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Field Studies Council: Bringing Environmental Understanding to All

Sustainable Development in Adult Learning (SUNDIAL)

The project exchanged good practice between partners and produced a common ESD training module for training trainers. 

The partnership originated through a Study Visit held in November 2008 concerning Education on Sustainable Development.
To the original study visit partnership some other partners have been added: these have originated from a former Grundtvig partnership and also from a transnational EQUAL meeting held in Estonia in 2008.
The partnership includes organisations from Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden and Finland.
Its primary purpose is the exchange of good practices and methods concerning education for sustainable development and how to include sustainable development issues in the ordinary training and education.
The project is being carried out through meetings during which to focus on developing a common training module on ESD, which will include both theoretical and practical components and then train a group of trainers in each country, in order to disseminate general understanding and practice of ESD in several relevant aspects such: education for tackling climate change, linear production vs circular production, green economy, alternative citizenship education, learning out of the classroom, participatory democracy etc
Promoting and enhancing this ESD network will bring new air to training trainees towards sustainable development and how could be infused on design, implementation and evaluation to enhance existing educational goals for adults.