The ELY Curriculum is a comprehensive educational programme focused on energy, climate change, and active citizenship. Both the curriculum and the ELY Planner have been developed on the basis of the findings and recommendations presented in the ELY project report, ensuring that their content, learning objectives, and educational approaches respond to the needs and challenges identified through the project’s research.

Rather than treating energy as a purely technical issue, the curriculum approaches it as a societal challenge — one that involves questions of participation, access, justice, and collective decision-making. In this sense, it supports a broader understanding of energy as a field where citizens are not only consumers, but active agents shaping systems and outcomes.

Designed as a complete toolkit for trainers and educators, the Curriculum combines scientific knowledge, policy context, and practice-oriented methods. It provides structured content, ready-to-use materials, and step-by-step facilitation guidance, enabling educators to deliver engaging and impactful learning experiences in a variety of settings — from classrooms to workshops and community initiatives.

At its core, the curriculum is built on a participatory and experiential learning approach. Instead of focusing on one-way knowledge transfer, it creates spaces for dialogue, critical reflection, and collective problem-solving. Participants are encouraged to engage with real-world challenges, explore different perspectives, and connect global issues — such as climate change or energy systems — with their own experiences and local contexts. Through interactive methods such as simulations, group work, and hands-on activities, learners develop not only knowledge, but also key competencies, including critical thinking, collaboration, and civic engagement.

In this way, the ELY Curriculum supports individuals in becoming informed, active, and empowered energy citizens, capable of contributing to more sustainable, inclusive, and democratic energy systems.

The ELY Curriculum consists of several complementary components:

Background for Trainers: provides trainers with key scientific insights, political contexts, and an overview of the training modules.

Handbook for Trainers: a practical guide with instructions for facilitating

Facilitator Material: a complete set of workshop materials, including: posters, cards, and task sheets, group work materials, a glossary of key terms

Fact Sheets: a collection of 12 thematic fact sheets supported by graphs, maps, and data to support the learning processes for the trainers

ELY CURRICULUM TRAINING PLANNER

Plan your training. Adapt your methods. Engage your learners.

The Training Planner is a practical tool designed to support trainers, educators, youth workers, and facilitators in planning, structuring, and delivering workshops based on the ELY Curriculum. It helps transform the curriculum’s content, learning objectives, and participatory methods into a clear and coherent training plan that can be used in different educational and youth work settings.

Rather than providing one fixed training format, the Planner offers a flexible framework that allows users to design sessions according to the needs of their participants, the time available, the level of prior knowledge, and the specific topic or learning context. It brings together key elements of training design, including learning objectives, activities and methods, materials, timing, and session structure, helping trainers create meaningful and engaging learning experiences.

The Planner can be particularly useful when adapting the ELY Curriculum to different groups and local contexts. Trainers can select and combine activities, adjust the length and sequence of sessions, and make choices that respond to participants’ needs and interests. In this way, the tool supports a more learner-centred and participatory approach to energy, climate and active citizenship education.

FOR: TRAINERS | EDUCATORS | YOUTH WORKERS | NGOs | COMMUNITY ORGANISERS

The Training Planner is intended not only to make preparation easier, but also to encourage trainers to think about why a particular activity is being used, what participants should gain from it, and how different methods can work together. It therefore provides a practical bridge between the ELY Curriculum and its implementation in real training environments.

Explore the Training Planner and start designing your own ELY learning experience.

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ELY DECLARATION OF INTEREST

Help us make energy education more accessible, inclusive, and meaningful for young people!

Energy is part of our everyday lives, yet understanding how energy systems work, how they relate to the climate crisis, and how they shape our societies remains a challenge for many young people. Energy literacy is not only about understanding where energy comes from. It is also about recognising the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of energy, understanding questions of justice and access, and empowering young people to participate in decisions that shape their future. The Energy Literacy for Youth (ELY) project has developed educational materials designed to support educators and youth workers in exploring energy, climate change, climate justice, and active citizenship with young people.

The ELY Curriculum approaches energy as both a technical and a societal issue. It connects environmental knowledge with questions of participation, inclusion, and social responsibility, helping young people better understand the challenges of the energy transition and their role in shaping a more sustainable future. The materials are designed to support engaging educational activities and can serve as a resource for organisations working in youth education, non-formal learning, and community engagement.

Help us share the value of energy education

We invite NGOs, educational institutions, youth organisations, educators, youth workers, and other stakeholders interested in sustainability and youth education to sign the ELY Curriculum Declaration of Interest. By signing the declaration, you confirm that you have had the opportunity to review the ELY training materials and consider them a potentially valuable resource for educational activities with young people.

Your declaration helps us recognise interest in the curriculum and its potential relevance to organisations working in different educational and community contexts. Signing the declaration is simple and non-binding. It does not require you to implement the curriculum or undertake any activities, and it creates no financial, contractual, or legal obligations.

Join us in promoting energy literacy

We believe that every young person should have the opportunity to understand the energy transition, explore its implications for society, and develop the knowledge and confidence needed to participate in shaping a sustainable future. By expressing your interest in the ELY Curriculum, you can help us promote the importance of energy education and highlight its potential value for youth work and education.

Sign the ELY Curriculum Declaration of Interest and support energy literacy for young people.