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What is it?
The Climate Labs is a free online training program promoting sustainable education, critical thinking, and collective co-creation. It was developed by the international platform 2811 with the financial support of the European Union and supported by Climate KIC.
The 5-week program trains and empowers secondary education teachers in Berlin to integrate climate change-related content into their classrooms. The project also enables secondary education students to engage actively with urban socio-environmental challenges by implementing a Young Climathon. In this one- to two-day event, students work together with their teacher on a real climate challenge in Berlin provided by a specific societal actor (e.g. a school, the city, the local government, or a company)
If you have any questions, please contact Remy Rupp at remy@2811global.com
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
INTEGRATE
Innovative pedagogical tools for teachers to impact their students toward sustainability.
INSPIRE
Teachers with international examples of climate action from an educational perspective.
ACT
Through knowledge and methods that enable participants to activate their students and communities for socio-environmental initiatives.
BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATING
capacity building
Teachers will explore the links between climate change and socio-ecological challenges and will complete the course equipped with practical tools and methods to address these topics in and outside their classrooms.
networking
Participants will connect with other secondary education teachers in Berlin, mindful of the environment and motivated to foster the development of 21st-century skills in their students, such as self-efficacy, empathy, systemic thinking, and digital literacy.
Certificate
The participants will be certified in “Education for Climate Action” by 2811 and EIT Climate-KIC, Europe’s leading climate innovation initiative.
ACTIVITIES OF THE TEACHER TRAINING
Participants will interact with the 2811 team and engage in these activities:
Surveys: A series of online questions to gather data on the knowledge, opinions, and perspectives of the participants.
Sessions: live online to exchange opinions, perspectives and ideas with facilitators, participants and experts in education for sustainable development (ESD) and climate action.
Discussion: Discussions are a fundamental component of the asynchronous section of Climate Labs. Participants should comment on their thoughts on the shared materials, and other interventions if relevant.
Contents: For the teacher training, Climate Labs uses an online learning platform (Teachable) where articles, videos, and other didactic and methodological materials are shared with the participants.
Final deliverable: To obtain the official certification, the participants will elaborate -and present, if required- a proposal to integrate the tools and methods explored in Climate Labs in their study plan or program design.
ACTIVITIES OF THE YOUNG CLIMATHON
The Young Climathon consists of the following elements:
- A 1- to 2-day climate hackathon
- Students work on real-life challenges in urban contexts and develop innovative solutions
- Students start transforming their solutions into project or business ideas
- Use of participatory and innovative visual and digital tools and methods
- Input from experts, fellow students & entrepreneurs and mentoring from coaches and EIT Climate-KIC Alumni
- Students pitch their idea in front of a jury
If you need more information, feel free to visit the Young Climathon official website or ask your questions at remy@2811global.com
FORMAT
Duration
The online teacher training entails 4 Modules over 4 weeks, summing up to 3 hours per week:
- 1.5 hours working on the online content prepared in the Teachable platform
- 1.5 hours for the live sessions (including a guest expert input on a specific topic, as well as a group activity)
1- to 2-day young Climathon
Dates
Climate Labs will be implemented between September and October 2023. An informative webinar will be held on May 16th to answer any questions about the project (register here). If you cannot attend this informative session, feel free to contact us at remy@2811global.com with any questions you may have.
Participants
20 teachers and secondary schools in Berlin will be selected to participate in the project. We hope that participants will participate in both the online teacher training and the Young Climathon in person.
Cost
The Erasmus+ EU program funds the training and is free of charge for you.
Certificate
Participants will obtain the Climate-KIC certificate if:
- They attend at least 3 of the 4 live sessions.
- They work on the exercises published in the course
- They develop the Final Deliverable (a concrete plan on how to integrate the tools and methods explored, as well as the didactic and methodological materials, inside or outside the classroom).