The GEA – Growing into Eco-conscious Adults project aims to enhance “environmental literacy” of adults, in order for them to be able to contribute to informed decision-making and establish stronger adaptation capacities of their community, thus empowering people to adopt more sustainable lifestyles.

The specific objectives of the project are: 

• to increase adults’ opportunities to engage with their communities in environmental & climate actions;
• to develop an open e-learning programme for adult educators and a set of resources aimed at increasing eco-consciousness and community engagement;
• to encourage a shared decision making process and co-design of environmental policies;
• to ensure wide and sustainable access to a set of innovative results for stronger environmental literacy.

Its concrete results include:

• an Interactive Report;
• an E-learning kit for adult educators;
• a Sustainability kit for environmental awareness-raising;
• a co-designed policy initiatives booklet.

During its 36-month lifetime, GEA will directly and indirectly positively impact at least: 

• 70 adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, who will be actively involved in the project
• 70 adult educators, who will be actively involved in the project
• 525 adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, who will benefit from the itinerant classes
• 105 adult educators, who will be trained
• 49 policy-makers and local community representatives, who will give feedback on proposed policies.
• 2000 adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, who will be provided with a sustainability toolkit.
• 210 stakeholders will be informed of the project and its results.

GEA at a glance: 

• 1 Interactive Report – a report on citizen science approaches, environmental challenges and climate actions in each of the partner country
• 1 E-learning programme, based on the defined learning outcomes, including 5 learning modules
• 1 Sustainability kit, with a printable “how-to guide”, collecting instruments to support environmental awareness-raising among adults
• 35 Itinerant Classes, organized in the partner countries, to pilot the environmental awareness-raising actions
• 14 Roundtables with local community representatives, giving input on selected policy initiatives
• 7 Local Environmental Committees involving the local community representatives
• 7 national Dissemination Events.