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Funding initiative \u201cSustainability dilemmas\u201d<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/header>\n\n\n
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Education for Sustainable Development: The Great Transformation – Sustainability Dilemmas and Dealing with Uncertainty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The German Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU) has provided significant support for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) and the UNESCO World Programme of Action “Education for Sustainable Development” (2015-2019): In more than 300 projects, the DBU has promoted model solutions and their transfer into long-term structures. DBU representatives are also active in the central committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the UNESCO program “Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the SDGs (ESD for 2030)”<\/a>, which has been running since summer 2020, the DBU is providing new impetus in the form of innovative and model educational projects and through its operational activities. The DBU call addresses in particular conflicting goals that manifest themselves in the form of so-called sustainability dilemmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One call for proposals, more than 200 applications, 26 projects shortlisted, 14 projects selected by a jury of experts and the Board of Trustees of the German Federal Foundation for the Environment <\/a>and now receiving funding: It’s all about “The Great Transformation – Sustainability Dilemmas and Dealing with Uncertainties”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The focus of this call for funding for education projects, launched in spring 2020, is on conflicting goals and sustainability dilemmas within and between the Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> (Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs for short). <\/em>This involves topics that focus on current sustainability transformations and thus on fundamental social transformation processes towards sustainability, for example in the areas of mobility, renewable energies, consumption, urban development, land use or biodiversity protection. The target groups are primarily children and young people, but also students, teachers at schools and universities, and small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The focus areas of the RFP were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n