Education for all

Education for Sustainable Development is explicitly mentioned in the 2030 Agenda: 

Target 4.7

“By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.”

For a more sustainable world, individuals must be empowered to take informed decisions and responsible actions for environmental integrity, economic viability and a just society for present and future generations.

Education for Sustainable Development

ASviS dedicates particular attention to quality education, striving to promote respect for the right to accessible and inclusive education for all. To stress the relevance education holds, the Alliance has established an autonomous area to coordinate the initiatives carried on by the Alliance through its working group dedicated to the Agenda’s Goals.

Working groups 

Quality education and lifelong learning are thus crucial to achieve sustainable development. Due to the relevance Education holds and its broad inclusivity, the Alliance has established the cross-cutting working group on Education for sustainable development, who works in close collaboration with the working group dedicated to SDG4.

Among other initiatives, the working groups have elaborated a comprehensive overview of the Target 4.7 in Italy and among the European countries. The data, the policy and the tools analyzed have been summed up in the document QUADERNO.

Recently, the groups have led on a collective collection of cases regarding Italian schools that have invested in innovative didactic approaches, method and space while stressing the importance of educating teachers and school staff about the wellbeing of students and how to well manage new spaces and dynamics for a high quality education. The document NETXGENERATIONSCHOOL follows the weekly publication occurred on the blog FUTURANETWORK.

Institutional partnershipPartnerships istituzionali

ASviS has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Italian Ministry of Education, University and scientific Research (Miur), through which parties committed to collaborating for the promotion and diffusion of information and training initiatives on sustainable development, and to spreading a culture of sustainability in Italy. Moreover, in July 2023, ASviS has signed a Protocol with the Italian Ministry of Education and Merit (MiM) to disseminate, through the education system, the culture of sustainable development, essential for the full implementation of the Agenda. The working group are also currently collaborating with the Ministry for the launch and management of Italy’s “Sustainability Education Programme”.

ASviS also works with the “Network of universities for sustainable development” (RUS), established by the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI).

Projects

BELLA STORIA…

GIFT https://risorse.arcipelagoeducativo.it/news/gift-il-nuovo-progetto-di-educazione-alla-cittadinanza-di-save-the-children

FOCSIV http://ecg.focsiv.org/page/progetto-generazione-cooperazione

RETE EDUCAZIONI

ASviS is founding member of the #educAzioni network, which brings together networks and alliances of active citizenship, the third sector and trade unions, committed to making proposals, conducting analysis and presenting programs to protect the rights of girls, boys and teenagers in the face of the pandemic emergency.

SYSTEMA https://www.systemaerasmus.eu/wp/

 

 

ALTA FORMAZIONE: The Alliance organizes higher learning courses in partnership with numerous Italian universities aimed at: journalists, on the role of the media in spreading sustainable development; local administrators, to ensure the consistency of planning and territorial implementation with the 2030 Agenda; start-ups, with a dedicated Innovability School, focused on digitization and circular economy.

MATERIALI: The Alliance and its Partners and Allies have developed several platform and materials to disseminate the Agenda and bring its goal and target to children and youngesters, citizens and workers. In particular, The Alliance has come about with:

– E- learning courses dedicated to the Agenda 2030, targeted on the Business Sector, the Public Administration and the digital transformation/transition;

– The Sudego project, an initiative within the Erasmus plus program dedicated to teachers and students of upper secondary schools;

– Piattaforma Scuola2030 (School2030 platform), a portal created by Indire, on the initiative of the Ministry of Education and in collaboration with the ASviS, which offers self-training materials, content and resources to bring the Agenda into the classrooms;

– The Global Goals Kids’ Show Italy, an animated show of 17 episodes, designed for the age group 5-10;

– the educational toolkit created in collaboration with Sulleregole association, which includes 18 teaching sheets dedicated to primary school boys and girls and their teachers.

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