We are often talking about how to teach sustainability, circular economy or any subject related to the environment and efficiency. At the same time, we forget to think about our ways and methods of teaching. In the Train to Sustain-project we are also considering options on how to make our materials, content and resources as reusable and shareable as possible. The aim is to provide materials available in a digital format so that those are not needed to be printed or brought out from digital platform.

How digital tools and applications help us to improve sustainability? With digital tools and materials, we improve possibilities to offer training, which is not depending on any specific place or time. The students and teachers have access to files anywhere at anytime which means content could be updatable at any time with cloud services. No more printing new books yearly and no need to worry about consuming distribution methods. But… this is just one reason and the most obvious one.

Unfortunately, the project consortium is still not able to meet face to face and so we have begun to work on this project online. After a few very interesting online presentations about sustainability, circular economy and Lean from different experts in these fields, we are now well prepared to start working on the project results.

Therefore, we started with a brainstorming about the contents we would like to include in our theory package and about possible fields for the 360° environment in our meeting in March. Below, you can see some of our first ideas for the contents.

Initiatives toward a green transition at municipality and school levels in the city of Sønderborg, Denmark

In the February meeting of the Train2Sustain project, EUC Syd, Denmark presented their take on sustainability and illustrated with a few examples how this large concept, to which everybody can contribute in their own way, is integrated in the school’s educational program and strategic agenda.

As the largest vocational school in Southern Denmark with its administrative seat placed in the city of Sønderborg and as an educational institution with a green agenda, EUC Syd is a main partner to the innovative initiative called ProjectZero.