Course 07 · All levels
Green Skills and Sustainability in Education
A whole-organisation approach to sustainability, built on real numbers.
Dates 2026-27
Adrianou 4, Neo Psychiko, Athens · Monday–Friday, 09:30–12:30
About the course
What this course is about
Sustainability is in the curriculum documents. It is rarely in Tuesday’s double period. Most educators are told to include the green transition without being shown how it fits a maths lesson or a full timetable.
This course treats sustainability as a question for the whole organisation, not one department’s topic. You start from the European sustainability competence framework GreenComp and work outwards: climate literacy in your own subject, an eco-audit in which learners do the counting, and “Kilowatt Detectives” — estimating your organisation’s carbon footprint from real energy bills and a travel survey. Wednesday is a bridge day to the digital world: what devices, data centres and AI cost in energy and e-waste, and where AI genuinely helps sustainability — or is just an expensive way to do something simple.
What makes it different: it is the only course in our series that is not about AI — with one bridge day on the digital and AI footprint of education.
Who is it for
Teachers and lecturers of any subject and age group, eco-coordinators, leaders and facilities or project staff. No science background is assumed — language, arts and vocational colleagues are very welcome. No prerequisites. Bring a laptop and your organisation’s energy bills.
Learning outcomes
What you will learn
By the end of the course you will be able to:
Locate three points in your own teaching where a GreenComp sustainability competence fits.
Lead a conversation on climate change that acknowledges eco-anxiety without amplifying it.
Conduct an eco-audit of energy, waste, water, food or mobility, with a plan for learner participation.
Calculate an annual carbon estimate for your organisation from real bills and a travel survey.
Assess your digital footprint and spot unproven "green" claims from suppliers.
Present a one-year Green Action Plan with three measurable targets, owners and review dates.
Programme
Your five days
Every subject's business
- Welcome, needs check and GreenComp self-reflection
- The European Green Deal and learning for the green transition
- Climate literacy: warming stripes, a systems-thinking game and talking about eco-anxiety
Counting the organisation
- The whole-organisation approach: curriculum, campus, community, culture
- Designing an eco-audit
- Kilowatt Detectives: a carbon estimate from real bills and a travel survey
Bridge day: the digital footprint
- Device life cycles, e-waste and data centres; website carbon check and live grid-carbon map
- AI for sustainability: where it helps, where it does not — "Greenwash or green?"
Futures and action
- Scenario building for 2035
- Community action projects and eTwinning partnerships
- Afternoon: study visit
Back to your organisation
- Finalise your Green Action Plan and Cascade Pack
- Presentations, evaluation and certificates
Beyond the classroom
- Welcome dinner on Monday evening at a local taverna — included in the fee.
- Study visit on Thursday afternoon to a renewable-energy site, recycling centre or sustainable building in Athens, with a short debrief. Included in the fee; not counted in the 15 contact hours.
How we teach
- Hands-on work on your own laptop, with your organisation's real numbers and a simple spreadsheet.
- Peer exchange with colleagues from other European countries, with short European case studies each morning.
- An action plan that grows every day, plus a Cascade Pack: a ready-made 45-minute briefing for colleagues.
Certificate and follow-up
- Certificate of attendance listing the dates, the 15 contact hours and the learning outcomes.
- Learning outcomes ready to paste into your Mobility Agreement and Europass Mobility document.
- Online follow-up session (60–90 minutes) 6–8 weeks after the course.
Join this course in Athens
€400 per participant (€80 per day × 5 days).
Included: tuition, materials, Cascade Pack, study visit, welcome dinner, coffee breaks, certificate and online follow-up.
Not included: travel, accommodation and other meals.
Email us your preferred dates. We confirm your place and send the detailed programme and, if needed, the Mobility Agreement for Training.