Sustainability Education
Globeducate´s commitment to Eco-Schools
Eco-Schools is the world´s largest sustainability education programme and it offers an accessible framework for schools in every country in which we work.
Student-led action for a sustainable future
Globeducate schools are all committed to being Eco-Schools and to achieving and retaining Green Flag status – using this globally recognised benchmark, and seven-step process as shown in the diagram, as a tangible tool for meeting our vision to address the UN Sustainability Development Goals 2030 and to prepare each student to become a global citizen who can shape the world.
Our Eco-Schools councils have regular action-planning meetings, including students of all ages in appropriate ways - from Early Years to Secondary.
Each school has its own teacher coordinator who leads on our global agenda projects and oversees the Eco-Schools accreditation and journey. These teachers also meet regularly with others in this role, online, to share good practice and to inspire and learn from each other.
In 2024, the 30th anniversary year of Eco-Schools, 50 of our schools are on the Eco-Schools pathway and 38 are already certified and proudly display their green flags.
Many groups of institutions have taken sustainability as a core value. Globeducate is an important group with 65 schools working with the Eco-Schools programme. They are doing exemplary work to empower the young with competencies to live in the world of today and tomorrow where impacts and actions are needed to reduce emissions.”
Pramod Kumar Sharmar,
Senior Director of Education for
FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education).
Hands-on learning in Globeducate schools
The Eco-Schools committees in different parts of the world have shared fantastic projects, from beekeeping on the school rooftop garden in Toronto to a project supporting street children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sunga Bana, started by Hattemer students in France. In Portugal, students worked with a local artist to create art installations of marine mammals made with plastic. In Spain the President of Eco-Escuelas visited our schools and spoke to students about the differences they can make, and in Canada and India, Eco-Schools met with our Chief Academic Officers.
Since our Globeducate Agenda launched in 2020, RIS Rome´s Eco-School activities were recognised by global international education awards The PIEoneer Awards, being shortlisted for the Sustainability International Impact Award. In 2023, Agora Portals International School in Spain was a Top Ten finalist of The World´s Best Schools Prize for Environmental Action (read more here), and in September 2024 ISN Nice was recognised for their environmental projects and commitment at the 2024 Nice Climate Summit, with the "Engaged for Ocean" label. Read more here.
Celebrating the planet as a global team
Our schools celebrate United Nations official days to support eco-awareness and conservation. Across our network, our students and teachers work with their own Eco-School committees and come up with inspiring ways to mark globally recognised eco events such as Earth Hour, Earth Week and Earth Day, as well as those less well known such as International Bee Day, International Oceans Day and World Wildlife Day.
These days unite our whole Globeducate family as our students and teachers from across different age groups and cultures share what they have done with their contemporaries and families. By building these events into our school calendars, teachers are able to provide students with meaningful contexts for these events which have long-lasting impact.
Read more about the Globeducate Agenda and our partnership with WWF-UK here.