ELVE – Environmental Learning based on Values Education from Early Childhood

Everybody should be conscious of the damage we are causing to our planet: what happens in one part of it is affecting the entire world. Today’s serious problems can be reduced or solved by starting early education in sustainability and environmental issues. In this context the teaching staff is directly responsible for our childrens‘ education. Aiming at lifelong prosperity, environmental education helps students understand how their decisions and actions affect the environment, builds knowledge and skills necessary to address complex environmental issues, as well as ways we can take action to preserve our environment for future generations. The project focuses on sustainable education from early childhood because learning begins well before school commences. Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is the foundation of lifelong learning and all young children up to primary education are entitled to it.

ELVE’s objectives are to Implement a transnational curriculum for ECEC and primary education teachers; to design innovative open educational resources (OER) that develop and promote innovative learning approaches for ECEC and primary school teachers; to developing a handbook for ECEC and primary school teachers explaining clearly the proposed model of environmental learning based on values education; to create an innovative knowledge hub for informing, uploading and downloading OER materials; to promote the development of the ELVE network to increase the project outreach and raise the awareness of using environmentally and inclusive approaches in kindergarten and primary schools supporting the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Innovation in Learning Institute – ILI (DE)
Asociación Mundial de Educadores Infantiles – AMEI-WAECE (ES)
Center for Social Innovation – CSI (CY)
Innovation Training Center – ITC (ES)
STePS SRL (IT)
Petit Philosophy (HR)