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📣 Megnyílt a jelentkezés a Girls Go STEM 2026-os nagyköveti programjára!
Diákokat és tanárokat keresünk a 2026 októberétől 2027 júliusáig tartó programba. Örülnénk, ha a közösségünkből is minél többen jelentkeznétek:

🎓 Diáknagykövetnek olyan 14–19 éves lányok jelentkezhetnek, akik már elvégezték a Girls Go STEM tanulási programját. A résztvevők Európa-szerte rendezvényeken szólalhatnak fel, STEM- és vállalkozási szakemberek segítik őket havi mentorálással, emellett vezetői és kommunikációs készségeket fejlesztő workshopokon vehetnek részt. Az EIT Community hivatalos felületein is bemutatkozhatnak.
🍎 Tanárnagykövetnek olyan középiskolában vagy szakképzésben tanító pedagógusokat várnak, akik már használják a Circular Learning Space platformot. A nagykövetek európai rendezvényeken képviselik a programot, utazási költségeiket a szervezők teljes egészében fedezik. Emellett Girls Go STEM tréneri tanúsítványt szerezhetnek, és részt vehetnek egy hazai tanári hálózat kialakításában.
💡 Mi például két, félvezetőkről szóló kurzust fejlesztettünk a programhoz. Ezek bemutatják a homoktól a chiprendszerekig vezető utat, az iparág működését és geopolitikai hátterét, valamint a területen elérhető sokféle karrierlehetőséget. Büszkék vagyunk erre a munkára, és örülünk, hogy a nagykövetek segítségével ezek az ismeretek Európa-szerte eljuthatnak a tantermekbe és a rendezvények közönségéhez
📅 Jelentkezési határidő: szeptember 14., 13:00 CET
📢 Eredményhirdetés: szeptember 30.
Ha még nem használjátok a platformot, már ebben a félévben elkezdhetitek, és a következő körben ti is jelentkezhettek nagykövetnek. Írjatok nekünk, szívesen segítünk az indulásban.
👉 Diákok: https://eit-girlsgostem.eu/ambassadors-programme-students/
👉 Tanárok: https://eit-girlsgostem.eu/ambassadors-programme-teachers/
Ha ismertek olyan tanárt vagy diákot, akit érdekelhet a program, osszátok meg vele ezt a bejegyzést!

📣 Applications are open for the 2026 Girls Go STEM Ambassadors Programme — and we would love to see teachers and students from our network apply.
We are looking for student and teacher ambassadors for a one-year mandate running October 2026 to July 2027:

💡We are proud to have developed two courses on semiconductors for this programme — from sand to chip systems, the geopolitics and industry behind them, and the full spectrum of careers students can pursue in the field. Ambassadors are the ones who carry this work into classrooms and onto stages across Europe.
📅 Applications close 14 September, 13:00 CET
📢 Results announced 30 September

Not using the platform yet? You can start this semester and apply in the next round — reach out and we will help you get set up.
👉 Students: https://eit-girlsgostem.eu/ambassadors-programme-students/
👉 Teachers: https://eit-girlsgostem.eu/ambassadors-programme-teachers/

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✨This Thursday!✨ What if the success of a nature-based solution depends on an infrastructure we cannot see?

Behind environmental action lies a network of people and relationships: stakeholders communicating, collaborating, building trust and learning together. These connections can shape whether promising ideas become effective, lasting solutions—but they are rarely measured.

Join Daniel Teodoro, PhD, founder and director of Dialectik and a social network scientist, for:
🌿 Quantifying the Invisible Social Infrastructure in Social-Ecological Systems: The talk will explore the Social Network Performance Indicators (SNPI) framework—a science-based monitoring approach that measures learning as a function of network structure and enables comparison across different sites.
By making stakeholder networks more visible, SNPI can help us better understand how relationships, collaboration, communication and learning contribute to effective nature-based solutions.
Daniel’s research and consulting span stakeholder participation, resilience decision-making, social-ecological network analysis and transdisciplinary approaches to climate adaptation.
The conversation will be led by PHYSI’s Prof. László Pintér, and concluded by a chello musical postlude by Borbála Tamáska. 🎵

📅 Thursday, 10 September 2026
🕔 17:00
📍 Budapest
💻 Online participation available here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89668372492?pwd=nfxQuxv2pRw9kRHC3qRxB7pbdPT8ft.1

Save the date and join us as we make the invisible infrastructure behind nature-based solutions visible.

🌿 Looking for a fun learning opportunity in September?

🎓 There are still a few last minute tuition-free spots open for students in our annual International Summer University - this year organized in Catania, Italy 🇮🇹, on 15–29 September!

Hosted by our partner, the University of Catania, the “Naturation: Nature-Based Urban Regeneration” summer university will explore how urban spaces can be redesigned around green infrastructure to boost ecosystem services and community well-being.

CSI’s Attila Katona will share global perspectives on urbanization and nature-based solutions, including:
🌏 Behind-the-scenes insights from the world’s largest database, the Urban Nature Atlas, and lessons from its data
🏘 Experiences of financing transformative urban development with nature
🪙 Approaches to integrating NbS across governance and sectoral systems
📊 Scenario work using the Urban Nature Explorer, with real-time projections of costs and impacts, featuring NATURGO cases from Umeå, Sweden, and Debrecen, Hungary

One week of keynote lectures, hands-on design workshops, and site visits in Catania will be followed by a week of group work and final presentations online.
🌏Participants from Asia and Europe will tackle a real-world case study, working across the full green transition cycle - from designing resilient green infrastructure and measuring the benefits of urban nature to regenerating built-up areas and navigating policy and funding.

📩 How to apply?
Submit your CV and a short motivational letter via email to both addresses:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Our latest KA220 Edu.Circular newsletter is out!

🟢 We're excited to introduce the School Guide - a practical resource designed to help teachers, families, and students make the principles of the circular economy part of their everyday lives.

The guide is packed with practical guidance, hands-on activities, and inspiring examples to help schools and communities embrace more sustainable practices.

👉 Explore our latest newsletter to discover the School Guide, the EduCircular Moodle platform, and other exciting project updates.

🩷 💚 WomenESEPack wraps its pilot phase 109 women trained across Europe

We're proud to share the results of WomenESEPack, an Erasmus+ co-funded project under which we developed a free sustainability course for women entrepreneurs

🟢 The project set out to solve a clear problem: women entrepreneurs across Europe face real barriers to sustainability education, from time constraints to content that doesn't reflect their business realities. WomenESEPack was built to close that gap.

The results from our Latvia and Italy pilots:
⚪ 109 women completed the free e-learning course
⚪39 workshop participants certified
⚪18 Action Plans and Flourishing Business Canvases delivered

The programme pairs a free, multilingual Udemy course (English, Latvian, German, Italian) covering the circular economy, social impact, and environmental sustainability with hands-on 2-hour workshops using the Flourishing Business Canvas and Future Radars tools.

👉 Explore the free course: https://shorturl.at/QbvMz

Full results in our press release: https://shorturl.at/9fiyW

The complete toolkit, - course, facilitation guide, factsheet, and final booklet - is built for replication. Any Business Support Organisation in Europe can adopt or localise it for their own community.

🟢 Interested in bringing WomenESEPack to your organisation or language? Reach out — we'll share all the resources and guidance you need to get started.
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🩷 💚 On 22 May, our team traveled to Riga, Latvia, for the WomenESEPack - marking the close of an Erasmus+ journey we are truly proud of.

At the event, we had the privilege of presenting the project's main results to partners, trainers, and European stakeholders: a piloted training programme, multilingual learning materials, and practical frameworks covering circular economy, responsible supply chains, ethical marketing, sustainable finance, and inclusive governance.

🙌 A huge shoutout to our dear team members Camille, Franci, and Zsuzsa who put enormous work into developing and refining the training materials We also want to thank our partners - Latvijas Tirdzniecības un rūpniecības kamera and Chamber of commerce of Bolzano/Bozen — for co-developing this project with us. It has been a genuine collaboration across three countries, and that shows in the results.

Interested in how sustainability and entrepreneurship can go hand in hand? The WomenESEPack training is freely available on Udemy - open to any woman entrepreneur ready to take confident steps toward a greener, more responsible business.

👉 https://www.udemy.com/course/fundamentals-of-sustainability-for-women-entrepreneurs/?referralCode=AEE250F4F7F5420FACF4

If you know a woman entrepreneur who could benefit - share it forward.

Here is the full video of the event : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_McMjwnrBY

Happy (belated) World Environment Day! 🌍

🙌 We are looking back at the great few days at the Zöld OT (Green Civil National Assembly) 2026 in Szentendre. Our team joined conversations on citizen science, public involvement, sustainable consumption, Hungary’s new climate strategy, and water management challenges - issues that require lots of systems thinking, cooperation, and tools to unpack complexity.

Along the Danube riverfront in Szentendre, we also hosted a booth where visitors could explore our circular economy games, XR app, and toolkits from CIRCLE and EDU.CIRCULAR, and the WomanESEPack e-learning course for female entrepreneurs.

🟩 We were glad to contribute as members of the European Climate Pact, bringing educational and participatory methods into dialogue with civil organizations, local communities, and sustainability practitioners.

World Environment Day is a reminder that climate action depends not only on policy and technology, but also on learning, collaboration, and shared civic capacity.