MCS ESD provides innovative ways to enhance STEAM education in Irish schools. Funded by the Department of Education and Research Ireland (2022-2024), this initiative takes an evidence-based approach to key questions in education—leveraging one of the most flexible opportunities in our post-primary system: Transition Year. MCS ESD harnesses this unique opportunity to integrate sustainability into STEAM learning, equipping students with the knowledge and skills to tackle real-world challenges.
MCS ESD is an online platform with free-to-use and easy-to-access teaching and learning resources; over 1000 lesson plans, activity sheets, blended learning links, all developed as cross-curricular programmes, micro modules and one-off lessons. Our resources have been developed in a transdisciplinary way- with educators, artists, industry and academic experts and social-emotional learning specialists. This means that teachers and learners have relevant, verified, state-of-the-art and current content in an age-appropriate way.
Our programmes include:
- Future of the Ocean
- Future of Enterprise and Innovation
- Future of Food
- Future of Fashion
- Future of Space
- Engineering for Good
- Media Communications
- Dream Designs
- Seeding Sustainability
- Marine Plastic Waste
- Ocean Literacy
- Climate Change Engage
- Eco Agency: Youth-Led Climate Action
MCS ESD has received notable recognition for its contributions to sustainable education:
- COP28 Commendation: In December 2023, MCSS was selected as one of the initial 100 global outstanding educational solutions by the Learning Planet Institute at the COP28 summit in Dubai. This acknowledgment highlighted MCSS’s commitment to climate-change education through its ‘Teacher for the Planet’ online repository. independent.ie
- Reimagine Education Awards: In 2024, Future Focus21c, the organisation behind MCSS, was shortlisted for the Sustainability Literacy Award at the Reimagine Education Awards, recognizing its innovative approach to integrating sustainability into STEAM learning.
- GESS Dubai Awards: The project was also a finalist in the Sustainability category at the 2024 GESS Dubai Awards, further underscoring its impact on global educational practices. /In 2023 it was a finalist in the Blended Learning category.
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For FREE CPD sessions on Education for Sustainable Development and Futures / Climate Literacy please contact hello@futurefocus21c.com
