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Open Learning Design Day

Forth is a Community Interest Company built by researchers, designers and educators, Forth is exploring and shaping new models, formats and programmes for engagement and learning in a changing world. We’re testing ideas in high streets, museums, schools, neighbourhoods — anywhere that people come together.

Forth

Learning is breaking out of classrooms and into communities. Explore new ways to learn for climate action and resilient futures.

3Space International House

Join us to explore a growing field of activity where opportunities to learn for climate are embedded in place.First Hand Open Learning Design Day will bring together changemakers from local government, local business, place stewards, education and community networks who are driving climate, skills and social value agendas on the ground.What we’ll do:<ul><li>Explore learning as critical infrastructure for change: what we need and how we can build it.</li><li>Hear examples from practice: across real-world, local initiatives in circular economy, food, energy, and retrofit.</li><li>Unpack the toolkit: how to shape place-based, hands-on, collaborative learning from open days to secondments.</li><li>Address a shared challenge: what’s our blueprint for learning as a critical infrastructure for accelerating climate skills and action?</li></ul>You’ll leave with:<ul><li>Clarity on our collective learning and skills challenge and how you might address it</li><li>Real examples of learning formats and models that are working now for your peers</li><li>New ideas to test in your organisation, sector, discipline or neighbourhood</li><li>Connections with other changemakers who are building capability for sustainable futures.</li></ul>This is our final event of 2025: a chance to connect the threads of two years’ research, prototyping, and delivery, and to shape what comes next. Join us!First Hand is an exploratory project by <a href="http://www.wegoforth.org" title="http://www.wegoforth.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Forth</a> as part of the <a href="https://leversforclimate.eu/" title="https://leversforclimate.eu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LEVERs project</a>. It benefits from Horizon Europe and UKRI funding. Keep in touch with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/first-hand-learning/" title="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/first-hand-learning/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">First Hand</a> on LinkedIn.

Agenda

Setting the challenge: the need for alternative learning pathways for climate 

Innovating learning: the open and place-based learning revolution (OPEN WORKS)

Practical examples of exemplar learning initiatives in circular economy, food, energy, and retrofit.


Panel and peer exchange: what works and how? 

Lunch

Live case study: Brixton’s climate learning and skills challenge

Who needs to learn what - and how do we build the pathways?

Panel and peer exchange: mapping the future

Collective exercise: a blueprint for learning as infrastructure for climate

Event closes and refreshments.

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