<< Background >>Sustainability is the key concept to combat climate change whilst creating and securing social and economic welfare. With the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the UN has designed a system which converts the rather abstract concept of sustainability into a system with operational objectives and targets.From the educational point of view, sustainability can be considered as a key competence. With reference to the Council Recommendation on key competences for lifelong learning (2006/2018), one could state that each European citizen should become sustainably “literate”.In the proposal on hand, we therefore use the term “sustainability literacy” for generic sustainability competences of individuals.In contrast, we use the term “Sustainable Development” for community projects relating to concrete mitigation or adaptation on community level. (Both terms will be abbreviated with SL&SD).The Adult Education (AE) sector plays a key role in addressing both perspectives of learning sustainability: the individual (SL) and the community (SD) level.There is a lack of innovative and appropriate educational programmes to bring about skills and competence for sustainable behaviour and development for adults who learn in different contexts.This is the starting point of the GSD project.It shall create consciousness and enable the adult learner to change behaviour and to become active for sustainability (SL) and create SD projects on local community levels, for instance by implementing a green project, by improving a specific situation or by supporting certain members of the community.<< Objectives >>The GSD project aims to achieve three main objectives: 1) It will provide innovative learning opportunities relating to Sustainability Literacy and Sustainable Development to learners in Adult Education. Concretely:oIt will create spaces for design-based learning in which the learners can actively collaborate in concrete sustainability projects.oIt will start from the individual perspective and competence profile and move on to a community based joint learning approach.oIt will consider the demands of the target groups and fit to their living, working and learning context.oIt will provide a constructive learning and development approach not exclusively aimed at knowledge acquisition.oIt will include state of the art technologies, and innovative learning spaces, such as collaborative local projects.2) It will to train Adult Education professionals to facilitate Sustainability Literacy and Sustainable Development. More specifically:oIt provides necessary knowledge and skills on which the Learning and Development Professionals can build their learning programmes.oIt creates context sensitive learning cases that can be transferred into the learning contexts of the Adult Learners.oIt provides a concept which promotes “facilitation” rather than teaching competences.oIt qualifies them in new digital teaching and learning formats (Design-based Collaborative learning) in a learning by doing approach.oIt provides modular teaching and learning materials on a platform with asynchronous, synchronous and collaborative learning and development opportunities and facilitates competence validation.3) It will to connect both target groups in a larger European network approach, that is:oIt provides appropriate constructive (design driven) mobility programmes for both the Learning and Development Professionals and their target groups (KA1), and transnational blended learning opportunities for the staff members including courses and job-shadowing opportunities.<< Implementation >>In the project, 7 European partners from DE, IT, IE, LT, SK, SE and the UK collaborate in 4 work-packages to achieve its central outputs:1.Curating the GSD-Inventory and updating good practice examples2.Developing and contextualising the GSD-Planning Pack 3.Planning and Delivering the GSD Qualification 4.Creating and maintaining the GSD-Support-Hub1. The GSD-Inventory will be designed in a digital format with special focus on OER that can be linked without legal constraints from AE providers into their own learning offers.In the first project month a structure of the database will be set up. In the following, each partner collects suitable digital materials on sustainability in its specific field and focus. After an interim evaluation the GSD inventory will be launched (as a resource for the following activities and outcomes) and constantly updated by best practice examples collected by partners, educational professionals and Adult learners in their projects.2. The GSD Planning Pack is a “Learning and Development Approach” based on the methodology of “Design-Based Collaborative Learning”. The instruments used in this approach will be applied to plan and deliver Sustainability Literacy and Sustainable Development learning offers.3. The GSD CPD (Continuing Professional Development) will be planned based on R2 (the facilitation approach) for the AE professionals. It is a qualification programme based on LEVEL5 and EQF taxonomies which facilitate a professional validation and certification.22 professional Learners will participate in the training which starts with a virtual phase, contains a 4 days Face-to-Face (F2F) training in Massa and will be followed by concrete open learning projects over a period of 3 to 8 months at the partners’ locations.4. The main works carried out for the GSD Support Hub relate to the content creation, to the design and uploading of information, and most importantly to the connection of the members of the target groups to the platform, while supporting them with content creation. Partners will coordinate monthly helpdesk sessions to achieve a maximum dissemination and support impact for interested parties to join in the GSD programme.A final conference is planned with approximately 100 participants in Dublin.The GSD project will be extensively disseminated, to the European networks mainly via online channels, and locally via direct encounters within the partner networks of like minded institutions, NGOs and self-help organisations.The project will be internally and externally evaluated.<< Results >>GSD will produce four project results as central outputs to reach its objectives. They are designed in a logical sequence (building on one another) but are also stand-alone products of the project and can be used by the AE community individually. All 4 results together unfold their impact in a holistic system to generate sustainable development.1.GSD-InventoryThe GSD inventory is an open and growing catalogue of materials, units, tools and resources to promote Sustainability Literacy in diverse AE contexts.It provides SL&SD materials for Adult education in●diverse AE sectors (andragogy, literacy, integration, gender)●specific AE contexts (e.g. health, gender, culture, entrepreneurship education)●formal to informal settings (from general AE (e.g. Folk-High schools) to specific AE institutions, NGOs of family education centres). 2.GSD – Planning PackThe planning pack is a compilation of contextualised Competence Frameworks and Intervention Methods related to SL&SD. It is based on the methodology of Competence Oriented Learning and Validation and contains contextualised planning and validation instruments.3.GSD - CPD programmeThe GSD Continuing Professional Development Programme for Learning and Development Professionals aims to equip the AE professionals with competences to facilitate SL&SD.The main training is structured around 3 phases:4.A Pre-course delivered in synchronous online sessions and via platform5.A 4-days F2F course6.A Follow-up Pilot phase, in which 15 SL&SD learning projects will be planned and delivered by 22 AE professionals in their local AE projects.4.The GSD Support HubThe GSD-Support-Hub consists of a comprehensive platform system and a helpdesk offering:d)An open learning space with easily and constantly accessible offers for learning and facilitation of sustainability literacy and sustainable developmente)A matching platform for Learning and Development Professionals and their “clients”, local projects and initiatives who need support, guidance and learning opportunities f)A specific KA1-module for mobility learning opportunities for AE facilitators and learners in the field of sustainability literacy and sustainable development