EU GREEN

AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE

Climate change, digitalization, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, migration and flight, ageing society, inequality and exclusion, future anxiety, and depopulation of rural regions are global sustainability challenges, which affect our education systems, too. We need to explore pathways to address those current and emerging sustainability challenges through education by empowering learners with new skills, values, and attitudes that lead to more sustainable societies. By doing this, we need to transform our educational practice, too, and need to learn how to work more interdisciplinary.

The international and interdisciplinary conference “Growing up the future: Education for Sustainability” wants to investigate various facets of sustainable education from an interdisciplinary perspective taking into consideration global issues and challenges as well as regional and national realities. Besides providing a platform for sharing experiences and teaching practices, the conference purpose is to bring a much needed transformation in education for a sustainable future.

• Please find further information in the Call for Paper here.
• Information on the panels can be found in the “Panel Information” box below.
• Information on submissions for authors can be found in the “Submission Procedure” box below.

STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE

Scientific presentations

Paper presentations are scheduled for 20 minutes (and 10 minutes discussion, followed by a global discussion of 20 minutes).

Junior Forum

PhD students and master students are kindly invited to present their thesis and (preliminary) results in poster sessions on the Junior Forum. Posters need to relate to one panel topic.

Experiental and outdoor events

Researchers, lectures, teachers, and students can apply for organising experiential and outdoor activities with a duration of max. 2h. Please indicate any needs (material, equipment, assistance, etc.) and the maximum number of participants. Each event needs a connection to at least one panel topic.

Workshops

Researchers, lectures, teachers, and students can apply for organising a workshop with a duration of max. 2h. Please indicate any needs (material, equipment, assistance, etc.) and the maximum number of participants. Each workshop needs a connection to at least one panel topic.

We will give an information on keynote speakers as soon as possible.

PARTICIPATION

The conference is open for all researchers, lecturers, teachers, and students around the world and addresses especially members of the EUGREEN Alliance. At the end of the conference the best paper award will be given. The conference language is English. The conference proceedings will be published open access by the end of 2026.