Funding topic 1: Sustainability assessment tools and competencies, and strengthening sustainability awareness and action

The sustainability assessment of processes, products and services is a major challenge. This consists of developing and applying decision-making aids for the evaluation of sustainability on the basis of indicators. The teaching of appropriate competencies and systemic contexts as well as the promotion of awareness and action within the framework of education for sustainable development are the prerequisites for shaping a sustainable society. Questions about guiding values and basic ethical attitudes should also be considered. This requires the development of new methods and instruments of communication, learning, dialogue and participation, which also target children and young people in particular.

Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to:

• Measures to identify and develop practical sustainability indicators;
• Development, optimization and research of practical methods and concepts of sustainability assessment;
• Measures to develop and strengthen sustainability skills, especially among multipliers;
• new methods and approaches for communicating systemic sustainability contexts and goals, especially in schools, universities and extracurricular educational institutions;
• new methodological approaches to developing and strengthening sustainability awareness, especially among children and young people;
• Develop and optimize transformative methods to strengthen sustainability action and participation (e.g., citizen science, reallabs);
• Develop and test digital methods and techniques in sustainability education.

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