TREnD (Teaching Resilience and Environmental Democracy) is an innovative project that advances environmental education through collaborative assignments, virtual exchanges, and VR/XR experiences. The initiative promotes resilience, environmental democracy, and sustainability by supporting academic staff development and enhancing students’ digital and intercultural competences. TREnD also supports civic participation and engagement as well as helps learners recognise and address environmental misinformation.

🔗https://trendedu.eu/

Main outputs:

• Staff training programme
  Teaching staff at the participating institutions will receive training in the methodology and its tools. This training will enable the project consortium to establish common guidelines for interdisciplinary Education to Sustainable Development (ESD) teaching, facilitate the exchange of cultural norms, and foster competences in intercultural communication and metacognition.
• Virtual exchanges
  The consortium partners will design and deliver a series of virtual exchanges based on cooperative online research and assignments, incorporating resilience-building strategies into collaborative map-making activities.
• Extended reality experiences
  Students will lead the creation of XR experiences that highlight areas of ecological distress. These immersive tools will serve as innovative educational resources, raising awareness, promoting sustainable action, and providing participatory, experiential platforms that deepen students’ understanding and engagement.

Partners:

• Leiden University, The Netherlands (cordinator)
• Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
• University of Helsinki, Finland
• University of Bologna
• Media & Learning Association
• Stichting Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, The Netherlands

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the
author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Stichting Nuffic. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held
responsible for them. Project Number: 2025-1-NL01-KA220-HED-000355762