Webinar - Sustainability and Business Education: Potential or Paradox?
Join us for a webinar this September!
Sustainability and Business Education: Potential or Paradox?
Can business education effectively contribute to sustainable development? How can we prepare young people to make responsible decisions in a world where economic goals increasingly need to be balanced with environmental and social responsibility?
During this webinar, experts will explore the relationship between education, business, and sustainability, discussing whether these areas reinforce one another or present new challenges and paradoxes. The session will provide an opportunity to gain fresh insights, exchange experiences, and reflect on how education can foster the competencies needed for a more sustainable future.
We warmly invite teachers, educators, representatives of educational institutions, local authorities, and everyone interested in education for sustainable development and responsible business to join us.
We look forward to seeing you online!
SCONE Project: Donation of Computer Equipment to Schools
As part of the SCONE project, co-financed by the Interreg South Baltic 2021–2027 Programme, the Association of Polish Communes Euroregion Baltic provided modern computer equipment to three schools participating in the project:
VI General Secondary School named after the Defenders of Hel in School Complex No. 6 in Gdańsk,
General Władysław Anders Technical Schools Complex in Elbląg,
Kazimierz Jagiellończyk II General Secondary School with Bilingual Classes in Elbląg.
The equipment will support the implementation of project activities by facilitating classes, workshops and teamwork using modern technologies. It will provide students and teachers with improved conditions for developing digital competences and working on solutions related to sustainable development and climate protection.
The fifth webinar as part of the SCONE project
The fifth webinar as part of the SCONE – Sustainability Education project is now behind us! On April 13, 2026, another online meeting was held for teachers and educators, focusing on the topic: “How to effectively teach about sustainable development in schools and vocational education?”
During the webinar, participants had the opportunity to learn about practical approaches to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and share experiences regarding the implementation of these topics in their daily teaching practice.
The session was led by Niels Henrik Helms, a senior consultant at CELF and an expert with extensive experience in pedagogical development, digitalization, and learning technologies. His presentation provided plenty of inspiration and concrete guidance for teachers and those involved in education.
Thank you to all participants for attending, actively participating, and contributing to a valuable discussion!
The Hackathon Finale as part of the SCONE Project
Yesterday marked the final stage of the international school Hackathon organized as part of the #SCONE project. The event featured presentations of projects focused on sustainable development. The meeting was held online, and the topics covered sustainable development and green innovation.
Student teams from Poland and Lithuania presented the project ideas they had developed during earlier stages of the work. Each team had up to 10 minutes to present their idea, including a brief overview of the concept, the project’s objective, proposed solutions, and potential benefits for the environment and the school community. The presentations were addressed both to the other event participants and to the evaluation panel, which assessed the students’ ideas in terms of their innovation, feasibility, and significance for sustainable development.
Among the concepts presented were projects focusing on: creating green spaces and school gardens, rainwater management, reducing food waste, promoting the reuse of items, utilizing renewable energy in schools, and creating outdoor learning spaces.
The hackathon provided an opportunity for young people from different countries to exchange ideas and demonstrate that students are capable of creating creative and practical solutions that support sustainable development.
Teacher Workshop - Day 3
The third and final day of the teacher workshop as part of the #SCONE project in Rostock has come to an end.
The third day was devoted to summarizing and presenting the work. The results of the teamwork were organized and refined. Participants prepared their presentations and the final versions of the materials they had developed.
The first presentation session was combined with a discussion. The teams presented specific proposals for actions and solutions that could be implemented in everyday school practice, and the exchange of opinions helped clarify and strengthen the proposed courses of action.
In the next part of the meeting, the group revisited the presented concepts, expanding on them and deepening the discussion of the developed conclusions and recommendations. The discussions helped to organize the key assumptions and give them a more operational, practical character. The discussions focused on the practical dimension of education for sustainable development, specifically how to effectively translate the developed solutions into the school’s daily work.
An important element was also the exchange of perspectives regarding further cooperation and subsequent activities within the project.
It was an intense and highly substantive day, filled with the exchange of knowledge, reflection, and plans for future actions.
SCONE - second day of teacher training in Rostock
The second day of training focused on combining reflection with concrete planning of activities in the area of education for sustainable development (ESD).
The World Game became a starting point for a discussion about global interdependencies, responsibility, and the complexity of contemporary challenges. This experience opened up space for systemic thinking.
Participants looked at ESD as a holistic educational approach and the Whole School Approach concept, which assumes that change should encompass all areas of school functioning. The example of Öko-Haus served as inspiration. During the workshop “Creating an ESD-School from scratch,” visions of a school based on the principles of sustainable development were created, barriers were analyzed, and the first steps before implementing changes were planned. The concept of the “House of Change” helped to organize thinking about the transformation process and determine the stage at which individual schools are currently at.
It was a day of intensive conceptual and strategic work, showing that effective education for sustainable development requires both vision and well-planned actions.
SCONE – Drugi dzień szkolenia nauczycielskiego w Rostocku
Drugi dzień szkolenia koncentrował się na połączeniu refleksji z konkretnym planowaniem działań w obszarze edukacji na rzecz zrównoważonego rozwoju (ESD).
Gra Światowa stała się punktem wyjścia do dyskusji o globalnych współzależnościach, odpowiedzialności i złożoności współczesnych wyzwań. To doświadczenie otworzyło przestrzeń dla myślenia systemowego. Uczestnicy przyjrzeli się ESD jako holistycznemu podejściu edukacyjnemu oraz koncepcji Całościowego Podejścia Szkolnego, która zakłada, że zmiana powinna obejmować wszystkie obszary funkcjonowania szkoły. Przykład Öko-Haus był inspiracją.
Podczas warsztatu „Tworzenie szkoły ESD od podstaw” stworzono wizje szkoły opartej na zasadach zrównoważonego rozwoju, przeanalizowano bariery i zaplanowano pierwsze kroki przed wdrożeniem zmian. Koncepcja „Domu Zmiany” pomogła uporządkować myślenie o procesie transformacji i określić etap, na jakim znajdują się obecnie poszczególne szkoły.
Był to dzień intensywnej pracy koncepcyjnej i strategicznej, pokazujący, że skuteczna edukacja na rzecz zrównoważonego rozwoju wymaga zarówno wizji, jak i dobrze zaplanowanych działań.
SCONE - How to teach sustainable development in practice - workshops for teachers in Rostock
From February 24 to 26, teachers from Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, and Poland are participating in workshops on implementing education for sustainable development in everyday school life. The event is taking place in Rostock, and the University of Rostock is responsible for the content.
We started the first day of the event by working on the European Sustainability Competence Framework, analyzing which competencies are key in education for sustainable development. We then focused on the values behind ESD and their practical dimension in everyday school life.
An important part of the program was a session on the psychology of climate anxiety and a discussion on how to work with students' fears and uncertainties in the context of the climate crisis. There was also time for a workshop to exchange experiences and work out solutions together.
It was an intense and substantive day that set the direction for our further work.
