19 June 2024 – The Vice-rectorate for Education of the UPNA has approved the teaching innovation project entitled Promotion of sustainability competences in primary education from September 2024 to September 2026.
Based on the methodology of the NEMOS project (see NEMOS’s Methodological Handbook in Food Sustainability through Service-learning), this new initiative aims to develop tools that promote sustainability competences and contents that are useful for future primary education teachers.
The development of a Methodological manual for the incorporation of sustainability competences in the Degree of Primary Education will allow the transfer of the NEMOS project’s learning and methodology to primary education teaching degrees at further universities, primary education centres and other organisations related to primary education.
Furthermore, these learnings could serve as a starting point for extending this knowledge to other educational levels, including secondary education.
About the NEMOS Project
The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.
More information at www.nemosproject.com
