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About LEVERS

LET US TELL YOU A STORY, ABOUT HOW 11 ORGANISATIONS IMAGINED LEVERS FOR CHANGE

LEVERS – Learning Ventures for Climate Justice – is a three-year Horizon Europe programme exploring the potential of local learning ecosystems as tools for community climate engagement, learning and action. Nine partner demonstrator regions in Europe invited local stakeholders from education, industry, community and innovation, to join ‘Learning Ventures’. Together we worked – ecosystemically – to improve climate engagement and learning around locally relevant issues.

Why now ?

Climate challenges require us to widen access to new knowledge and skills.

Flexible and collaborative approaches to learning, including Open Learning, Learning Ecosystems, and the other methods and practices included in the LEVERS Learning Framework, are potential pathways forward.

Working collaboratively across role, organisational and sectoral boundaries

is essential to shift local, business and sector-wide practices.

Though approaches and practices exist which bring these ideas into teaching and learning,

too often it’s in the form of short-term, under-resourced and fragile initiatives. By widening understanding of the benefits they bring and sharing the tools and approaches to build and sustain them we can bring them into the mainstream – that’s one of the things that LEVERS is doing.

Our Mission

Collaborative
Vision

LEVERS creates collaborations across education levels, community organizations, research and innovation, industry, and government. 

We aim to foster systemic thinking and critical approaches through these partnerships.

Climate Justice
Focus

Our ultimate goal is to develop climate justice programs that provide innovative and interdisciplinary educational approaches.

Meaningful
Learning

We strive to offer meaningful learning experiences, empowering individuals to actively contribute to a more just and sustainable society.

Our methodology

We need strategies that engage diverse audiences with different values to tackle environmental issues. 

Urgent, system-wide responses must prioritize social justice and collaboration to address the climate crisis fairly for all.

The Learning Framework
building blocks for learning for sustainability & climate action
The Field Guide
learn from the development of cross-sectoral collaborations for climate action

Some news about us

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Family Day Dedicated to Urban Pollinators Held in Belgrade

In a hands-on exploration of nature, children from the Leptirić Kindergarten—partners of the Center for the Promotion of Science (CPN) within the LEVERS project—recently took part in an ecological workshop held at their preschool.
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LEVERS Project Concludes with Final Meeting in Geneva

In a hands-on exploration of nature, children from the Leptirić Kindergarten—partners of the Center for the Promotion of Science (CPN) within the LEVERS project—recently took part in an ecological workshop held at their preschool.
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Visiting RCERO: Insights into the circular economy and local learning ecosystems
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Our partners

Stickydot Srl
Belgium *

CSI Centre for Social Innovation Ltd
Cyprus *

LATRA EE
Greece *

 

Trinity College Dublin (School of Education)
lreland *

Sociedade Afonso Chaves (aka Expolab – Centro Ciência Viva)
Portugal (Azores) *

Centar Za Promociju Nauke (aka Center for Promotion of Science)
Serbia *

Zavod Za Kulturo, Umetnost in lzobrazevanje Kersnikova (aka Kersnikova)
Slovenia *

Onl’fait
Switzerland (*) **

Forth Together CIC
UK (*) **

University College London (Climate Action Unit)
UK*

 

European Association for the Education of Adults

Advisory board

Prof. Philip Bell

Professor of the Learning Sciences & Human Development; Director, Institute for Science + Math Education, Founder Climate Teacher Education Collaborative; University of Washington, USA

Area of Expertise

Formal and informal STEM learning and teacher education, climate and environmental justice education, Learning Sciences.

Dr. Kelly Lê

Executive Director, UC-CSU Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects (ECCLPs); University of California, Irvine, USA

Area of Expertise

Climate justice education

Ms. Vanessa Mignan

Independent consultant; France/Croatia

Area of Expertise

EDI and gender equity, community science engagement and maker education

Mr. Cormac Russell

Managing Director of Nurture Development (Dublin, Ireland) ; Faculty member, Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University, Chicago, USA

Area of Expertise

Asset-Based Community Development

Prof. Marcus Collier

Assoc. Professor of Botany; Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Area of Expertise

Citizen science, Nature-Based Solutions

Prof. Sam Mejias

Associate Professor of Social Justice and Community Engagement; School of Design Strategies, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NY, USA

Area of Expertise

Expert in social justice, community engagement and design.

Mr. Manuel Charlet

Maìtre d'atelier, Pre-Vocational Training Centre, Department of Education, State of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Area of Expertise

Sustainability in schools.

Ms. Claudine Dayer Fournet

Head of Sustainable Development, Department of Education, State of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Area of Expertise

Sustainability, education and capacity building.

Dr. Siobhan McQuaid

Principal Investigator of GoNaturePositive, School of Business, Trinity College Dublin

Area of Expertise

Advocate for nature-based entrepreneurship

Dr. Marianne Achiam

Associate Professor of Science Communication; Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Area of Expertise

Science communication and public engagement in sustainability

The last version of The Field Guide is out !​

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