ETSE-GOALS

Promote the full integration of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into vocational education.

Project period: December 2022 – May 2025
Coordinator: ACES (Spain)
Partners of the project: Fundación Escuela Andaluza de Economía Social (Spain), Varna Economic Development Agency (Bulgaria), Foundation for Interregional Cooperation (Greece), Pistes Solidaires (France), ONECO (Spain)
Website: etse-goals.eu

The context:

French school curricula address both education for sustainable development (ESD) and education on the social and solidarity economy (SSE) only in a cross-curricular way or during dedicated action and information weeks. However, the growing interest in higher education in these two fields shows that they should have a place as full disciplines.

The ETSE GOALS project goes even further by focusing on how education for sustainable development could become an integral part of vocational training, especially for future social economy entrepreneurs, but also for other professions.

The objectives:

The ETSE GOALS project has several objectives:

– Gain a clearer understanding of how the SDGs are integrated into vocational training, especially within social economy disciplines.

– Promote the integration of the SDGs in vocational education through awareness-raising, trainer training, networking, and sharing of initiatives.

– Develop policy recommendations for the effective integration of the SDGs into vocational education at various levels.

The target groups of this project are vocational trainers in the social economy and other professional sectors, as well as the students themselves and actors from the social and solidarity economy.

After a comparative study on how the SDGs are implemented in vocational education curricula of partner countries (Spain, France, Greece, and Bulgaria), an innovative training program for vocational trainers and a collaborative platform for social economy project stakeholders will be launched.

ACES (Andalusian Association of Social Economy Education Centers), the project coordinator, also plans to hold the first edition of an international social economy project competition, likely in May 2024.

The results:

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