Learning for Sustainability Scotland

Join a worldwide teaching and learning community with ‘Learning for Sustainable Futures'.
2025-10-06 08:00 - 2026-03-01 17:00 (Europe/London)
We’re delighted to welcome you to ‘Learning for Sustainable Futures’; a refreshed iteration of one of our highly successful online learning opportunities, which has, to date, attracted over 20,000 learners from 160 countries.

This five-week course is open to all; especially those interested in education and learning for sustainability.

Join us from Monday 06 October to Sunday 09 November on a FREE, facilitated run of this course – but the course will remain open for those who want to join at a later date.

About the course…

Developed in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and the British Council, This course supports learners to consider a global issue important to them, to investigate its various causes and impacts, and to start to take informed action – in whatever social or political form that may take. This course may be useful to you on a personal level or in your workplace, if you seek to make changes in your own life or practice, or to inspire those around you to join you in taking action.

The Teaching and Learning Approaches section integrated into each week provides a dedicated space for discussions and reflection focused on pedagogy: supporting those who want to bring some of the activities and issues covered into their own educational practice.

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'Live at COP30': explore more with our FREE legacy course
2025-11-10 08:00 - 2026-11-08 17:00
Our FREE ‘Live at the COP’ MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is now available as a legacy course following COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Since its first iteration in 2021 for COP26, over 20,000 people from over 170 countries have taken part in this collaborative, facilitated learning opportunity.

About the course

This course offers you an opportunity to examine what the COP process is, why it’s considered to be important, and reflect on how you can add your voice to the call for collective action for a sustainable future.

Throughout the course, we shared ‘live’ insights into the issues being discussed at COP30, as well as responses to the conference themes from children and young people, community groups and ministerial bodies, both nationally and internationally. Using these ‘starting points’, we invite you to reflect on what you have heard, watched and read, and think about what these conversations and issues mean to you.

Course content from ‘Live at COP30’ will remain open, free and accessible as a legacy resource for school, community and individual use beyond the Conference.

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Have your say on...Learning for Sustainability in the GTC Scotland Accreditation Process and Requirements review consultation
2026-03-03 16:00 - 17:00
About this Consultation

GTC Scotland has launched a consultation on proposed changes to its Accreditation Policy.

As the independent regulator for teachers in Scotland, it also has responsibility for accrediting programmes of initial teacher education (ITE) and setting the minimum entry requirements for these programmes. It has also become a legal requirement for college lecturers to register with GTC Scotland and for further education teaching qualification programmes (TQFE) to be accredited.

The draft policy aims to provide a streamlined source of information and guidance that clearly sets out what the process for accrediting teaching qualification programmes is, why it’s necessary, and what GTC Scotland’s expectations in overseeing it are.

The consultation is open until 5pm on 12 March 2026, and responses can be submitted via an online questionnaire.

To learn more about the consultation and to review the documents, please visit the consultation page.

What are the aims of this event?

Join Learning for Sustainability Scotland and contributors from Scotland’s Initial Teacher Education community on Tuesday 03 March. Our event aims to:

Support and encourage participants to submit their own informed, independent contributions to the Consultation (by the deadline of 12th March 2026)

Share more about the proposed accreditation process and requirements consultation proposed by GTC Scotland

Encourage discussion and gather insights/perspectives on the format of the review and the place of Learning for Sustainability in this

Collate input from participants to inform a response from LfSS to the Consultation

How do I find out more and sign up?

Click here to book your free place. We look forward to welcoming you.

It's back! Join a worldwide teaching and learning community with ‘Learning for Sustainable Futures'
2026-03-30 08:00 - 2026-05-03 17:00
We’re delighted to welcome you to ‘Learning for Sustainable Futures’; the latest facilitated run of a refreshed iteration of one of our highly successful online learning opportunities, which has, to date, attracted over 20,000 learners from 160+ countries.

This five-week course is open to all; especially those interested in education and learning for sustainability.

Join us from Monday 30 March to Sunday 03 May on a FREE, facilitated run of this course.

About the course…

Developed in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and the British Council, this course supports you to consider a global issue important to you, to investigate its various causes and impacts, and to start to take informed action – in whatever social or political form that may take.

This course may be useful to you on a personal level or in your workplace, if you seek to make changes in your own life or practice, or to inspire those around you to join you in taking action.

The Teaching and Learning Approaches section integrated into each week provides a dedicated space for discussions and reflection focused on pedagogy: supporting those who want to bring some of the activities and issues covered into their own educational practice.

Click here to find out more and sign up.

Rethinking Scotland's National Outcomes Framework
2026-03-30 09:30 - 12:30
(Hybrid event – online or in-person at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)

Join Scotland’s International Development Alliance, the University of Strathclyde, the SDG Network Scotland and other partners including Learning for Sustainability Scotland, at a hybrid discussion on Monday 30 March, 09:30–12:30 to share your views on reforming and renewing Scotland’s National Performance Framework.

What is this event about?

Scotland’s National Performance Framework is being redesigned. We have a chance to influence what comes next – and make sure the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are at the heart of how Scotland measures success.

The Deputy First Minister has set out proposals for six high-level National Outcomes, cross-cutting perspectives (or “lenses”), and a stronger focus on “ways of working” and implementation.

The NPF could be a vital tool for policy coherence, helping Scotland deliver on the SDGs and align public and private action. Does the current proposal get us there? What is missing, and what would make implementation real rather than rhetorical?

We will use the Government’s own prompts as a starting point, including how your work connects to the proposed outcomes, how cross-cutting perspectives should be reflected, and what stronger accountability, transparency and culture change could look like in practice.

If you care about how Scotland sets direction, measures what matters, and makes long-term decisions, please come along – either in-person or online – and add your voice.

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Exploring the potential of…using digital tools in education for sustainable development
2026-03-31 16:00 - 17:05
Join Learning for Sustainability Scotland, and our colleagues from across the European network of Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs) in Education for Sustainable Development, for the fourth in our ‘Exploring the potential of…’ webinar series.

In this webinar, we will focus on ‘Using Digital Tools in Education for Sustainable Development’.

Who is this event for?

Educators including teachers, head teachers, community-based educators, teacher educators, youth leaders, academics, policy-makers, and other education stakeholders

Regional Centres of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development.

What are the aims of this event?

Supporting educators across Europe to engage with digital tools in Education for Sustainable Development

Enabling ongoing sharing of practice examples from RCEs in Europe

Sharing relevant resources

How do I sign up?

Click here to find out more and book your FREE place.
