Zambujal 360 will be the first Public Housing Neighbourhood Ambassador of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
Local
Portugal
Amadora Municipality
Alfragide Parish Council
Mainly urban
It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)
No
No
Yes
As a representative of an organization, in partnership with other organisations
Name of the organisation(s): CAZAmbujal - Associação Recreativa Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Vitor Last name of representative: Monteiro Gender: Male Nationality: Portugal Function: President Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Rua das Mães D'Água nº33 Town: Amadora Postal code: 2610-038 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 918 326 965 E-mail:cazambujal.ar@gmail.com Website:https://www.cazambujal.org/
Name of the organisation(s): UNRIC - United Nations Regional Information Center for Western Europe Type of organisation: Other public institution First name of representative: Antonio Last name of representative: Ferrari Gender: Male Nationality: Portugal Function: Communications Advisor for Portugal Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Rue de la Loi 155 Town: Brussels Postal code: 1040 Country: Belgium Direct Tel:+32 479 27 00 83 E-mail:antonio.ferrari@un.org Website:https://unric.org/pt/
Name of the organisation(s): Fundação Oriente Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Pedro Last name of representative: Krupenski Gender: Male Nationality: Portugal Function: Advisor to the Board of Directors Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Edifício Pedro Álvares Cabral, Doca de Alcântara (Norte) Town: Lisboa Postal code: 1350-352 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 21 358 5200 E-mail:pkrupenski@foriente.pt Website:https://www.foriente.pt/home.php
Name of the organisation(s): Turismo de Portugal Type of organisation: Other public institution First name of representative: Leonor Last name of representative: Picão Gender: Female Nationality: Portugal Function: Coordinating Director Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Rua Ivone Silva, Lote 6 Town: Lisbon Postal code: 1050-124 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 918 460 437 E-mail:Leonor.Picao@turismodeportugal.pt Website:https://www.turismodeportugal.pt/pt/Paginas/homepage.aspx
Name of the organisation(s): EPAL Type of organisation: Other public institution First name of representative: Marcos Last name of representative: Sá Gender: Male Nationality: Portugal Function: Director of Communication, Marketing and Environmental Education Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Avenida da Liberdade, nº24 Town: Lisbon Postal code: 1250-144 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 935 950 140 E-mail:cea.epal@adp.pt Website:https://www.epal.pt/epal
Name of the organisation(s): APA Type of organisation: Other public institution First name of representative: Jorge Last name of representative: Neves Gender: Male Nationality: Portugal Function: Senior Technician Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Rua da Murgueira 9 Town: Alfragide Postal code: 2610-124 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 21 472 8200 E-mail:jorge.neves@apambiente.pt Website:https://apambiente.pt/
Name of the organisation(s): SCMA Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Adriano Last name of representative: Fernandes Gender: Male Nationality: Portugal Function: Head of Innovation Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Estrada da Portela ,Quinta das Torres Town: Amadora Postal code: 2610-143 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 925 407 750 E-mail:adrianofernandes@misericordia-amadora.pt Website:https://www.misericordia-amadora.pt/3idade_cdrsi.html
Name of the organisation(s): Fundação Auchan - Portugal Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Joana Last name of representative: Santos Gender: Female Nationality: Portugal Function: Social Responsability Manager Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Estrada de Paço de Arcos, 48A Town: Paço de Arcos Postal code: 2770-129 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 962 504 093 E-mail:joana.santos@auchan.pt Website:https://www.auchan-retail.pt/as-nossas-fundacoes/
Name of the organisation(s): Fundação Manuel António da Mota Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Rui Last name of representative: Pedroto Gender: Male Nationality: Portugal Function: President of the Executive Committee Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Praça do Bom Sucesso, nº 74-90 Town: Porto Postal code: 4150-146 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 22 607 9100 E-mail:rui.pedroto@fmam.pt Website:https://www.fmam.pt/
Name of the organisation(s): Câmara Municipal da Amadora Type of organisation: Other public institution First name of representative: Carla Last name of representative: Tavares Gender: Female Nationality: Portugal Function: President Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Av. Movimento das Forças Armadas, n.º 1 Town: Amadora Postal code: 2701-961 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 21 436 9000 E-mail:gab.presidencia@cm-amadora.pt Website:https://www.cm-amadora.pt/
Name of the organisation(s): SDG Alliance Portugal Type of organisation: SDG Alliance Portugal First name of representative: Mário Last name of representative: Parra da Silva Gender: Male Nationality: Portugal Function: President Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Av. João Crisóstomo 62, R/C Dto. Town: Lisbon Postal code: 1050-128 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 21 315 6734 E-mail:apee@apee.pt Website:https://globalcompact.pt/index.php/en/collective-actions-en/sdg-alliance-portugal
Name of the organisation(s): IMC Type of organisation: Religious First name of representative: José Last name of representative: Matias Gender: Male Nationality: Portugal Function: Religious Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Estrada do Zambujal Town: Alfragide Postal code: 2610-011 Country: Portugal Direct Tel:+351 914 038 783 E-mail:jtmatias10@gmail.com Website:https://www.consolata.pt/
Zambujal 360 aims to turn the neighbourhood of Zambujal (Amadora, Portugal) into the first Public Housing Ambassador of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the world. An education hub for the SDGs dissemination, simultaneously empowering the community. This concept fits in Strand C: “New European Bauhaus Education Champions”, and Category 2: “Regaining a sense of belonging”.
This neighbourhood has characteristics we intend to enhance:
- A migrant and multicultural community from Portugal and abroad, predominantly from the Portuguese-Speaking Countries;
- The “Underground Galleries of Águas Livres Aqueduct”, a national heritage monument;
- Good geographic location contiguous to Monsanto Park, and to the city centre having good accesses;
- Wide streets, green areas and a bike path.
Zambujal 360 aims to contribute to the Social, Cultural, and Environmental Development of the community, through education, involving the residents in all its phases. It is rooted in three main pillars: Education through Art (Urban Art Gallery with 17 walls about the 17 SDGs); Education through Health (implementation of weekly walks stopping in each artistic SDG wall for gymnastic exercises); Local Commerce (a merchants network to discuss sustainable practices, fairtrade, and ways to promote their businesses more broadly).
The bike path connects the neighbourhood and the future Urban Art Gallery through its walkable and bikeable route. To welcome visitors, a training programme about the 17 SDGs will be offered to the youth of Zambujal so they can become “SDGs Ambassadors”, gaining the skills to lead two of the pillars: Education through Art and Education through Health.
As Ambassador of the SDGs, Zambujal 360 will benefit not only the local community (improving their sense of belonging, valuing their cultural roots, and preserving common spaces), but all external citizens keen to learn more about the 17 SDGs, including students, academics, policy-makers, and organisations.
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One of the main environmental issues of the Zambujal neighbourhood is street pollution. In the past, many cleaning activities were done but the outcome of those actions was ephemeral cleaning with no future sustainability.
To address this issue, in short-term, we believe that by turning the Zambujal neighbourhood into the first Public Housing Ambassador of the SDGs, we create an educational hub for the 17 SDGs, their values are embedded and taked in, thus increasing the community sense of belonging and developing the feeling of need to care after the common areas. On top of this, as Zambujal 360 will organise guided tours led by local young residents, a long-term vision will start to take action since they will be acting as community agents willing to care for a clean and beautiful neighbourhood to show.
Another key objective is to educate the community, as education can enable acceptance of the changes needed for green transition. Being a Public Housing neighbourhood, built with controlled costs in the 70s of the past century, it is highly important to learn about energy efficiency, water costs control, the importance of clean and climate isolated houses and their impact in good health, and how local sustainable options (e.g., reducing plastic) impacts the global task to save the planet.
We believe that painting 17 walls, one for each SDG, will create awareness about them. To implement the Urban Art Gallery, sustainable options will be prioritised: the majority of the artists are local for less pollutant travels; sustainable and durable materials like ceramics will be prioritised; and working for zero waste or with reused materials.
One of the Zambujal 360 partners, linked to the SDG7, is already keen to offer former eolic turbines to be dismantled and transformed into urban equipment or playgrounds, following the references of nordic countries.
Public Housing projects made in Portugal over the past century resolved issues related to citizens' poor quality of life. The original strive to design several projects motivated the young Portuguese architects team who planned the Zambujal neighbourhood and won a prize in 1986 from the International Art Critics Association enhancing aesthetics and quality of life. However, political decisions underestimated the maintenance and requalification of the properties which, combined with a lack of social strategies, resulted in a loss of aesthetics and quality of experience.
That is why Zambujal 360 presents Education through Art as one of its key objectives, praising aesthetics and turning youth into agents for social change. In fact, creating an open-air Urban Art Gallery with meaningful paintings by different artists (ceramicists, illustrators, draughtsmen, painters and street artists), will reconnect the sense of belonging and pride of its inhabitants for being involved in the project:
1. Participation in meetings with artists and residents;
2. Creating a bond between residents and artists by executing open-air Art;
3. The Training Programme will connect youth to external invited volunteers;
4. The guided tours will promote the interaction among the community and outside visitors.
The second key goal of Zambujal 360 - Education through Health - reconnects the neighbourhood to the original design plan, offering residents the best possible quality experience, taking advantage of large streets, green areas as an extension of the Monsanto Park and its commerce. All these aspects also enlarge the architect’s original intention by giving reasons to external people to visit the neighbourhood.
And the icing on the cake is the “Underground Galleries of Águas Livres Aqueduct” bringing an unique experience for those who visit the neighbourhood, since the Galleries are going to be requalified and included in the tour guides.
In terms of inclusion, Portuguese Public Housing neighbourhoods have a long history of creating communities for people with different backgrounds and geographical roots. Zambujal 360 aims to celebrate its 40+ years old as a Public Housing Community by working with all its residents, opening the world to the neighbourhood and the neighbourhood to the world.
In specific, and since NEB values are aligned to the SDGs, we have established the following aspects to make it inclusive:
- Diversity of artists with different artistic fields to build the Urban Art Gallery;
- Inclusion of all residents keen to participate in every phase of the project;
- The Urban Art Gallery will be of free and open access;
- The bike path to promote Education through Health will be of free and open access and use, allowing wheelchairs participants;
- Free training for the young residents to become “SDGs Ambassadors”, provided by the Zambujal 360;
- Guided tours available about the 17 SDGs in Portuguese, English, and a Portuguese-based Creole;
- Strive for equitable representation of genders in the beneficiaries but also in the internal team;
- Strive for representation of the young trainees from all different cultures represented in the neighbourhood citizens;
- Free access to clues about sustainable practices for local traders, provided by the Zambujal 360.
We highlight the bike path - inclusive by its nature: no steps and smooth declivity - as key element of the Zambujal 360 because it crosses the entire neighbourhood, connects the local merchants and residents within and to the exterior, and will be the route of the Urban Art Gallery about the 17 SDGs, promoting a walkable and bikeable pathway representing/corresponding/putting into practice the pillar Education through Health.
The residents of Zambujal are the beneficiaries of this initiative, but all those who will visit, learn, and shop, will contribute as well to new dynamics of the neighbourhood.
Zambujal 360 encourages the active participation of all residents in all its phases: from the assessment of needs to the joint construction of adequate answers and implementation.
The youth had and have a determinant role since they were involved in meetings with a nuclear group of leaders, thinking about strategies to engage more members to participate in the “SDGs Ambassadors” training programme and become community agents disseminating the SDGs and the NEB values.
Even though the Urban Art Gallery is free, visitors can pay a ticket to have a guided tour with a local SDG Ambassador. This means that external visitors can directly contribute to the local economy.
The elderly residents play an important role by using the bike path weekly, promoting good physical and mental health and making new friends among neighbours.
Regarding the local trade entities, they participated in a diagnosis to assess real needs and will be working with the Zambujal 360 team to implement sustainable practices and promote their commerce within a created network between them.
Local associations were involved from the very beginning. CAZAmbujal, a local entity formed by residents, plays a key role as partner in designing the original idea. There was also a network between other local associations that contributed to logistics, calling for the training programme, approaching the residents, implementing the training, and exchanging resources.
Since one of the goals is to open the neighbourhood to the world, Zambujal 360 also advocates for the principle of transparency, giving external actors the opportunity to participate with ideas for the growth of the project and by volunteering. One example is the requalification of the Underground Gallery, only possible due to the partner owner of the place.
To regain a sense of belonging and contribute to the SDG17, efforts were made to be in a network to design and fund the Zambujal 360 as a whole. It started to be jointly designed in the first quarter of 2021 between the NGO Ad Gentes and CAZAmbujal, a local association. This was important to create a close relationship with the community and assess real needs.
Being two non-profit associations, the financing model was conceived to include 17 sponsors, one for each SDG, all funding the same amount and contributing with one parcel. We linked the Companies’ vision to each specific SDG, e.g., Auchan Foundation funded “SDG 2: Zero Hunger” as food is their core business (see question 13).
All different entities working in the Zambujal neighbourhood were invited to a formal presentation of the project, and the outcome was unanimously agreed: Zambujal 360 is a beneficial project to the community. In total, we have 11 local entities collaborating with the Promoter, including the Amadora Town Hall, the Alfragide Parish Council, the Portuguese Environment Agency, the Santa Casa da Misericórdia da Amadora, the Alfragide Police Station, among others.
Throughout several months of meetings with different regional, national and European entities, many contributes were given, not only through funds (see question 13) but also with ideas to develop the original concept in its complexity and quality over time:
- United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC): communication partner;
- Vieira de Almeida: pro bono lawyer advisers;
- Benfica Foundation: sport and training programme;
- Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr (IMVF): training programme;
- PAR - Respostas Sociais: training programme;
- Speak Social: English training content;
- Colégio de Santa Doroteia: English training programme;
- Portuguese Environment Agency: training programme;
- Torino Town Hall: strategic partner;
- Montepio Mutualist Association: local commerce network advisers.
Zambujal 360 is the result of a joint work between different actors, in a multidisciplinary perspective towards the Education on NEB values and the SDGs, involving local entities and external elements to the conception and growth of the original idea and also in practical actions such as the training programme for the SDGs Ambassadors.
The training programme was built together with two other experient non-formal education associations (PAR and IMVF) and is where the diversity of fields is more evident since there is the participation of different entities and individual volunteers in the respective areas of social, environmental and economic related to each group of SDGs. This aims to introduce and build with the young people a global view, but also in sports and English.
The concept of multidisciplinarity of Zambujal 360 is also reflected on its three main pillars and respective implementation activities:
- Education through Art (aesthetics, design, sense of belonging): Aiming for the diversity and enrichment in the creation and design of the 17 pieces for the Street Art Gallery, different artists (ceramists, painters, draughtsmen, illustrators, street artists) were invited to participate in the SDGs dissemination;
- Education through Health (weekly walks and specific exercises related to the SDGs): In order to prepare young people from the neighbourhood to become community agents, there will be the involvement of two different trainers: Benfica Foundation (a Portuguese football team) promoting the use of sports in transmitting values, as well as a personal trainer, actual responsible for the weekly walks with the residents;
- Local Commerce (sustainable practices and fairtrade): There was a diagnosis of the local trade with Montepio Mutualist Association for the network of local merchants to be created. To discuss its development and dissemination we also met with University Professor Roque Amaro, a specialist in the area of community development and economy.
Zambujal 360 stands out from other mainstream actions by:
- Turning the Zambujal neighbourhood into an Ambassador of the SDGs, recovering its architecture, geographical qualities, and richness of cultures value, promoting changes with regards to overcome prejudices;
- The outside-in and inside-out perspective on engagement, promoting exchanges between the community (youth, local traders and overall residents) and other external actors (individual volunteers, sponsors, partner entities, and visitors) and their active participation in all phases of the project;
- It is a different approach to disseminate the 17 SDGs using an educational method applied through Art, Health and in the local commerce;
- The pioneer SDGs Ambassadors training model for the young people to become tour guides. The methodology lands in three different dimensions:
Me - the person and their relation within the community;
Me and Others - their action as community agents;
Me and the World - how local can be global under the UN Global Citizens umbrella.
In 17 sessions, one per SDG, participants will learn about the values behind the SDGs, meet the Sponsors leaders and their commitment with society, and will learn basic English conversation skills with other young volunteers.
- The financing method uses an innovative model of sponsorship to fund the project, uniting 17 sponsors for each SDG, with equal distribution, promoting the involvement of entities from different areas.
- The vision of continuity once the Urban Art Gallery is completed, the training for young leaders and the visits are the foundation for other phases in the long term, such as annual scheduled and paid visits for schools, and team building actions for companies and workshops on the SDGs. In addition, international exchanges with similar projects like TOward2030 (Turin, Italy), having already met with the Town Hall, and the 17 Walls Project in Aahrus, Denmark.
We aim to make the Zambujal neighbourhood a pioneering example for other neighbourhoods (public or private) in Portugal and internationally, demonstrating how the aesthetic renewal of a place and Education through Art and Health can make communities stronger, raise the economic local capacity and move forward to more responsible environmental and social actions.
Almost all big cities have neighbourhoods with similar characteristics related to Zambujal. It can be said that it is easier to implement this methodology in Public Housing neighbourhoods, but Zambujal 360 does include Private Housing as well. The Urban Art Gallery will have 5 art walls which proves the involvement of the diversity of residents living in the neighbourhood.
In specific, the elements we believe that can be replicated to other places are:
- Concept of being a neighbourhood Ambassador of the SDGs;
- Urban Art Gallery on the 17 SDGs (a similar approach exists in Turin, Italy, and will happen in Aarhus, Denmark but only about Street Art), connecting the local residents with the artists in the creative process;
- Financial model, raising 17 different sponsors, one for each SDG, allowing them to contribute with ideas and concepts going beyond funding;
- Education through Art, involving the young residents of the neighbourhood as guide tours and Ambassadors of the SDGs, turning young people, who struggle in the formal education, into community agents educating to the SDGs and disseminating them to the general public;
- Non-formal training for local youth, focused on the 17 SDGs, with 17 sessions and English classes;
- Education through Health, involving all residents in weekly or daily physical exercises, allowing other citizens to join them;
- Financial sustainability focused on optional paid guided tours that will fund the “SDGs Ambassadors” tour guides honorariums;
- A network of local merchants to rethink their environmental practices contributing to a more sustainable planet.
General principles of the project design:
- Being Europeans our focus was on what we have in common and working WITH the community. The draft idea was designed in association with CAZAmbujal, created by local citizens, allowing the assessment of real needs. It was presented to all other local associations, which resulted in networking.
- Focus also on inclusion, an holistic vision was the strive. The project was designed to provide an integrated response to the needs of the neighbourhood, seeking its cultural, social and economic development in the areas of Local Commerce, Education through Art and Health.
- The SDGs theme is deeply related to European values and it intends not only to reinforce the community's sense of belonging and transformation of the neighbourhood, but also to disseminate the 17 SDGs.
- Individual, group and community intervention links directly to regaining the sense of belonging because everyone has a role to play, no matter what, in order to break prejudices and bring social cohesion.
- Micro, meso and macro impact: It operates in a specific neighbourhood, seeking to work towards its integral development, but also to bring impacts at a national and international level, being a stage for the dissemination of the SDGs and investigation, through the different elements of communication that opens the project to the outside.
- Multidisciplinary work: In the project presentation meetings (entities, individuals and artists), there was room for opinions and suggestions, and the initiative grew with the inputs, creating bridges between the different agents and actors of the community with other local and non-local entities.
- Mid-to-long term vision: Its sustainability will be guaranteed through guided tours to different groups and visitors. In addition, we intend to create indicators to assess the sustainability of the neighbourhood in the different SDGs and establish international partnerships.
Advocating the 17 SDGs, Zambujal 360 will become an educational hub to disseminate and integrate them, achieving some of the goals in short and long terms:
G1: Visitors will contribute to new opportunities in the neighbourhood.
G2: Auchan Foundation will educate on healthy food.
G3: CAZAmbujal is promoting medical visitings to residents to measure diabetes, blood pressure, among other simple medical advice, besides the weekly walks already happening.
G4: Zambujal 360 will provide free non-formal training about the 17 SDGs for youth, local citizens and visitors.
G5: Gender number of selected artists will be almost equal (17 is an odd number).
G6: Our sponsor partner EPAL (Lisbon Public Water Company) will meet with the residents to plan water consumption and avoid water waste. On top of this, the Underground Gallery of Águas Livres Aqueduct will be requalified, allowing visits to understand how water was and still is important today.
G7: In the long term, we want to help the neighbourhood making energy transition (solar panels).
G8: Supporting local commerce will help this goal to be achieved.
G9: Working directly with the public entity (IRHU) owner of the majority of houses will allow us to plan in advance how industry and innovation can be implemented in the neighbourhood.
G10: Altice Foundation works toward reducing technology inequalities and wants to target the residents who need specific technology support.
G11: Turismo de Portugal not only supports Zambujal 360 but will also use it as a model to show how cities and communities can be more sustainable.
G12: The company Areas, expert in food chain, will provide training in this area to the youth and local merchants.
G14: The invited artist to paint this wall is the official French Marine artist, who will work directly with the community discussing topics about Life under water.
G17: This is probably the most iconic goal of Zambujal 360 because of the number of partnerships and sponsorship.
Progress since April 2021 to February 2023:
- Sponsors per SDG:
1: SCMA (agreement in process)
2: Auchan Foundation (funded/prize)
3: Banco de Portugal (waiting for prize results)
4: Oriente Foundation (funded)
5: FLAD (agreement in process)
6: SIMAS (agreement in process)
7: GENERG (waiting for results)
8: Caixa Geral de Depósitos (funded/prize)
9: Manuel António da Mota Foundation (funded)
10: Altice Foundation (funded)
11: Turismo de Portugal (funded)
12: AREAS Group (funded)
13: BPI (funded)
14: EPAL (agreement in process)
15: TPF (funded)
16: Vieira de Almeida (agreement in process)
17: Amadora Town Hall and Alfragide Parish Council (agreement in process)
- Budget meetings to logistic matters were led with crane companies, filming and photo entities, owners of the houses, local entities, artists, residents, and trainees;
- Creation of a communication plan: logo, official website, logo animations, Instagram, recordings, training materials;
- Design of the “SDG Ambassadors” training programme and establishment of partnerships for its implementation and dissemination;
- Meetings with residents and artists;
- Elaboration of legal documents in collaboration with the law firm Vieira de Almeida;
- Diagnosis of local trade and creation of strategies to involve entities in collaboration with Montepio Mutualist Association.
The activities planned for 2023 are:
- New meetings between residents and artists: February to March;
- SDGs Ambassadors training: March to May;
- Artistic interventions in buildings: April to July;
- Guided tours: Starting in August;
- Filming all the process: February to August;
- Opening the Urban Art Gallery, tour guides and documentary: August/September.
As shown before, Zambujal 360 is totally aligned with the Council Recommendation on learning for the green transition and sustainable development, because the SDGs are also strongly connected to the following policy statements set by the European Commission.
Zambujal 360 also highlights the strong connection between the European values and the 17 SDGs which indicate that any person, community, neighbourhood, organisation, company, municipality, region, or country can have a role to play in global decisions regarding sustainability.
Not by chance, but because the common roots of the European values are deeply inside each European citizen, the EU actions match perfectly with the Zambujal 360 project, especially these:
- “make learning for the green transition and sustainable development a priority in education and training policies and programmes”
- “provide all learners with opportunities to learn about the climate crisis and sustainability in formal education (for example, schools and higher education) and non-formal education (such as, extra-curricular activities, youth work)”
- “support educators in developing their knowledge and skills to teach about the climate crisis and sustainability, including dealing with eco-anxiety among their students”
- “create supportive learning environments for sustainability that span all activities and operations by an educational institution and enable teaching and learning that is hands-on, interdisciplinary and relevant to local contexts”
- “actively involve students and staff, local authorities, youth organisations and the research and innovation community in learning for sustainability”
- Embodying sustainability values (valuing sustainability; supporting fairness)
- Embracing complexity in sustainability (systems thinking; critical thinking)
- Acting for sustainability (political agency; collective action; individual initiative)
- Envisioning sustainable futures (future literacy; adaptability; exploratory thinking)
