<< Background >>Our climate is breaking down. Rising seas and extreme weather events are costing lives and putting tens of millions of people around the world at risk. And younger generations are being robbed of their future on a healthy, liveable planet. In drier, hotter conditions, wildfires rage out of control, reducing mighty forests to ash. The oceans are warming, and the water is becoming more acidic, causing mass coral die-offs and the loss of breeding grounds for sea creatures. Delicate ecosystems that are home to insects, plants and animals struggle to adapt quickly enough to the changing climate, putting one million species at risk of extinction. That means our food security, health and quality of life are all under threat. The state of the climate and the health of our planet’s living systems are intimately linked, and changes in one will radically affect the other. But climate change also presents an opportunity to change the way we live so we improve things for us and the planet. Change is often the result of grassroots efforts and working together to lower our carbon footprints is no exception. People tend to think there is nothing they can do about climate change, or their small efforts do not really matter, however experts suggest that neither one of those things are true. There is an urgent need to change people’s understanding of the climate change challenge that faces us all and present a positive, action focused narrative through social media and word-of-mouth. Calendar for Climate Change represents a new educational intervention drawing on the tacit knowledge of older generations and the technical know-how of young digital natives and bringing the best of both the past and the present together to form a robust and accessible educational programme to raise climate change awareness.For many senior citizens in Europe the road to inactivity post retirement is a road of no return. Erasmus+ can provide a vehicle for continuing engagement and participation as active members of the community by harnessing the knowledge built up over a lifetime and transferring that knowledge to younger generations. This potential is particularly relevant in addressing the present climate change challenges that confront all Member States. Calendar for Climate Change will provide seniors with the opportunity to exchange their tacit knowledge with today's digital native population in exchange for the technical know-how that the younger generations take for granted.While senior learners can help to address this need of younger learners for support and direction in their fight against climate change, young people can support senior learners through introducing them to new and emerging technology platforms, that can help them to prepare for and engage with the digital transition that is sweeping across European society. Everywhere we turn, homes and businesses are getting cleaner, greener, and smarter. This is to support the dual transition of European society – to a digitally enhanced and environmentally friendly, carbon-neutral society. These changes are coming to all European communities, because they are necessary to support the progress of European society; but if tailored support is not provided to older learners, they will get left behind by this wave of dual transition in European society. Identifying this need to find a novel way to engage older learners in environmental and digital education, C4CC partners are convinced that the approach proposed in this application will be effective in engaging senior learners in education that will benefit them, and will also be enjoyable and rewarding for them.<< Objectives >>Climate change is here. As its impact intensifies over time, it is the children, teenagers, and young adults of today who will face the worst effects; but we all have a role to play in changing our habits to address the climate crisis we are all faced with. There is ample evidence that young adults all over the world are facing up to the climate change challenge. Global demonstrations in September 2019 were largely organised and led by young adults demanding action. However, protest alone is not enough to address the threats posed to our future by climate change. Action is needed on an individual and collective level to change people’s habits; to adopt more environmentally friendly patterns of production and consumption; and to find solutions to the climate change challenge we all now face. Education has a critical role to play if the protests of young people are to be leveraged into action; but the Calendar for Climate Change (C4CC) partners firmly believe that young people alone cannot change the world – it will take a collective effort to achieve an impact on reducing our carbon emissions, changing our consumption and waste production habits, and ditching our addiction to plastics and other harmful materials.However, the world was not always so driven by consumerism; people did not always buy new rather than repair or re-use; they did not always produce mountains of waste every year. Rather, in previous generations, people were taught the same values and lessons that we now see being promoted as ‘the circular economy’. Before ‘the circular economy’ was ever borne, this was just how people lived. They produced little waste; they re-used and re-purposed what they had; they repaired clothes, household goods, cars, and bicycles rather than throwing them away and buying new; they did not rely on expensive digital devices that took precious metals and elements from the Earth. This is the tacit knowledge of older people who have lived in a time when the threat and effects of climate change did not plague us; and when people knew how to make the most with what they had, rather than being driven by and addicted to constant consumption. Through the intergenerational model of learning proposed in the C4CC project, our aim is to achieve the transfer of this tacit knowledge to younger generations of learners, who feel that they need this support from other generations to combat climate change, and to address the climate anxiety that young adults feel today about their future.Calendar for Climate Change will develop a toolkit of training resources that support the implementation of 12 high-tech climate change solutions and 12 low-tech climate change solutions. The learning resources for the low-tech solutions will be developed by partners working with senior citizens who have considerable tacit knowledge garnered during less affluent eras, when resourcefulness and imagination were needed to find quick fixes to problems. Many of these solutions, which are still relevant today and could be implemented across the whole of society, emerged due to shortages of raw materials, lower income thresholds than we see today, and a less wasteful consumer ethos throughout the community than one experiences today. The learning resources for the high-tech solutions will be developed by partners working with young digital natives who are particularly comfortable integrating new smart systems into their everyday lives. The focus of the project will be to demonstrate the considerable value that the tacit knowledge of older generations has in a climate change crisis while at the same time introducing the latest high-tech applications that can help reduce the carbon footprint of every individual. Calendar for Climate Change is a knowledge exchange project between young digital natives and older generations. The exchange of knowledge between generations to combat climate change is one of the core objectives of this project.<< Implementation >>In designing the project work plan, C4CC partners have agreed that all partners should play an active role in the development and testing of project results; while also taking responsibility for some aspect of project management. The following division of tasks outlines the different roles that partners will undertake in the C4CC project, and it also helps to present the activities we will implement in our project team. PR1 - Calendar for Climate Change Resources - FIP will draft a value proposition that outlines the learning outcomes for the 12 low-tech and 12 high-tech modular resources. Each partner will develop the learning content for 24 resources - one low-tech resource and one high-tech resource - that addresses the specific competences outlined and that is appropriate to climate change challenges in their country. The resources will be developed addressing issues that relate to each month of the year. Each partner will also develop a script for the explainer video that will accompany each resource. FIP and CSI will produce all results in appropriate media rich formats using iMovie, Powtoon, VideoScribe, etc. FIP will design the paper-based interactive calendar and the online version for social media use embedding all the learning content for QR code access.PR2 - Inter-generational Learning In-service Programme & Handbook - JFV-PCH will draft a value proposition that outlines the learning outcomes for the in-service training for adult educators.JFV-PCH and AESD will develop the learning content to address the pedagogic challenges associated with; (1) online learning and working in dynamic online environments; (2) developing inter-generational learning programmes; (3) teaching educators how to build engaging media-rich resources and use them in inter-generational education settings.PR3 - Calendar for Climate Change Mobile App – SKILLS ZONE, DANTE & SPEHA FRESIA will lead the development of the dynamic mobile app to support the work of adult educators and ensure that target groups have access to all the Calendar for Climate Change resources produced on a range of mobile devicesRelated to project management, the following allocation of responsibilities between partners has been agreed: (i) Project Management and Risk – This process will be lead by JFV-PCH as coordinators of the project and grant beneficiaries. (ii) Promotion and Sharing of Project Results – This action will be led by SKILL ZONE who will also establish the social media strategy for the C4CC project and set up the project Facebook page. However, these actions will also be supported by FIP who will develop the project website, logo and branding concept; and who will also produce a short promotional video to enhance the sharing potential for our project results once the final results are available from month 18 onwards. DANTE will also support this action by writing and designing project newsletters every 6 months throughout the project. (iii) Impact Management – To measure the impact on our project results and to engage all partners in setting national impact objectives for this project, CSI will lead the development of an Impact Plan. CSI will also support all partners to complete the Impact Model Canvas as the basis of forming their own national impact plans. Partners will complete these Impact Model Canvas templates in months 2, 12 and 24 so that they can assess the impact of the project results at the beginning, middle and end of the project. (iv) Quality Assurance and Evaluation – To evaluate the quality of our partnership, our project and our results, Speha Fresia will lead the quality assurance measures of this project; including setting parameters for partners’ engagement with LAG members and completing evaluations with LAG members to assess the quality and relevance of project results. (v) Sustainability – AESD will develop a Sustainability Plan for the future use and further promotion of project results, even after the project ends.<< Results >>Calendar for Climate Change partners propose the development of an interactive calendar, with training resources that support the implementation of 12 high-tech climate change solutions and 12 low-tech climate change solutions – meaning one high-tech and low-tech solution for each month of the year. The interactive calendars that will be produced will provide access to digital learning resources that will be accessible for anyone who can scan a QR code. Month by month, the appropriate calendar page will be posted on some of the most widely used social media platforms - Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. On each calendar month there will be 2 QR codes. One QR code will bring the individual in question to the low-tech solution developed for that month while the second QR code will bring them to the high-tech solution. As anyone, anywhere in the world who scans the QR code will have access to the learning materials developed, partners will develop a comprehensive social media strategy to extend the impact of the resources. While calendar apps for mobile phones do not necessarily represent an innovation, embedding climate change resources into this type of setting may just be sufficient to attract the attention of both senior citizens and young digital natives. The young adults of today have no doubts regarding the reality of climate change. School strikes for climate inspired by 17- year-old, Nobel Prize nominee, Greta Thunberg took place in 123 countries recently with a total of 1.5 million young adults and their allies taking to the streets on the 15th of March alone. It is the intention of partners to specifically target this cross-section of society through their social media habitats where they 'hang-out'.Each resource will comprise two elements: (1) a short explainer video that introduces the low-tech or high-tech solution; (2) a step-by-step guide that demonstrates from start to finish how to implement the low-tech or high-tech solution. The resources developed will be presented in two formats: (1) on a mobile calendar app where the explainer video and learning content can be downloaded for use on a smartphone - this is specifically designed for young digital natives; (2) on an interactive printed calendar where seniors can access the learning content through the QR code reader on a smartphone. Partners will also develop an in-service training programme for adult educators to ensure that they can successfully manage the inter-generational model being proposed; build their understanding of climate change mitigating actions; and also build their skills to enable them to develop media-rich learning content using software programme like PowToon, StoryBoardThat, VideoScribe, iMovie, Audacity, etc.Lastly, the final project result will comprise the Calendar for Climate Change Calendar App – allowing for the online sharing and promotion of the innovative inter-generational training materials. Through using the App, senior learners will be further supported to build their digital competence, and their confidence in engaging with new technology platforms. In terms of other outcomes that will impact how we engage members of the target group and other key stakeholders in this project, during the lifetime of the project:(i) 56 adult educators will complete the in-service training programme; (ii) 175 seniors will complete the training to integrate the high-tech solutions into their everyday lives;(iii) 175 digital natives will complete the training to integrate the low-tech solutions into their daily lives; (iv) 500 people will download the Calendar for Climate Change App. (v) 25 people will attend the Calendar for Climate Change workshops in each partner country. (vi) 50 people will attend the final conference in Germany when all project results will be presented.