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WEEC 2019, the call for paper coming soon

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In a few days the call for paper for the Weec 2019 will be open.  It is time to start thinking about what to present during the tenth edition of the World Envirionmental Education Congress that will be held in Bangkok, Tahiland in November 2019, just over a year from now.

The presentation formats are: oral an posters presentation, round tables sessions and workshops.
During the NGOs Forum the organisations will present their programs, projects, and productions. A space with a table will be offered to each NGO for a three hour period, where presenters will interact with Congress participants.

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WEEC 2021, here apply the Call for bids

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Who will be the next? Universities, associations, institutions involved in environmental education can apply the form to organise the next WEEC Congress. The Call for bids is now open. A new edition of the World Environmental Education Congress is ready to be planned.
The public or private non-profit organizations concerned in the candidacy of their own country as the seat of the 11th WEEC in 2021 must send an Expression of Interest (EOI) and fill the Application Form (ask: secretariat@weecnetwork.staging.19.coop).

Read all information here: Call for bids_2021

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World Environmental Education Day

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Make the difference. The World Environmental Education Day is celebrated on 14 October. From 14 to 26 October each year, schools, parks, environmental education centers, public institutions, associations, museums … aim to organise special events to highlight the importance of developing educational action to build transversal skills. To focus on the complexity of the challenges in a world where everything is ever more interconnected. To affect perception of the human relationship with the environment, to affect attitudes and therefore individual and collective behaviors. To make people awaring protagonists of a change towards more environmental friendly, more livable and more equitable societies.
On October 14, 1977, the United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education, organized by UNESCO and UNEP, opened in Tbilisi (Georgia’s capital), which ended on October 26 with a statement of great relevance, still today.

The Coordination of the World EE Day is taken care by the world-wide network of environmental educators who, each two years, give life to the main congress in that field (the WEEC, World Environmental Education Congress).

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Earth Prize international 2018

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The first edition of Earth Prize: a prize for environmental education and landscape has been announced in Milan, in the prestigious venue of the Lombardy Region on Thursday 14 June.
The event will be place in Luino (Va) in Lombardy, on the border with Switzerland, on 23 and 24 June, where also schools and characters from Maggiore Lake and nearby valleys will be rewarded. «Earth Prize wants to be a multiplier of positive actions for the environment and the quality of life», explains the journalist and writer Luca Novelli, artistic director of the award.
Earth Prize International is promoted by WEEC Network (World Environmental Education Congress) and the City of Luino. Patronage of Touring Club Italiano, Slow Food, ISDE – International Society of Doctors for Environment, Comunità Montana Alpi del Verbano and FIMA – Federazione italiana dei media ambientali. Supported by Fondazione Comunitaria del Varesotto.

«I want to express my appreciation for this initiative that senses awareness society to adopting responsible lifestyles» declares the Councillor for Environment and Climate of the Lombardy Region, Raffaele Cattaneo.

«With over 15 years of experience and the organization of ten World Congresses of Environmental Education, the WEEC Network – says the International Permanent Secretariat of WEEC Mario Salomone – is pleased to give life to this first edition of the Earth Prize, first of all by awarding an important association of Young Reporters for the Environment, present in 34 countries involving 310.000 young people».

The nominations 2018

During the event the following exponents and representatives of environmental media will be awarded:
EarthPrize International to the Young Reporters for the Environment network, based in Copenhagen, which invites, informing, to universal brotherhood.
EarthPrize Media to the radio transmission Radio2 Caterpillar, Mi illumino di meno.
EarthPrize Landscape for the publisher and journalist Francesca Marzotto Caotorta.
Nomination for Linea Verde, historic italian television program and EarthPrize Media for the TV program of the Swiss Radio Television Il Giardino di Albert.
EarthPrize International award to Reinhold and Magdalene Messner.
Award for Silver, the creator of Lupo Alberto comic. A nomination for the Trekking Locarno-Venezia.
Nominations related to the territory hosting the event: the project GreenSchool that involved tens of thousands of young people and the APP made by the students of Luino, which allows you to find free and safe car, adding a technological value to the “Equostop” sustainable mobility project.

Earth Prize International is a prize born thinking of the Paris agreements on climate and Pope Francis, to whom this first edition will be dedicated. His encyclical “Laudato Sì” has placed Ecology and Environmental Education at the center of peace and our future.

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In Luino – Lake Maggiore (Italy) the Earth Prize 2018

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The First edition of the Earth Prize is promoted by the Permanent secretariat of the World Environmental Education Congress Network (WEEC Network) and the City of  Luino (Italy). The Prize is organised for recognition to people and organizations having contributed with their ideas, actions or innovations to change collective behavior to more sustainable lifestyles, through best practices, literary and popular works, films and television broadcasts, landscape projects, communication campaigns, studies and research which improved environmental education along all ages of life.

The Award has an international dimension through the WEEC network and its biennial conferences (World Environmental Education Congresses).

The Earth Prize ceremony was held on June 23 and 24, in Luino, a prestigious italian location on the Lake Maggiore. The activities have seen the participation of community organizations and local State schools that presented their works towards environment.
For more information visit the official website

Among the winners of this edition: the Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE), a global network which aims to empower young people to take a stand on environmental issues by which they feel strongly attracted. The global network also provides them a platform to express these issues through the media of writing, photography or video.
To see more about YRE visit the official website

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Italian National Days of the WEEC Network

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The Italian National Days of the WEEC Network, Environmental education and sustainability held in Naples,  April 20-21 2018,  had as main objective the cultural exchange between diversified realities operating within the EAS.
This goal gave rise to the need for a national meeting in which the fruitful exchange of experiences and the relationships between the participants became elements of growth of the network and its future development.
A second objective is to enhance the initiatives of those who work today in various capacities in the EAS, in schools, in natural and urban contexts, in the business world and in the university, through the presentation of innovative experiences for methodologies, languages or implementation contexts.
The choice of Naples as a symbolic city wants to encourage the participation of all the people of “good will” who, especially in Southern Italy, find themselves reuniting different realities, both social and sensitization to sustainability.

The WEEC Italy Network, launched in 2013 following the WEEC World Congress in Marrakech and consolidated in the successive World Congresses in Gothenburg and Vancouver, at the EAS European Days in Bergamo, thanks to the first National Workshop held at the CNR in Porano in 2016 and the cycle of meetings (also transmitted in streaming) “Tessere Nuove Connessioni” to Oxy.gen of the Parco Nord Milano in 2017, is today an aggregative subject able to enhance the effort of diversified energies in the country, public and private, that beyond geographical affiliations recognize themselves in a common manifesto of values to promote a sustainable society through educational processes.

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Photo: Natural Reserve WWF “Cratere degli Astroni”, near Naples

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9th WEEC, the abstract book is now available for free

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The 9weec_Abstract_ Book presents the contents of the World Environmental Education Congress held in Vancouver (Canada) in September 2017.
A total of 736 abstracts were submitted to the abstract submission system in English, French and Spanish.
Abstracts were submitted in 1 of 14 following strands. Early Childhood Education and EE; Place-based Education and Local Outdoor Learning; Architecture and Green Design; Arts Based Approaches in EE; Agriculture and Garden-Based Learning; Global and Cultural Diversity in EE; Urban Eco-systems;  Environmental Communication (and Uncertainty); Indigenous Knowledge and EE; Ethics Lead Learning and Sustainability; Social Responsibility and Agency/Activism; Nature as Teacher / Nature as Researcher; Global Policy and Environmental Education; Perspectives, Challenges and Innovation in Research.
The congress allowed up to 14 parallel sessions as the Local Organizing Committee envisioned a room/home dedicated for each of the 14 strands. The majority of presentations was allocated to interactive poster sessions and discouraged the traditional PowerPoint presentations.
One of the goals of the congress was to encourage as much interaction and discussion amongst the delegates as possible and move away from the hierarchical oral presentations.
Upon review by the Local Organizing Committee as well as the Socio-Scientific Committee, there were a total of 259 interactive poster presentations, 26 novel format presentations, 43 paper presentations, 152 roundtable presentations, and 2 symposia confirmed for the congress.

64 countries were represented at WEEC 2017.

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Ocean & Marine Education – Call for Best Practices

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WEEC Network is starting an inquiry, devoted to investigate ongoing projects, experiences and tools (handbooks, multi-media, etc.) related to ocean and marine education, inspired by the fact that the year 2018 marks the beginning of a new decade of action under the auspices of the United Nations on the theme “Water for Sustainable Development“.
Send us (as soon as possible) the name of the project (or the tool), a short description and a website reference. Please send us also your academic profile, a short bio or your area of interest.

Who can join this?
Anyone! Experts, Professors, Phd/Researchers, local centres, associations or practitioners, people from the civil society, citizens.

What’s going to happen with the submitted information?
The results of this outreach will be spread through the WEEC website, a report about the theme and during the next 10th WEEC 2019 in Bangkok.

Any question?
Write us at water@weecnetwork.staging.19.coop

Thank you!

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WEEC 2021, the Call for bids is open

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The Call for bids to organise the next WEEC Congress is now open. A new edition of the World Environmental Education Congress is ready to be planned.
The public or private non-profit organizations concerned in the candidacy of their own country as the seat of the 11th WEEC in 2021 must send an Expression of Interest (EOI) and fill the Application Form before 31st July 2018.

Read all information here: Call for bids_2021

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Support the campaign: the World Environmental Education Day

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The World Environmental Education Day is celebrated on 14 October.
40 years after the UN Conference in Tbilisi (Georgia).
From 14 to 26 October each year, schools, parks, environmental education centers, public institutions, associations, museums … aim to organise special events to highlight the importance of developing educational action to build transversal skills. To focus on the complexity of the challenges in a world where everything is ever more interconnected. To affect perception of the human relationship with the environment, to affect attitudes and therefore individual and collective behaviors. To make people awaring protagonists of a change towards more environmental friendly, more livable and more equitable societies.
On October 14, 1977, the United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education, organized by UNESCO and UNEP, opened in Tbilisi (Georgia’s capital), which ended on October 26 with a statement of great relevance, still today.
The Coordination of the World EE Day is taken care by the world-wide network of environmental educators who, each two years, give life to the main congress in that field (the WEEC, World Environmental Education Congress).

The celebrations of the fortieth anniversary of the 1977 Tbilisi Conference took place on 9 September in Vancouver at the WEEC World Congress.

Read the Appeal for a World Environmental Education Day_EN and support the campaign to exhort the UN, the leading institutions worldwide, all our colleagues, all citizens interested in a more sustainable and pleasant future to endorse and to spread our call to recognize and to celebrate every year, on October 14th, the World Environmental Education Day.

Support the campaign

Read the Appeal in Franch – 14 octobre journée mondiale de l’éducation à l’environnement_FR

Read the Appeal in Greek – Appeal for a World Environmental Education Day-GR

Read the Appeal in Spanish – Llamamiento para el día Mundial de la Educación Ambiental_ES

For information and affiliations: world-day@weecnetwork.staging.19.coop

 

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