CEDIS Newsletter No. 1 – Summary

The first CEDIS Newsletter presents the early progress of the Circular Economy in Digital Storytelling (CEDIS) project, led by a consortium of eight organisations from Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Turkey, and Portugal. The project aims to reinvent Circular Economy education by integrating Digital Storytelling (DST) into secondary school curricula, enhancing students’ digital skills, creativity, and environmental awareness.

This issue highlights the completion of the Combined Report, which maps existing digital tools, national Circular Economy education practices, and previous experiences of using DST in teaching. It outlines how DST fosters essential literacies—digital, global, technology, visual, and information literacy—while promoting collaboration and critical thinking among students.

The newsletter also features national expert interviews, where specialists explain the importance of shifting from a linear to a circular model and demonstrate how DST helps young learners understand complex sustainability concepts. The interviews emphasize benefits such as improved creativity, language skills, and teamwork.

Finally, the newsletter introduces the next steps: developing a complete DST Educational Toolkit, conducting an international teacher workshop, testing the tools in classrooms, and supporting students in producing 60–80 digital stories on Circular Economy topics.

Explore from this link how CEDIS is setting the foundation for creative, engaging, and sustainability-driven learning.