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Project start: 1 January 2011
Project end: 31 December 2012
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SPREAD exchanges ideas with Education & Sustainable Living experts at the PERL Conference, Beyond Consumption: Pathways to Responsible Living in Berlin 18-20 March
In conjunction with PERL (Partnership for Education & Responsible Living) the SPREAD team organised mid-March a workshop to draw inputs from Education & Sustainable Living experts on the role of education and skills in enabling our future sustainable lifestyle scenarios, in order to support the representation of education into the SPREAD roadmap to sustainable living.
Good inputs on the sequencing of education solutions for sustainable lifestyles have been obtained thanks to the workshop participants. These include "must have" (2012-2020) changes and innovations needed in current EU education systems to get on track to education for sustainable development goals; some milestones that might signal the shift 2020-2040 (including changes in education institutions, formal vs. informal learning systems); and some insights into what education for responsible living is expected to deliver by 2050.
The education "must haves" 2012-2020 included for example an efficient teacher education, an education aiming at to "be" instead of to "know", more practical approaches, supporting critical / radical thinking and cross-curricula learning.
This work bases on scenarios of alternative future societies that support more sustainable ways of living in 2050, which have been developed by the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 project. The scenarios are accompanied by a roadmap of action strategies 2012-2050 and opportunity spaces for different societal actors to enable more sustainable lifestyles and set a course for people across cultures and socio-economic realities to live well within the resource constraints of one planet.
The SPREAD roadmap and action strategies on sustainable lifestyles will be completed in December 2012 and will be presented to the European Commission along with policy recommendations. As such the work has focused geographically on Europe, however global systems boundaries and the impacts or influence of European lifestyles on the rest of the world, and vice versa, have been considered.
From April-June 2012 the SPREAD project will hold more of these expert workshops with different societal actors in order to test the developed scenarios, to ensure plausibility, and to build more detailed considerations into the roadmap of action strategies.
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