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
Un forum des jeunes de pays du Nord et du Sud a été organisé par l’Alliance pour une Education à la Citoyenneté Planétaire (AECP)( http://alliance-education-citoyennete-planetaire.org/wp/fr/) pendant la COP 23 à Bonn. https://www.facebook.com/AllianceECP/. Le but a été d’amener les jeunes à être des acteurs clés de la transition écologique, économique et sociétale, en s’appuyant sur des laboratoires d’idées composés d’enseignants, d’associations, de collectivités territoriales et d’entreprises sociales.
Au cours d’une table ronde « Pour vivre ensemble à 10 milliards, pour lutter contre le dérèglement climatique, changeons l’éducation »( http://energies2050.org/cop23/) le 15 novembre à 11h dans la Bonn zone au pavillon d’ENERGIES 2050, on a posées les relations entre éducation et dérèglement climatique, avec la participation des jeunes pour exposer leurs points de vue et en débattre avec des experts.
Education at COP23 in Bonn: a youth forum
At COP 23 in Bonn, AECP attended with a group of 60 people, young and adults, from 9 countries in the North and South (Germany, Morocco, Belgium, Ivory Coast, Republic of Congo, Italy, Chad , Quebec, France,) to organize a youth forum of the AECP on 14th, 15th and 16th November2017, so that together they become ambassadors of a planetary citizenship for more equity, solidarity, to build a world of peace, a better world and respectful of our planet.
The AECP, Alliance for an Education for Planetary Citizenship, created in France (www.alliance-education-citoyennete-planetaire.org) and managed by « Les amis de Circée » association “Loi 1901” (www.amisdecircee.fr), brings together formal and non-formal education structures in some fifteen countries in the North and South.
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The States General of the Green Economy are promoted by the italian National Council of the Green Economy, made up of 66 business organisations that represent the green economy in Italy, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economic Development.
The sixth edition will be held on the 7th and 8th November 2017 during the event Ecomondo, Rimini (Italy)
The live streaming will be available thanks to WEECNETWORK on the site on General States, on italia.weecnetwork.staging.19.coop and – in english – on weecnetwork.staging.19.coop
On November 7, at 10.30 am, will be presented the 3rd Green Report on Green Economy 2017 and the Green Economy transition program, during the Plenary Session. Therefore, the General States 2017 will be the place for a direct confrontation between the National Council of Green Economy, which has drafted theplatform and the various political forces, in view of the upcoming elections.
On the 7th November during the afternoon there will be the thematic analysis, with 5 parallel sessions focused on:
– The Green Cities network in Italy
– The future of the Paris Agreement and national energy policies
– Circular Economy: Implementation and Implementation of the European Waste Directives
– Future mobility: less, electric, green and shared
– Green economy and industrial policies
On November 8 (9.30am) there will be the final plenary session “Europe, China and the US: the future of Green Economy in the new world equilibrium”. There will be compared current and future scenarios of green growth in the international context. It will start from how global political and economic scenarios have changed dramatically with respect to the Paris Accord, which has defined global goals and commitments to tackle climate change, to discuss future scenarios.
What are the governments doing and what is the role and weight of big companies? A talk between international companies, institutional representatives from Europe, China and the USA, and world-class green economy experts.
The Young Reporters for Environment, from the Izmir Saint-Joseph Fernch High School (Turkey) attended the 9th WEEC in Vancouver (Canada) and now they present their experience.
This event is my most beautiful international experience. Conference was really good and I’m very proud of being one of the numbered young reporters. The conference went well and in the presentation moment we were in the focal point. Everybody liked our project and they supported us because everybody wants the youth understand the importance and work for environmental problems. And also everybody liked YRE and when we said there are more than 250.000 youngster like us in the 35 countries, all of our listeners were full of hope for the future of our world and they were pleased. After the presentation I met with lots of important lecturers, professors and nature scientist. Some ecological educators have very important projects for their countries.
One of the most important lecturer invited us for a conference in Australia. She is the team leader for cleaning the most polluted area in Australia. I saw that every person in conference from any age from anywhere is curious about environmental problems, they do research and write some articles. That made me happy. The feeling of made our families proud, representing our school and our country is the most honorable thing in my life. I know that the future is on our hands. And if we behave responsibly to protect the environment and work for sustainable living conditions the world can be a better place to live.
EFE KAAN OK
YRE STUDENT
From Izmir Saint-Joseph Fernch High School /TURKEY
#WEEC2017 #proudmomseries @efe_ok @izmirbld #youngreportersofenvironment pic.twitter.com/VpzRvJzG0x
— Ece Sueren OK (@ecesuerenok) 14 settembre 2017
The Earth Charter Center for Education for Sustainable Development offers an online certificate programme on education for sustainable development, in collaboration with the UN Mandated University for Peace.
This Online Certificate Diploma is designed to provide participants with the understanding, knowledge, and skills to integrate Education for Sustainable Development and Education for Global Citizenship into classrooms, schools, and curricula with depth and creativity. It contributes to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, with a specific focus on SDG 4, target SDG 4.7 .
Specifically, this Certificate Programme seeks to:
Clarify concepts of sustainability, sustainability values and principles, sustainable lifestyles and responsible consumption; and global citizenship, as well as the synergies between them.
Deepen and expand knowledge about new paradigms of education associated with education for sustainability, sustainable lifestyles, education for global citizenship and transformative education.
Strengthen capacities and skills of the educators to integrate the values of sustainability in their areas of action, and develop educational programmes that promote a new awareness of our relationship with the environment and sustainable lifestyles.
Explore methodological and transforming pedagogical tools that can be used in educational programmes.
Motivate and inspire educators to contribute, through their areas of action, in building more coherent, harmonious, and sustainable societies.
Stimulate the exchange of experiences between educators from different contexts and regions.
The Certificate Programme has a duration of five months. It consists of four courses plus five seminars. Each course consists of five sessions (one per week). The minimum hourly load per participant is 124 hours, which involves 4 hours per week to read and see all the materials per session, plus the time for the seminars, and the preparation and implementation of a final project (individually or in group).
The course fee is US$1,300 (30% discount offered for groups of 3 or more. 10% discount in registration before November 15th, 2017, full payment only).
The Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP) announces a global call for action for the field of environmental education (EE): Imagine a World. A global call for Action.
To achieve a positive, sustainable future – that’s the goal of the campain – we need to act now for environmental education, elevate our work as individuals and organizations, and increase our collective impact.
The GEEP is focused on building capacity for environmental education and sustainability around the world and using the power of education to help address global environmental and social problems. Its advisors are made up of researchers, policymakers, education practitioners, and others who represent government and non-governmental sectors from countries and regions around the world.
The GEEP believes that national and international professional networks are essential to ensuring the quality of education in, about, and for the environment in communities, nations, and regions.
This Call for Action is asking the international environmental education community to take stock of where we are as a field and think ahead to the future. It includes ten draft actions, crafted with input from GEEP leaders from around the world, and is designed to get input from educators working in this field about our key priorities for the next decade.
You can help shape the future agenda by explaing which actions are most important, what’s missing, etc? Visit ActNowForEE.org and cast your vote for your top three priorities. Your input will help create a global action plan for the next 10 years.
Watch the video and visit the site of the campain to help shape the future!
The Rhode Island School of Design is launching two new Masters Programs in 2018 in the fields of Global Arts and Cultures and Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies. Emphasizing theoretical grounding, deep inquiry and self-directed research, these programs equip graduates to become hybrid thinkers who will bring critica
Students in RISD’s Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies MA program develop scholarly expertise in the rapidly evolving field of interdisciplinary environmental studies. Working closely with faculty experts in the environmental humanities and social sciences, they embark on self-directed pathways of research in focus areas such as Anthropocene studies, climate change cultures, green urbanisms and sustainable design futures.
The graduate program on Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies will combine political ecology and environmental social and political theory with engagements Anthropocene studies, eco-design, socio-technical transitions, climate change cultures and beyond. Hence it may be of interest to your undergraduate students who are looking for a more interdisciplinary environmental studies context for graduate work that can engage more fully with the politics of culture, art and design.
For information on each individual Masters program can be found here.
How to explain the complex interaction between biological traits and environmental conditions? “Animals at Risk from Climate Change” is an educational poster for environmental and earth science educators made by The Global Education Project, a Canadian non-governmental organization with a 15-year history of publishing fact-packed educational wall posters and producing live events to educate about important issues.
The interaction of biological traits and environmental conditions that cause a species to be susceptible to climate change and the basics of the carbon cycle are made simple and understandable through illustrations, symbols and brief explanatory text–thoroughly documented to reliable sources.
“Animals at Risk from Climate Change” is an educational poster that presents a succinct overview of the fundamental impacts of greenhouse gases — the causes, effects and risks to all forms of life on the planet — . Based on studies from the IUCN Climate Change Specialist Group, the US EPA, NASA, NOAA and the IPCC, the poster features 25 animals that highlight the fundamental impacts of greenhouse gases on all forms of life on the planet.
By 25 animals selected for their vulnerability to climate change, the complex interaction of biological traits and environmental conditions that cause a species to be susceptible are made simple and understandable through illustrations, key graphics and brief explanatory text. Comprehensive and rigorously annotated to reliable sources, this resource is a valuable, timely and relevant educational aid.
To order or to view all of the elements on the poster, visit here
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.
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
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The Green Gown Awards are the most prestigious recognition of environmental and sustainability best practice within the further and higher education sectors. The Awards provide the sector with benchmarks for excellence and are respected by Government, funding councils, senior management, academics and students.
The Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability Green Gown Awards are supported by UN Environment and the Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability and are open to Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability members.
Membership to Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability is free of charge and you can join here. Each Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability region can apply for any of the below categories. There is not a limit on the number of application each institution can enter.
Important Dates
12 October 2017 – Application Deadline
13 November 2017 – Finalists announced
4 January 2018 – Case study and video deadline for Finalists
TBC – Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability Green Gown Awards Ceremony Winners announced
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