GreenComp is a reference framework for sustainability competencies. It provides a common ground to learners and guidance to educators, advancing a consensual definition of what sustainability as a competence entails. It responds to the growing need for people to improve and develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to live, work and act in a sustainable manner. It is designed to support education and training programmes for lifelong learning. It is written for all learners, irrespective of their age and their education level and in any learning setting – formal, non-formal and informal. Sustainability competencies can help learners become systemic and critical thinkers, as well as develop agency, and form a knowledge basis for everyone who cares about our planet’s present and future state.
Virtual business simulators are innovative tools in business higher education. Their use, as a part of game-based learning, is attracting increasing interest, as this method allows us to understand interactions between business decisions and their results. In this paper, we present our case study of an IT-based business simulator, which includes aspects of sustainability, and the initial experience of a group of test students participating in the business game.
This paper discusses methodological criteria for environmental education. The place of environmental education in the curriculum has led to its being considered as a dimension that should cut across different disciplines, instead of offering a corpus of contents by itself. Nevertheless, experience has shown that ecology has systematically filled up the contents of environmental education.
Environmental education creates an overall perspective, which acknowledges the fact that natural environment and man-made environments are interdependent. Environmental education should consider the environment in its totality and should be a continuous lifelong process beginning at the school level and continuing through all stages because the best way to attempt to bring about a change in the attitude in society is through children.
