Girls Go Circular: Teacher Guidebook

Girls Go Circular has designed a guidebook to support teachers’ work with students in the classroom. Detailed information about the project, concrete steps on how to use the Circular Learning Space, and guidelines on specific learning modules – all of it is included in the Teacher Guidebook to ensure an excellent experience with the project for both teachers and students.

To access the English version (PDF), click here. The guidebook is also available in all the project languages: Bulgarian, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian.

Girls Go Circular: Digital and Entrepreneurial Skills for the Circular Economy

Girls Go Circular is an EU-funded education project that aims to equip girls aged 14-19 across Europe with digital and entrepreneurial skills through an online learning programme on the circular economy. The project contributes to gender diversity policy objectives and, more specifically, to Action 13 of the Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 – Encourage women’s participation in STEM.

Learn more about the project in our brochure (PDF).

Explaining the Circular Economy and How Society Can Re-think Progress

There’s a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. ‘Re-Thinking Progress’ explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works – designing products that can be ‘made to be made again’ and powering the system with renewable energy. It questions whether with creativity and innovation we can build a restorative economy.

This animated video essay was provided by one of the project partners, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Example Challenge: How circular is your Smartphone?

Through the Girls Go Circular project girls can build digital skills through “learning-by-doing” online components proividing challenge-based exercises with a focus on the circular economy..

This example is an exercise developed by one of the project partners, Sostenibilidad Etica.

More to come…