
Education is a powerful tool to prepare societies for the global challenges that climate change brings.
Education has two obvious effects on the fight against climate change. Firstly, it impacts on individuals’ general awareness of the issue, and secondly, it determines how enabled they are to develop the necessary solutions and innovations to overcome climate change. However, there is an alarming gap between awareness and action on climate change. To bridge this gap, ACTION develops a holistic framework to boost the acquisition and development of global and transversal skills on climate change related topics, among ET providers, local authorities and NGOs.
ACTION partners from France, Portugal, Cyprus, Poland, UK, Turkey, Spain, Ireland, and Greece truly believe that climate change education must consider the need to provide educators and community leaders and professionals with learning opportunities and up-to-date facts, new and innovative training processes, cutting-edge resources and digital era tools, to better empower their learners and citizens as agents of change’ and promote closer links between education and local communities. The following objectives are defined: