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On 1st May 2004, the EU has been enlarged by another 10
countries and more are about to join. This enlargement
needs to bring with it a proactive involvement of
European citizens to efficiently understand and employ
the concepts involved in Sustainable Development (SD).
Since the World Summits in Rio de Janeiro (1992) and
Johannesburg (2002), sustainable development (SD) has
become an internationally recognised principle and goal.
As a matter of fact, this is one of the Annual
Priorities set out in the SOCRATES call for 2004/5. This
is also reflected in the Lisbon European Council
strategic goal.
European citizens therefore need to be urgently trained
in less theoretical and more practical ways if they are
to be realistically motivated in being core drivers for
achieving SD by 2010. This situation indicates the
urgent need of providing adequate training to European
adults (e.g. females upbringing their children) that for
some reason are not aware, or have not had the
opportunity of learning on the concept SD.
To achieve this goal, there is a need first to train
adult trainers about the concept of SD - this is
necessary because SD is a complex subject: there are
many aspects, levels, problems and questions that, if
inadequately understood, concrete steps towards
achieving it could be blocked. The aim of this project
is precisely to create a Grundtvig 1 course on
Sustainable Development for adult trainers. |
