Pupils need wide competencies to meet the challenges of sustainable development - including climate change. The CO₂nnect activities are designed to support learning that can provide pupils with abilities, skills, attitudes and awareness as well as knowledge and understanding of the issues.

The long-term purpose of the CO₂nnect campaign is to improve the understanding and practice of Education for Sustainable Development.

To achieve this, schools are offered an international, internet-based school activity in which schools, researchers and local decision-makers cooperate on the topic of CO₂ emissions from local transport. By joining the campaign, your school will be part of the work by SUPPORT network to learn about effective Education for Sustainable Development.

 

Objectives of CO₂nnect

The concrete objectives of the campaign are to:

• Engage a large number of schools, pupils, parents and communities in Europe to work with sustainable development in the field of climate and transport
• Increase pupils’ competencies in ways described in the learning goals
• Increase schools’ competency to deliver high quality ESD
• Provide ICT based tools including guidelines, links, a CO₂ transport emissions calculator and opportunities for partnership
• Generate information useful to research and management about transport- and climate issues (including an international database on CO₂ emissions from school transport)
• Generate innovative ideas for sustainable transport.

This campaign has been developed by partners and members of the EU Comenius Lifelong Learning project ”SUPPORT: partnership and participation for a sustainable tomorrow.” The goal of SUPPORT is to promote and improve knowledge about education for sustainable development (ESD).

SUPPORT comprises a network of 45 partners and members representing international expertise in the field of education for sustainable development.

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(Source: www.co2nnect.org)