Transcript Move4Nature Project

Move4Nature
Sustainable Education Network
in the Carpathian and the Caucasus
Mountains
Tamara Mitrofanenko
UNEP ROE – Vienna Office
2nd Planning Meeting of the Carpathian Sustainable Learning Network
Production of the Training Tool Kit on ESD in the Mountain Areas
Trencin, Slovakia
28-30 January, 2009
The Main Idea:
To mainstream sustainability issues into
educational practice in the
Carpathian/Caucasus schools through
regional cooperation.
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Educational materials for schools
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Environmental awareness and better
connectivity
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Environmental education interaction
throughout the Carpathian/Caucasus region
Outputs:
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An Internet platform for cooperation
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An Informative and interactive training tour
in Romania
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A Training Tool Kit on ESD in the
Mountain Areas
Timeline:
June 2008
November 2008
The first planning workshop: Bucharest,
Romania
Romanian Teacher Training planning workshop:
Poiana Brasov, Romania
January – April Development and production of the Draft
2009
Training Tool Kit
Internet platform/network development
May 2009
Teacher Training in Romania
The bus tour
May 2009 - May Follow-up
2010
Production of the education kit
Internet platform/network development
•The First Planning Workshop
Bucharest, Romania
17-19 June 2008
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Tool Kit recommendations
Web-site decision
•The Romanian Teacher Training
Planning Workshop
Poiana Brasov, Romania
7-8 November 2008
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Example of tools used by Romanian
partners
2nd Planning Meeting of the Carpathian
Sustainable Learning Network (CASALEN)
Production of the Training Tool Kit on
ESD in the Mountain Areas
Trencin, Slovakia
28-30 January, 2009
Objectives
• To decide on the contents of the toolkit
• To divide responsibilities on the production of the
toolkit
• To finalize the draft schedule of the toolkit
development/production
• To produce the budget for the tool kit production
• To decide on the details of testing the toolkit during the
Teacher Trainings in Romania
• To decide on the use of the Internet platform for follow-up
Components
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An Internet platform for cooperation
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An Informative and interactive training tour
in Romania
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A Training Tool Kit on ESD in the
Mountain Areas
The Tool Kit Recommendations:
The most important objective of the
tool kit is to provoke “critical
thinking”
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encourage both teachers and students to think
critically about what is valuable to them in their
surroundings, what problems exist, and how they
could approach those problems.
Possible “Mountain” Issues
(based on the contents of the Carpathian
Convention)
• Article 4: Conservation and sustainable use of
biological and landscape diversity
• Article 5: Spatial planning
• Article 6: Sustainable and integrated water/river
basin management
• Article 7: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
• Article 8: Sustainable transport and infrastructure
• Article 9: Sustainable tourism
• Article 10: Industry and energy
• Article 11: Cultural heritage and traditional knowledge
The Tool Kit Recommendations:
some other issues to consider
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CLIMATE CHANGE
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World Environment Day 2009:
“UNite to combat climate change”
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Gender issues
Tourism
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Experience/examples from the
Alpine/Caucasus countries
The Tool Kit Recommendations:
• used as a unifying idea, but flexible
• Adaptable to students of both lower and
higher grades
• “Multimodel” adaptable to other regions:
• (Alps/Caucasus)
The Carpathian Tool Kit:
“Design a Carpathian nature/cultural trail”
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the transport to/through the trail
natural resources
cultural components
local products
environmental problems
The Tool Kit Recommendations:
• target teachers of a number of disciplines,
such as:
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Biology
Geography
Crafts
English/other foreign languages
Physical education
Interdisciplinary components
UNEP Substantive Inputs
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A collection of maps
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Information on the Carpathian
Convention/Caucasus
Cooperation/Mountain Partnership
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An e-learning component
Testing the Toolkit
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Teacher Training in Romania
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Other Countries?
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Ask youth for review
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The Tunza Youth Advisory council
Youth and Environment Europe
THANK YOU!
UNEP ROE - Vienna Office
Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention,
Vienna International Centre
Room: D0425,
PO Box 500, 1400 Vienna, Austria
Tel: (+ 43 - 1) 26060 - 4722
Fax: (+ 43 - 1) 26060 - 74722
E-mail: [email protected]