Step 1: Defining the concept of sustainability by

gathering documents and research, sharing informa-

tion and discussing them.

Step 2: Studying the organisations in order to pro-

duce common criteria for sustainability.

Step 3: Making plans to train teachers and trainers.

Teachers and trainers will share ideas with each

other. In order to do this ecologically and economi-

cally, we will train our staff to use social media tools

for communication.

Step 4: Integrating aspects of sustainability into

courses and training programmes. Each Partner will

arrange courses, lectures, events etc. in their organi-

sations for their own target groups. Students' and

interest groups' awareness will rise.

Step 5: We will gather and document the good prac-

tices identified in the pilot courses and lectures and

discuss them.

Step 6: We will devise a dossier of good practices

and challenges using selected social media tools and

train our teachers and trainers to use the tools.

Step 7: Each Partner will devise a working sustaina-

bility strategy and action programme as well as a

follow-up plan.

Our strategic steps

CRISTAL A

Grundtvig Partnership

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C R I S T A L P A R T N E R S H I P

Valkeakoski Lifelong Learning Centre

- Coordinator - Finland

Cleaner Production Center Austria

Tartu Rahvaülikool SA Estonia

Porsgrunn Voksenopplæringssenter Norway

IEBA Centro de Iniciativas Empresariais e Sociais Portugal

Training 2000 Italy

Afyonkarahisar İl Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü, Turkey

HAS Den Bosch The Netherlands

We will address these issues from the point

of view of :

1) the participating organisations,

2) the staff and

3) learners and other interest groups in the

communities.

At the organisational level, we will develop

common guidelines for a working sustaina-

bility strategy and action programme for

participating organizations.

Our teachers and trainers will share ideas

about sustainability in teaching. We will

identify successful practices and possibilities

for innovation and share them with each

other. Our teachers and trainers will learn

how to promote sustainability through cour-

se planning and teaching activities.

One important goal of this project is to

gather an “idea bank”, a resource material

for teachers and trainers that they can use

in their everyday work.

The Grundtvig Partnership CRISTAL

(2011-2013) consists of eight European

organisations who deal with adult learners,

often from disadvantaged areas or disadvan-

taged positions in society.

The Partner organisations are concerned

about ecological, economic, social and cul-

tural sustainability in their organisations

and in the surrounding communities. As

educational and training organisations, we

are in a key position to promote aspects of

sustainability in our communities.

Our goal is to promote sustainability on

strategic and practical levels in our organisa-

tions, and then to pass on what we learn to

our students and trainees, customers and

other interest groups by teaching topics con-

cerning sustainability and by setting good

examples.

In order to deal with these goals, we need

new ideas and new ways to implement sus-

tainability in the teaching, training and

other everyday activities in our organiza-

tions.

CRISTAL — A Grundtvig Partnership

THE CONCEPT OF

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The participants of the CRISTAL partnership

agree that, in the spirit of “Our Common Futu-

re” (the Brundtland Report, 1987), sustainable

development is development that “meets the

needs of the present without compromising the ability

of future generations to meet their own needs.” The

main idea of sustainable development is the

conservation, preservation and maintenance of

values. In essence, as the “Our Common Future”

report states, it “is a process of change”.

We agree that sustainable development compri-

ses the three core elements of environmental,

economic and social-cultural development;

sustainability can be achieved when we take

into account all three aspects. We, as educatio-

nal and training organisations, are in key posi-

tions to promote these views. One of our key

tasks is to reorient our activities towards the

principles of sustainable development.