Do you care about global warming and the environment?

Do you care for social inclusion?   

Do you think education for adults is interesting and important? 




Welcome to
Come together! Fostering socially inclusive climate education for adults

Training education professionals and empowering disadvantaged individuals and communities: this is the path put forward by this project to address climate change challenges.

This Erasmus+ project aims to connect people using a “listening and learning” approach, in order to share expertise and develop innovative methods and practices in this field.





Seniors Talking Climate to Children: A Shift in Perspective

We often imagine children as the ones who push adults to act on climate change. What if we turned the picture around? In Come Together, we tested this idea: involving seniors to pass on climate knowledge to the younger generation.

The activity, designed and led by Planète Sciences, brought together a group of seniors from the Brel-Brassens Social Center in Évry-Courcouronnes (France). Over a session, they built a complete weather station—anemometer, wind vane, rain gauge. It was hands-on, educational, and designed to spark intergenerational exchange.


A hands-on start

From the very beginning, seniors pictured how they would use the weather station at home and share it with their grandchildren. Each built an instrument adapted to their own environment—balcony, garden, or window ledge. Concentration and engagement stayed high throughout.

Fun fact: when they first came, many thought the workshop was about gardening. Some even brought their own tools, expecting to start a vegetable patch. The surprise? They loved building scientific instruments—and especially the idea of teaching this skill to their grandchildren. But it raised an open question: would they have come if the activity had been announced as “scientific construction” from the start?


From tools to climate discussions

As they built and tested the devices, participants discussed the difference between weather and climate, and the changes they had witnessed over decades. Their lived memory became a powerful entry point to connect personal stories with scientific knowledge.


Extending the dialogue

The activity was designed to be reproduced at home, turning the workshop into a tool for family dialogue. Seniors left not only with instruments but also with stories to share—making them credible and trusted messengers for climate issues.

Later, the group came back to continue the exchange, this time around biodiversity, seasonal consumption, and a mini-vegetable garden. The potager gave a concrete way to explore how everyday choices link to environmental change.

 

Why it worked

  • Practical engagement: building something tangible creates attention and motivation.
  • Credible messengers: seniors bring long-term experience and authentic stories.
  • Intergenerational impact: knowledge is passed on with emotions and memories, not just facts.

What we observed

  • Consistent focus and investment from participants.
  • A strong desire to reproduce the activity with younger generations.
  • Collective pride in creating something useful, visible, and easy to share.
  • Reinforcement of the idea that climate mediation works best when grounded in everyday life.

Takeaways for practice

  • Offer simple, manual activities that can be repeated at home.
  • Provide a clear protocol so participants feel confident passing it on.
  • Encourage intergenerational conversations.
  • Always connect practice with clear, relevant messages on climate.

In conclusion

This workshop showed how seniors can be powerful actors of climate mediation. By making them builders and storytellers, we opened a new way to spark dialogue with children—rooted in experience, practical skills, and the joy of sharing.

It was also the last activity in the formal phase of Come Together. Now begins the next step: analyzing and formalizing everything learned since the launch of the mediation actions, to draw lessons for the future.

The Come Together Project Presented at a Diversci Webinar

On July 17, 2025, we had the pleasure of presenting the Come Together project during an online webinar held for members of the Diversci community.

Diversci is a European network of professionals committed to fostering diversity and inclusion in science. It brings together people from science communication, education, research, and civil society.
👉 Learn more: www.diversci.eu


What We Shared

We were invited to present the project’s collaborative, European approach, and how it has been built step by step across countries, with local adaptations and shared learning.

We also gave an overview of the actions carried out over the past months:
Nearly 125 professionals trained
Over 500 people reached, many of whom are in situations of social exclusion

Some concrete examples of what was done in France:

  • Two mini-exhibitions created by incarcerated people, for others in the same center
  • A sound and visual map of biodiversity, built by young adults in professional and social reintegration programs, in collaboration with experts
  • An informal creative workshop with a neighborhood association and a researcher
  • A weather station and vegetable garden, co-created with a group of seniors

A Space for Shared Reflections

Beyond the presentation, the webinar gave us the opportunity to share some open questions we’re currently facing as the project nears its end:

  • What next, with such an active and committed community?
  • How can we build new projects with new partners?
  • How do we keep the momentum going?

Other project partners also joined the conversation and shared their experiences and challenges during small-group exchanges.


Thank You 🙏

We were delighted to connect with the Diversci community — to share our journey, hear from others, and explore common paths forward.

Looking forward to continuing to build bridges between science, society, and inclusion — together.

Exploring Climate and Culture: Activities at La Piazzetta and the Visit to the Museo Scienza e Tecnologia in Milan on May 28th

 

Our Come Together journey is a always reach in both scientific and human content.

On the occasion of the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, celebrated on May 21, MUST in collaboration with la "La Piazzetta" a Caritas community center in Milan developed a Climate Intercultural Week with a programm of workshops for homeless people to explore climate, sustainability and justice themes. (21-28 May) 

Several workshops were held:

  • Poetry Lab: A creative space where participants explored the power of words and nature through poetry. It encouraged reflection on climate issues, diversity, and human connection with the environment.

  • Art and Drawing Lab: This session allowed participants to express their understanding of the climate crisis through art. With diverse materials, they created pieces that symbolized their personal views on environmental issues.

  • Cineforum: A film screening and discussion space where films related to sustainability, climate change, and human responsibility were shown. Participants discussed how these issues impact their communities and the world.

On May 28th, at the end of the week at La Piazzetta community center, some of the homeless guests visited the Museo Scienza e Tecnologia along with the Center Director Ines Lettera and some volunteers. We explored the Fragility and Beauty exhibition with Luca Reduzzi, curator of Astronomy and Space Collections, Fabrizio Stavola Education curator and Sara Calcagnini Head of Public Engagement 



In the same day they recorded an interesting episode of their podcast, RadioPiazzetta to share their experience with the community,

You can listen all our voices in the episode linked here... in italian😝:

👉 https://www.shareradio.it/radio-piazzetta-208-dal-museo-della-scienza-della-tecnica/ 👈

A big thank you to Ines, the educators, the volunteers, and especially the guests of the center for helping us to look beyond... beyond CO2, beyond waste segregation, to talk about justice, consumption and exploitation.

Building an Interactive Map of the EPIDE Park: A Collective Journey

What happens when a group meets not once, but several times, to create something together? In Come Together, we explored this at the EPIDE center in Montry (France), which supports young adults (18–25) in their social and professional integration.

The site itself is unique: a vast park, a legendary tree, roaming deer and wild boar, and even tales of “bears” meant to discourage nightly escapades. In this setting, we worked with TRACES, an association specialized in tinkering and creative workshops, to build an interactive biodiversity map of the park—over the course of four sessions.


How we did it

Step 1 – Theatrical practices to open dialogue
We began with theatre-inspired exercises, already tested in Paris, to spark conversations. Young participants shared their perceptions of climate, biodiversity, and their daily environment.

Step 2 – Exploring and collecting
The group ventured into the park, gathering feathers, leaves, and sound recordings, while exchanging with experts.

Step 3 – Mapping and annotating
Back indoors, they organized the findings: pressing leaves for a herbarium, printing photos, and labeling discoveries.

Step 4 – Building the interactive map
Everything came together on a wooden board, complete with electronic circuits and soldering so that sounds could be triggered.


Why it worked

  • Multiple roles for everyone: some drew, others recorded sounds, soldered wires, or assembled parts. Everyone could contribute according to their strengths.
  • Expert guidance: arborist Augustin Bonnardot shared stories and knowledge with empathy and generosity.
  • Accessible tools: apps like Pl@ntNet provided support when experts weren’t available.
  • Continuity across sessions: “micro-interviews” at the end of each meeting captured what had struck participants, feeding into the next session.

What we observed

The project created much more than a map.

  • Talents revealed: one participant stood out for electrical skills, another during the final assembly.
  • New passions sparked: some expressed interest in environmental or technical paths.
  • Collective pride: the final map became a beautiful, meaningful object.
  • Essential involvement of staff: supervisors passionate about plants and history played a key role in the project’s depth.
  • Quiet voices matter: some participants engaged later, showing the value of patience and inclusion.

Key takeaways

  • Offer diverse missions so everyone can find their place.
  • Value experts, but also use simple tools to sustain autonomy.
  • Ensure continuity between sessions to build trust.
  • Stay attentive to subtle signs: late engagement can be powerful.

In conclusion

This was a multi-session project built with the EPIDE community—both residents and staff—over four workshops. It showed the value of time, trust, and co-construction, where each person could find a role.

The collaboration continues: one EPIDE group later came to the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie for a mediation session on water and climate challenges.

We warmly thank the young participants, the staff at EPIDE, and TRACES for their energy, ambition, and dedication in creating this interactive map in just four sessions.