eTwinning teachers as game-changers: the 17 SDGs in action!
Course details
Discover practical ways to bring the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to life in your classroom!
This MOOC gives primary and secondary teachers ready-to-use ideas, activities, and tools to help students learn about the SDGs, engage with them creatively, and take action in their school and community. You will explore the content and relevance of each SDG, try out practical classroom activities with adaptable techniques and resources for all ages, and reflect on your learning to connect it directly to your teaching while inspiring your students to act.
Make the SDGs an exciting, actionable part of your teaching!
The course is offered by the European School Education Platform. Visit our website for more information.
Duration and workload
Start and end date: open-ended, you can take this course (or any section) at your own pace
Duration: self-paced
Workload: 8-10 hours
This course is based on a version that ran from from Monday, 24 November to Wednesday 10 December 2025. The original course provided participants with opportunities to interact during a specific active timeframe of 2.5 weeks, exchange ideas and engage in a peer assessment. However, we recognise that not everyone was able to attend during the scheduled timeline.
To make the course accessible to a wider audience, we’ve developed this self-paced format. This version allows you to explore the content and complete the activities at your own pace, whenever it suits you best.
What the self-study format means:
- Flexible schedule: You decide when and how to engage with the course materials. There are no deadlines, live sessions, or required meeting times.
- Independent learning: While the original course included discussions and peer reviews taking place in certain days and weeks, this format empowers you to work independently, using the same materials and guidance provided during the initial version. Please note that discussions in the forums and contributions on Padlets will not be moderated, allowing for a fully self-directed learning experience.
- Self-assessment: To replicate some of the reflective benefits of peer feedback, you will be encouraged to evaluate your own work using the provided assessment criteria.
Course competences
The recipient of this certificate has demonstrated proficiency of the following competences according to the digital competence framework of the European Commission's SELFIE for TEACHERs tool:
- Professional engagement – Professional learning (through digital technologies) at B1 level
- Digital Resources – Sharing at B1 level
- Teaching and Learning – Teaching at B1 level
For more information about the competences and the proficiency levels see the SELFIE for TEACHERs toolkit.
Target audience
TARGET AUDIENCE
Learning objectives
- Discover practices, techniques, and tools through various activities and digital resources shared in the learning community.
- Explore opportunities to collaborate with eTwinning teachers across Europe, sharing ideas, co-creating projects, and engaging with the 17 SDGs together.
- Inspire your school community to take action on the SDGs by creating initiatives and sharing ideas with other schools.
Offered by
This content is offered by the European Commission. The European Commission is the European Union's politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.
Schedule
- Disclaimer: course tailored to eTwinners
- How this self-paced course works
- Module 1: Sustainable Development Goals in School
- Module 2: Education for Sustainable Development: Time for action!
- Module 3: Final activity - We plan our own actions!
- Certificate of completion
