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| Project Name: | SHINE - Mainstreaming Systems Thinking in the Natural Sciences and Environmental Education |
| faculty: | Engineering |
| Director: | Prof. Dr. Andreas Zinnen |
| Project Partners: | InEuropa Srl (IT) Free University of Bolzano (IT) Tallinn University (EE) Virtual Campus Lda (PT) |
| Duration: | October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2026 |
| Funding Institution or Contracting Authority: | ERASMUS PLUS – Call 2023 Round 1 - KA220-SCH – Cooperation Partnerships in School Education Co-funded by the European Union |
Education for Sustainable Development equips learners of all ages with the knowledge, skills, values, and capacity to address interconnected global challenges, including climate change. Teachers are called upon to develop strategies, tools, and methods to help students acquire these key skills and navigate the necessary complexity. Addressing and solving sustainability issues requires people with systemic competencies who are able to see the big picture in detail and develop a comprehensive vision for a complex world. Since systems thinking (ST) is one of the key skills in education for sustainable development, it is crucial to train teachers in the ST approach to enable them to implement ST in science classes at school. The SHINE project aims to integrate the ST approach into science classes, involving teachers and students aged 8 to 16. SHINE's goal is to introduce the ST approach in schools by providing teachers with training and developing, validating, and testing innovative teaching tools for the effective introduction and application of ST with students in science and environmental education classes. ST offers a new language for understanding how the world works. It enables students to see both the parts of the whole and the network of relationships simultaneously, and thus seeks to uncover the structure that brings about change by questioning how events unfold over time.
