Call To Action! Online course pre-registrations are now open!

28 July 2022

The online course is free and offers to development, cooperation and humanitarian aid sector professionals, volunteers students and teachers a 25 hours long training course, which can be certified with ECTS credits.

Created by professionals of the development and cooperation sector with experts on environmental and climate accounting, the MOOC was designed to be attended in a flexible and compatible way with professional and study activities of participants.

Available in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, the course seeks to provide a vision, as well as essential knowledge, methodological and techical tools, to orient a transformative process aimed at reducing emissions in the sector and promoting positive climate actions.

Divided into 6 hours of short video lectures and 19 hours of further study materials and tests, the course’s goal is to develop competences in 4 key thematic clusters:

  • Climate change basics: climate science and international governance

  • The human dimension of climate change: liabilities, climate justice and human rights

  • Organisations’ actions to curb emissions and to improve their climate action

  • Engage others in change: getting donors, partners, local communities and decision makers on board

 

See the full programme here.

Are you interested? You can pre-register by filling this form.

The start of the course is scheduled to start in mid- October, 2022.

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Public procurement and the Green Deal: from Italy to Brussels, a debate on the future of European policies

Public procurement and the Green Deal: from Italy to Brussels, a debate on the future of European policies

Public procurement as a strategic lever for the European Green Deal.
On 13 January at the European Parliament, the event “Buying European and Sustainable is Good Value for Public Money” brought Italy’s more than ten years of mandatory Green Public Procurement experience to Brussels. Promoted by Fondazione Ecosistemi as part of the BESA – Buy European and Sustainable Act campaign, in cooperation with MEP Nicola Zingaretti (S&D Group), the event brought together European institutions, policymakers, businesses and civil society to discuss the role of public spending in driving the ecological transition, strengthening European industrial value chains and creating quality jobs, ahead of the revision of the EU Public Procurement Directive.

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Sustainable public procurement: the European proCURE project presents the “Train the Trainer” webinar

Sustainable public procurement: the European proCURE project presents the “Train the Trainer” webinar

Strengthening skills in sustainable public procurement and supporting their dissemination within public administrations and territories. This is the objective of the webinar “Train the Trainer – Multiplying knowledge for sustainable public procurement”, scheduled for 15 January 2026, promoted by Fondazione Ecosistemi within the framework of the European proCURE project.
The initiative is addressed to public administration professionals and local stakeholders interested in developing and transferring operational competences on Green Public Procurement.

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Public Procurement and the Green Deal: Italy Brings the Debate on Europe’s Future Policies to Brussels

Public Procurement and the Green Deal: Italy Brings the Debate on Europe’s Future Policies to Brussels

Placing public procurement at the centre of Europe’s economic, environmental and social strategy is the objective of “Buying European and Sustainable is Good Value for Public Money”, the event taking place on 13 January at the European Parliament. The initiative is promoted by Fondazione Ecosistemi within the framework of the BESA – Buy European and Sustainable Act campaign, in cooperation with the office of Nicola Zingaretti, Head of the S&D Delegation in the European Parliament. The event aims to contribute concretely to the ongoing revision of the EU Public Procurement Directives, currently under discussion in Brussels.

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