Sustainable Education: Climate Change and Eco-Schools

Name: Sustainable Education: Climate Change and Eco-Schools
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 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).

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

Overview

A green corner in the school lobby, a recycling poster, an assembly once a year — plenty of schools have all three and still can’t say whether anything has actually changed. Eco-Schools was built to close exactly that gap: not another awareness campaign, but a structure a school can run and prove is working, year after year.

Since 1994, the Foundation for Environmental Education has run Eco-Schools in more than sixty countries, and the reason it holds up across that many different school systems is the seven-step structure underneath it: a pupil-led Eco-Committee, an honest review of where the school currently stands, an action plan built from that review, curriculum embedding so the work isn’t extracurricular, and ongoing monitoring that closes the loop back to evidence.

Participants ground the approach in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal, examine real Eco-Schools case studies from other countries, and draft their own school’s action plan from the ground up. A full day goes to monitoring and evaluation alone — the step that decides whether the plan becomes evidence or just another folder in a drawer.

A coordinator or National Agency reviewing the result afterward isn’t looking at a new format they have to learn — they’re looking at Eco-Schools’ own seven steps, already run once, with the monitoring built in to prove it wasn’t just a one-off project.

Methodology

Hands-On, Activity-Based Learning

Theoretical sessions are kept to a maximum of one hour per day — most of the time is spent on interactive activities and group work.

School-Ready Projects

Participants develop sustainability and Eco-Schools projects they can implement directly in their own school.

Evidence-Informed Practice

Practical training draws on EU sustainable-education policy and citations from scientific literature throughout the course.

What you'll take home

Form and run a pupil-led Eco-Committee using the FEE Eco-Schools model.

Carry out an honest environmental review of your own school as the evidence base for action.

Design a monitoring and evaluation plan that proves an action plan is actually working, not just filed away.

Draft and present a complete, curriculum-embedded Eco-Schools action plan ready to bring home.

Daily programme

Icebreaker: Name Circle and Common Interests
What is sustainability? The UN Sustainable Development Goals as a shared reference point
Climate change in education: the European Green Deal and EU policy context
Group work: mapping each participant's own school against these priorities
Hands-on activity: classroom applications of climate change education

Icebreaker: brainstorming session
The FEE Eco-Schools programme since 1994: history, scale, real case studies from other countries
Workshop: forming a pupil-led Eco-Committee structure for your own school
Practicum: running an honest environmental review of where your school actually stands today
Group presentations: first-draft Eco-Committee structure and review findings

Icebreaker: collaboration game
Why monitoring is the step most sustainability plans skip, and what it costs a school
Designing real indicators and a monitoring schedule from your own review findings
Group work: building low-cost evaluation tools — tracking sheets, simple checklists
Peer feedback on monitoring plans

Curriculum embedding: linking Eco-Schools work to subjects already on the timetable
Group work: drafting a full school action plan from the review and monitoring plan built on Days 2-3
Hands-on activity: turning the action plan into a one-page brief a headteacher can approve
Project presentations

Each participant presents their school's action plan to the group for peer feedback
General course evaluation and reflection
Feedback and evaluation survey
Discussing future projects, collaboration and partnerships
Certificate ceremony

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

Google Sheets, for building the school's own monitoring and evaluation tracking template

Padlet, for sharing and comparing Eco-Schools case studies from other countries

Eco-Schools' own national/FEE online registration and reporting platform, for the formal award pathway after the course

Printed case-study pack of real Eco-Schools examples from other participating countries

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

Sustainable Education: Climate Change and Eco-Schools · 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.

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 Sustainability & Environment 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 European Development Plan. 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 certificates (Certificate of Attendance + Europass).

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 applying Eco-Schools and climate-education projects 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, both certificates (attendance + Europass Mobility) 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 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). Frame it in your own project's terms — your National Agency's current call will confirm exactly how it applies.