Project updates

December 2024

At the heart of the CLARITY project lies a shared journey of learning and growth. Together with educators, we are exploring how to teach climate resilience in a transformative way that not only empowers students but also helps them navigate the emotional landscape of climate change.

 In close collaboration with teachers, we’ve developed a dynamic toolbox designed to support transformative climate resilience education. This growing collection of over 20 practical tools is the result of co-creation sessions where educators have contributed their insights and expertise. The toolbox, currently available in English, is being translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Hungarian, and German.

 To complement the toolbox, we are also offering a self-paced learning course and a comprehensive teachers’ guide that will serve as ongoing support throughout your educational journey.

 This year, in the first quarter of 2025, we are excited to begin piloting a teacher training to introduce and review the toolbox and the teachers’ guide. Starting in June, we will be offering regular training sessions.

If you’re a teacher eager to help shape a climate-resilient future, we invite you to join us in this transformative learning journey. Together, we can create an education system that prepares students to understand and respond to the challenges of climate change with resilience and hope.

Stay tuned for more updates!

lotten@legacy17.org

June 2024

The CLARITY project has entered its next phase with a focus on engaging teachers and teacher educators in co-creation. We are now inviting teachers and trainers to participate in the project at different levels and times – from participating in the co-creation process of the development of the tools in the toolkit during the autumn of 2024, to joining during 2025 and participating in the teacher training. During the training, teachers test, experience and evaluate the tools with their students.

The tools are based on the competences needed in the classroom and are designed to be innovative transformative pedagogical tools, while being easy-to-use, practical exercises. They will include small-scale actions for students to learn to connect knowledge, values and practices.

Would you like to be invited? 

Write to lotten@legacy17.org

We look forward to interesting exchanges with you!

October 2023 – May 2024

In the autumn of 2023 Legacy 17 together with partners from Lund University represented by LUCSUS och IIIEE (Sweden), One Resilient Earth (Germany), Climate Creativity (Norway), The Vision Works (Germany) The REAL School Budapest (Hungary) together embarked on a journey towards CLARITY, in an Erasmus+ project. The aim of CLARITY is to improve the skills of teachers and other educators in dealing with climate anxiety to increase students’ climate resilience as well as support a transformative approach to addressing climate change by focusing on transformative competences and skills. In this project we once more get the opportunity to work help develop and or highlight already existing transformative tools in new contexts.

The CLARITY project seems to be right in time in Sweden as the Swedish National Radio noted the fact that since the beginning of April 2024, Vårdguiden 1177 – the Swedish national health advice webpage has been drawing attention to the need of support of climate anxiety through an advisory text. This news was framed by a short and interesting interview where Jura Augustinavicius, from McGill University in Canada, describes how climate anxiety can be divided in to three categories. First, experience of acute climate change anxiety when directly exposed to storms and fires caused by climate change.  Slower climate changes i.e., rise in sea water levels and rising temperatures is the cause of the second category of climate anxiety. The third category of climate anxiety is caused by future changes in the climate. This raises questions of justice and may be expressed in climate related emotions like sadness, frustration, and anger. All these categories, but especially the third, are addressed by CLARITY.

A literature study and an adapted framework linking the capacities and skills identified in the EU Green Comp to the need of transformative education for supporting teachers and students with climate anxiety has so far been carried out. Next step is to co-create a toolbox and teacher training. The learning journeys in the toolbox of this project will be based on four words which are visualized in the project logo to the right.