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European Green Deal – Just Transition in Education
While the application of the European Union’s (EU) energy and climate law and policy is no longer considered as a new phenomenon, the regional and domestic impacts of the newly negotiated European Green Deal (EGD) followed by the recently adopted European Climate Law and respective Fit-for-55 Package remain substantially under presented in theory and practice.
Teaching and researching EGD related matters outside the formal boundaries of the EU is particularly limited due to its novelty and developing nature. Contributing to closing this gap, the Jean Monnet Module project – “European Green Deal – Just Transition in Education” aims at sharing European perspective on the EU’s role as a ‘regulatory superpower’ that urges third countries to intensify their efforts alongside the EU in the aftermath of the so-called climate-neutrality ambition.
In doing so, Georgia being a country demonstrating its European aspirations, is used as a case study to measure how the new European Green Deal perspectives work within a certain geographical setting and what are the key pillars of integrating just transition mechanisms in education.
In light of this, the specific activities of the module include preparing and teaching two courses (elective and training & certification), a summer school, research paper and networking events to be carried out in the course of three years commencing as of January 2023.
Considering the wider ambition of the Green Deal and its potential coverage, the beneficiaries of the project go beyond the students and academic personnel of SEU. The project is targeted to a wide range of Georgian and international students as well as the general public. Nevertheless, the key target audience still consists of the university students and academic staff. The module aims to contribute to the formation of European values specifically in the direction of green policy and to lay groundwork for creation of fair and non-discriminatory environment in Georgia through training activities. For the purpose of ensuring a deep dive into some key pillars of the EGD, five core areas of intervention have been identified in the Module proposal based on their pressing nature and rapid development pace: constitutional-administrative aspect, environment, climate action and energy, competition policy and local self-governance.
