Key Takeaways from our webinar
Green Career Education:
Empowering Young People
to Shape a Sustainable Future
What was covered in the webinar?
How can we speak with students about the future in times of climate crisis without increasing anxiety?
How can we connect climate education and career education in a way that builds hope, critical thinking and agency?
This webinar explores practical ways to empower young people to see themselves as active shapers of a sustainable future.
PROGRAMME
Introduction to Sustainable Career Guidance
Professor Tristram Hooley presented the five-dimensional framework of environmentally sustainable career guidance and showed how sustainability can be meaningfully integrated into career learning.
Green Jobs for YOU
An introduction to the Austrian initiative “Green Jobs for YOU” and its approach to sustainable career opportunities.
Hands-On Activities
Experience selected activities from the Green Career Education Resource Pack in a practical, interactive session.
Official Launch
Celebration the launch of the Handbook Green Career Education and Resource Pack for practitioners, providing new tools for career guidance with a sustainability focus.
The webinar featured...
TRISTRAm hooley
Professor of Careers Education at the University of Derby and visiting professor at Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Inland Norway. He has published hundreds of books, papers and reports looking at a wide variety of issues in education, the labour market and career. He is the Chief Editor of the NICEC journal and on the boards of the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy and the Career Development Policy Group. He also writes the blog Adventures in Career Development at https://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com/
Check out his webinar presentation HERE.
markus gruber
works at the Department of Environment and Energy Management of the Province of Lower Austria (NÖ), which supports the transition towards sustainable development, climate protection and energy transformation. The department provides guidance, education and projects in the areas of renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate change adaptation for municipalities, organisations, businesses and individuals.
mathias wiener-Vyplel
works at JUSY (Jugendservice Ybbstal), an organisation offering a wide range of counselling and support services for young people. Their activities cover education, career choice guidance, outreach social work with disadvantaged groups and therapeutic support.
eva kavková
is a career practitioner and director of EKS, with over twenty years of experience in career education and guidance. Sustainability is a key focus of her work. Eva is as a core team member and expert in the Erasmus+ projects Exploring Green Guidance and Green Career Education, and co-author of several international publications and articles on green guidance, including work on ethical challenges and evidence for sustainable career practice. She regularly contributes to national and international conferences, bringing a strong practitioner perspective to debates on sustainability and social justice in career guidance.
lenka němcová
is a career practitioner and learning designer at EKS, focusing on sustainable career thinking. She is a core team member of the Erasmus+ projects Green Career Education and Exploring Green Guidance, and co-author of methodological materials and publications for career practitioners and educators. Her work supports the integration of sustainability into career education in a practical and accessible way.
Check out Eva´s and Lenka´s webinar presentation HERE.
Useful links
- Green Guidance Project Website
- Adventures in career development – Tristram Hooley’s thoughts about careers
- Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling
- Five signposts to a socially just approach to career guidance
- Sustainable Futures: Empowering Planet-Friendly Career Pathways
- Euroguidance Newtork – Recorded webinars
- Euroguidance: Guidance in a Sustainable World
EKS, z.s. | www.ekskurzy.cz/en
We are a Czech educational and consulting organization with more than twenty years of experience in the field of career development and counselling. As the first organization in the Czech Republic to introduce the concept of a green career into the national education system, we continue to develop it in a European context. We support schools and educational institutions in linking learning with practice and in creating environments that enable students to make informed decisions about their future.
Erasmus+ | Green Career Education
This event is part of the Erasmus+ project “Green Career Education,” co-funded by the European Union. The views expressed at the event are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Union or the European Agency for Education and Culture (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA is responsible for the views expressed.