GEA – Growing into Eco-conscious Adults
Erasmus+ KA2 – Cooperation Partnership in Adult education:
Latest news: An online seminar on Eco-Consciousness in Education and the GEA Project took place on 21st October 2025
Project Results
Training programme on eco-consciousness
Sustainability ToolKit and How To Guide
Policy Initaitives Briefing – coming soon
In the face of environmental challenges such as global warming, pollution, urban sprawl, deforestation, which increasingly jeopardise the life of living beings on our planet, the need to raise awareness of environment related challenges has now become urgent. Environmental education makes for responsible citizens and is key to progress towards a sustainable development.
Environmental education and awareness-raising for adults empowers informed decision-making, play an essential role in increasing adaptation capacities of communities, and empower women and men to adopt sustainable lifestyles.
GEA partners (from 7 different countries: Italy, Belgium, Estonia, Greece, Germany, Macedonia, Lithuania), initially conducted research on citizen science, environmental challenges and actions, including online surveys and interviews with adults and adult educators. View the research report
However, the idea that human health cannot be safeguarded without protecting our planet’s biodiversity is still far from being taken seriously, and too often the protection of nature is considered as a secondary objective compared to socioeconomic development.
In such a context, the GEA – “Growing into Eco-conscious Adults”- project has developed an e-training course for adult educators and adults as well as a sustainability toolkit in order to encourage people to bring about real change in their behaviour and actions and those of others, starting from their daily lives. Visit the Training programme on eco-consciousness
Started in November 2022 and funded by the Erasmus+ programme, GEA has designed and implemented a set of innovative and high-quality educational resources addressed to both adult educators and adult learners (especially with disadvantaged socio-economic/educational background), ultimately aimed at raising environmental awareness among adults who are out of formal education, while conveying the importance of social and digital inclusion in the field of adult education. Explore the Sustainability ToolKit and How To Guide
Partners: CESIE (Italy, coordinator), EUROGEO (Belgium), Symplexis (Greece), Cuiablue OÜ (Estonia), BUPNET (Germany), Eco Logic (Macedonia), Xwhy (UAB Theoria) (Lithuania)