In today’s rapidly changing world, addressing environmental challenges has become more crucial than ever. To ensure a sustainable future, education plays a vital role in shaping the mindset and actions of future generations. One of the Erasmus+ project GreenVETers aims is to equip vocational education and training (VET) teachers with the necessary tools to effectively […]

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time, affecting every corner of the globe and demanding urgent action. In response to this global crisis, the United Nations formulated the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a comprehensive framework to address various social, economic, and environmental issues. In our last article, we talked about […]

If you heard of SDGs but don’t fully understand the term, here’s a brief introduction to the topic. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 global goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The SDGs aim to end poverty, protect the planet, and […]

The GreenVETers partners have been working on this ambitious project for almost a year now with the aim to embed the democratic principles of citizen deliberation (CD), citizen engagement and deliberative democracy within official Vocational Education and Training (VET) Agriculture and Engineering courses. Many great results have already been achieved so far, but why is […]

You have probably realised by now, that the objectives of the GreenVETers project clearly support the objectives of the European Green Deal and the European Commission’s target to transform Europe into a carbon-neutral, fair, circular economy. That is, of course, the end goal. But how does the European Commission practically achieve this target? The European […]

Deliberative democracy can be defined as a “school of thought in political theory that claims that political decisions should be the product of fair and reasonable discussion and debate among citizens” (Eagan, 2013).  As environmental policy has a huge impact on the climate condition, a deliberative society becomes essential in today’s world. To encourage citizen […]

Welcome to the first blog article of the “GreenVETers project: Embedding citizen deliberation and deliberative democracy for sustainable development into the official VET curricula”! The GreenVETers project aims to enhance the democratic competences of Vocational Education and Training (VET) educators and trainers, particularly in Engineering and Agriculture courses. As climate change has brought a huge […]