This guide has been created from the collective work, reflections, and notes of fourteen educators from across Europe who took part in the EYES Educators’ Workshop on Climate Storytelling in October 2025 in Brussels.
Over three days, we educators explored a wide range of approaches and challenges to climate change education, each session offering new tools, perspectives, and ways of better equipping young people to understand current crises and shape their future.
The EYES workshop covered:
- Systems thinking in climate education;
- The use of storytelling and journalism as learning tools;
- The foundations of climate change science;
- The complexities of climate injustice;
- Alternative economic thinking such as Doughnut economics and degrowth;
- The biodiversity crisis and its interconnections with the climate crisis;
- The role of frameworks such as GreenComp in building sustainability competences.
We also reflected on our trajectories as changemakers in the professional, civic and personal spheres of our lives, and experimented with practical exercises – from playing Pathbreak Biodiversity Jenga to interviewing one another as journalists and deliberating about shaping sectors in the economy.
This guide is the result of that shared learning process. Throughout the three days, we gathered in smaller groups to reflect on the workshop’s content and to share our challenges and ideas, based on our professional experiences and on the innovative content of the workshop.
This guide brings together our main insights on teaching climate change, climate justice, systems change, degrowth, and fostering student engagement through storytelling. This guide is the culmination of the Empowering Youth through Environmental Storytelling (EYES) project, an Erasmus+ co-funded collaboration between The Environment and Human Rights Academy, News Decoder, and the Young Educators European Association.
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