We are honored to announce a remarkable institutional presence at the 9^thWEEC in Vancouver (BC, Canada) – 9 to 16 September 2017.

Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa from Morocco, President of the Mohammed VI Foundation of Environmental Protection, will chair the ceremonial opening on September 9^th. Several high level meetings and visits to local eco- schools and centres of research have been organized during her stay.

The congress will also be the occasion to celebrate the 40^thanniversary of the Tbilisi conference in 1977. Ms. Ekaterine Grigalava, Deputy Minister and Ms. Tamar Aladashvili, Deputy Head, Department of Environmental Policy and International Relations will join the congress for the Opening Session to share their experience and remarks.

International Organizations

Ms. Jaime Alexandra Webbe, Chief, Environmental Education and Training Unit and Mr Elliott C. Harris, Assistant Secretary General and Head of the New York Office of UNEP will also be attending.

Ms. Julia Heiss, Education Director for UNESCO (Paris) and Mr.Charles Hopkins, UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Teacher Education towards Sustainability(York University) will speak for UNESCO.

This confirms the strong attention and support the ‘United Nations Environment Programme’ and the ‘United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization’ have devoted to the WEEC over the past congresses.

“We need to engage with people from all walks of life. We train students to make sustainable choices while they are at university with the hope that the habits they’ve acquired on campus will persist throughout their life”. Our interview with Jaime Webbe, Chief, Environmental Education and Training Unit: “Environmental education is currently a priority for many governments, therefore this is a good timing for WEEC to identify governments’ needs as they arise and offer their competences to fulfil them towards goal 4.7 of the SDGs”. (by Gloria Schiavi)

The worldwide network WEEC calls on the United Nations with all their organizations and agencies, governments, the local governments, the parks, museums, environmental education centers, associations, etc. to celebrate every year, on October 14, the World Day of environmental education.
On 14 October, in fact, is the starting day of the Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education (14 to 26 October 1977) organized by UNESCO and UNEP in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.
The initiatives may coincide with October 14, but also take place in the period coinciding with the 1977 conference (until October 26).
The WEEC network also accepts initiatives that for organizational reasons take place in the days preceding or following that date, provided that they correspond to the spirit of celebrating the founding date of environmental education in the world.

https://weecnetwork.staging.19.coop/support-the-campaign-the-world-environmental-education-day/