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The Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an ambitious paradigm. For the schools, it means the global incorporation of the 17 SDGs (2030 Agenda) in 4 areas: curriculum and pedagogy; unit management; school life; partnership with the community ("esd whole-school approach").
The project builds the capacity of NGOs members and school actors (students, teachers, school managers, parents, citizens, entrepreneurs, local elected officials) to advocate in the civic arena for this school model. First, the "Sustainable school" label is developed. It provides schools with the methodology for incorporating the SDGs in the 4 areas and offers them recognition. Then, the complete labeling process is piloted. 4 schools participate: from Sacele, Turnu Magurele, Moreni and Iasi. At the same time, 30 NGOs and 30 schools are attracted as "allies". Collaborating, they will systematically advocate for 10 local public administrations to support the ESD label in the schools they manage and finance. Together, the 60 NGOs and schools that contribute to the results of the project form a national reference network for ESD. The network completes and relaunches the public policy proposal for ESD developed and supported by 70 NGOs in 2019. The label "Sustainable school" provides the concrete ESD tool, which allows an effective implementation of this policy. The development of an open educational resource (OER) allows the network to disseminate the label and support the ESD policy over time.
At least 2/3 of the organizations in the network are from underserved areas or work with underserved target groups. An essential principle of ESD and the network is the resilience of the educational act and of the communities in the context of systemic crises, such as Covid-19. The project is implemented by REPER21, For the Better Association and the TERRA Millenium III Foundation, organizations with a long experience of collaboration in the field of sustainable development, advocacy and activism.