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Two-years Erasmus+-project: Rais­ing Aware­ness Ini­tia­tive through Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Edu­ca­tion in VET (RAISE VET) 2023–2025

In line with our school’s com­mit­ment to envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty, we launched a new Erasmus+initiative (KA2 project with Span­ish VET School, Arme­ria Esko­la, Eibar and Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty, Ire­land): Rais­ing Aware­ness Ini­tia­tive about Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Edu­ca­tion in VET (RAISE VET) project This inno­v­a­tive ini­tia­tive aimed at rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing edu­ca­tion and voca­tion­al train­ing will become a fac­tor of change with­in the frame­work of Edu­ca­tion for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment (ESD).

The main objec­tive is to raise aware­ness among teach­ers, stu­dents and indus­try of the need and ben­e­fits of ade­quate edu­ca­tion for sus­tain­able devel­op­ment to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda.

Sub-objec­tives:

• Inte­gra­tion of Edu­ca­tion for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment into VET through a Euro­pean cross-sec­tion­al mod­ule cov­er­ing three weeks (1 vir­tu­al, 2 physical).
• Fair Edu­ca­tion Options: Cre­at­ing teach­ing and learn­ing mate­ri­als that offer stu­dents oppor­tu­ni­ties for inter­na­tion­al learn­ing, espe­cial­ly those with few­er edu­ca­tion­al resources.
• Devel­op­ing a sus­tain­able men­tal­i­ty: the project aims to empow­er future work­ers with the knowl­edge and val­ues need­ed to fos­ter a more eco­log­i­cal and respon­si­ble future.
• Green Skills for Tech­no­log­i­cal Jobs: the ini­tia­tive seeks to reflect on the eco­log­i­cal skills required in tech­nol­o­gy-relat­ed pro­fes­sions, with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of var­i­ous aspects inter­est­ed in ensur­ing a bal­anced vision.
• Glob­al aware­ness: the RAISE VET project is com­mit­ted to rais­ing aware­ness of the impor­tance of Edu­ca­tion for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment not only at local lev­el, but also at nation­al and inter­na­tion­al levels.

The project will achieve the fol­low­ing results:

• Euro­pean Learn­ing Mod­ule on Sustainability

Aware­ness cam­paign on the devel­op­ment of envi­ron­men­tal intel­li­gence and the sus­tain­able men­tal­i­ty in the tech­ni­cal pro­fes­sions for the aware­ness of stu­dents, fac­ul­ty, busi­ness and soci­ety in general.

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As part of this new project, a group of inter­na­tion­al stu­dents suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed a mod­ule on sus­tain­abil­i­ty at our school from 13.01. to 24.01.2025. They learned new strate­gies for sus­tain­able liv­ing, reflect­ed on their car­bon foot­print and researched renew­able ener­gy sources.

The project group, con­sist­ing of 4 Slo­va­kian, 4 Basque and 4 Ger­man stu­dents, start­ed after team train­ing on a socio-eco­log­i­cal tour in the neigh­bor­hood of the school and received tips on sus­tain­able shop­ping, find­ing fruit and fruit plants in the city, but also learn­ing about the his­to­ry of Mar­splatz or Blutenburgstraße.

We con­tin­ued on Tues­day with a cli­mate break­fast. What is the CO2 con­tent of a rasp­ber­ry that has been flown in and what is the dif­fer­ence between an organ­ic, tra­di­tion­al jam and an indus­tri­al one.

In the after­noon, the top­ic of “ener­gy” was on the agen­da. How long do you have to ped­al to earn a piece of choco­late or how quick­ly can I heat water using mus­cle power!

The next few days of the mod­ule were ded­i­cat­ed to renew­able ener­gy sources, led by an excur­sion to the ener­gy vil­lage of Wild­pold­sried and fol­lowed by work with solar suit­cas­es in Deroys­trasse. We are delight­ed that our dual part­ners, such as MTU and SWM, also sup­port­ed us with a guid­ed tour of their alter­na­tive ener­gy sources, such as geot­her­mal and solar tech­nol­o­gy, to make sus­tain­abil­i­ty tangible.

After two excit­ing and instruc­tive weeks, the mod­ule end­ed on 24.01.2025 with a cer­tifi­cate han­dover cer­e­mo­ny attend­ed by teach­ers from the par­tic­i­pat­ing part­ner schools, train­ers and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion and Sport.