Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GreenSCENT (Smart Citizen Education for a greeN fuTure)
Reporting period: 2022-01-01 to 2023-06-30
Climate change and environmental degradation are already causing dramatic sea level rise, a higher frequency of extreme weather events, worldwide temperature increases, unprecedented rates of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere, and climatic instability. Nevertheless, EU Citizenship hardly recognizes climate change and environment-related issues as main challenges and issues for the next decades. GreenSCENT’s main objective is to support Green Deal policy implementation involving EU citizens, especially the youth, in co-creating, experimenting and validating a Multidisciplinary European Competence Framework, named “GreenSCENT Competence Framework”, covering the main thematics areas of the Green Deal (Climate Change, Clean Energy, Circular Economy, Green Building, Smart Mobility, From Farm to Fork, Biodiversity, Zero Pollution), fostering its acceptance and adoption with a participatory multi-stakeholders approach, and measuring its efficacy in terms of awareness, competences and implicit attitudes, key factors for a real behavioural change.
Projects Results will be achieved through the following specific objectives (SO):
• SO1 - Develop and test the GreenComp Competence Framework with a fully participatory multi-stakeholder approach
• SO2 - Break existing stereotypes, transform skeptic attitudes, and increase awareness of citizens, pupils, students and society at large through education and experimentation by using inclusive and accessible citizen science and co-creation approaches
• SO3 - Ensure that digital competences are part of the GreenComp Competence Framework demonstrating the link between the Green and the Digital transition
• SO4 - Facilitate the adoption of the GreenComp Framework by co-creating with experts, teachers and students training kits, user guides and use cases needed for course design, curriculum definition and creation of a Certification on Green Deal topics
• SO5 - Demonstrate the value of the GreenComp Framework by piloting a set of digital and analogue demonstrator activities in real scenarios through a network involving schools, civic organisations and PAs in at least 6 different countries
• SO6 - Maximise the reach and impact of the GreenComp and other relevant outcomes of the project through, outreach, specialised dissemination, Clustering and Exploitation activities
• SO7 - Guarantee the overall short-medium term impact of the project
Projects Results will be achieved through the following specific objectives (SO):
• SO1 - Develop and test the GreenComp Competence Framework with a fully participatory multi-stakeholder approach
• SO2 - Break existing stereotypes, transform skeptic attitudes, and increase awareness of citizens, pupils, students and society at large through education and experimentation by using inclusive and accessible citizen science and co-creation approaches
• SO3 - Ensure that digital competences are part of the GreenComp Competence Framework demonstrating the link between the Green and the Digital transition
• SO4 - Facilitate the adoption of the GreenComp Framework by co-creating with experts, teachers and students training kits, user guides and use cases needed for course design, curriculum definition and creation of a Certification on Green Deal topics
• SO5 - Demonstrate the value of the GreenComp Framework by piloting a set of digital and analogue demonstrator activities in real scenarios through a network involving schools, civic organisations and PAs in at least 6 different countries
• SO6 - Maximise the reach and impact of the GreenComp and other relevant outcomes of the project through, outreach, specialised dissemination, Clustering and Exploitation activities
• SO7 - Guarantee the overall short-medium term impact of the project
During this project phase, covering half of the project lifetime, the main objective has been to produce a first draft of the Competence Framework (WP1) to be tested, validated and improved collecting feedback from teachers, students, citizens in EU (WP1, WP2, WP5). The first release of GreenSCENT Competence Framework has been based on several activities: the analysis of existing Climate/Environment-related Competence Frameworks for integrating the main findings and good practices already existing and in place; the further elaboration and categorization of competences based on the 8 main focus areas identified, starting from the EU Green Deal communication; the involvement of external advisors – selected from experts, researchers and activists, that will share their views and inputs for enriching the 1st GreenSCENT Competence framework draft; and a first iteration of Citizen Engagement initiatives (WP2, WP3), run in the pilot countries identified in the proposal (WP5), that will help integrating citizens’ voices since the very early stage of the project.
In parallel, GreenSCENT developed its pilot protocol (WP5), through the GreenSCENT Competence Questionnaire (WP1) and the definition of templates for training kit collection (WP4); GreenSCENT started instructional (and) co-design workshops in Universities and schools involved in the proposal (WP1, WP5) and beyond-education activities started in the form of Youth Assemblies and Open Innovation Challenges (WP2).
Furthermore, in this first year of the project have been developed: GreenSCENT brand, website, social media channel, communication and dissemination plan, video promo and communication activities (WP6), the Data Management Plan and Quality Plan (WP7).
Scientific publications, workshops, organization of and participation in scientific conferences, interaction with H2020 Green Deal projects and with sustainability education project from several research and cooperation programmes has been developed (WP6).
In parallel, GreenSCENT developed its pilot protocol (WP5), through the GreenSCENT Competence Questionnaire (WP1) and the definition of templates for training kit collection (WP4); GreenSCENT started instructional (and) co-design workshops in Universities and schools involved in the proposal (WP1, WP5) and beyond-education activities started in the form of Youth Assemblies and Open Innovation Challenges (WP2).
Furthermore, in this first year of the project have been developed: GreenSCENT brand, website, social media channel, communication and dissemination plan, video promo and communication activities (WP6), the Data Management Plan and Quality Plan (WP7).
Scientific publications, workshops, organization of and participation in scientific conferences, interaction with H2020 Green Deal projects and with sustainability education project from several research and cooperation programmes has been developed (WP6).
The ambitions of GreenSCENT are:
- To produce and validate a Competence Framework both encompassing the Green Deal focus areas identified; covering formal education levels matching with EQF; with a lifelong learning approach;
- To develop and apply a participatory design methodology to the development of GreenSCENT Competence Framework, using service design and instructional design paradigms as a blend of different approaches, useful for the complexity and ambition of the outcome;
- To test and validate on the field the Competence Framework, gathering data about its acceptability and usability in different education contexts, and about the effectiveness of the implemented activities in terms of generated knowledge and behavioural changes through a specific research protocol;
- To boost the adoptability of the project results, creating digital, dynamic ways to interact with and explore the Competence Framework, and to replicate educational activities in other contexts;
- To elaborate on the lesson learnt through the participation of citizens, education institution, reseach communities, external stakeholders to formulate guideliens and policy recommendation highlighting impacts and effectiveness of sustainability education programs (and beyond-education activities) in (young) citizens.
The expected impacts will be the following:
- To build a stakeholders community around the topic of caring for the environment leading to resilient social, human and economic behaviours for healthier, safer and prosperous cities and communities.
- To link GreenSCENT Competence Framework to the existing GreenComp framework;
- To realise ECCEL – the European Certification for Climate and Environmental Literacy, a "driving license" for sustainability-related competences as a tool for enterprises' recruiting and talent management processes.
- To contribute to the value maximization of EC investments in innovation and research, through the interactions with existing Green Deal focused project, and through the development of other education, research, citizen science, participatory regeneration projects;
- To highlight the links and needs related to both sustainability and accessibility, providing inclusive technologies, pratices and guidelines for GreenSCENT project results.
- To produce and validate a Competence Framework both encompassing the Green Deal focus areas identified; covering formal education levels matching with EQF; with a lifelong learning approach;
- To develop and apply a participatory design methodology to the development of GreenSCENT Competence Framework, using service design and instructional design paradigms as a blend of different approaches, useful for the complexity and ambition of the outcome;
- To test and validate on the field the Competence Framework, gathering data about its acceptability and usability in different education contexts, and about the effectiveness of the implemented activities in terms of generated knowledge and behavioural changes through a specific research protocol;
- To boost the adoptability of the project results, creating digital, dynamic ways to interact with and explore the Competence Framework, and to replicate educational activities in other contexts;
- To elaborate on the lesson learnt through the participation of citizens, education institution, reseach communities, external stakeholders to formulate guideliens and policy recommendation highlighting impacts and effectiveness of sustainability education programs (and beyond-education activities) in (young) citizens.
The expected impacts will be the following:
- To build a stakeholders community around the topic of caring for the environment leading to resilient social, human and economic behaviours for healthier, safer and prosperous cities and communities.
- To link GreenSCENT Competence Framework to the existing GreenComp framework;
- To realise ECCEL – the European Certification for Climate and Environmental Literacy, a "driving license" for sustainability-related competences as a tool for enterprises' recruiting and talent management processes.
- To contribute to the value maximization of EC investments in innovation and research, through the interactions with existing Green Deal focused project, and through the development of other education, research, citizen science, participatory regeneration projects;
- To highlight the links and needs related to both sustainability and accessibility, providing inclusive technologies, pratices and guidelines for GreenSCENT project results.