"<< Background >>To act on a massive and collective basis in order to achieve the necessary social and ecological transition, the education system must continue its transformation by increasingly integrating education to the environment and to changes in field practices. The goal of our PACTE project (Sharing, Learning, Understanding for the Ecological Transition) is to deploy effective, free and widely accessible educational resources in order to allow school audiences (and not exclusively) to understand and to begin to act individually and collectively against climate change and more generally environmental degradation.According to the survey ""The exercise of the profession of school teachers through the prism of the work context and life courses"", out of the thousands of professionals questioned, barely 1 in 2 declares that they have ""sufficient and appropriate educational means"". According to the School Education Gateway ""Curriculum Redesign"" survey, in 71% of cases ""environmental sustainability"" is considered ""not at all"" to ""moderately"" taught in schools. The purpose of this ""PACTE"" project is to enable the Loire Education League, LEEP and Le Mille e una Notte to contribute to strengthening environmental education and sustainable development actions at school. This reinforcement is in our opinion essential to consolidate the ecological and social transition and overcome the current social and environmental challenges. The survey on ""Climate education"" indicates that ""Lack of training and resources are the main obstacle preventing teachers from including the subject in their lessons"". At the primary level, according to the survey ""The exercise of the profession of school teachers through the prism of work contexts and life courses"", out of the thousands of professionals questioned, barely 1 in 2 declares that they have ""sufficient material. and adapted "".<< Objectives >>To supply key resources to the educational community resources for the educational community, the aim of our project, will allow us to meet the needs of teachers and schools and thus make it possible to achieve environmental education and sustainable development extended to the largest number. By developing this project, we also wish to establish a link between the fields of school and popular education with scientific circles and local expertise in ecological and social transition to which we will testify.<< Implementation >>Through planning over 3 years, we will carry out partnership work with different educational and scientific players to develop 3 major educational resources. Their development will involve research related in particular to a diagnosis of territorial initiatives to be promoted because they stimulate positiv activities, a work of pedagogical construction of educational sequences and supports, graphic work and adaptation to cultural contexts. in our countries, a major testing plan with partner students and teachers, as well as editing of materials to facilitate deployment.This sequence will be accompanied by a permanent work of information on the project and finalize by the massive dissemination of our productions to the educational actors of our countries. Everything will be organized within the framework of an evaluation and continuous dissemination plan.<< Results >>In the end, during this project we will create 180 (60 per country) educational trunks including 6 key topics: Climate, water, biodiversity, responsible consumption and production, health and environment and eco-citizenship (including the social dimensions of the sustainable development objectives of ONU). Each trunk will be made up of our three major productions, which will be thematic animations and educational means for the class, online resources for webinars and / or distance work, as well as thematic educational posters for wide dissemination.During the project we will inform a thousand students and support the work of about thirty teachers. Also, this project will enhance the expertise of our staff and organizations."

The web, internet, is a symbol. It connects human communities and individuals across the boundaries of space and time. The Internet boom with all related digital tools have allowed in a tiny time span in Earth history to make humanity leap into a new era: the Anthropocene and, or, as some anthropologists indicate, the Digital Era. This is to say how digital tools have become unavoidable because of their accessibility, simplicity, usefulness and power. This project is therefore part of a context where digital education and training for citizens in Europe is essential so that everyone can emancipate themselves in this connected world. It proposes to develop transnational educational work on a digital educational issue little covered in the framework of ICT (Information and Communication Technology for teaching). Innovative, it aims to better integrate the ecological challenges of digital technology into educational processes. Did you know that today, if the Internet were a country, it would be the 3rd largest consumer of energy? Did you know that making a laptop computer requires the mobilization of 800 kg of materials? That on average, it takes 50 to 350 times their weight in materials to produce electrical devices with a high electronic component? These are some of the subjects that this project addresses. The challenge is big: in the world there are approximately 34 billion digital objects of which 19 billion new connected ones. These figures are likely to increase dramatically in the coming years. It is urgent to make citizens to have a vision of these issues allowing everyone to reduce their impact by learning if, how and when to use digital tools, starting at school, in a sustainable, economically, socially and environmentally friendly manner. The Ligue de l'Enseignement de la Loire, the Ligue de l'Enseignement et de l'Education Permanente de Belgique and the social cooperative Le Mille e una notte combine their various skills in order to offer European tools allowing college students, pupils more generally, but also teachers and school staff to access this information. For this, 3 productions were designed with the scientific and educational support from organisations with expertise on the field (, colleges, ADEME, GreenIT.fr, Shift Project, Electronics Watch, Oxfam, NEXT-Nuova Economia per tutti, ISS, ASVIS, AGRI-Island... ...). The 1st is a general information and practical advice booklet for wide distribution to a large number of establishments and school education personnel. 1,200 booklets have been edited and distributed in the various popular and formal education networks in the field of environmental education and digital education to which our organizations belong. Through a dissemination plan, we have ensured that this work is widely shared in our national territories and at European level via appreciated networks previously known. The informative booklet is available in French, Italian and English. The 2nd production is a set of educational pathways with 18 activities dealing with digital issues. Published and distributed in our three countries in 180 copies, it is downloadable on www.conscience-numerique-durable.org to be used by a large European audience. It targets college but can also be used with older and younger audiences. It develops in students different key knowledge and skills linked to European educational priorities in the digital field by promoting critical thinking and the development of social and civic skills. Despite adaptations linked to the Covid crisis, this production has been tested and evaluated with the support of colleges and teachers. Over 600 students have been reached and thousands more will be added through the editing and dissemination process. Finally, the 3rd creation is a training kit to allow teachers and educators to fully train themselves in this new issue. We provided the educational community with 23 self-training modules allowing them to acquire new skills in connection with the 6 educational paths planned for the classes. It allows everyone to explore specific subjects according to their needs (rebound effects, obsolescence, Maslow's pyramid, environmental issues, the planetary boundaries, global uses of digital technology, educational uses of the new technologies, the new rights and cybersecurity, the digital economy, the new sustainable economies, etc.). While evaluating the quality of these three productions, we have internally and externally trained more than twenty educators during the tests and dozens more during the final step of distribution of the pedagogical toolkit. This work has been enhanced by a continuous dissemination plan adapted to COVID constraints in each country. Remote events have taken place and the productions are freely shared to allow a lasting and major impact.

"The Ligue de l’enseignement de la Loire (France), Solidarci (Italie), and la Ligue de l’enseignement de Belgique are three non-profit organisations. They are active in the fields of formal and non-formal education and lifelong solidarity for all.We are committed to diversified mission statements, we share common competencies, we have peculiar and complementary qualities, but we all stand for the citizens’ education. We involve you in our project, as we share the idea that it is necessary to empower as many citizens as possible in their knowledge and clear representation of the organisation of their local territories which, like the pieces of a puzzle, all together compose the larger landscape of the Planet Earth.Every single piece of a territory, small or large that it be, correspond to a River basin. We also believe that if citizens learn to know their rivers, they will understand much better both their close environments and also the global society they belong to.Human Civilisations and activities took place around the Water, alongside the rivers which are arteries of connection amongst human communities, Regions and countries of Europe in our specific case. Water makes the co-operation between humans necessary.Through 163 educational tests with 5.613 European citizens we confirm that our audiences (children, adolescents, youngsters and adults) had a very tiny knowledge of their rivers and local territories and of the interconnection of their lives with the citizens of other River basins’ zones. Even the notion of “River basin” is quite unknown. We also confirm that there was no, before ""FGN"", pedagogical tools and illustrations sustained the educators (teachers, trainers, animators…) in their easy learning about their localities.The “Fleuves Grandeur Nature” project (FGN, Life Sized Rivers) achieved to develop a varied set of educational tools (the FGN toolkit) enabling awareness-raising initiatives, education and training actions towards young and adult audiences and thus to give them a global vision of the territory where they live. Starting from powerful illustrations of the River basins and of the life in these territories declined in a pedagogical toolkit and a digital space, we have created a wide set of tools usable by all and locally transferrable to other European countries. Those two versions (printed pedagogical toolkit and digital space’s resources) will enable the partners to target a large audience, children and adults, in formal and non-formal settings, inside and outside school.The width of our dissemination activities has been valuable and relevant everywhere with key National/International/Regional institutions such as Ministries and International River Basins, even if with different quantitative expected outputs as compared to the French Territory (as foreseen since the very beginning). European networks such as EAEA, EUCIS-LLL and platforms (EPALE, the Education School Gateway) have been equally mobilised at the end of the dissemination phase.180 educational toolkits have been edited and distributed over all the participating River basins so that tens of thousands of people are sensitized in the coming years. Eight posters representing 8 different River basins combined with several annexed educational activities (demography, biodiversity, landscapes, orientation…) to better understand our connection to the rivers have been released.Every toolkit is usable by multiple publics, settings and timing. A wide and in-depth evaluation plan showed both quality and pertinence of the project’s results. Close to 90 bodies regrouped together to lead to such a good result, whereas in 180 received the final toolkit. FGN is a true human adventure achieved beyond a spirit of co-operation amongst stakeholders of multiple horizons and scopes. Thanks to all!Nine dissemination events have generated a large, long-lasting impact. Nowadays, « Fleuves Grandeur Nature » lives through several partners in our three countries and abroad, thanks to their connections and to the European networks and platforms. Our European website www.fleuves-grandeur-nature.org makes it possible everybody’s access on a freeway and the web page: ""Discover a river"" enhances virtual journeys in the 8 landscapes represented. You will also find the full evaluation of our work, both internal and external. Do please contact us at the addresses indicated in the FGN website in case you are interested in applying FGN in your localities or if you aim to transfer it to another corner of the European Union, and/or of the World."