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The Office for Climate Education is engaged in various field projects about climate change education, at various scales, from local to national or regional.
The implementation and funding of these field projects are based on specific partnerships
The Office for Climate Education (OCE) has been affiliated with the Higher Diploma in Applied Arts (DSAA) in Graphic Design at Jacques Prévert High School in Boulogne-Billancourt since 2021. As part of this collaboration, OCE and DSAA are jointly exploring how design contributes to pedagogical practices in climate change education.
During this second edition, the goal was to envision possible futures under climate constraints, raising educational, scientific, and creative challenges. Students pondered topics such as: How will we eat in 2042? How will we live on coastlines in 2042? What will be our sources of energy in 2042?
On January 27, 2023, at the Académie du Climat, the opening of the exhibition of the students' graphic projects took place: around ten educational risograph posters on the theme "How will we live in 2042?". This exhibition was accompanied by a roundtable discussion and writing workshops focusing on new narratives.
These high-quality graphic posters are designed as mediation tools intended for middle school teachers to address the issues of projection and imagination in a world under climate constraints.
* It should be noted that these posters have not been validated by the Scientific and Pedagogical Committee of the OCE.
The ALEC (Latin America for Climate Education) project aims to promote climate change education in Latin America through the adaptation of pedagogical resources to the local context, the professional development of teachers and the creation of a community of practice.
ALEC was initially implemented in Mexico and Colombia, but the project has since expanded its geographical reach by establishing partnerships in Central America (including Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica), as well as in Peru and Argentina.
The OCE's goal is to promote quality education on climate change for primary and secondary school students around the world and induce the behavioral changes necessary for the ecological transition. Classroom-based educational projects should enable young people not only to understand the phenomena at stake, but also to think of solutions for adaptation and mitigation of climate change and lead to the concrete application, through actions in the classroom, of the school, town or community.
In this context, the OCE, together with several collaborators, launched the ALEC (Latin America for Climate Education) project. This five-year pilot project aims to promote education on climate change in Latin America, more specifically in Mexico and Colombia (with the ambition to include other countries on the continent).
To achieve this, the project participants are working on three main aspects:
Adaptation of pedagogical resources to the local context: create a set of quality, multilingual, interdisciplinary and free access educational resources for teachers and trainers, based on the IPCC reports.
Professional development of teachers: train and support primary and secondary teachers, as well as trainers, in order to update their knowledge, discover new pedagogies (inquiry-based science education, project-based learning, interdisciplinarity, etc.) and new tools ( especially digital).
Creation of a community of practice: organize conferences every year throughout the project in Latin America to bring together local professors, as well as international personalities and experts, in order to promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences between professors and scientists.
