Lifelong learning (adult education)

Green Competences for Sustainable Communities

A course that introduces the EU GreenComp framework and gives adult educators tools to bring sustainability into their teaching. It focuses on eco-literacy, systems thinking, responsible consumption and community action projects, with activities that build critical thinking and ecological responsibility.

5 days
Certificate of attendance
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Who it is for

Adult education teachers and trainers
Lifelong learning professionals
Career counsellors and guidance officers
School and vocational education staff
Project coordinators and mobility programme leaders

What you will learn

Build green competences that support environmental awareness and sustainable behaviour in adult learning
Understand the EU GreenComp framework
Design eco-conscious educational programmes
Build community-based learning projects with a green focus

By the end of the course, you will be able to

Understand the EU GreenComp framework
Promote sustainability as a lifelong learning value
Design eco-conscious educational programmes
Engage learners in sustainable action
Build community-based learning projects with a green focus

Programme, day by day

Day 1The GreenComp framework

Introductory meeting: practical arrangements, timetable and venue
Welcome session, icebreakers and programme objectives
Introduction to lifelong learning and its landscape
Introduction to green competences
Mapping your own ecological values

Day 2Systems thinking and sustainability

Interconnectedness and complexity
The role of education in the ecological transition

Day 3Responsible consumption

Waste, energy and food systems
Workshop: rethink, reduce, reuse, recycle

Day 4Community action for sustainability

Creating local eco-projects
Partnerships and stakeholder involvement

Day 5Designing a green learning programme

Final presentations of project ideas
Peer review and action plans
Certificates

How the course runs

Participatory learning: group work, discussion, simulations and peer teaching
Practical examples and case studies
Reflection tools aligned with the Key Competences for Lifelong Learning
Intercultural, inclusive and multilingual awareness throughout

Certificate of Attendance, issued by BragaMob, and Europass Mobility, issued by your school and completed with us. Accommodation, meals, transfers and cultural integration activities can be added to the course: your quote lists each service you choose. Dates on request.

Lifelong learning (adult education)