Linked to the proposal for a Council Recommendation on learning for environmental sustainability, also released today, GreenComp provides a common ground to learners and educators on what sustainability as a competence entails.
Acquiring sustainability competences can help children, young people and adults to understand challenges related to climate change and the environment, reflect on their behaviours, and engage in action for a sustainable future.
The GreenComp framework can be used in education and training programmes in formal, non-formal and informal settings and for learners of any age.
It was developed over the course of 2021 in close collaboration with experts and stakeholders from across Europe and internationally, including research institutions, youth representatives, educators, policy makers and NGOs.
GreenComp consists of four competence areas, each of which having three competences. All areas and competences are equally important and interlinked:
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Learning for environmental sustainability aims to provide learners with competences to be able to reflect on and embrace sustainability in their daily lives as students, consumers, producers, professionals, activists, policy-makers, neighbours, employees, teachers and trainers, organisations, communities, and society at large.
Sustainability competences can help learners to form a knowledge basis, become systemic and critical thinkers, as well as having tools and develop agency, useful for everyone who cares about our planet’s present and future.
Please check the links below for more information :
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/jrc-publishes-new-competence-framework-support-learning-environmental-sustainability
https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/_en