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GEO-Academy: Innovative digital GEO-Tools for enhancing teachers' digital, green and spatial skills towards and effective STEAM Education for Sustainability Development

The GEO-Academy project is an Erasmus+ Teacher Academies initiative aiming at developing a blended competence-based network for teaching sustainable development using innovating digital tools and geospatial technologies. The project will make use of cutting edge geo-technologies (Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Earth Observation (EO), data acquisition and processing, image analysis, and related location-based technologies) as well as state-of-the-art pedagogical frameworks, educational approaches, methodologies and tools. In-service and pre-service teachers will be trained on how to teach the key societal, environmental and economic pillars of Sustainable Development in European classrooms, from upper primary and secondary to higher education level, while supported in developing their own educational material.
1/6/2023 - 31/5/2026

CLIMADEMY

The CLIMAte change teachers’ acaDEMY – CLIMADEMY (climademy.eu/), aims to create a European network to offer a comprehensive program where teachers will learn, by using an efficient methodology, how to educate the next generation of European citizens on climate change issues. Main objective is to equip teachers with the skills they need to feel confident and prepared to teach the topic of Climate Change through interdisciplinary approaches and thus contribute to their professional development. The Academy is developed around 4 hubs in four countries and a common virtual place, the platform CLAUDI.
1/6/2022 - 31/5/2025