In April 2026, three teachers from the „Elena Doamna” Food Industry College in Galați traveled to Prague to take part in a professional development course dedicated to sustainability education. The training, „Education for Sustainability: Designing Tomorrow,” was delivered by ITC International and funded through the school’s Erasmus+ KA121-SCH accreditation, project no. 2025-1-RO01-KA121-SCH-000313865.
Across five intensive days, the teachers worked alongside educators from other European countries to explore how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals can be woven into everyday teaching. Sessions ranged from understanding climate dynamics and reducing ecological footprints to using data in decision-making, supporting student well-being, and designing student-led environmental projects. The course closed with participants drafting their own action plans, ready to be adapted to their home schools.
The mobility fit naturally into the wider aims of the school’s Erasmus+ project, which centers on building green competences among both students and staff, competences that translate into real, hands-on involvement in protecting the environment, whether inside the classroom or out in the local community.
Once back in Galați, the three teachers made sure the experience did not stay confined to their own classrooms. They organized a cascade dissemination event at the college, gathering nearly the entire teaching staff to share what they had learned, from practical workshop activities to strategies for embedding sustainability across different subjects.
One tangible result of this effort was a collective resource the teachers helped shape together with their colleagues: „Clasa Eco – Resurse și bune practici” („Eco Classroom – Resources and Best Practices”), a guide featuring three ready-to-use climate action plans designed for Romanian classrooms. The guide is now publicly available on academia.edu for any teacher looking for inspiration.
Through this mobility and everything that followed, „Elena Doamna” College continues to show how a single training experience abroad can ripple outward, shaping an entire school community.