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.





Feedback on the National Training – France, February 2025

On February 12 and 13, 2025, we held the French national training course in Universcience for the Come Together project… and what a moment it was!

28 participants joined – more than expected, and a group that was highly motivated, curious, and committed.
Over two days, we shared, explored, tested, and reflected together on how to make science communication more inclusive, especially when it comes to environmental issues.

What we (re)used

This national training built on the foundation of the international training that took place earlier in the project.

We revisited the core takeaways developed during that phase, including:

  • The importance of active listening
  • Hands-on, interactive approaches
  • Learning through real-life examples where everyone brings their expertise
  • The power of engagement and storytelling
  • The need to adapt each tool to the specific audience
  • And above all: science mediation as a space for dialogue, not top-down transmission

What we adapted

Before the session, the Universcience team took time to carefully analyse feedback from the international training.

Goal: Make the national version even more accessible, practical, and inspiring — especially for a group with less prior experience in mediation.

Here’s what we changed:

  • More time for participants to share their projects, ideas, and questions
  • Experts who used varied formats – no long lectures, but lively exchanges, demos, and storytelling
  • Participants tested dialogue methods before analysing them – because we learn best by doing

We also challenged some of the usual frameworks. For example: We moved from asking “Who’s responsible?” to “How can we build a sustainable future together?”

         

Tailored activities

We designed specific activities to meet the needs and interests of the group:

  • A fishbowl discussion on how to encourage people to take action
  • A focused session on what inclusion really means, with clear, grounded definitions
  • A peer exchange of ready-to-use tools, methods, and mindsets
  • A collective exercise using real documents to learn how to make science resources accessible to all

To help participants reflect and transfer what they learned to their own context, we created a personal reflection notebook, filled in throughout the training.
A simple but powerful way to ask: What do I take away from this? What can I apply in my own work?

 

What’s next?

Participants are now heading home with a clear mission: to implement inclusive science mediation actions on environmental issues, in their own communities and contexts.


In their words:

“This makes me want to take action. And now I feel legit doing it.”

“Discovering different projects, ideas, and difficulties was inspiring and reassuring.”

“We’re leaving with tools… but also a whole new way of thinking about our relationship with the public.”

 

Thank you

A huge thank-you to everyone who joined us, for your energy, your ideas, your questions, and your engagement.

And a special thank-you to those who supported the project from the beginning – your insights helped shape this training and made it what it was.

See you very soon for the next steps!