about us

background

The active role of citizens and their direct involvement is essential to address climate change. Changes in citizens’ and consumers’ behaviours towards more sustainable patterns can be boosted through education, awareness-raising, citizen science, observation, and monitoring their environmental impacts. It is essential to involve citizens directly, and especially the young generation and communities in contributing in taking action for the climate and in protecting the environment, thereby encouraging them to change their behaviour and mind sets, reduce their carbon and environmental footprint at the individual and collective levels.

 

The partnership has identified the need for raising environmental awareness and decided to develop a project that will target the school community for this purpose. The partnership is based on the fact that schools, training institutions and universities are well-positioned to engage with students, parents and the broader community on the changes needed for a successful transition to a green economy and lifestyle. As educational providers they reached the conclusion that there is a need for activities in the field of raising awareness of students and citizens about the importance of preserving the environment. Through the latter, the students will acquire new, additional competencies that will make them competitive in the labor market.

Project aims

PARADIGM aims to use the appropriate technological infrastructure (devices, data platforms and tools) to empower the active engagement of citizens in taking action against climate change and for sustainable development through better monitoring and observing the environment and its environmental impacts. General objectives of PARADIGM project are:

  1. raising environmental awareness and active engagement in green initiatives,
  2. developing innovative STEM based curricula that cultivate transversal skills,
  3. upskilling teaching staff with novel educational methodology and tools ,
  4. creating European Community of Citizen Science.

In specific, the purpose of the project is to train, lead and motivate learners to gain environmental knowledge and propose solutions via an educational process based on three different learning dimensions (objectives):

  1. The cognitive dimension: Learners will gain environmental knowledge
  2. The scientific dimension: Learners will act as scientists. Acquire knowledge through an empirical process based on the scientific method (e.g. observation, scepticism, cognitive assumptions, hypotheses, inductive thinking, e.t.c.)
  3. The pedagogical dimension: Learners will receive the appropriate pedagogical directions to implement a teaching approach based on the principles of inclusive Education.

Project Results

Teachers/Students

Direct Target Group

European Schools

Indirect Target groups

Consortium

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