The Third Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP3) is a consortium of nine organizations that deliver environmental education (EE) training to teachers and other education professionals. EE prepares citizens to make informed, intelligent decisions that protect human health and environmental quality. Through workshops, courses, and other carefully tailored strategies, EETAP3 is building a cadre of educators who are knowledgeable about the environment and have the skills needed to help children and adults understand complex environmental issues. It is helping education professionals work effectively with diverse audiences and make their organizations and programs more inclusive. EETAP3 is ensuring that environmental education programs and resources are of high quality and present multiple perspectives in an unbiased manner. EETAP recently completed the fourth year of a five-year program that has already benefitted nearly 1.6 million education professionals and 16 million individuals across the country. 

EETAP3’s Year 4 work plan detailed 12 activities designed to achieve a more environmentally literate public over the five-year period of the project.  In all, 485,858 educators and an estimated 5,923,054 individuals have expanded their knowledge and skills through EETAP3 Year 4 activities. These figures reflect attendance at EETAP3-supported workshops and user visits to EE-Link, along with the learners reached by these educators.