What it's about
For the past year, Sineglossa has been a partner of EDUS – Education for Sustainable Development, a European project created to strengthen the role of education in the transition towards sustainability. While the European Union has already translated the 2030 Agenda into policies and strategies, educational systems are often not yet fully equipped to bring the topic of sustainable development into classrooms and learning environments.
EDUS aims to bridge this gap by developing a program and teaching resources that teachers, trainers, and professionals can use with both students and adults. Sustainability is addressed as an integrated set of environmental, social, economic, and technological dimensions—with the latter considered essential to enabling the others.
What has happened in a year
In its first year of activity (January 2024 – September 2025), the project developed the EDUS Framework, a theoretical structure built through desk research and international focus groups, designed to map skills and needs related to sustainability education in VET (Vocational Education and Training) pathways.
Building on this work, in November 2024, teachers and trainers from various European countries gathered in Garðabær, Iceland, to co-create the EDUS Toolkit, a collection of practical materials to support sustainability teaching, alongside the EDUS Training Program, an educational methodology that integrates both the toolkit and the framework. These two tools are currently being tested and validated during a transnational meeting in Litija, Slovenia.
At the same time, the EDUS Podcast was launched—a five-episode audio series available on all platforms.
The podcast
The podcast is designed as a space to explore sustainable development and green best practices in Europe. The five-episode series is aimed at those who want to better understand the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and see how they are applied in real-life contexts, through the voices of experts and changemakers.
Each episode features an interview with a different guest, offering stimulating perspectives on sustainability, environmental education, and responsible innovation.
The first episode features Dr. Esteban Nicolini, co-creator of a master’s program at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, entirely based on the SDGs. His interview provides a concrete example of how education can act as a driver of sustainable change.
The second episode features Lovro Jurečič, a Slovenian blacksmith who shares his journey towards sustainable craftsmanship. Blending a philosophy of slow growth with lessons learned from mistakes, Lovro shows how sustainability can also emerge from the work of human hands.
