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POLICIES & EDU INITIATIVES
ACCES - (Academic and Community Cooperation for Environmental Sustainability) Working towards environmental sustainability and social justice requires the commitment, skills, action and cooperation of many sectors of society. ACCES' objectives are based on the conviction that participatory research between academic researchers and community groups can be a valuable tool for facilitating environmental and social change. [www.2acces.org]
Education for All (EFA) - in March 1990, the international community put education on the global agenda during the World Conference on Education for All (Jomtien, Thailand) when governments set themselves the challenge of achieving universal primary education by the year 2000. Ten years later, the international community came together again at the World Education Forum (Dakar, Senegal), to examine the results of the decade in the most in-depth evaluation of basic education ever undertaken on a global scale… [www.unesco.org/education/efa/index.shtml] YXC
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) motivates, equips and involves individuals, and social groups in reflecting on how we currently live and work, in making informed decisions and creating ways to work towards a more sustainable world. ESD is about learning for change. [www.iucn.org/themes/cec/education/whatis.htm]
EFS Europe - this web site is specially designed to help people share activities, resources and ideas about education for sustainable development. The site has been developed by a team from Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and United Kingdom as part of a European Commission’s Socrates Programme and Minerva Action funded project. [www.efseurope.org]
MEDIES - (Mediterranean Education Initiative for Environment & Sustainability), is a network of educators and schools implementing the integrated educational programmes on water, waste, etc. as a vehicle to sustainable development. Special emphasis will be also given to the role of students as ‘messengers for sustainability’ to their families and local communities. [www.medies.net/staticpages/index.php?page=briefdesc]
Projects International (PI) - is a network of educators working to integrate Education for Sustainability (EfS) into English language classrooms around the world. It is achieving this through student-centred, project-based learning that link schools, businesses, and communities. [www.e-o-n.org/Projects_International/alpha/]
United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development – this website explains the concept of education for sustainable development and its relationship with Education for All (EFA), the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is clarified. These illustrate that quality education is a prerequisite for education for sustainable development at all levels and in all modalities of education. [portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27234&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html]
The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education - (formerly The Sustainability Education Centre), is an independent US organisation dedicated to the vital role of education in creating awareness, fostering commitment, and guiding actions toward a healthy, secure and sustainable future for ourselves and for future generations. [www.sustainabilityed.org/index1.htm]
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