The CNL project aims to provide teachers, school principals, educators, and researchers in teacher education with teaching and learning materials that promote cultural sustainability. The CNL concept defines Anthropocene competence, enabling individuals to address the uncertainties of climate change in the 'age of humans' based on facts and solutions. Cultural education, with its creative potential, plays a key role in this endeavor.
The CNL project brings together the expertise of nine European project partners in education and ecological sustainability to formulate cultural sustainability as an inclusive educational concept for societal transformation in line with SDG 4(Quality Education): CultureNature Literacy (CNL) as Anthropocene competence. Cultural practices are essential for successful science communication in the Anthropocene.
The CNL Handbook (1) establishes CultureNature Literacy (CNL) as Anthropocene competence in theory and practice. Numerous examples illustrate this innovative educational concept, which places cultural sustainability at the forefront. The CNL Handbook serves as a guide for the design of Next-Practice Examples (2) and Text-Image Narrations (4) on the human-nature relationship, which are developed for use in interdisciplinary teaching and blended learning. The CNL Handbook (1) also serves as a guide for school leadership to implement the CNL concept for cultural sustainability in school development processes. The CNL MOOC (3) can be used for self-study and/or integrated into teaching and learning processes.