The ECOSTAR project, funded by Erasmus+, aims to use digital technologies & exchanges between countries to look at ways to encourage & enable learners & teachers to incorporate sustainable development into the curriculum & make a positive contribution to sustainability in their all aspects of their daily lives.

The strategic objectives of the project include Increasing awareness of sustainable development initiatives at local, regional, national & European levels in learners & teachers by focussing on green practices for eco-friendly lives; examining how to increase knowledge of sustainable development in teaching staff to make lasting impacts in pedagogical work with learners; discussing the relationship between sustainability, educational institutions & the curriculum, while focussing on the impacts of everyday individual actions; promoting & open up the use of digital technologies to learn about & fight for sustainability for learners & teachers; facilitating equality of access to sustainability learning opportunities for learners across sectors including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, thereby broadening horizons & increasing awareness of the added-value of the EU & being a European citizen through contacts with participants from other countries

Operationally, the project will develop ways to increase awareness of sustainable development in staff & learners & incorporate sustainable development ideas & practices into educational institutions; develop ways to share daily actions taken by individual staff & learners in everyday contexts to support sustainable development using digital technologies; design a customisable model for an eco-sustainable TLA to increase awareness of environmental & climate-change challenges; design adaptable models & tools for digitally-based eco-sustainable sharing, promotion & legacy activities.