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Learning to ChangeCapacity building at the Sustainable Development Academy
Forming an efficient partnership with a large number of diverseinstitutions and organisations has been a crucial precondition for theeffective implementation of REC initiatives and projects related to ESD.
We extend sincere thanks to the following donors, partners and supporters:n International organisations: EC LIFE Third Countries Programme; EuropeAid; GEF; OSCE; UNESCO; UNDP.n Governmental organisations from donor countries: Austrian Development Agency; Italian Ministry
for the Environment, Land and Sea; Ministry of Development Cooperation of the Netherlands; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; Ministries of the Environment of Finland, Sweden and Norway;Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
n Governmental organisations from recipient countries: Ministries of Education and Ministries of theEnvironment of Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo*,Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine;Polish National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management; Slovak Environmental Fund.
n Regional organisations: Committee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety of St. Petersburg; Ministry of Education of Moscow Region; Ministry of Natural Resources and EnvironmentProtection of the Komi Republic; Prague Municipality.
n Business and private donors: British Petroleum (BTC-SCP); Bosch; Coca-Cola; Chevron; IDEA; MitsubishiFoundation; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Titan; Toyota Motor Corporation.
n Our sister organisation the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC); Agroinnova; Venice International University; educational organisations, NGOs and universities from throughout Centraland Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States; countless contributors worldwide.
Their understanding and trust have provided encouragement throughout 16 years of hard work on a growing lineof interactive multimedia tools and ESD-related services.
The REC’s innovative programmes and products have received global recognition in several international processes as examples of good practice in the field of ESD.
n Within the framework of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (2014) the Green Pack was selected as one of 25 good ESD practices globally.
n In the evaluation report “10 Years of the UNECE Strategy on ESD, 2005–2015”, presented at the EighthMinisterial Conference “Environment for Europe” (2016), the programme “ESD in the Western Balkans:Education for Sustainable Futures” and the Green Pack were selected as best practice examples for the decade.
The REC’s Sustainable Development Academy directly contributes to the2013 UNESCO Global Action Plan on ESD and facilitates the achievementof the UN SDGs by building capacity in relation to the UN 2030 Agenda.
The Regional Environmental Center (REC) promotes cooperation among governments, NGOs, businesses and other stakeholders, and supports the free exchange of information, public participation in environmentaldecision making and the sustainable development of society.
As part of the REC’s activities to promote the sustainable development concept, the Sustainable DevelopmentAcademy implements a variety of educational, capacity-building and awareness-raising programmes, including: n the establishment of high-level ESD working groups involving government officials and national experts; n research on school curricula and educational standards in order to identify national strengths, weaknesses
and needs in relation to promoting ESD in the school system, followed by the development of national ESD action plans that reflect UN standards and recommendations;
n the adaptation and upgrading of school curricula based on identified needs and in the context of specific ESD challenges in the target countries;
n the development of interdisciplinary and interactive multimedia ESD tools; n the organisation of local train-the-trainer courses followed by comprehensive teacher training programmes
on ESD at national level in the target countries; and n support to awareness-raising activities to promote ESD at national level.
The Sustainable Development Academy offers courses for high-level officials from national institutions in order to build the capacities of key decision makers and to forge partnerships between these groups and academia.
As part of its ESD activities, a series of educational tools have been developed, customised and implemented in more than 20 countries in Europe and Asia. Since 2001, around 50,000 teachers and over 5 million studentshave been educated, fundamentally changing the way in which the teaching of sustainability is approached. Each project has been developed in cooperation with governments, professional organisations, businesses and NGOs in order to foster community support across a broad spectrum of society.
In Kosovo*, Montenegro and Serbia, the REC has supported ESD reforms in the educational system in line with the global trend of outcome-based learning, including changes in educational standards and course content; the implementation of cross-curricular ESD themes and topics; and the fostering of values and proactive behaviourthat support the sustainable development of society. Research will be carried out with the aim of expandingeducational reforms to additional countries in South Eastern Europe.
2001
2002
n Green Pack Polandn G P k P l d
n Green Pack Bulgarian Green Pack Hungary
2003
2004n Green Pack Czech Republicn Green Pack Slovakia
n Course for Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe
n Green Pack Albanian Green Pack Russian Federation
2005
2006
n Course for Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe
n Green Pack Azerbaijann Green Pack Turkey
n Course for Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe
n Green Pack FYR Macedonian Green Pack Junior Teachers’ Handbook
2007
2008n Course for Sustainable Development
for Central and Eastern Europen Course for Sustainability Kazakhstann Green Pack Bosnia and Herzegovinan Green Pack Kosovo*n Green Pack Montenegron Green Pack Serbia
n Certificate Programme on Corporate Sustainability
n Course for Sustainability in South Eastern Europe and the Visegrad Countries
n Seminar Series: Partnershipsfor Sustainable Development in Black Sea Countries
2009
2010
n Certificate Programme on Corporate Sustainability
n Course for Sustainabilityin South Eastern Europeand the Visegrad Countries
n Seminar Series: Partnerships for Sustainable Development in Black Sea Countries
n Green Pack Russian Federation(Komi Republic)
n Green Pack Ukrainen Green Pack Junior FYR Macedonia
n Certificate Programme on Corporate Sustainability
n Course for Sustainability in South Eastern Europe and the Visegrad Countries
n Course for Sustainability in Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region
n Seminar Series: Partnershipsfor Sustainable Development in Black Sea Countries
n Green Pack Central Asia n Green Pack Junior Bulgarian Green Pack Junior Ukraine
2011
2012n Course for Sustainability
for Belarus and Ukrainen Course for Sustainability
for Black Sea Countriesn Course for Sustainability
in South Eastern Europe and the Visegrad Countries
n Green Pack Bulgaria Phase 2n Green Pack Kosovo* Phase 2n Green Pack Serbia Phase 2
n ESD policy reform: Start of programmen Green Steps Belarusn Living Laboratories: Resilience and
Sustainability in Municipalities
2013
2014n Course for Sustainability
for the Western Balkans and Turkeyn Green Pack Junior Montenegro
n Course for Sustainability forDrin/Drina River Basin Countries and MENA
n Green Pack Azerbaijan Phase 2n Green Pack Junior Kosovo*n Green Pack selected as good ESD
practice at UNESCO Conference
2015
2016
n ESD policy reforms in Kosovo*n ESD reforms and Green Pack selected
as examples of best practice in UNECE reportn Green Pack Bulgaria
nn C f S t iS t i bl D l
Green PackGreen Pack is a multimedia environmental education kitdesigned for teaching children aged between 11 and 15about environmental protection and sustainabledevelopment. The toolkit covers 22 to 25 topics andincludes a 200-page teachers’ guide with lesson plansand factsheets, an interactive CD-ROM, a video collection,a dilemma game and various other educational aids.
Each Green Pack is adapted to a particular country’senvironmental context, with national and regionalinformation supplementing the core material. To date, Green Pack has been produced in 18national/regional editions, each one adapted incollaboration with national education and environmentministries and local educators and experts, and translatedinto the relevant language(s). Green Pack is distributed incooperation with national education ministries at trainingworkshops organised for schoolteachers. A pan-Europeanversion of Green Pack has also been produced in English.
Green Pack JuniorGreen Pack Junior is geared towards children aged between 7 and 10, and to schoolswith less technical equipment and fewer multimedia facilities. Materials are divided into10 to 12 topics that explore the interaction between environment, society and economicdevelopment. The topics demonstrate how we are connected to, and how we affect, the environment in which we live. Each topic comprises a lesson plan and supportingmaterials. The lesson plans are based on interactive learning, using discussions,brainstorming, role play and outdoor activities. Each one provides the teacher withbackground information, teaching objectives, a methodology, the required materials,suggested timing, and possible teaching locations. At the end of each lesson planteachers can also find factsheets, colouring pages, tests and stories. Pupils areencouraged to think critically about the topics, helping them to become involvedcitizens. In each country, seminars are organised at which local partners are trained by international and local experts on how to train teachers to use the materials.
Courses for Sustainable DevelopmentSince the programme was launched in 2004, over 25 courses, attracting around 750 participants, have been delivered in Central and Eastern Europe,South Eastern Europe and the Visegrad countries,Central Asia, the Black Sea region, Turkey, Ukraineand the Russian Federation.
Participants have included senior representatives of cities, local communities, regional and nationalgovernments, associations of towns andmunicipalities, regional development agencies and relevant businesses. A valuable network of participants has been created in order to promotelocal and regional solutions for sustainability.
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ESD policy reform Since 2012, the REC has been working with ministries of education in theWestern Balkans to integrate sustainable development concepts into thebroader educational reforms that are currently under way as part of theglobal shift to outcome-based learning, an approach in which desirablelearning outcomes are identified and considered when plans areformulated. Course content, learning activities and assessment aredesigned to be consistent with the achievement of the desired learningoutcomes. Social problems such as sustainable development requirestudents to be able to change their behaviour in a way consistent with the goal, hence the utility of an outcome-based learning approach tosustainable development. The aim is to fundamentally change pupils’behaviour through the development and operationalisation of curricula,capacity building for decision makers and teachers, and the developmentof educational materials to help meet the needs of teachers and students.
Green StepsThis multimedia resource aims to raise publicawareness about sustainable lifestyles, citizens’environmental rights, and changes that individualscan make in their everyday lives to contribute tosustainable development. The primary targets aremembers of civil society organisations, but there is also valuable information for educators, students and families.
The materials, which will be tailored to individualcountries in the future, are divided into four sections:a virtual tour around a number of locations typically visited in the course of everyday activities;information on 25 to 30 topics related toenvironmental protection and sustainabledevelopment; a series of around 50 factsheets thatcan be used in educational and group activities; and an encyclopedia containing information on up to 300 species common to Europe.
SEEDLINGAs practical work is always appealing to students, the small grants programme of theproject “Introducing the UN SDGs in Schools in South Eastern Europe” (SEEDLING),2015–2018, proposes the implementation of concrete actions by schools, eitheralone or in partnership with NGOs active in the field of environmental protectionand sustainable development. Grant-funded pilot projects may be related toknowledge obtained via a future online tool for secondary schools, Green PackAdvanced, which will address the 17 SDGs through topics such as sustainableagriculture, the sustainable use of natural resources, climate change, the use of alternative energy sources in schools, sustainable tourism, inclusive humansettlements, and gender rights. The aim is to foster critical thinking and supportinnovative approaches among secondary school students, and to increase students’entrepreneurial skills that may lead to the creation of green jobs. SEEDLING alsosupports comprehensive research on ESD implementation in current curricula in SEE countries, with the aim of expanding the scope of educational reforms.
n Course for Sustainability for Ukrainen ESD policy reforms in Montenegron ESD policy reforms in Serbian Green Steps Ukrainen Regional Workshop for
Drin/Drina River Basin Countriesn SEEDLING project launched
n ESD policy refofof rms in Kosovo*
nn Course fofof r Sustainab
ContactsFor more information: Janos Zlinszky n [email protected] | Kliment Mindjov n [email protected] Radovanovikj n [email protected] | Brendan Duprey n [email protected]
education.rec.org n sdacademy.rec.org n www.rec.org
AZERBAIJANn Green Pack 2005
TURKEYn Green Pack 2005
BULGARIAn Green Pack 2002n Green Pack Junior 2010
RUSSIAn Green Pack 2004 (Moscow, St. Petersburg)n Green Pack 2009 (Komi Republic)
CENTRAL ASIA(Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan)n Green Pack 2010
ALBANIAn Green Pack 2004
KOSOVO*n Green Pack 2007n Green Pack Junior 2014n Policy reform 2016 and ongoing
BOSNIA ANDHERZEGOVINAn Green Pack 2007
MONTENEGROn Green Pack 2007n Green Pack Junior 2013n Policy reform 2015 and ongoing
SERBIAn Green Pack 2007n Policy reform 2015 and ongoing
CZECH REPUBLICn Green Pack 2003
POLANDn Green Pack 2001
HUNGARYn Green Pack 2002
SLOVAKIAn Green Pack 2003
BELARUSn Green Steps 2012
UKRAINEn Green Pack 2009n Green Pack Junior 2010n Green Steps 2015
n Green Packn Green Pack Juniorn Green Stepsn Policy reform*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line withUNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.
FYR MACEDONIAn Green Pack 2006n Green Pack Junior 2009
EUROPEn Green Pack 2003 Green Pack Online 2012 n Green Pack Junior 2006 Green Pack Junior Online 2014n Green Steps Online 2014
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