The project is aimed at increasing public awareness on the issues of international development cooperation and on the 17 Sustanaible Development Goals .The ENERGY - Taking action at school for the environment project aims to promote the teaching and learning of Global Citizenship Education as a cross-curricular approach. This will be achieved through interdisciplinary participatory teacher and student training. The design took place starting from the identification of needs through the baseline survey (need assessment) conducted by AVSI and the partners throughout the country. These were: lower presence than the OECD average in Italian PTOFs of global issues related to EGC; high rate of educational poverty and early school leaving in Italy compared to the EU average; worsening of students’ mental health conditions due to prolonged lockdown and consequent DAD; lack of training opportunities for teachers. The intervention logic and strategy of the project take up from the concepts expressed in the document: Education for Global Citizenship: Themes and Learning Goals (UNESCO and CIC, 2018). The intervention strategy takes on board the three intertwined conceptual dimensions that are fundamental to EGC: the cognitive dimension, which enables the acquisition of knowledge, analysis and critical thinking about global, national, regional and local issues and the interaction and interdependence of these; the socio-emotional dimension, which enables the development of a sense of belonging to a common humanity, sharing its values and responsibilities, developing empathy, solidarity and respect for differences and otherness; and the behavioural dimension, which enables effective and responsible action at local, national and global levels for a more sustainable world. Through these, the activities necessary to achieve the expected results were developed. The partnership: AVSI, CELIM and FBAO are the three partners with the most experience in the project field. They coordinate the implementation (AVSI as lead applicant), and offer in-depth study of issues related to EGC and environmental protection. CAI provides training for teachers and students through educational outings in the environment. Edison offers in-depth studies on energy issues and Carbonsink teaches carbon footprint measurement. ApiS gives the project its didactical form by developing training modules for teachers and students based on the proposed themes. At the end of the project, Fondazione De Gasperi will carry out study seminars on the project topics: sustainable development, climate change, and food education. The strength of the project proposal will be precisely the partnership and the wealth of different experiences that it brings to life; united by the same educational methodology, essential to offer teachers and students a homogeneous, gradual and effective path. The objectives of the initiative are: to contribute to the development and strengthening of a concept of “citizenship”, understood as belonging to the global community, contributing in a pragmatic way to individual and collective change for the creation of a more sustainable and just world (GO); and to change the behaviour of students, teachers and the community in a sustainable development perspective, thanks to individual and collective actions aimed at building a growing awareness and responsibility on sustainability issues (SO). The three results of the project are: teachers and students have increased awareness on issues related to global citizenship and environmental protection; teachers and students have increased initiatives on issues related to environmental protection within the school curriculum; students, teachers and stakeholders build territorial alliances to limit the impact of their behaviour on the environment. read more close