The Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL), working in partnership with UNESCO, organises a major international conference focused on research related to Global Education and Learning, the event theme is ‘Global Education & Learning for a Just, Peaceful and Sustainable World’. It will be held on the 19th and 20th June at UNESCO House in Paris, France. Bringing together academics, researchers, policymakers and practitioners, the event aims to build the profile of, and showcase important developments in Global Education & Learning, and the related educational approaches of Education for Sustainability, and Global Citizenship.
Those who are interested in presenting, or in running focused sessions at the conference will need to submit proposals by the 17 February.
The global education conference will feature keynote presentations in French and English, and will be free to attend. Papers and presentations will cover all sectors of education, focusing on empirical based research, theoretical reflections or contributions on history or meta-analysis. Activities that promote and enrich connections between researchers, policymakers, and civil society organisations will also be prioritised, especially those which capitalise on the rare opportunity to gather face-to-face.
“There is increased interest by learners of all ages in global and sustainability issues, as evidenced by the steady increase in the volume of publications in these fields,” says ANGEL project Chair Professor Douglas Bourn. “This international conference is a major opportunity to showcase current research and identify themes that could influence policymakers and put global and sustainability themes at the heart of education programmes around the world.”
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Here is a call for papers for the International Colloquium on the Outside Class which will be organized in Poitiers from 31 May to 3 June 2023.
The papers that can be presented in this call will be selected according to three thematic areas of intervention:
– Outdoor Learning: state of the art
– Learning territory: school form, cohabitation with the environment and citizens issues
– The outdoor learning thorough the lens od the commons
Each thematic axis will be organized around conferences/round tables/dedicated devices open to all audiences (academic and non-academic). Paper proposals (title and abstract of 1500 characters, spaces included) are expected by 15 December 2022 at the latest, accompanied by your surnames, first names, affiliations, email address and three to five keywords.
The main language of the symposium will be French, but proposals are also accepted in English or any other language, if the organizing committee is informed sufficiently in advance and accepts.
Each proposal will be made anonymous and double-blind reviewed by the members of the scientific committee.
On the site you will find the different translations of the AAC (Italian, Arabic and Chinese) as well as information on the event.
Contact the conference leaders directly: antoine.h@fabpeda.org and michael.r@fabpeda.org
00weechttps://weecnetwork.staging.19.coop/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WEEC-Logo_200.pngweec2022-11-18 12:30:582022-11-18 12:30:58Call for papers : International Colloquium on Outdoor Learning
The Earth Prize is an annual $200,000 environmental sustainability competition for students around the world between the ages of 13 and 19 that rewards the teams whose projects and ideas have the most potential to address environmental issues.
As part of the competition, participants have access to mentorship by university students from top universities and exclusive learning content covering key environmental sustainability concepts and featuring young environmental change-makers from around the world.
Through The Earth Prize competition, students are inspired, educated, mentored and empowered to solve environmental sustainability problems.
The winning team will receive a prize of $100,000, to be split in half between the team and their school. Three runner-up schools will be awarded $25,000. The Earth Prize will also recognize three Mentors, who will receive $5,000 each, and an Educator who will receive $10,000.
The 27th Conference of Parties will be hosted from the 6th to the 18th of November in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. WEEC Network will follow the event, the opening plenary session will be held on the 6th of November, from 10 am to 1 pm.
According to the scientific community, the window for action on the climate crisis is rapidly closing, and COP27 represents (or should represent) a decisive moment to act based on the successes achieved (and failures) and future goals.
COP, the Conference of Parties, is the annual meeting of the countries that have ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international environmental agreement signed during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992). Its main objective (so far missed) is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, which are responsible for global warming.
COP27 is also an opportunity for all stakeholders to take a stand to address the global challenge of climate change effectively.
A part of the event will be dedicated to environmental education, as in the last editions.
Egypt – according to official statements- takes charge of the COP27 presidency recognizing the gravity of the global climate challenge and the value of collective action as the only means to address this threat, committing itself to support an inclusive, transparent and party-driven process to ensure timely and appropriate action. For further updates, we suggest following our work through our journals and socials.
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For the World EE Day 2022 the Centre for Research in Environmental Education and Training (Centr’ERE) of the University of Quebec in Montreal, organised a lecture programme, discussing topics of high relevance.
These days mark three symbolic dates whose meanings significantly influence the relationship with education, indigenous peoples and the environment.
On 5 October, for International Teachers’ Day, the Education – Environment – Eco-citizenship Coalition invited its members and the general public to participate in a meeting to update the proposed Quebec Strategy for Environmental Education and Eco-citizenship. The meeting was an invitation to explore the trajectory of this public policy proposal, from its origins, through a series of steps taken by the Coalition to date. We have also presented recent updates to the proposal, opening up a new collective assessment
The 12th of October, known as the Day of the Discovery of the Americas, is symbolically identified as Indigenous Resistance Day, commemorating the 530-year struggles of the First Peoples against colonisers. This event joined the movement for an engaged eco-citizenship, aimed at confronting the current wave of colonisation of territories by the extractive industry.
The seminar took place within the framework of Environmental Education Days 2022 and, more specifically, within the activities of the project Resistaction – Critical and political dimensions of environmental education in the context of socio-ecological conflict and their contribution to the emergence of alternatives, which examines these realities in Quebec and Chile.
Meanwhile, on 13th October, as part of the Environmental Education Days celebrations, Centr’ERE invited participants to a conversation about the place and role of critical pedagogies in this fundamental dimension of education.
In particular, critical pedagogies, associated with the thought of Paulo Freire, have been criticised for not making ecological issues explicit, whereas their potential and proven transformative and emancipatory power leads us to reflect on updating their role in environmental education and eco-citizenship. On the occasion of the Environmental Education Days, Centr’ERE invited participants to a conversation about the place and role of critical pedagogies in this fundamental dimension of education.
A Conference debates on political education in environmental and development issues, concluded the celebrations on 14 October.
This conference proposed to open the debate from a reading of the history of environmental and development education. It discussed the successive currents of environmental education, sustainable development and the Anthropocene era, with a view to highlighting the presence or absence of political education. The paper also pointed to a recent paradigm shift, following two decades of strongly behavioural education for sustainable development, towards education for the Anthropocene that offers more potential for political socialisation. This paper accompanied the publication of number 63 of the journal Éducation et socialisation on the subject, edited by Angela Barthes, Lucie Sauvé and Frédéric Torterat.
00weechttps://weecnetwork.staging.19.coop/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WEEC-Logo_200.pngweec2022-11-02 11:19:162022-11-02 11:19:16The World EE Day 2022 at the University of Quebec
The fifth edition of the World Environmental Education Day took place from 14 october to 26 October 2022.
The Weec Network invited all the stakeholders of environmental education to join the World Environmental Education Day organising special events to highlight the importance of environmental educational actions all over the world.
Here we present a selection of interesting celebration taken place around the world:
In Cameroon, People Earthwise (PEW), organise a mobilisation of schools and teachers, youths and natural resource-user groups, through various out-reach media, to engage in environmental protection actions. In particular, this year’ events included press interviews; information letters on WEE Day; EE and Environmental Protection calls through social media avenues.
Meanwhile, in Macau, the University of St. Joseph organised a two days session workshop “Measuring microplastics in the coastal environment: a citizen science workshop” on microplastic pollution.
The workshop will train citizen scientists the steps that they can take to help understand and address microplastic pollution in our coastal environment. Participants will learn some background information about microplastics, proper sampling techniques, sample extraction and analysis through hands-on training sessions.
In South Africa, the University of the Witwatersrand and the Water Community Action Network (WaterCAN), this year for World Environment Day, they have been teaching students how to test water quality testing, then conducting water tests in the Greater Johannesburg area as well as across the country involving other volunteer citizen scientists. The students are all in their final year of a Bachelor of Education degree and will confidently go into schools equipped with knowledge and skills to foreground the importance of water quality in environmental education.
The Water Citizens Action Network (WaterCAN) established a ‘citizen science’ methodology that allows for an increase in citizen understanding of, and participation in, addressing South Africa’s water quality issues. The program is aimed at democratising water by involving citizens in basic monitoring of the quality of their water resources and to raise the alarm around poor quality and inadequate quantities of water. It involves a process to empower people to be able to test water resources, monitor and hold government accountable for the state of the quality and quantity of the water resources that they are receiving.
Although this is an ongoing project to monitor water resources, it being submitted as a World Environmental Education Day 2022 campaign project to support the initiative.
As well, in Latvia, as the EE Day 2022 initiative has been organised an international conference on biodiversity from 20 to 22 October 2022 at Daugavpils University.
In Moscow, Russia, this autumn will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the free environmental education program Open Ecological University, founded in 1987 at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. The project of this year has been devoted to the discussion of “Planet Earth and the need to Ecocatarise” and, besides the introductory lecture of Professor Valery S. Petrosy, there were 8 lectures of eight professors with the discussions of particular aspects of the concept.
In Italy, on the EE Day, Istituto per l’Ambiente e l’Educazione Scholé Futuro – Weec network organized the Earth Festival second edition.
Three days, from 14 to 16 October, in Lombardy on the Lake Maggiore river, full of events, conferences and activities thought to people awareness raising to climate change and environmental education. The topic of the second edition of the Festival was sustainable tourism and Biodiversity. The festival is Earth Prize’s heritage, that ‘s took place for three years.
In Canada, from 17 to 23 October, the Municipality of Dysart et al organised the Waste Reduction Week. The municipality will be educating residents about the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling with daily social media hints and tips.
Thanks to Professor André Francisco Pilon of the University of São Paulo and his studies on environment and sustainability, Brazil has formally joined the World Environmental Education Day 2022.
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The Canadian Confederation and Saint-Francis-Xavier University are launching a call for applications for scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year. These scholarships are for nationals of developing countries, third world countries and European countries. The scholarships cover the period of a training cycle of a maximum of six (06) semesters and the travel costs, i.e. the round-trip plane ticket (Pays de Provence-Canada) is payable. of the Canadian Confederation.
The prerequisite for the application is: -Be a maximum of 18 to 55 years old
understand and speak correctly one of the languages of instruction in Canada (Spanish, English, German, Italian and French)
withdraw from Saint-Francis-Xavier University in Canada, the scholarship application form via the email address: stfx_ca@ik.me
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From October 5 to 14, 2022, Centr’ERE the Center for Research in Education and Training relating to the Environment and Eco-citizenship at UQAM invites you to the Environmental Education Days!
These Days offer a program rich in spaces for sharing, reflection and discussion. Highly topical subjects will be addressed such as the development of public policies supporting EE, the current relevance of critical pedagogy, the challenges of political education with regard to environmental issues and learning at the heart of social mobilizations. concerned about extractive expansion, particularly in indigenous territories.
00weechttps://weecnetwork.staging.19.coop/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WEEC-Logo_200.pngweec2022-10-12 15:09:502022-10-12 15:09:50Centr’ERE celebrates the World EE Day
The World Environmental Education Day is celebrated on 14 October. 40 years after the UN Conference in Tbilisi (Georgia).
From 10 to 25 October 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.
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00weechttps://weecnetwork.staging.19.coop/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WEEC-Logo_200.pngweec2022-09-26 16:25:522022-09-26 16:25:5220th Anniversary of the IUCN-Med, meeting in Spain
