The world, and especially the younger generation, is facing major challenges. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) helps young people to develop a comprehensive understanding of ecological, social and economic interrelationships in order to make sustainable decisions for the future. With its own focus on Education for Sustainable Development, the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation supports projects by children and young people, school classes, teachers, educational institutions or extracurricular organisations with an ESD focus

What we support

We support projects by children and young people, school classes, teachers, educational institutions or extracurricular organisations in the Canton of Bern that are explicitly concerned with overcoming ecological challenges. Ecological topics should be considered in the context of cultural, social, economic and/or health aspects and must be organised in a participatory and, where possible, inclusive manner. Project submissions can take the following forms:

• Impulse projects e.g. organising an ideas workshop or hackathon
• Detailed projects with a thematic focus, project objectives, project plan, budget and financing concept
• Follow-up projects: continuations of projects that have already been successfully implemented and are now being repeated in a new context. This includes successfully completed impulse projects that require financial support for full realisation.

What we don’t support

The funding area “Education for Sustainable Development” does not support:

• Purely commercial projects
• Projects unrelated to ESD
• Projects with no connection to the Canton of Bern
• Skiing camps, school trips of all kinds (including study trips)
• Individual diploma projects or dissertations (for vocational college or higher education), research- and evaluation projects
• Projects focused on the expansion or renewal of infrastructure
• Projects that are already in the past
• The development of teaching materials (except for teaching materials that have been developed together with students in the context of participatory ESD projects)

Project Submissions

Projects can only be submitted online; they must fulfil the submission criteria, be submitted by the deadline and respect our funding conditions.

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Examples of Previously Funded Projects