The Blue Heart of Gozo
Green Education, Sustainability & Climate Action
"Learn from nature. Act for the future."
A practical week on sustainability and climate education for teachers who want to move from awareness to action — with methods that scale to any classroom.
What this week is really about
Climate literacy is now part of every teacher's job. This programme gives educators an honest, hopeful and pedagogically sound way to bring sustainability into daily teaching — without moralising, greenwashing or overwhelm.
You'll work with case studies from the Mediterranean, project-based frameworks, and simple whole-school strategies for reducing impact and engaging students. The Blue Heart of Gozo — its sea, its water scarcity, its slow food traditions — grounds the whole week in something visible and real.
The Gozo connection
Water, biodiversity and food security are lived questions on a small Mediterranean island. Learning here is not theoretical.
Training focus
- Climate literacy for educators — what to teach and what to avoid
- Designing sustainability projects with real student agency
- Whole-school green strategies (waste, energy, food, mobility)
- Working with local partners, NGOs and community initiatives
- Emotional dimensions of climate education (eco-anxiety, hope, action)
Learning outcomes
- A sustainability project blueprint for your school or class
- A curated resource pack of activities across age groups
- A shared network of European educators working on the same theme
- Confidence to lead climate conversations with students and colleagues
Book a scheduled week
These are the concrete Erasmus+ courses running under The Blue Heart of Gozo. Every course is a full week on Gozo with the same accreditation and paperwork.
Green Education & Climate Action for Schools
From awareness to action — build a genuinely sustainable school culture.
Priorities this programme covers
Ideal for
- Teachers of any subject integrating sustainability
- Eco-school and Green School coordinators
- Geography, biology and citizenship teachers
- School leaders working on ESD strategies
Why Genista Gozo
Direct field visits, local expertise and a Mediterranean lens that European classrooms rarely get to work with first-hand.
English B1+ recommended · translation available in Polish, German and Russian.
Bring this programme to your team.
We run this programme as a scheduled Erasmus+ week and as a tailored group mobility for whole schools and consortia.