Comenius Action 2.1. – Training of School Educational Staff CSCT – curriculum development for education for sustainable development in initial teaching Ref.Nr. 118277-CP-1-2004-1-BE-COMENIUS-C21

A framewor for a competency based curriculum for education for sustainable development will be developed for initial teacher training and in-service training institutions. The project strongly emphasizes the interdisciplinary approach and takes into account scientific, economic, social, political, cultural and ethical aspects fo sustainable development. The main activities include drafting and analysing case studies. In transnational workshops the curriculum model will be critically discussed and analysed. The curriculum will contain competences, tasks and contents (education for sustainable development). It will be published on the website of the Comenius 3 SEED-project and on the website of ENSI. It will also be available as a print handbook, translates into the different languages of the partners working in project. development of cometences, tasks and contents; desk research analysis of the case studies collected during the project and of the results of other studies; participation in transnational workshops; organisation of try-outs within the teacher training Competency based curriculum development for education for sustainable development in initial teacher training and in-service training institutions