Being an Active Citizen for Climate Change

Name: Teaching Climate Change: From the Green Deal to Your Carbon Footprint
Price: 400 EUR

Why this is Erasmus+ eligible

Structured, multi-day programme (5 days) with a pre-defined schedule and learning outcomes — not a passive lecture format.

Built around interaction: participants engage directly with the trainer and with peers from other countries throughout the course.

Transnational by design — open to participants travelling from outside the host country, a core requirement of Erasmus+ mobility funding.

Aligned with the Erasmus+ horizontal priority: Green & Environmental Sustainability.

The Erasmus+ Programme Guide names environment and climate action as a horizontal priority, stating that Erasmus+ is "a key instrument for building the knowledge, skills, and attitudes on climate change and supporting sustainable development within the European Union and beyond" (Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026, Part A – Priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme, p. 9).

Source: Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026, Key Action 1 — School Education Mobility.

Overview

A fourteen-year-old cannot act on “the planet is warming”, but they can act on a number about themselves. This week turns SDG 13 and the European Green Deal into that number, and into a lesson you can actually teach.

Monday — you work through the causes and everyday realities of climate change.
Tuesday — you translate SDG 13 and the European Green Deal from policy text into classroom material.
Wednesday — you calculate your own carbon footprint first, then build the activity that guides students through the same calculation.
Thursday — you build a genuinely interdisciplinary lesson, anchored to that number, spanning science, geography and one more subject.
Friday — you study real school climate-awareness campaigns and work out what made each one land.

You go home with an interdisciplinary lesson anchored to a number your students will work out about themselves, and a set of criteria, drawn from real campaigns, for judging one of your own.

Description

What does a fourteen-year-old actually do with the fact that the planet is warming? Watch the news, feel vaguely bad about it, and move on — because nobody has translated “climate change” into something they can act on, in their own school, this week.

SDG 13 — Climate Action — and the European Green Deal give the course its factual backbone, but neither one means much to a teenager as policy text. What does mean something is a number they can calculate themselves: their own carbon footprint, used here as the entry point into climate literacy rather than an abstract topic bolted onto a science unit.

Participants work through the causes and everyday realities of climate change, translate UN and EU policy into material a classroom can actually use, and build genuinely interdisciplinary lessons — climate change taught through science, geography and other subjects together rather than as a single isolated topic. The course closes by studying real school climate-awareness campaigns and working out what actually made each one land.

Back in their own classroom, that becomes a lesson pulling in more than one subject at once, anchored to a number the students worked out about themselves instead of one the teacher simply told them.

For younger classes, the same idea works as a simple counting exercise — bags of rubbish, glasses of water — rather than a calculator tool; the entry point scales down even where the calculation doesn’t.

Methodology

Number First, Policy Second

In the lessons you design, each policy idea reaches students as a number before it is named as policy — they calculate first, then learn what SDG 13 and the Green Deal call it.

Real-World Application

Participants are encouraged to apply what they learn directly in their own school and classroom context.

Student-Centred Tools

Practical activities and resources help you convey climate concepts to students of different ages and subjects.

What you'll take home

Explain SDG 13 and the European Green Deal, and translate them into classroom-ready material.

Calculate a personal carbon footprint and guide students through the same process as a climate-literacy entry point.

Build a genuinely interdisciplinary climate lesson spanning science, geography and at least one more subject.

Evaluate a school climate-awareness campaign against what made comparable real campaigns work or fail.

Daily programme

Warm-up: each participant names one thing they already do to reduce their own carbon footprint, and one thing they only say they do — the room notices the gap
Climate change around the world: causes and everyday effects, ending in a one-page list of the causes and effects your pupils can see locally
What to do about it — practical, everyday actions students can take

Warm-up: quick team-building activity to reconnect the group
SDG 13 (Climate Action) and the European Green Deal, translated from policy text into classroom material
Group work: turning UN/EU climate targets into a lesson a class can actually use
Connecting SDG 13 to students' own lives and communities

Climate literacy: why a policy fact — even Day 2's SDG 13 target — means less to a student than a number about themselves
Calculating your own carbon footprint — the activity, run first-hand before teaching it
Practical activities for guiding students through their own carbon-footprint calculation

Incorporating climate change into the curriculum across subjects, not as an isolated topic
Group work: building a lesson that runs through science, geography and one more subject together, anchored to the carbon-footprint number from Day 3
Developing climate change teaching with student-centred tools
Peer test: another participant tries teaching a five-minute slice of your lesson and reports what worked

Case studies: real school climate-awareness campaigns, and what made each one work or fail
Course evaluation: discussion and reflection on acquired competencies, feedback and course content
Sharing course documents and records
Issuance of the Course Participation Certificate

Please note: sessions run from 09:30 to 15:00, Monday to Friday, with a break for lunch. Timings can shift a little to suit the venue and the group. If you'd like a specific topic covered, let us know when you apply — the confirmed day-by-day schedule is sent to registered participants ahead of the course.

Certificate: we issue the Certificate of Attendance to everyone who's present for at least 80% of the course — tracked with the daily sign-in sheet (see Certificate & assessment).

Equipment: a few of our courses ask participants to bring a laptop — check the day-by-day programme above, or ask us if you're not sure.

Need a formal invoice or proforma for your school's records? Ask us — we issue official invoices with the participant's name and course details.

Materials & tools

An online personal carbon-footprint calculator, for the Day 3 self-calculation activity

Case-study pack of real school climate-awareness campaigns, drawn from published examples

Certificate & assessment

This is a Certificate of Attendance, not an exam-based qualification — recognition comes from completing the structured programme, not from passing a test. The real, lasting value is in the competencies listed above under What you'll take home.

Erasmus Mobility Academy

Certificate of Attendance

Teaching Climate Change: From the Green Deal to Your Carbon Footprint · 5 days · 25 hrs

+ Europass Mobility document

Type your name above — clearly marked "SAMPLE" in the PDF, not an official document.

The real certificate is signed by your trainer and EMA's authorised signatory. Your own signature isn't on this document — it's captured separately, on the Europass Mobility document.

Need to verify a real certificate? Check it online using the serial number and participant's full name, or contact us directly — [email protected], OID E10304561.

Attendance

Tracked using a sign-in sheet with one signature per participant per day (paper or digital). This record is used to issue your Certificate of Attendance and Europass Mobility document. View sign-in sheet (PDF)

Output

Every participant leaves with a completed Dissemination & School Impact Plan — a step-by-step template for applying the course back at your school (see below).

Feedback

An end-of-course evaluation form is sent to every participant after the course ends — a chance to reflect on what you've learned and how you'll apply it, and it helps us keep improving the course for future participants.

Your paperwork

Keep your travel tickets, boarding passes and (if you used green travel) any related receipts — your school or National Agency may ask for these for their own Erasmus+ reporting.

How to prepare

Nothing to bring or prepare in advance — the carbon-footprint calculator is provided during the course.

Practical information

Registration & documents

Not sure how registering works or what paperwork is involved? See our full Registration & Documents guide — from applying to your Certificate of Attendance, in one place.

Invitation letter

Need a formal invitation letter for your school or embassy? Request one — we send it within 2 business days. See a sample (PDF).

Learning Agreement

Prepared by our staff and sent to you and your school once your registration form is submitted — see what it looks like. See a sample (PDF).

Billing & invoicing

We issue official invoices/proformas with the participant's name and course details — ask us. Payment is due in full by bank transfer before the course start date. See a sample (PDF).

Airport transfer

Guidance on getting from the nearest airport to the venue is included in your welcome information.

Accommodation

We can recommend partner hotels close to the venue in the host city — ask us when you apply.

For your school / proposal

School impact

After completing this course, the participating staff member can transfer outcomes directly to their school: a short briefing for colleagues sharing the key takeaways, applying relevant tools or strategies from the programme in their own role, and inclusion of the course materials in the school's professional development resources — turning one person's mobility into a wider institutional gain that supports the school's Erasmus+ objectives. Use the Dissemination & School Impact Plan below to fill in your own — it saves as you go and can generate a one-page summary for your coordinator too.

Prefer a blank, course-independent version of this template? Get it here →

After the course

Participants will receive their Certificate of Attendance and the co-signed Europass Mobility document.

Participants will complete a general course evaluation and event survey.

Participants will receive course materials, videos, photos, and PDF documents in both digital and print formats.

Follow-up support: an email group is created for idea exchange, self-evaluation materials are provided, and participants receive a follow-up check-in after 3 months to discuss progress on embedding climate-change education in their schools.

Frequently asked

This course is an eligible training activity under Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (School Education Mobility) — the course fee, travel and subsistence fall within the eligible cost categories. Whether it is covered depends on your own project's approved grant agreement and your National Agency's rules; we provide all the invoices, attendance records and certificates your National Agency requires for reporting.

B1 is enough — you do not need to be fluent. Trainers speak slowly and plainly, every session is built around doing something rather than sitting and listening, and groups are mixed by nationality so people help each other out. A rough test: if you could follow a staff meeting held in English and ask a question in it, you will be fine here.

Absolutely — group bookings of 3+ from one school receive priority placement, and we can schedule a dedicated session for groups of 12 or more.

Our courses run on request at our centres in Antalya, İstanbul, İzmir, Mersin, Budapest, Bremen and Rome. Tell us your preferred city and dates and we will arrange a session.

Tuition, all course materials, your Certificate of Attendance, the co-signed Europass Mobility document and a half-day guided tour of the host city with a local guide. Flights, accommodation and travel insurance are booked separately — we send a vetted hotel list.

You can move to any later session free of charge. Cancellations made 30+ days before the start date receive a full refund; a reduced refund applies closer to the date — see our full Cancellation & Refund Policy for the exact schedule.

The Erasmus+ Programme Guide names environment and climate action as a horizontal priority, stating that Erasmus+ is "a key instrument for building the knowledge, skills, and attitudes on climate change and supporting sustainable development within the European Union and beyond" (Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026, Part A – Priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme, p. 9). Frame it in your own project's terms — your National Agency's current call will confirm exactly how it applies.

Teaching Climate Change: From the Green Deal to Your Carbon Footprint