Fondazione Golinelli is one of the Italian partners of the CLIMAte change teachers' acaDEMY (CLIMADEMY), a project coordinated by the University of Crete that aims to create a European network to offer a comprehensive program where teachers will interact and learn how to educate the next generation of European citizens on climate change issues.

Climate change is unequivocally attributed to human activities and is already affecting Europe, leading to heat waves, extreme drought and flood events, forest fires, biodiversity loss, decreasing crop yields and affecting human health. The European Parliament acknowledges that ‘education for young people represents one of the most effective tools for compacting climate change’. However, climate change is not yet broadly incorporated in school science curricula.
CLIMADEMY (nr:101056066 - ERASMUS2027 Programme) aims to fill this gap by developing and establishing a network and community of practice to create innovative strategies and programs for preparatory and continuous professional development for serving and student teachers on climate change and its impacts.
One common virtual Climate Auditorium (CLAUDI) will be the basis for the Teachers’ Academy for climate change education and networking and will be connecting four hubs, one in each country, with specific foci driven by the regional particularities.
Educational material focused on the drivers causing the human-induced climate perturbations, the impacts of climate change and the measures for sustainability, will be tailored for initial education and professional development and made openly available to all education institutions across Europe. Serving and student teachers will have a key role in the design and development of the material, acting both as trainees and co-designers. The material will be easily accessed, adopted and replicated, using modern educational practices and tools.
The Italian Hub will focus on environmental education through a pedagogical approach. It will see the collaboration between Fondazione Golinelli and the University of Bologna (DIFA - Department of Physics and Astronomy), under the patronage of the Ministry of Education.
It will aim to reach over 2500 teachers of lower secondary schools from all over the country through a 3 years project in which face-to-face and online training activities are planned, including summer and winter international schools organized at the partner’s HQ. Several teachers, educational designers and planners will work side by side with the experts and tutor of Fondazione Golinelli and DIFA. The Italian Hub will exchange its work and results with the other international Climademy hubs in a collaborative perspective and, for Italian schools, there will be the possibility of activating KA1 projects of training and study visits in the European partners' structures.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?
- The activity calendar 2023-2024 for the Italian hub is online now. Want to know more and subscribe to the activities? Follow this link.
- Climademy European Website
- Claudi: the e-learning platform
- Information Form: https://forms.gle/HZbKDcVdoTMRdr7E7
- For any other info and request you can write an email to: educareaeducare@fondazionegolinelli
The Italian version of the news is available here.