This book seeks to gather together the learning from the Erasmus+ “Sustainability In Vocational Education” project. The project attempted to identify good and bad practices within our Vocational institutes on areas of environmental concern, to examine firstly how the institutes operate and identify ways in which environmental best practice can be incorporated into the normal day to day operation of the Institutes and secondly to identify areas within the curriculum where sustainable, environmentally friendly technologies can be promoted and where students and teachers can be empowered to incorporate sustainability in a very real way into their courses.

This aim could also be stated as giving the institutes the knowledge and tools at a local level to adopt best practice in sustainable course delivery and through this good example and direct examination of course content place sustainable vocational methods at the forefront of course content.

To this end the book examines the following key environmental issues in the context of how they relate to vocational education:

• Litter and Waste
• Energy
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• Travel
• Biodiversity

In examining all of these we strove to identify which strategies can best be employed in our own colleges to create a more sustainable environment while also promoting the idea of European and global citizenship within these themes. Crucially here these themes were evaluated not in a theoretical manner but in a very practical way directly related to the work of our vocational colleges.