; to support equity and justice for current and future generations; to approach a sustainability problem from all sides, to formulate current and potential challenges in order to identify sustainable approaches to anticipating and preventing problems, and to mitigating and adapting already existing problems. 

    In this working group the participants will explore ​best practices and strategies for teaching sustainable entrepreneurship.

    Learning objectives:

    • Describe the core idea behind the sustainable entrepreneurship education.
    • Engage​ with one another to spark innovative thinking and develop practical ideas for the implementation of the concept “sustainable entrepreneurship education” in teaching
    • Apply​ ideas to your work by creating a usable product, such as a facilitation guide, or lesson plan.

  • WG2: Sustainability and Digitality

    Digitisation is bringing about fundamental changes – in ecological, social and economic terms. The dimension of this transformation is comparable to the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution and affects all areas of society. Consequently, our common digital future will very much depend on how and by whom digitalisation is shaped. A key aspect will be whether the change potential of digitalisation can be used to preserve the natural foundations of life or whether the energy and resource consumption of the digital infrastructure will further exacerbate the climate crisis.

    In this working group, we look at the relationship between digitality and sustainability: How can digitalisation be put at the service of sustainability? How do digital technologies affect the environment? How helpful are they in tackling the climate crisis? What social inequalities result from digital infrastructures? 

    Learning objectives

    • Identify connections between sustainability and digitality
    • Recognise the effects of your own media use
    • Identify ways to teach the topic in educational settings.

  • WG3: Decoloniality and Sustainable Futures Education

    Fires raged around the world last year, a symptom of human-induced climate change and, in France, of anger at the unlawful killing of a French teenager of Algerian descent. Climate change and structural racism stem from extractive and exploitative capitalist/colonial ideologies, which emerged from Europe and continue to fuel unsustainable beliefs and practices in Europe and around the world. Education offers hope for learning our way out of current crises, but is also heavily implicated in unsustainable beliefs and practices. Acknowledging injustice in education and acting to improve educational equity are necessary for transformation in education and for realizing the potential of education to catalyze change in wider society.

    In this working group, participants explore research-based understandings of education and decoloniality in relation to education for sustainable futures, exchange critical reflections with colleagues from across Europe, and develop action strategies for their own contexts of practice.

    Learning objectives

    • Critically consider connections between coloniality/decoloniality and sustainability/unsustainability 
    • Explore how decoloniality in education supports educational equity and transformation
    • Develop and test practical strategies for decoloniality in your context 

  • WG 4 Teaching Sustainability & Resilience through Games and Simulations

    In this session, we will explore the engaging world of online games and simulations for learning about sustainability & resilience – and look at both individual and multiplayer use. Participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of this type of games and simulations and learn about some of the many  available resources for in-class activities, The focus is practical – we will look closely at  how to plan for and  support gameplay and  how to seamlessly incorporate ‘serious games’ into the classroom.  The webinar will include an introduction to a well-tested, fun, and easy to play game called STOP DISASTERS! along with a set of resources that the project has developed to help present and use this game in a teaching & learning setting. We will also explore some other games and resources ahead of the live event in Dresden, taking place at the end of this month.

    We look forward to meeting you at this webinar; Game On!




  • Face to face workshops in Dresden 21-23 March

    Three days of face-to-face workshops and activities provide additional opportunity for participants to interact and exchange ideas and experiences and to develop and test educational activities, based on the initial webinars and TAP-TS Learning and Teaching materials. 

    Places are limited, but all participants in online sessions are invited to apply.  Participants can also apply for an additional two days of outdoor education for sustainability activities in the region on 24th and 25th March. (The application is part of the general application for this course).


  • Webinar 3: Monday April 22nd 2024 14.50-16.20 CET

    In this final webinar, participants come together to share additional learning and reflections from their experience in the course and of applying and adapting activities with their learners and at school. 

    Participants are invited to share and reflect on their learning and practice through the course padlet, which remains open until the end of April 2024. 

    Zoom Link:

    https://tu-dresden.zoom-x.de/j/64568694797?pwd=ZHlNVWppYzZkYjZsdmlhVFg5cnh4Zz09


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      Draft program for the F2F sessions. A file will be added here once finalised.

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