Introduction
Beyond Learning explores how education, creativity and community action can drive the transition toward a more sustainable and inclusive future. Through stories and conversations from across Europe, the podcast highlights how people learn and unlearn to respond to social and environmental change.
Across its seasons, Beyond Learning has examined the power of transformative learning for sustainability, explored how belonging and identity are nurtured through community initiatives, and imagined new possibilities for how we live and learn together. Featuring adult learners, educators, researchers, artists and activists, the podcast shows how learning happens everywhere: in classrooms and community centres, in gardens, festivals and art projects, shaping how we think, act and collaborate for a better future.
Beyond Learning is produced by EAEA and co-funded by the European Union.
Beyond Learning Season 3: Reimagining Possibilities
Beyond Learning 2.1: Green Transition Dialogues
The three Green Transition Dialogues podcasts explore various aspects of transformative learning and its importance for building a more sustainable future. They feature innovative practices, expert insights, and discussions on how diverse stakeholders can collaborate to achieve sustainability goals. The podcasts are based on a webinar series organised by the Tale project in the spring of 2024.
Beyond Learning Season 2: Identities
In the second season, we journey to Central and Eastern Europe to explore how learning can foster a sense of belonging in a changing world. From Vienna to Zagreb, Athens and Belgrade, we meet with adult learners, educators, but also filmmakers, migrant and feminist collectives, and researchers who put community-building at the centre of their work. We record our conversations at adult learning and community centres and art performances, in cafes, urban gardens and other community spaces where learning happens and new identities are created.
Beyond Learning Season 1: A Greener Future
If there were a “festival of free time” in your neighbourhood, what would you like to learn there? And what could you teach others? If you wanted to learn how to cycle finally, why would you do it at night? What would happen if you brought activists and local residents together in one wooden village?
On Beyond Learning, we talk to people trying to imagine a more sustainable world by putting their ideas into practice. We meet with adult learners, educators and community organisers from around Europe to visit urban gardens. To participate in festivals and witness art projects in the making. We ask them why learning should be at the heart of a greener future. And how it has already shaped their lives and communities.
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Artwork by Clémence Garnier, visual facilitator and committed illustrator.
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More information
For more information about our podcast series Beyond Learning, please contact EAEA’s Capacity Building and Project Coordinator, Charlotte Ede, at charlotte.ede [at] eaea.org.