Bulletin of the 6th International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development

Date: 2nd February, 2015

Time: 2 pm to 6 pm

Venue: Board Room, Director’s Office

Participants:

Abdhesh Gangwar, Santosh Sutar, Simanta Kalita, Sanskriti R Menon, Preeti Rawat Kanaujia, Purvi Vyas

CEE’s Annual Meet was taken as an opportunity to organize several other meetings as most of the CEE staff travel to Ahmedabad and is available there. RCE Meet was one of such meetings. All CEE RCEs attended the meeting.

Over 650 participants, including learners, facilitators and managers of Kominkan(Community Learning Centre of Japan) and other Community Learning Centers (CLCs), community educators, representatives from governments, United Nation agencies and researchers gathered together for the Kominkan-CLC International Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), held in Okayama-City, Japan from 9 to 12 October 2014. Participants discussed how to sustain and promote ESD through community-based learning, drawing on their rich experience of working together with local communities.

The Japanese RCE Meeting was held in Sendai, Japan on 16 March 2015 hosted by RCE Greater Sendai. All six Japanese RCEs (RCE Greater Sendai, RCE Yokohama, RCE Chubu, RCE Hyogo-Kobe, RCE Okayama and RCE Kitakyushu) came together and reported activities implemented in 2014. Below are the major activities of each RCE.

BLISS 2015 : towards cleaner and greener societies, 16-20 March, 2015, New Delhi, India