28–30 October 2026

Intercultural evening and a workshop on the 12 green competences

As part of a multi-day international training bringing together participants from Austria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Germany, Solidarität Europa e.V. ran two programme points from 28 to 30 October 2026: an intercultural evening and a non-formal education workshop on the EU's 12 green competences.

An intercultural evening

The programme opened with an intercultural evening, where the participating groups from Austria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Germany presented their countries – with traditional food and drinks, music and everyday stories. Evenings like this are at the heart of non-formal education: they create, in a relaxed setting, exactly what Solidarität Europa e.V. stands for – genuine encounters between people from different countries and cultures, beyond lectures and theory.

Workshop: the EU's 12 green competences

The second day featured a workshop on the European sustainability competence framework known as GreenComp. It describes twelve competences across four areas that help people think and act more sustainably:

• Embodying sustainability values: valuing sustainability, supporting fairness, promoting nature.
• Embracing complexity in sustainability: systems thinking, critical thinking, problem framing.
• Envisioning sustainable futures: futures literacy, adaptability, exploratory thinking.
• Acting for sustainability: political agency, collective action, individual initiative.

Rather than a frontal lecture, the group worked non-formally: in small groups, using methods built around the knowledge–skills–attitudes triangle also sketched out on one of the flipcharts. This made the otherwise abstract EU framework tangible for participants and easy to translate into their own project ideas.

Why this matters to Solidarität Europa e.V.

Educational work and intercultural exchange are among the association's statutory priorities. Formats like this intercultural evening and the workshop on green competences show how these goals translate into practice together with international partners – lively, methodically varied, and directly tied to European priorities such as the European Green Deal.

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