Educating for a green transition: youth for sustainability

Abstract

Designing sustainability-related competences and their development in the current ecological transition context is an effective response to the need to train workers and citizens of the future, specifically when it comes to young people and their decisive drive towards change. The relevance of such subject matter is most certainly supported by the significant efforts mobilized by the European Union towards an active involvement of younger generations in global change. A process that brings forward the urgent need for investment policies and strategies in the field of “green education”. On the other hand, it seems clear that a different sensitivity towards the topic of sustainability is emerging in the youth: a trend that must be duly considered in creating new training opportunities whilst fighting the subtle sense of disempowerment that at times is observed.