About the Projekt
Teach4Sustainability is an Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange project designed to strengthen Climate Change and Sustainability Education (CCSE) in teacher training through intercultural, digitally facilitated collaboration between Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The project connects teacher trainees, educators, and institutions across Germany, Spain, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, and The Gambia through structured virtual exchanges that promote shared learning, critical reflection, and action-oriented sustainability education.
By combining digital pedagogy, intercultural dialogue, and problem-based learning, Teach4Sustainability equips future teachers with the skills, confidence, and global perspectives needed to act as sustainability change agents in their classrooms and communities.
Project Objectives
Teach4Sustainability is guided by a set of interlinked objectives aimed at strengthening climate and sustainability education within teacher training across diverse contexts. The project seeks to generate a robust understanding of existing educational needs and digital readiness across partner regions, while supporting the co-development of context-sensitive learning approaches.
Also, the project places strong emphasis on capacity building for educators and facilitators, fostering meaningful intercultural engagement, and reaching a broad cohort of teacher trainees through structured digital collaboration. In parallel, the project is designed to ensure that its outcomes remain accessible and sustainable beyond the funding period through carefully curated educational resources.
Why Teach4Sustainability?
Climate change presents uneven risks and impacts across regions, yet education systems often respond in fragmented and unequal ways. In many Sub-Saharan African contexts, sustainability education remains under-resourced, while in Europe, teacher training programmes frequently lack sustained engagement with Global South perspectives and lived realities.
Teach4Sustainability addresses this gap by fostering equitable educational exchange, encouraging mutual learning across regions, and embedding intercultural dialogue and climate justice perspectives into teacher education. Rather than treating sustainability as an abstract topic, the project emphasizes shared learning processes grounded in collaboration and reciprocity.
Project Methodology
Teach4Sustainability adopts a digitally mediated, learner-centered approach grounded in established educational theories that emphasize experience, reflection, and transformation. The project uses virtual exchange as a central pedagogical framework, enabling participants to engage across borders through a combination of real-time and flexible digital interactions.
Learning is organized in small, intercultural groups to support dialogue, collaboration, and peer learning, while delivery formats are designed to remain inclusive, mobile-friendly, and accessible in low-bandwidth environments. Through a mix of guided interaction, collaborative tasks, and reflective practice, the methodology supports both pedagogical development and intercultural competence.
Project Funding Information
- Programme: Erasmus+ Virtual Exchanges in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2025-VIRT-EXCH-SSA
- Project Acronym: Teach4Sustainability
- Project Number: 101251923
- Duration: 36 months
- Funding Type: Erasmus+ Lump Sum Grant
Project Consortium Partner Universities
Each partner institution contributes unique local expertise, facilitates implementation, and supports institutional embedding of project outcomes.
