It is made up of teachers and researchers at the UdG in a stable manner.Doctoral students doing the thesis are also included on a predoctoral contract, supervised by a consolidated member of the group and other postdoctoral figures who have won a competitive grant.As collaborators, we have external individuals and experts, some of whom are associated lecturers, or experts from abroad who have regular connections with members of the group.
GRECA brings together many common areas of knowledge in the field of education.At the beginning, the objective of the research was environmental education and sustainability, immediately contacting other Catalan and Spanish universities that embarked on a similar path (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Granada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) and also from abroad.Through an international project, we positioned ourselves as the first group to define the concept and details of curricular greening in the university context, through the ACES Network (5 European universities and 6 Latin American universities), and many other groups have followed since.We met very soon and received training from two world-renowned figures in the field of environmental education: Dra. Daniella Tilbury, who later became Dra. Honoris Causa of the UdG, and Dra. Lucie Sauvé, from Canada.
Over the years, we have increased in the number of researchers from different areas of knowledge and have opened up to the fields of social and natural environments, heritage, citizenship, mathematics, language, social responsibility, social and environmental anthropology, and teacher training. The latter subject is the macro-area that brings us all together and connects us with teaching.Each one contributes what comes from their origin, and we agree on the desire for transformative education that will lead us to sustainability and the 2030 Agenda, working in all our respective fields and seeking what unites us through sustainability.The group is composed of a good number of stable teaching staff and teaching staff starting their academic careers, in an adequate proportion.Since the beginning, the group has had important international collaborators, and now, more than ever, the teaching staff who pursue their academic career organise activities with new collaborators and new researchers.The Group aims to seek its impact on the territory, from the counties of Girona to the world, undertaking research, contracts, and collaborating with local agents and researchers both near and far.