WHAT IS GREENCOMP ?

GreenComp includes 12 competences across four areas, all unified by sustainability.

FOUR AREAS OF COMPETENCES
While we encourage learners to acquire the 12 competences, they do not need to acquire the highest level of proficiency in all 12, nor have the same proficiency across all of them. Indeed, GreenComp implies that sustainability as a competence is made of 12 building blocks.
Embodying sustainability values
including the competences
Valuing sustainability

To reflect on personal values; identify and explain how values vary among people and over time, while critically evaluating how they align with sustainability values.

Supporting fairness

To support equity and justice for current and future generations and learn from previous generations for sustainability.

Promoting nature

To acknowledge that humans are part of nature; and to respect the needs and rights of other species and of nature itself in order to restore and regenerate healthy and resilient ecosystems.

Embracing complexity in sustainability
including the competences
Systems thinking
To approach a sustainability problem from all sides; to consider time, space and context in order to understand how elements interact within and between systems.
Critical thinking
To assess information and arguments, identify assumptions, challenge the status quo, and reflect on how personal, social and cultural backgrounds influence thinking and conclusions.
Problem framing
To formulate current or potential challenges as a sustainability problem in terms of difficulty, people involved, time and geographical scope, in order to identify suitable approaches to anticipating and preventing problems, and to mitigating and adapting to already existing problems.
Envisioning sustainable futures
including the competences
Futures literacy
To envision alternative sustainable futures by imagining and developing alternative scenarios and identifying the steps needed to achieve a preferred sustainable future
Adaptability
To manage transitions and challenges in complex sustainability situations and make decisions related to the future in the face of uncertainty, ambiguity and risk
Exploratory thinking
To adopt a relational way of thinking by exploring and linking different disciplines, using creativity and experimentation with novel ideas or methods
Acting for sustainability
including the competences
Political agency
To navigate the political system, identify political responsibility and accountability for unsustainable behaviour, and demand effective policies for sustainability
Collective action
To act for change in collaboration with others
Individual initiative
To identify own potential for sustainability and to actively contribute to improving prospects for the community and the planet
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