Highlight on digital competences 2021

Highlight on greener future 2021

In 2021 and 2022, Nordplus welcomes applications for the program having the theme ”Enhancing educational cooperation and preparing pupils, students and adults for a greener future .” This Nordplus highlight/emphasis relates to all Nordplus programs and to all sectors within the field of education and training . The focus relates to themes, not only in a technical sense, but in a broad societal way . Integrated with this theme is also the Nordic competitiveness based on knowledge, innovation, mobilities and digital integration .

The aim of the highlight concept in Nordplus is to draw attention to the issue of this theme in education without giving formal priority to the applications addressing this . The highlight is presented on the Nordplus homepage www .nordplusonline .org and in the Nordplus handbook .

The highlight applications are found across the themes of section B .7 “Participation by theme as presented in the Grant Proposals from all the sub-programs . Obviously, they are found under the theme Green growth, climate change and sustainable future, but also under the themes of, for example, educational methods and pedagogical tools, active citizenship and entrepreneurship .

As part of the assessment procedure, evaluators are asked to identify all applications related to this year’s highlight . The topics of the applications show that the understanding and relevance of the green highlight is very broad . Thus, the topics range from agrobiodiversity and urban gardening to eco-tourism to green financing, green mathematics and food-waste .

Nordplus received 96 applications under this theme and the administration has proposed to fund 69 such projects . In the Nordplus performance targets for 2021, the aim was to have at least 30 approved applications within the green highlight . This target has hereby been met .

The result for each program is presented by the main administrators in the proposal notes .