Passing On, Reflection, Setting Out: Two LoLE Cohorts Meet at Leuphana
Kick-off and wrap-up of the LoLE training in February 2026: cohort 1 completes its one-year ESD training, while cohort 2 starts the programme.
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How School Leaders Shape Sustainable and Future-Oriented Schools
The LoLE Training brings together school leaders who actively drive change within their schools and advance Education for Sustainable Development through a Whole School Approach and in the context of Learner Empowerment.
Leading Sustainability: New Toolkit for School Leaders
In light of ongoing transformations in the world, how can schools become future-proof? How can they enable young people to develop agency to shape a more sustainable society? And what can school leaders do to embark on this journey and take their school community along?
A new publication, produced
Beyond Schools: The Whole Institution Approach in Non-formal Food Education
How can non-formal education embed sustainability across a whole institution? In a new study (in German) in the journal Haushalt in Bildung & Forschung, Verena Staudinger, Daniel Fischer and Jorrit Holst examine how the Whole Institution Approach, an approach to promoting sustainability across an entire institution, can be put
UNESCO Chair Lecture: Jorrit Holst on Whole-School Sustainability
What does it take for a whole school to become a place where sustainability is learned? In his lecture, Jorrit Holst (FU Berlin) presented the Whole-School Approach, what is known about its effectiveness, and pathways for transformation.
The UNESCO Chair Lecture Series, hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Higher
Vocational Education for Sustainable Development: A Whole School Approach Guide
A practical guide (in German) for vocational schools that want to become places of sustainability, from school development in the Whole School Approach to lesson design. By Jorrit Holst and Harald Hantke for Greenpeace's Schools for Earth.