What is ENIEDE?

As part of a cooperation project supported by Erasmus+, the French association Par Le Monde is launching the ENIEDE project, Intercultural Digital Exchanges for Sustainable Environmental Education, in line with one of the European Union’s priorities set out in the Green Pact.

For 18 months, Par Le Monde will be collaborating with six European schools (1 in Romania, 1 in Belgium, 1 in Greece and 3 in France) and Wemanity, a European leader in agile and digital transformations, with whom we will be working to achieve our environmental educational objectives.

Project objectives

  • Objective 1: train teachers to integrate environmental issues into intercultural and digital correspondence

  • Objective 2: Make it easier for teachers to create audiovisual works using an innovative digital tool adapted to their needs.

  • Objective 3: to provide the European educational community with teaching resources focusing on different environmental issues

  • Objective 4: publicize the tools and resources developed in the project


Project priority

  • Environmental education and the fight against climate change

The EU is strongly committed to the fight against climate change, notably through the Green Pact and the law aimed at ensuring climate neutrality in the union by 2050. While ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) is becoming a priority in Europe, as it is in France with the Climate and Resilience Act, not all countries are at the same level of ESD implementation. The urgency of the current climate crisis highlights the crucial importance of schools and environmental education in tackling it. From elementary school onwards, the pivotal moment when the first representations of the world are formed, these future citizens are trained to develop responsible attitudes, and get involved in the collective fight against climate change. This transnational work enables teachers and students to become aware of the global nature of the issues at stake, and their local implications.

  • Intercultural education and the promotion of European citizenship

The fractures of identity, culture and territory in Europe are exacerbated by geographical and/or social isolation. Growing up isolated, without experiencing diversity, often leads to discrimination, racism and feelings of powerlessness in the face of common challenges such as environmental issues. In this way, ENIEDE promotes living together, openness to others and, through the creation of common goals, a sense of belonging to the European community. Students will be able to develop their academic and social skills around the following EU moral and civic values: freedom, human dignity, democracy and equality.

  • Digital education and the fight against isolation from school, society and geography

Today, digital technology is a powerful tool, and one that is widely used in Europe, to combat isolation from school, society and geography. ENIEDE will use this tool to make a major impact, while keeping its carbon footprint as small as possible. While all ENIEDE partners have access to digital technology, project coordinator Par Le Monde believes it is important to provide training in the positive, inclusive and critical uses of digital technology, so that students can learn to make the most beneficial use of it. Through the co-creation of pedagogical programs, teachers will act on several aspects of their respective educational curricula: openness to Europe and others, consolidation of the basics of fundamental knowledge (reading, writing, geography, etc.) through playful and participative methodologies that don’t give pupils the feeling of learning in the traditional way and thus help to combat school drop-out, and finally the acquisition for pupils of the feeling of having a real impact on the environment.