Teachers & educators! Our new training on teaching climate change with both care and impact…
… has been launched under the Erasmus+ research and education project CLARITY: Transformative Climate Resilience Education for Children and Youth: From Climate Anxiety to Resilience, Creativity and Regeneration. You are welcome to join to (y)our learning journey!
CLARITY, with the lead of our project partners, One Resilient Earth and Legacy17, offers a coached self-paced course, starting at the end of September 2025. The course is for teachers and non-formal educators working with children and young people from 6 to 20+ years old, who are looking for knowledge, tools and methods to teach about climate change with both care and impact. You can learn more and register here.
Which challenges does the CLARITY project address?
Climate change education in schools and universities tends to focus on environmental facts, whilst little room is given to inner dimensions of change and to collective action. The emotional and mental wellbeing of students, as well as the values, skills and mindsets that are needed for addressing societal challenges and fostering transformation are hardly considered. Consequently, children and youth are increasingly experiencing climate anxiety, associated overwhelm and denial.
CLARITY aims to address these challenges by (1) enhancing educators’ skills for dealing with climate anxiety and nurturing inner resilience of learners, and (2) supporting more integrative approaches that link the inner and outer dimensions of transformation.
What do we create through the CLARITY project?
Based on the GreenComp Framework adapted for children and youth education and an inter- and transdisciplinary co-creation process, we have
- developed a CLARITY competence framework,
- developed and tested an innovative educators toolbox that links psychological, artistic/creative and ecological approaches,
- developed and run trainings for educators implementing these approaches, and
- started an online resource hub, with regular teachers meet up, and our online community platform.
We also released a policy-brief advocating for transformative climate change education for children and youth.
We believe that as a result of the project, children and youth educators will be better equipped to provide social, emotional, ethical and trauma-informed education that supports climate resilience across individual, collective, and system levels. This does not only involve enhancing the emotional and mental wellbeing of children and youth and building their capacities as transformative change-agents. It also involves creating a field of change through more regenerative cultures and communities of practice needed to address climate change and other societal crises in the long run.
If you are interested, you are welcome to take part in the CLARITY project in various ways:
- You are welcome to join a cohort-based training for teachers and educators, which will be run in English and online from September to December 2025. You can learn more here and apply here.
- You are welcome to register your interest in joining future cohort-based training for teachers and educators here, if the cohort-based training above does not work for you.
- You can join our ‘transforming climate eduction’ online community for teachers and educators here.
For any other collaborations or ideas, please contact us: contact [at] oneresilientearth [dot] org (contact[at]oneresilientearth[dot]org).
This project would not have been possible without our project partners: Lund University, One Resilient Earth, REAL School Budapest, Climate Creativity, Legacy17, and The Vision Works, and associated partners, such as the UNESCO Chair of Futures Literacy at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences and the Learning Planet Institute.
