Following the severe impact of capitalist industrialization on the environment,
the EU has funded several projects in the context of the European Green Deal to
pursue climate neutrality by 2050. Some of these projects attempt to achieve
zero emissions through political participation, while others by committing EU
citizens to adopt sustainable habits in terms of both practical behavior and economic choices. The GreenSCENT project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme, aims to develop a Competence
Framework compliant with the European Qualifications Framework and the
European Green Deal. The present article documents the process of developing
such a Competence Framework. Eight distinct research teams independently
conducted a similar thorough literature review over an assigned topic (Climate
Change; Clean Energy; Circular Economy; Green Building; Smart Mobility; From
Farm to Fork; Biodiversity; Zero Pollution). The resulting documental corpora have
then elicited to build the competence matrices and the corresponding European
Qualification Framework levels. Once the information has been reorganized as
a knowledge graph, the researchers discovered a large amount of novel interdomain connections, providing a more engaging way of interacting with the
Competence Framework, and potentially apt to avoiding information overload
issues while preserving the complexity, in line with the simplexity paradigm. The
environmental education tools produced by this research could be useful in mitigating the repercussions of Capitalocene on the environment toward the adoption of more sustainable behaviors.

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Tomassi, A., Caforio, A., Romano, E., Lamponi, E., & Pollini, A. (2024). The development of a Competence Framework for Environmental Education complying with the European Qualifications Framework and the European Green Deal. The Journal of Environmental Education, 55(2), 153-179. DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2023.2259846