GSD

The GSD project aims to achieve three main objectives:

1) It will provide innovative learning opportunities relating to Sustainability Literacy and Sustainable Development to learners in Adult Education. Concretely: o It will create spaces for design-based learning in which the learners can actively collaborate in concrete sustainability projects. o It will start from the individual perspective and competence profile and move on to a community based joint learning approach. o It will consider the demands of the target groups and fit to their living, working and learning context. o It will provide a constructive learning and development approach not exclusively aimed at knowledge acquisition. o It will include state of the art technologies, and innovative learning spaces, such as collaborative local projects.

2) It will to train Adult Education professionals to facilitate Sustainability Literacy and Sustainable Development. More specifically: o It provides necessary knowledge and skills on which the Learning and Development Professionals can build their learning programmes. o It creates context sensitive learning cases that can be transferred into the learning contexts of the Adult Learners. o It provides a concept which promotes “facilitation” rather than teaching competences. o It qualifies them in new digital teaching and learning formats (Design-based Collaborative learning) in a learning by doing approach. o It provides modular teaching and learning materials on a platform with asynchronous, synchronous and collaborative learning and development opportunities and facilitates competence validation .

3) It will to connect both target groups in a larger European network approach, that is: o It provides appropriate constructive (design driven) mobility programmes for both the Learning and Development Professionals and their target groups (KA1), and transnational blended learning opportunities for the staff members including courses and job-shadowing opportunities.