Eco-Literacy and Green Education for Climate Action (ECOLitAct) is an Erasmus Plus Partnerships for Cooperation project with the following goals:

- to empower VET practitioners/educators and learners to counter misinformation related to environment and climate change,

- to inspire them to adopt eco-friendly behaviours/attitudes.

- to develop digital Green education/training opportunities and material embracing “eco-literacy” (MIL applied to ecology and climate change) and that focus on behavioural/attitude shifts while being available to all, especially to individuals with fewer opportunities and in a digital format.

Are you a vocational educator or trainer? Are you interested in climate change and looking for materials to help your students improve their media literacy skills? You can counteract climate dis- and misinformation by strengthening critical thinking skills and ecoliteracy with the ECOlitAct handbook!

No matter where you and your students are on your educational journey, you can pick the chapter that best fits your needs.

The thematic areas covered in the Open Educational Resources and Learning Scenarios include:

1. Tackling misinformation
2. Climate change
3. Climate denialism
4. Climate and environment
5. Climate Behaviour
6. Waste & Recycling
7. Mitigation and Consumption

The toolkit provides an overview of all twenty open educational resources and five learning scenarios that were developed by the ECOLitAct partnership. Each of them contains a direct link to access the resource in Word, PowerPoint, PDF, or Video formats, making it easy for educators to download, adapt, and use the information in the most suitable way in their learning activities.

Eco-Literacy is the term coined by this project to refer to media and information literacy (MIL) applied to topics related to ecology and climate change. An example of successful eco-literacy competences could be the identification of fake news expressing that climate change does not exist.

Eco-Literacy and Green Education for Climate Action (ECOLitAct) is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, and led by SwIdeas in Sweden. The project consortium includes partner organisations from Germany (iberika education group gGmbH), Slovenia (Andragoški zavod Ljudska univerza Velenje), Greece (Active Citizens Partnership), and Italy (European Grants International Academy).