About
Applying PERMAculture as a pedagogical tool for building healthy SCHOOL ecosystems.
PermaSchool is an Erasmus+ project that utilises permaculture to empower educators and students in becoming engaged in climate action.
The project aims to improve educators’ skills and students’ understanding of permaculture and environmental sustainability. Through transnational and cross-sectoral collaboration, PermaSchool bridges the gap between policy, research, and practice, fostering a hands-on approach to environmental education.
The overall mission of PermaSchool is to empower behavioural shifts regarding climate action and trigger a permacultural approach and climate political engagement through dialogue and participatory co-creation.
Objectives
- Coordinate transnational cooperation between educators, students, and environmental experts to promote environmental sustainability.
- Utilise participatory methods to actively involve students and teachers in learning about and implementing permaculture.
- Increase the capacities of educators on permaculture and sustainability.
- Enhance students’ understanding of permaculture and environmental sustainability.
- Develop strategies to ensure the project’s long-term impact and sustainability across Europe
Activities
A panel consisting of 20 environmental experts, educators, and students to design educational material.
A resource designed to help educators integrate permaculture and sustainability principles into school learning.
An open, multilingual online platform with resources and tools for educators and students, including the digitalised PermaSchool Curriculum and Planning Tool for the integration of PermaSchool activities in classrooms.
A five-day course in Spain that will train two educators from each partner country on the PermaSchool resources, focussing on technical aspects of permaculture but also on knowledge transfer, methodologies and experiments with new pedagogical tools.
Engage students by delivering three classes per partner country using the PermasSchool’s Curriculum, Hub and Planning Tool.
Apply permaculture principles in real-world scenarios through projects developed by students using the project’s tools and resources.
Showcase student-led permaculture projects at three national PermaSchool Fairs in Spain, Greece and Cyprus, fostering knowledge-exchange with other educators and students to implement and apply in their own school.
Develop a video capturing the Transnational Teacher Training to act as a visual resource for other educators who want to upskill on environmental education.
