How to Use This Field Guide
Welcome to the LEVERS Field Guide – a practical resource for anyone building inclusive, locally grounded learning ecosystems for climate action and sustainability. This is not a guidebook, but a flexible companion which draws on real-world experimentation across nine European projects that we called Learning Ventures.
What will you find inside?
Who is this for?
- Educators & facilitators
Designing learning programmes that engage local communities - Local government officials
Supporting climate or education initiatives with social impact - NGOs & social innovators
Looking to expand grassroots work through participatory learning - Businesses & sector organisations
Exploring how to engage in climate education and community action - Researchers & designers
Testing tools for systemic design, open learning, or citizen science
Key tools you'll encounter
- Guiding Star / Near Star
- Set long-term and short-term ambitions for change
- Framing Questions & Cause Diagrams
- Understand your system
- Stakeholder Mapping & Hypothesis Statements
- Identify partners and test ideas
- Prototyping Plans
- Experiment before scaling
All tools are explained in context and linked to the LEVERS Learning Framework.
How to use it
- You can read it start to finish or jump to the section that fits your stage or role.
- Use the takeaway boxes and examples to reflect on your own context.
- Treat the process model (Intent → Understand → Design → Iterate) as flexible – loop, skip, adapt.