Transformative Agency in Climate Education
An Erasmus+ project for the period 2025-2028
Sometimes the climate crisis can feel quite overwhelming for students, teachers, and educational policy makers. Regularly, questions arise such as: “What goals can we strive for?”, “What actions can we take?”, or “How can we overcome constraints and barriers?”.
Therefore, we want to promote “Transformative Agency in Climate Education (TRACE)”. In TRACE, we aim for a climate education that enables students to reflect, learn, and act with regard to the individual and collective, as well as the everyday and strategic level.
You are interested in climate education? You want to know more about our project activities, teacher trainings or policy briefs? Then get in touch with us via our quarterly TRACE newsletter!
Our motivation
The climate crisis is one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century. It requires holistic climate actions on individual and collective, as well as everyday and strategic levels. However, many current approaches to climate education emphasize scientific facts and personal behaviour, often overlooking the importance of combining them with possibilities of public sphere actions and civic engagement.
With TRACE, we address this gap so that students develop the capacity to meaningfully reflect, learn and act in context of the climate crisis. This includes understanding the science, being motivated to act, and having the skills to deal with common constraints and barriers to contribute to climate mitigation and adaptation.
We build TRACE around five core components: (1) Understanding climate agency, (2) designing a self-reflection tool, (3) working and networking with teachers, (4) implementing and evaluating a student lab, and (5) creating Open Educational Resources.
