Environment in the VET system: a powerful tool for the future

Our Institute presented in the 2016 a proposal which was funded by EU Erasmus Plus Programme and now we are coordinating an European partnership from 5 different EU countries (IT, DK, ES, LT, UK) to build up the project products, involving in our work key figures coming from the triangle of knowledge (education, scientific research and enterprises). The project started from the observation that the environmental sustainability (ES) is often presented at high school in a simplistic way and not always in the correct manner, although it represents one of the 5 key issues of Europe 2020 and a crucial EU document (Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe '11) aims to transform the Europe's economy in a sustainable one by 2050. The aim of the project is to offer to secondary school teachers a set of innovative tools (comparative report on ES, 9 didactic modules and the EN-VET book with guidelines and the appreciation of the products) which will be presented to the students. Moreover we linked all our tools to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) launched by ONU with Agenda 2030 and accepted by EU. All interested people can enter in our platform and use, for free, these documents, in order to adapt them for their exigencies and the students needs. At least 1700 persons will be contacted during the project life span.