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ISSC calls for proposal for Transformative Knowledge Networks worth €900,000

A new long-term vision to address today’s great challenges of global environmental change and sustainability via enduring social transformations and social change is launched today with an initial 2.7 M € three-year commitment from the International Social Science Council.

Please check the website.

Review of RCE Teacher Education and Better School Projects and Initiatives

 

Dear AP RCE Colleagues,

 

RE: Review of AP RCE projects and initiatives on Teacher Education and Better Schools

 

We hope that you are well and started the year with lots of interesting and exciting projects! 

 

We are writing to invite you to complete the template attached which seeks to collect information on RCE school projects and initiatives carried out for the past 5 years. 

 

University Educators for Sustainable Development (UE4SD): STATE OF THE ART REPORT Mapping opportunities for developing Education for SD competences in the UE4SD partner countries

University Educators for Sustainable Development (UE4SD) is a 3 year European Commission project funded through the Lifelong Learning Programme. UE4SD seeks to improve professional development opportunities for university educators in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It supports the development of professional competences and academic leadership capabilities in ESD, to enable teaching staff to reorient curricula and prepare students for understanding and applying their professional and global responsibilities in sustainable development.

COP20/CMP 10 Meeting: Lima Ministerial Declaration on Education and Awareness Raising

One of the major outcomes of the COP20/CMP10 Alliance meeting. After the adoption, Minister Korolec, COP 19/CMP 9 President, said that "this declaration is an important step towards bringing education back into the spotlight where it belongs".

http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2014/cop20/eng/l01r01.pdf

 

ESD Building capacity in Higher Education and Knowledge Representation for High Quality Learning

1) Presentation of intervention at the Prague Conference, Czech Republic, 3 and 4 October 2014, entitled "Introducing some sustainable notions to students of Mathematics using a nested cycles model" by Sylvain Barré and Salim Lardjane, RCE Brittany, University of Atlantic Brittany, France, on the following websites :

CNRS Webside : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01098518

Exploring the Synergy between Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Delivery of Quality Education in Finland

This report describes ESD and Quality Education in Finland. The main aim was to establish a common understanding of the study subject, thereby creating an interpretation frame of quality education and ESD based on structure – process- outcomes –orientation and quality education literature in Finland. After analyzing the data (answers to study questions) by this frame, the results of this study are presented in this report.

Application form YUVA 2015

Travel support is available for selected RCE youth representatives through the Global RCE Service Centre. The selection will be made based on certain criteria including their level of engagement with the RCEs, quality of the applications as well as the geographical balance of the participants.

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