<< Background >>Young people are deeply concerned about the climate crisis. Many are angry that action is still not being taken when it is their future at stake. Teach the Future is a youth-led campaign, that swept around the world urgently asking us to repurpose education around the climate emergency and ecological crisis. For European policy, climate is recognised one of most important issues that has to be addressed now and in the future. Education for and about climate change is so important that the European Commission has established the “Education for Climate Coalition” as a flagship initiative of the European Education Area. This proposal seeks to respond to these needs by enabling easy access through a climate data dashboard to scientific data and climate information sources. By creating teacher training it will also address the approaches necessary for young people to work with high quality scientific data and reliable information sources on the challenges being faced. It also seeks to promote an active citizenship approach that will engage youngsters in active engagement in their local areas using the enquiry-based approaches of citizen scientists to examine and address climate issues.<< Objectives >>Following the ambition of embedding climate change & environmental education in secondary school education and in teacher training, the project pursues the following objectives:- To assess the situation (curriculum) and needs (approaches and resources) in schools looking to integrate climate education in their teaching- To provide teachers with access to quality online climate information resources and training enabling them to effectively teach about climate education to their students.-To stimulate students’ and teachers’ engagement in climate issues, using scientific data and innovative educational approaches.-To promote interdisciplinary learning and digital skills among young people, raising their interest in science and technology, stimulating their active citizenship in local areas and thereby encouraging responsibility for their actions and behavioural change.<< Implementation >>The project addresses 3 target groups who actively participate to all phases of the project implementation:1: Teachers in secondary school education2: Secondary school pupils, aged 12-183: Other school stakeholders, teacher training organisationsTTF activities have been designed in 4 phases:*Phase 1: Informed by an analysis of teachers innovative teaching and learning approaches for climate education will be identified and developed. Interviews with climate scientists will help partners identify key messages and important resources/tools for teaching. *Phase 2: A climate education data dashboard (Result 2) will be produced that brings the most useful open data, visualisations and examples to classes, with relevant information and news on actions being taken. The tool will be designed to be accessible / available for multi-platforms – computer – laptop – tablet – smartphone.*Phase 3: Creating a teacher training course to support and enable innovative approaches to climate education, tested in schools.*Phase 4: Concerns finalising the results, gathering examples of teaching activities and learning outcomes which will then be presenting through Storymaps (https://storymaps.arcgis.com/) for use to assist widespread promotion of the project.TTF focuses on the power of scientific data and the messages it can send. It has the potential to change approaches in schools, strengthening climate awareness and digital and media literacy.<< Results >>Teach The Future (TTF) is designed to promote a highly relevant educational approach to climate change education, by applying open science and open data principles to the framework of a digital citizenship educational paradigm. The expected results are:* An analysis of curriculum across partners and the potential for teaching the future, climate education and using open data (R1)* An online climate data dashboard (R2), as a teaching resource targeted at teachers. This gathers climate data and scientific information which can be used by schools to support learning and teaching climate in schools. It will provide opportunities in and beyond the classroom, developed from an analysis of the resources and opportunities available.* An online teacher training course (R3), focused on teaching about climate change and including suggestions on how to embed climate education in different subjects, using scientific data and encouraging pupil engagement and active citizenship in local issues, for instance through citizen science approaches. Overall, this will lead to:- the provision of new resources and skills enabling teachers to effectively teach climate education to secondary school students.- strengthened students’ and teachers’ scientific engagement in climate issues, involving innovative approaches like citizen science- increasing the ability of young people to work with and appreciate digital scientific data - enhanced interdisciplinary learning and digital skills among young people, raising their interest in science, technology and active citizenship.