Area Europa - Development Consulting

A few days ago, we had the pleasure of attending the last co-creation session of The Food Odyssey Project, in Turin! 🎉 Escape4Change did a great job organising the session and sharing their knowledge on game-based education and game design. With the support of all project members - Institute for Health and Environment, Global Footprint Network, Biotehniški izobraževalni center Ljubljana, Mediterráneo International, Poljoprivredno- hemijska skola "Dr Djordje Radic", and Istituto tecnico"Garibaldi/Da Vinci" Cesena this was a true reciprocal learning opportunity during #ErasmusDays. And the catering and cooking session with "Il Gusto del Mondo" was simply amazing. 😋 And our journey didn’t end there! Maria Elisa Zuppiroli, Giulia Lombardo Pijola and Gianluca Corzani also took a road trip through the Piedmont region to visit the birthplace of Slow Food, an experience motivated by our admiration of their work and mission 🌾❤️ If you want to see some photos, do check our instagram and facebook accounts, as we will soon share some pics there! And, if you don't yet know the work of Slow Food, we highly recommend exploring their movement for “good, clean, and fair food for all" — an inspiring model for sustainable food systems worldwide! 🌐✨ Going back to The Food Odyssey, we will soon share more results 😉 Stay tuned and join us on this food journey! 🌱 #TheFoodOdysseyProject #ErasmusPlus #SustainableFoodSystems #FoodAndClimateEducation #CoCreation #SlowFoodJourney #InteractiveLearning #FutureOfFood #InspiringChange

Amazing event from Flood Stopping project!

🌍💧 How can we better prepare students for the growing threat of floods? In the latest article from Livadia Lyceum, teachers and students reflect on their experience with the Flood Stopping Erasmus+ project. Teachers emphasise the value of the project's diverse tools—infographics, podcasts, and animated content—that simplify flood risk management and climate adaptation for students. 🌊 For students, the project has been eye-opening, sparking awareness about how floods could impact them directly. They especially love the interactive elements like the board game, which makes learning about flood preparedness engaging and practical. 🎮💡 🔗 Read the full article to learn how this project is shaping the next generation’s resilience to climate challenges: https://lnkd.in/dFTbXJXg #floodstopping #weatherthestorm #newarticle #partnernews #projectnews #readmore #climatechangeadaptation #floodawareness #climateaction #floodpreparation #floodpreparedness #climateeducation #erasmusplus  

This report is a call to action. We need to act now. This latest #EUStateofWater report from the European Environment Agency highlights an urgent need for action—pollution, habitat degradation, and overuse of freshwater are stressing Europe’s #rivers, #lakes, #groundwaters, and #coastalwaters. Restoring natural ecosystems, such as reconnecting rivers with their floodplains and wetlands, can enhance biodiversity, improve water quality, and even mitigate extreme weather events. 🌿 On this note, if you're interested in the topic of flood resilience, consider how education can play a vital role. Our dear Erasmus Plus Flood Stopping project is one example of this, developing innovative tools and training for high school teachers to help them equip students and communities with the knowledge and skills to adapt to climate change. 🌊 Through hands-on activities like community mapping, digital tools, and AR-based learning, students and teachers alike can take action to enhance flood risk awareness and build climate resilience in their communities. By integrating flood risk management into education, we are fostering the next generation of active citizens to protect both people and the planet. 🏞️ #ClimateChange #FloodResilience #WaterWiseEU #FloodRiskManagement #NatureRestoration #SustainableEducation #ErasmusPlus

🌍📚 Join us this Wednesday for an inspiring Erasmus+ webinar! 🎨🌱 On October 16th, from 12:00 to 13:30 PM CET, we’re hosting a special online event: From Panel to Pedagogy: Innovative teaching tools to tackle climate change This interactive session will bring together ErasmusPlus projects that use comics, storytelling, and creative educational tools to inspire and empower learners to take climate action. You will have a chance to learn about more than 5 Erasmus Plus projects, including CLI-MIC, Flood Stopping and The Food Odyssey. 👩🏫 This is a fantastic opportunity for educators, teachers, and all those interested in learning and teaching about climate change through creative methods. 🔗 Link to register in comments 😉 👇 The session will be recorded and available on YouTube for later viewing. We hope this event fosters exciting synergies between the projects and sparks innovative approaches in climate education. 🌍💡 #ErasmusPlus #ErasmusDays #WorldFoodDay #CLIMICNetwork #ClimateAction #Education #Innovation #FloodStopping #TheFoodOdysseyProject #CLIMICNetwork #WorldFoodDay #WorldFoodDay2024

Great article. Science cannot be neutral. Nor should it be. Science needs to be rigorous to help us to better understand the world we live in and to solve the problems we face. Science can guide us. It can be inventive and inspirational. In matters related to climate change, we would argue that we desperately need scientists to be active in communicating their research results. Bravo to the authors Christel van Eck, Dr Lydia Messling and Katharine Hayhoe! 📖One of our favourite extracts: "By framing research outcomes consonant with predefined shared democratic values, and listening to society’s concerns, expectations, and ideas, we believe climate scientists can engage in open and inclusive dialogues with society, with the explicit goal of inspiring action". We would also argue that we need more creative projects to better communicate climate science and contribute to positive action. We are involved in a few inspiring ones co-funded by #EramusPlus, like Flood Stopping and The Food Odyssey (and some more that are coming up). As we have said in the past : "if it is true that stories eat data for breakfast, let us be sure to pack that first meal of the day with robust evidence to make it nutritious! And let's/s use our creativity to make it really appealing"😉.

🌧️🌀 Have you ever wondered how climate change influences extreme weather in Spain? Our latest article by our partner, lowcarboneconomy, delves into the phenomenon known as DANA (Depresión Aislada in Niveles Altos), which generates heavy rainfall and strong storms throughout the region. As climate change warms the Mediterranean, these storms have become more frequent and severe, resulting in substantial flash floods. 🌍 The recent torrential rains in Comunitat Valenciana demonstrate the need to adjust infrastructure and emergency responses to extreme weather events. From overburdened drainage systems to devastated towns, DANAs demonstrate the necessity for comprehensive climate adaptation solutions. 🔗 Discover more about the historical impacts of DANAs at: https://lnkd.in/dKX4a27A #floodstopping #DANA #floodprevention #extremeweather #weatherthestorm #newarticle #partnernews #projectnews #readmore #climatechangeadaptation #floodawareness #climateaction #floodpreparation #floodpreparedness

"All citizens (and learners) need to contribute and benefit" 👏👏👏 Simple title - yet powerful idea - from the text linked in the original post 👇 We are all citizens and we are all learners. We all can and need to contribute and benefit from sustainability transitions! 🌿🍂🍃🌍🌳🌆🌃 Long live lifelong learning! 💪

🌍📱 Ready to join a proactive community tackling flood risks head-on? Download the Flood Stopping Community app today! Developed by The Right Street Digital, this innovative tool is perfect for educators, students, and any citizen eager to contribute to flood prevention. 🌧️📍 By joining the Flood Stopping community, you'll engage in vital mapping activities and connect with others who are equally committed to making a difference. This collaborative effort is essential in developing effective, localised strategies for flood risk management and climate change adaptation. You'll not only learn about flood prevention but also actively participate in creating safer communities. 📥 Download now: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dd_PV2XP 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dEEEtQnX 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dG8iViur #communityapp #newapp #projectnews #floodstopping #erasmusplus #erasmus+ #euproject #educationalcontent #projectapp #educationalcontent #stayinformed #floodstoppers #communityengagement #educationalapp #floodprevention #climateaction

🌐 UN Member States Reach Agreement on the Global Digital Compact World leaders at the Summit of the Future have agreed on a Global Digital Compact, a landmark framework for governing digital technologies and artificial intelligence. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres emphasized: "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐 𝑃𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑛 𝐴𝐼 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠." The Compact also represents the first collective effort to establish interoperability standards and supports networks to build AI capacity in developing countries. Anchored in human rights and sustainable development, this Compact places digital at the center of international cooperation, with universal principles and concrete actions driving a fair, inclusive digital future. Via the link below, we call on all organizations and associations to join us in this collective effort: https://lnkd.in/emGAJfVv