'Putting Learning for Sustainability at the heart of practice in Secondary' - our webinar event in partnership with the EIS
2022-09-13 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
We warmly invite Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) members from the secondary sector to join us and the EIS for this Professional Learning webinar.

Session overview

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

join fellow teachers and sector leaders to explore and share approaches to weaving a Learning for Sustainability ethos through their practice and the wider life of their settingshear conversations between fellow practitioners who are already making LfS part of the everyday in their own practice and setting.find out more about practical resources which support Learning for Sustainability in Scottish education.benefit from insights into effective approaches to LfS activity and practical examples to shape their own teaching.

Book your place now by visiting the EIS website.

If you have any questions about this event please contact rhenthorn@eis.org.uk

We warmly invite Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) members from the early years sector to join us and the EIS for this Professional Learning webinar.

Session overview

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

join fellow teachers and sector leaders to explore and share approaches to weaving a Learning for Sustainability ethos through their practice and the wider life of their settingshear conversations between fellow practitioners who are already making LfS part of the everyday in their own practice and setting.find out more about practical resources which support Learning for Sustainability in Scottish education.benefit from insights into effective approaches to LfS activity and practical examples to shape their own teaching.

Book your place now by visiting the EIS website.

If you have any questions about this event please contact rhenthorn@eis.org.uk

We warmly invite Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) members from the secondary sector to join us and the EIS for this Professional Learning webinar.

Session overview

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

join fellow teachers and sector leaders to explore and share approaches to weaving a Learning for Sustainability ethos through their practice and the wider life of their settingshear conversations between fellow practitioners who are already making LfS part of the everyday in their own practice and setting.find out more about practical resources which support Learning for Sustainability in Scottish education.benefit from insights into effective approaches to LfS activity and practical examples to shape their own teaching.

Book your place now by visiting the EIS website.

If you have any questions about this event please contact rhenthorn@eis.org.uk

'Putting Learning for Sustainability at the heart of practice in Early Years' - our webinar event in partnership with the EIS
2022-09-20 16:00 - 17:00
We warmly invite Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) members from the early years sector to join us and the EIS for this Professional Learning webinar.

Session overview

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

join fellow teachers and sector leaders to explore and share approaches to weaving a Learning for Sustainability ethos through their practice and the wider life of their settingshear conversations between fellow practitioners who are already making LfS part of the everyday in their own practice and setting.find out more about practical resources which support Learning for Sustainability in Scottish education.benefit from insights into effective approaches to LfS activity and practical examples to shape their own teaching.

Book your place now by visiting the EIS website.

If you have any questions about this event please contact rhenthorn@eis.org.uk

Learning for Sustainability (LfS), the Professional Standards and you: supporting the learner entitlement to LfS - part of the Scottish Learning Festival 2022
2022-09-21 12:30 - 13:15
Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland online at the 2022 Scottish Learning Festival!

‘Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland’ GTCS Professional Standards 2021

Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education, an entitlement for learners in Scotland and underpins the Professional Standards for Teachers as a key cross-cutting theme.Join us to explore the new GTC Scotland Learning for Sustainability Hub, and hear from practitioners about how to realise this most vital of themes in your practice and the wider life of your setting.

Find out more and book your place here: SCOTTISH LEARNING FESTIVAL – Scottish Education Events 2022

‘Climate Sisters: bringing women’s voices to the climate table’
2022-09-22 14:00 - 2022-09-29 15:00 | Greyfriars Charteris Centre, 138 The Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR
Exhibition: Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR

Please note that the exhibition will not be open on Saturday 24 September due to a closed event.

The Climate Sisters are a group of thirteen women which formed in 2020 during a climate leadership course where, through discussion and collaboration, they each developed creative responses to aspects of climate justice and other sustainability issues they cared about.

Through the Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), the project gained support from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Care International and Action Aid UK. Additionally, the University of Glasgow provided mentors to help the women to develop and create their ideas, and the University of Edinburgh documented the project in conversation with young people from SCOREscotland through two films; bringing their collective stories into the ‘Learning for a Sustainable Future’ series of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). These collaborations enabled the women to develop their varied ideas, make them a reality and share them widely.

This exhibition offers an opportunity to interact with each of the creative pieces produced by the Climate Sisters which include poetry, music, podcasts, sculptures, paintings, jewellery, filmmaking, fashion and photography.

It is open, free of charge, 10am until 16:00 daily* from 22nd – 29th September at the Greyfriars Charteris Centre, 138 The Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR.

*The exhibition will not be open on Saturday 24 September due to a closed event.

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards - monthly Drop-In #4
2022-09-29 16:00 - 17:00
Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education.

Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland.

In Scotland, the Professional Standards for teachers and college lecturers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.

Book your place here.

'Learning for a Sustainable Future': free online learning for all
2022-10-03 08:00 - 2022-11-06 17:00
This highly-successful 5-week, free, open-access MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is back!

In 2021, over 3,000 learners from over 100 countries took part and we are delighted to once again be offering it to participants across the world. We are very grateful to be working in partnership with The University of Edinburgh and British Council to bring you this course.

This course supports you to reflect, investigate, discuss and develop an informed response to the global challenges that matter to you. Taking a personalised issue-based approach, you will have the opportunity to further investigate the diverse causes, impacts, and multiple social and political factors related to a sustainability issue that you feel is important; before making an informed response towards taking action, in whatever form that may take. Recognising that we will all come to this course from various starting points and with a range of perspectives, we have created space for community discussions where we can share our own contexts, issues and experiences and learn with and from one another. The course also offers an opportunity to reflect and discuss the teaching and learning approaches we offer whilst creating space to hear the ways in which you are working, or may wish to work, with your learners, whomever they may be.

Find out more and sign up here. We look forward to welcoming you!

LfS and the future of learning in Scotland's land-based and aquaculture sectors
2022-10-03 16:00 - 17:30
What is this event about?

Join Learning for Sustainability Scotland and the Scottish Government for an opportunity to share your views and experiences with the Scottish Government’s Commission for the Land-Based Learning Review and to contribute to shaping the future of learning in Scotland’s land-based and aquaculture sectors.

The event will cover the themes of:

∙ Education and Training

∙ Skills Gaps and Shortages

∙ Awareness and Perception of the Land-based Sector

Background Information

The Commission is a short-term advisory group that will provide Scottish Ministers with independent, evidence-based recommendations and advice on how to attract more people into the land-based and aquaculture sectors and how to improve learning pathways.

The review covers learning from early-years to adulthood – through school, college, university and work-based learning – with the aim to help more people, and specifically more women, to work with and on the land, particularly in ‘green skills’.

A key part of the Review, and the purpose of this stakeholder event, is to gather a wide range of views, experiences and evidence to inform the Commission’s considerations and recommendations.

Book your place here.

Learning for Sustainability and 'Putting Young People at the Centre'
2022-10-05 16:00 - 17:00
This is a time of change for Scotland’s education system.

The Scottish Government and COSLA are launching the ‘most inclusive ever discussion on education in Scotland, with learners playing a key part in decision-making’. In addition, a refresh of the national Learning for Sustainability Action Plan is currently underway.

The need to support young people to contribute to building a socially-just, sustainable and equitable society has never been greater. How do we ensure that youth work sector organisations can collaborate to support these important new developments? Join our online ‘round table’ meeting with youth sector network organisations in Scotland, to share, discuss and plan.

This meeting aims to provide an opportunity to:

• Understand the current education and Learning for Sustainability policy agendas

• Share contributions to the 2022 National Discussion on education and LfS Action Plan refresh

• Identify opportunities for connecting and collaborating with others and between sectors (communities/youth/schools/colleges/universities)

Book your place here.

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Drop-In #5
2022-10-27 16:00 - 17:00

'Live at COP27': free online learning for all
2022-11-07 08:00 - 2022-11-20 17:00
Learning for a Sustainable Future: Live at COP27, will run during the United Nations COP27 Climate Change Conference which takes place in Egypt between 6-18 November.

This 2-week MOOC ran last year in parallel with COP26 and attracted over 4,000 learners from over 130 countries worldwide. We are very pleased to be able to offer it once again and very grateful to be working in partnership with The University of Edinburgh and British Council to bring you this course.

This two-week course offers you an opportunity to examine what COP27 is, why it’s considered to be important and reflect on how you can add your voice to the call for collective action for a sustainable future.

Throughout the course, we will share ‘live’ insights into the issues being discussed at COP27, as well as responses to the conference themes from children and young people, community groups and ministerial bodies, both nationally and internationally. Using these ‘starting points’, we will invite you to reflect on what you have heard, watched and read, and think about what these conversations and issues mean to you.

Find out more and sign up here. We look forward to welcoming you!

Learning for Sustainability & the National Discussion on Education
2022-11-07 16:00 - 17:00
The need to support learners of all ages to contribute building a socially-just, sustainable and equitable society has never been greater.

To step up action on Learning for Sustainability, a refresh of Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability Action Plan is currently underway.

This is also a time of change for Scotland’s education system. The Scottish Government and COSLA have launched the ‘most inclusive ever National Discussion on education in Scotland with learners playing a key part in decision-making’.

What are the most important priorities for a future education system? What kind of education, skills, knowledge and support will young people require to positively contribute to our changing world?

This meeting aims to provide an opportunity to:

• Engage with the current national education and Learning for Sustainability policy agendas

• Consider how Learning for Sustainability contributes to the future vision for Scotland’s education system

• Find out how to involve others in contributing to the National Discussion on education

Join us and Professor Alma Harris, co-facilitator of the National Discussion, for this opportunity to hear more about, discuss and feed into one of the most important discussions on the direction of Scottish education in recent years.

Further details of the session, a Microsoft Teams link and agenda will be sent nearer the date.

We look forward to welcoming you to the discussion. It’s time to #TalkScottishEducation.

Click here to book your place.

Supporting and Strengthening Approaches to ESD in Universities and Colleges
2022-11-21 09:30 - 12:30 | Online
Join EAUC Scotland and LfSS for the next Education for Sustainable Development Topic Support Network and Further & Higher Education LfSS Task Group Meeting, where we’ll focus on ‘Supporting and Strengthening Approaches to ESD in Universities and Colleges’. Here, we will aim to:

Identify support educators need to meet existing and new professional standards for ESD. Share examples of existing support within institutions.Walk through resources available and plan actions to strengthen approaches to ESD.

This event is open to all further and higher education staff UK-wide, but will be of specific interest to teaching staff.

Book your place here: Supporting and Strengthening Approaches to ESD in Universities and Colleges | EAUC

Connecting for Transformational Change through Learning
2022-12-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Leith Community Croft, Leith Links, Edinburgh, EH6 7EY
J﻿oin Learning for Sustainability Scotland for the first of two members’ events focusing on ‘Transformational Change through Learning for Sustainability’.

This first event, ‘Connecting for Transformational Change through Learning for Sustainability’ will be held in-person:

on: Tuesday 6 December 2022 from 4-6pm

at: Leith Community Croft, Leith Links (corner of John’s Place and Links Place), Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7EY.

J﻿oin us for an evening of connection through food, fire, music and festivity.

We’ll hear from an inspirational speaker, engage in group discussions and have the opportunity to network with contacts old and new.

Places are limited, so early booking is advised.

Book your place here.

Our 2022 AGM and networking event: Transformational Change through Learning
2023-01-11 16:00 - 18:00
Learning for Sustainability Scotland warmly invites its members to attend its AGM and Networking event on Wednesday 11th January 2023.

Our AGM and networking event – held online – is an excellent opportunity to network with other Learning for Sustainability Scotland members.

This year, we’ll be hosting inspirational speakers and celebrating stories on the theme of ‘Transformational Change through Learning‘.

Join us on Wednesday 11 January 2023 from 16:00 – 18:00 for the chance to:

Enjoy insights on the theme of ‘Transformational Change through Learning‘ from our keynote speaker

Be inspired by stories of transformational change through learning from across our membership

Hear more about our activity over the past year

Hear more about the Steering Group members for 2023-2025

Connect and network with other Learning for Sustainability Scotland members.

Click here to book your place.

Click here to view the programme

We look forward to welcoming you on 11th January 2023!

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Drop-In #6
2023-01-26 16:00 - 17:00

Sustainability, employability and youthwork
2023-02-21 16:00 - 17:00
Join us and YouthLink Scotland to explore how we can support young people to develop the skills needed for a sustainable and just future.

We’re delighted to welcome you to our first webinar for 2023.

This is the latest in our award-winning series of webinars, and in it, we will build on previous sessions to explore and discuss how we can help youthwork/school-based practitioners to:

Support young people to develop the skills, values, knowledge and confidence needed for a just and sustainable future

Contribute to school-youthwork engagement with the national Learning for Sustainability Action Plan and the priorities of the Climate Emergency Skills Action Plan.

Participants will also have the opportunity to:

Network and share resources, ideas and activities

Identify opportunities for connecting and collaborating with others and between sectors (communities/youth/schools/colleges/universities).

Click here to reserve your FREE place.

F﻿urther details, including joining instructions, will be sent to you nearer the time.

We look forward to having you join us online on Tuesday 21st February.

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Drop-In #7
2023-02-23 16:00 - 17:00
***We are sorry to announce that this event has been cancelled due to ongoing industrial action by Scotland’s teachers. Our next Drop-In will be on March 23rd from 16:00 – 17:00. Please click here for details.***

Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education.

Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland.

In Scotland, the Professional Standards for teachers and college lecturers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.

Book your place by clicking here.

'Learning for a Sustainable Future' - our free online course is back!
2023-03-13 08:00 - 2023-04-16 17:00
Join us on a personal and professional global learning journey towards a sustainable future.

We’re delighted to announce that our free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is back for a fourth iteration.

Over 5,000 learners from 158 countries have now taken part in this course: enabling participants to share and celebrate a wealth of ideas, resources and perspectives.

Developed by the University of Edinburgh and Learning for Sustainability Scotland with support from the British Council, this five-week course is designed for and open to anyone with an interest in, or remit for, sustainability.

The course is supported by skilled facilitators and has an additional strand for those working in formal or informal education, who want to bring some of the activities and issues covered in the course into their own practice.

What on Earth could be more important?

Full details, including how to register, can be found by clicking here.

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Drop-In #8: A focus on LfS and the 2023 National Improvement Framework and Improvement Plan
2023-03-23 16:00 - 17:00
Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education.

Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland.

In Scotland, the Professional Standards for teachers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.

This session will have a focus on the place of LfS as a key feature in the 2023 National Improvement Framework and Improvement Plan for Scottish education.

Book your place by clicking here.

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Topic Support Network: a focus on student-led ESD initiatives
2023-04-24 13:00 - 15:00
Join us and EAUC Scotland for the next Education for Sustainable Development Topic Support Network, where we’ll focus on how students have been promoting, developing, and integrating ESD. To improve accessibility, this event will be hosted virtually.

More details and an agenda will follow in due course. If you have any student-led examples you’d like us to include or any other questions and topic you would like us to address during the event, please get in touch with kmobius@eauc.org.uk.

This event is open to UK-wide Higher and Further Education practitioners and students, and everyone is welcome to attend.

Click here to reserve your place.

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Drop-In #9: a focus on learner voice and the interim outcomes of the National Discussion on Scottish education
2023-04-27 16:00 - 17:00
Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education.

Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland.

In Scotland, the Professional Standards for teachers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community

This session will have a focus on learner voice and the interim outcomes of the National Discussion on Scottish education; due to be published in Spring 2023.

Book your place by clicking here.

Learning for Sustainability and the National Outcomes for Scotland
2023-05-23 16:00 - 17:00
What kind of Scotland do you want to see?

Have your say on the blueprint for Scotland – the National Performance Framework.

Scotland’s National Performance Framework was revised and published in 2018. It contains eleven National Outcomes that shape both national and local policy – and all of these are aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The Scottish Government wants to hear from people and communities across Scotland about whether the Framework – and the National Outcomes it contains – continues to reflect the kind of Scotland we want to see. They would also like to hear about how the National Performance Framework could have a bigger impact.

We warmly invite our members to j﻿oin Learning for Sustainability Scotland and the Scottish Government on Tuesday, 23 May to hear more and be part of the discussion.

You will have the opportunity to:

Hear more about the Scottish Government’s consultation on the review of Scotland’s National Outcomes

Discuss and share your vision for Learning for Sustainability and the Outcomes with other members

Hear more about how Learning for Sustainability Scotland will use the outputs of this session to respond to this consultation on behalf of members

Find out how you can share your own response to the consultation.

Click here to book your place.

'Learning in a changing climate: a Peruvian-Scottish exchange
2023-05-25 10:00 - 13:00
What are the key competencies that students and educators need to engage constructively and responsibly with today’s world, and how can they be assessed?

This in-person intercultural exchange workshop with educators from Peru and Scotland offers an opportunity for exchange and dialogue about appropriate curricula and pedagogies in response to the global and local climate and nature crises we face. The exchange builds on outputs from education for sustainable development (ESD) collaborations between Scotland and Peru and in the Erasmus+ ESD SuperVision 4.0 project with partners from across Europe.

J﻿oin us on 25 May to:

• Hear about approaches to developing values, skills and knowledges for climate adaptation and sustainability

• Explore the curricular interventions needed to equip learners to adapt to our everchanging world

• Share perspectives on Learning for Sustainability challenges and opportunities

This will be an in-person event, held at the Moray House School of Education and Sport in Edinburgh. The event will be followed by a networking lunch.

Demand for this event is likely to be high and places are limited, so please do let us know ASAP if you have signed up and are subsequently unable to attend in order that we can offer your place to another participant.

Click here to book your place

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Drop-In #10: celebrating teaching and learning approaches to LfS ahead of the launch of the refreshed national Learning for Sustainability Action Plan
2023-05-25 16:00 - 17:00
Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education.

Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland.

In Scotland, the Professional Standards for teachers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.

As we eagerly await the launch of Scotland’s refreshed national Learning for Sustainability Action Plan in Summer 2023, this session will have a focus on celebrating teaching and learning approaches that help to embed Learning for Sustainability across everyday learning.

Book your place by clicking here.

Monitoring and evaluating education for sustainable development in Higher Education workshop (Senior Managers)
2023-06-21 10:00 - 11:00
Measuring, monitoring and evaluating Education for Sustainable Development is an important task. It helps us to show where we are at, the impact we’re having, and find out what and where we need to improve.

As part of a QAA funded Collaborative Enhancement project, the University of St Andrews; in partnership with EAUC Scotland, LfSS, sparqs, SOS UK, and University of Edinburgh, have developed a flexible 6-step framework that provides guidance on monitoring and evaluating ESD in higher education – including looking at mapping, quality, depth, and impacts. The outcomes also include a handbook and two workshops run by QAA. The workshops are free for QAA members and non-members to join and are open to all, with the two workshops having a slightly different target group.

This first workshop aims to:

increase awareness of the framework among senior managers with a responsibility for education, including for example Vice Principals

give them an overview of how the Framework works

increase institutional buy-in for ESD, and to allow for the support and encouragement of staff to monitor and evaluate their work.

Find out more and book your (free) place here.

The event is open to anyone to attend. The project and outcomes are, however, currently university-focused and will likely be more relevant to higher education institutions.

You may also be interested in our additional event for academics, coordinators and support staff.

Monitoring and evaluating education for sustainable development in Higher Education workshop (academics, coordinators, support staff)
2023-06-21 14:00 - 16:00
Measuring, monitoring and evaluating Education for Sustainable Development is an important task. It helps us to show where we are at, the impact we’re having, and find out what and where we need to improve.

As part of a QAA funded Collaborative Enhancement project, the University of St Andrews; in partnership with EAUC Scotland, LfSS, sparqs, SOS UK, and University of Edinburgh, have developed a flexible 6-step framework that provides guidance on monitoring and evaluating ESD in higher education – including looking at mapping, quality, depth, and impacts. The outcomes also include a handbook and two workshops run by QAA. The workshops are free for QAA members and non-members to join and are open to all, with the two workshops having a slightly different target group.

This second workshop aims to:

increase awareness of the framework with those who will be directly coordinating or running the monitoring of sustainability in learning and teaching, e.g. curriculum leads or programme coordinators, as well as general sustainability officers/leads with a responsibility or interest in teaching.

facilitates the sharing of experiences in enabling ESD and discussion of how the Framework might be adapted at your own institution.

The event is open to anyone to attend. The project and outcomes are, however, currently university-focused and will likely be more relevant to higher education institutions.

Find out more and book your (free) place here

You may also be interested in our additional event for Senior Managers.

College Expo 2023: 'Learning and teaching for a better future': workshop for college lecturers
2023-06-22 12:45 - 13:30
Virtual College Expo 2023 – is coming to your screen on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 June.

This exciting professional learning event from the College Development Network offers inspirational keynotes, interactive workshops, and thought-provoking seminars. You will leave the event feeling inspired and equipped with fresh ideas and resources to enhance your practice.

Learning for Sustainability Scotland and our partners at EAUC Scotland are delighted to be delivering a workshop as part of College Expo 2023.

Fulfilling teaching requirements as well as equipping students with the values, skills and knowledge to tackle current and emerging challenges are two important aspects of teaching practice. Join our participative session to find out how Learning for Sustainability (LfS), increasingly an SQA requirement for college lecturers to include in their teaching, can be integrated into your practice.

You will gain a greater understanding of LfS as an integral part of teaching requirements and what this means for you, and hear about a case study showcasing how you can integrate LfS in your practice. This session also provides an opportunity for you share your thoughts on the kind of support that you may need to embed LfS, and help us shape future CPD opportunities for you and your college.

Book your place on our workshop here

View the whole programme here

'Transformative Education for Sustainable Regions': the 2023 RCE Europe Regional Meeting
2023-09-12 10:00 - 2023-09-14 12:30
The 2023 RCE Europe Regional Meeting 2023 will be hosted by RCE Basque Country-Navarre and RCE Fryslân and held virtually from 12-14* September 2023, under the theme ‘Transformative Education for Sustainable Regions‘.

The meeting will build on the experience of RCE Fryslân following the successful hosting of the Europe Regional Meetings 2022 (Part I and Part II), and take advantage of the fresh energy provided by the newly acknowledged RCE Basque Country-Navarre.

In addition to following up on actions agreed during the European RCE Regional Meeting 2022, this meeting will seek inspiration from different angles of the European Education for Sustainable Development community, and, in particular, hear the voices of the RCE youth networks.

View the draft programme here

Find out more and register your place here.

*Please note that the 14th of September is an internal meeting for RCE Co-ordinators only

Youth Work and Scotland’s refreshed Learning for Sustainability Action Plan
2023-09-28 11:00 - 12:15
“Making Learning for Sustainability a key driver in the future of Scottish education will not only enable us to heed the call to action from learners but will allow us to achieve much more besides. All of our policy ambitions in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, climate and net zero, biodiversity, circular economy, and economic and social transformation can only be delivered with the commitment of Scotland’s people, supported throughout their education.”

We’re delighted to welcome Scotland’s refreshed national Learning for Sustainability (LfS) Action Plan: ‘Target 2030: a movement for people, planet and prosperity’ which was launched on 23rd June.

Join us, YouthLink Scotland, Education Scotland and Stirling Council as we discuss and examine the Plan and ways in which to:

Understand the context and content of the refreshed Scottish Government LfS Action Plan and its relevance to youth work

Consider how youth workers can engage with the LfS Action Plan’s Target 2030 ‘Call to Action’

Identify opportunities for connecting and collaborating with others and between sectors (e.g. communities/ youth/ schools/ colleges/ universities)

Share relevant planned activities, resources and strategies that will support young people.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Click here to reserve your FREE place.

Click here to read Learning for Sustainability Scotland’s response to the launch of the Plan.

Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards – monthly Connect session #11: celebrating Scotland's new Learning for Sustainability Action Plan
2023-09-28 16:00 - 17:15
Learning for Sustainability is an international and national priority in education.

Making a professional commitment to learning and learners that is compatible with the aspiration of achieving a sustainable and equitable world embodies what it is to be a teacher in Scotland.

In Scotland, the Professional Standards for teachers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.

Join us and the General Teaching Council for Scotland at our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.

Click here to reserve your FREE place.
