SSATL-ESD (Sub-Saharan Africa Teacher Leadership for Education for Sustainable Development) is a European Commission Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE) project (Project Number: 101177464). The project runs from 1 November 2024 to 31 October 2027.
The project has been developed through the cooperation of four UNESCO Chairs, namely the UNESCO Chair ICT in Education for Sustainable Development, led by Prof. Dr. Vassilios Makrakis, University of Crete, Greece; the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development, led by Prof. Dr. Daniel Fischer, Leuphana University, Germany; the UNESCO Chair in Global. Change and Social Learning Systems, led by Prof. Dr. Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Rhodes University, South Africa; and the UNESCO Chair on Observation and Education of World Heritage and Biosphere Reserves, led by Prof. Dr. Alexander Siegmund, Heidelberg University of Education, Germany.
SSATL ESD aims to strengthen teacher leadership in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) across Sub-Saharan Africa by empowering educators and teacher educators to integrate sustainable development principles into curricula, teaching practices, and institutional policies. SSATL ESD delivers capacity-building through a hybrid professional learning programme, fostering innovative curriculum change projects (ESD Leadership Change Projects) and establishing ICT-enabled ESD Leadership Labs. The project also builds a Euro-African ESD Leadership Network of teacher educators, promoting peer exchange, shared resources, and policy dialogue to support sustainable development in teacher education.
The project is coordinated by Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany). It involves 15 partner institutions from Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, including universities in South Africa, Zambia, Namibia, Malawi, and Kenya, as well as partners in Cyprus and Greece