everGREEN- step 2

EverGREEN in Practice Step 2: Planning the Greening

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

STEP 2: PLANNING THE GREENING PROCESS

RAISING AWARENESS AND FORMULATING THE RATIONALE

DEVELOPING A VISION

PROMOTING BROADER ENGAGEMENT

ASSESSING CURRENT SITUATION

DEVELOPING AN INSTITUTIONAL GREENING PLAN OF ACTION

EXAMPLES FOR GREENING GOALS

CONCLUSIONS

DESIGNING STEPS TOWARDS VET SUSTAINABLE TRANSITION

In this presentation you find innovative approaches, methods and tools to support you in implementing Step 2: Planning the Greening Process!

Step 1: Under-standing the process

Step 2: Planning the greening process

Step 3: Imple-menting the plans

Step 4: Monitoring and assessing the results

Recap: What have we done in Step 1?

What we have so far:

• Clear understanding what is meant by “Greening Process”
• Alignment with official mandates and policies
• Overview of your support within the organisation
• First priorities regarding the greening area

Now it is time to start our Planning Phase!

DEVELOPING A VISION

Once all the information necessary to determine the direction to be taken has been assembled, a vision can be created. What we have so far:

• Clear understanding what is meant by “Greening Process”
• Alignment with official mandates and policies
• Overview of your support within the organisation
• First priorities regarding the greening area
• A rationale why we are doing this

DEVELOPING A VISION

Once all the information necessary to determine the direction to be taken has been assembled, a vision can be created. What we have so far:

• Clear understanding what is meant by “Greening Process”
• Alignment with official mandates and policies
• Overview of your support within the organisation
• First priorities regarding the greening area
• A rationale why we are doing this

Why planning matters

Plan for a Greener VET: After Step 1 in which we created an understanding how to make VET more sustainable, the next step is to create a plan with goals for the short and long term. This plan focuses on making the whole institution better for students and communities. Why Planning Matters: It's important to plan carefully when reshaping an institution. If the planning is not done well, and there is a lack of communication, it can make the staff and students unhappy. This can make it harder to try again later.

Tasks in Step 2

We divided Step 2 into five sub-tasks to help you plan your greening process. We present all 5 tasks on the following slides and provide you with accompanying tools and templates to help you manage the tasks.

Planning the change

Getting People on Board

1. Raising Awareness And Formulating The Rationale 2. Developing A Vision 3. Promoting Broader Engagement 4. Assessing Current Realities 5. Developing An Institutional Greening Plan Of Action

Task 1: RAISING AWARENESS AND FORMULATING RATIONALE

• Formulating a rationale might be the most important step.
• A sense of urgency must be created in the organization in order to find fellow campaigners.
• Everyone involved must be convinced of the importance of the task.
• Everyone should see the process as important and helpful for students, the community, staff, and the institution.

Dimensions of a Rationale

Formulating the Rationale

Economic and labour market dimension

Environmental dimension

Social dimension

Cultural dimension

When formulating a rationale it might be helpful to analyse the following dimensions

FORMULATING THE RATIONALE

Use the Handout: Formulating the Rationale Write down aspects in the 4 dimensions why a greening process for your institution is needed

Task 2: DEVELOPING A VISION

Once all the information necessary to determine the direction to be taken has been assembled, a vision can be created.

• A vision helps to give direction to the individual greening plan as it progresses.
• Each further planned measure can be checked to see whether it supports the vision or not.
• The vision can be used for further communication within the organisation.

Task2: DEVELOPING A VISION

Use the Handout: Developing a Vision Statement This Handout guides you through the process of developing a Vision.

Task 3: PROMOTING BROADER ENGAGEMENT

• You will need to get people on board from management to students to implement a greening process.

• Organise meetings with management, colleagues, student boards etc. to advertise the topic.

• Use the rationale and the developed vision to get broader commitment in your organisation. If you created a good argument in your rationale why your organisation should engage in sustainability measures, it should not be hard to convince people!

Task 4: ASSESSING CURRENT SITUATION

Before creating a greening plan, it’s crucial for an organization to assess its current situation and ambition level. This helps identify strengths, gaps, and readiness for change, allowing for a tailored, realistic plan. This strategic assessment lays the foundation for a successful and sustainable transformation

Task 4: ASSESSING CURRENT SITUATION

• The everGREEN team developed an Assessment Tool

• The tool supports you to assess your level of readiness and your level of ambition

• Based on your readiness and ambition you will find yourselve in one of 9 scenarios

• The tool will provide you with tailored mini-courses fitting this scenario!

Task 4: ASSESSING CURRENT SITUATION

You can find the everGREEN Assessment Tool on our Online Support Tool:

Go to Assessment Tool

Task 5: DEVELOPING AN INSTITUTIONAL GREENING PLAN OF ACTION

• Now it is time to start developing your Individual Greening Plan!

• Remember: Not all that needs to be done can be undertaken at once!

• The first step is to consider which goals should be set.

• During the next steps in the Greening Process the plan will be developed step by step - implementation steps, resources, assessment and monitoring, etc.

WHAT DOES A PLAN CONTAIN?

• Goals: Overarching goals
• Sub-goals: Smaller, subordinate goals
• Target: What you want to achieve
• Baseline: The current situation regarding the goal?
• Benchmark: A good point of reference against which the progress can be compared or measured.
• Opportunities/Threats: Enabling or hindering factors
• End-Goal: Measurable goal
• Timeframe: Indication of time horizon

You find some examples on the next slides

EXAMPLES FOR GREENING GOALS

Greening the community and workplace

Greening the curriculum and training

Greening the campus

Greening the organisational culture

Goal: Reduce institutions eco-footprint Sub-goal 1: Energy management

Target Reduce emissions and overall energy consumption

Timeframe over next 3 years

End-Goal Reduce by 15%

Benchmark OCFMA Average EkWh: 26.84

Baseline 7,537 tonnes/year EkWh/ Per Student: 29.19

Opportunity/Threat Demand management Payback analysis

EXAMPLES FOR GREENING GOALS

Goal: Enhance students sustainability awareness Sub-goal 1: Integrate the SDGs in the curriculum

Greening the campus

Greening the organisational culture

Greening the community and workplace

Greening the curriculum and training

Target Teach the SDGs to every student

Timeframe By the next school year

End-Goal Integrate the SDGs in the curriculum with 1hr per week

Opportunity/Threat Lesson plans by the Global Schools Program

Benchmark Italy: 33hrs per year = 1 hr per week

Baseline No integration of SDGs in current lessons

EXAMPLES FOR GREENING GOALS

Greening the community and workplace

Greening the curriculum and training

Greening the campus

Greening the organisational culture

Goal: Increase sustainable behaviour and consumtion Sub-goal 1: Introduce a carbon footprint monitoring

Opportunity/Threat - very time consuming assessment + everGREEN Mini-course how to introduce an Eco-Management System

End-Goal Carry out a carbon foot-print assessment with a student group + formulate at least 3 reduction goals

Benchmark Successful introduction of an EMAS (Eco Management System in Schools) (see Mini-course)

Timeframe Until July 2024

Baseline There is no monitoring of the carbon footprint

Target Promote sustainable live and work choices

EXAMPLES FOR GREENING GOALS

DEVELOPMENT OF A BASIC GREENING PLAN

Use the work sheet: Development of Basic Greening Plan This work sheet helps you to clearly define your goals!

4. Worksheets

4. CONCLUSIONS

When you have completed the suggested worksheets, you will have started to develop your Greening Plan. Then you can proceed to step 3 Implementing the Greening Plan

6. REFERENCES

Books/Papers/Articles

Further reading

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 the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.