April 19-23, 2010: CONFERENCE "Partnership and participation for a sustainable tomorrow: continuing the UN Decade of ESD"
The SUPPORT project, the Municipality of Bergen and the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training invite you to the conference: "Partnership and participation for a sustainable tomorrow: Continuing the UN Decade of ESD"
Go to online REGISTRATION FORM
Download an INFORMATION SHEET about the conference
Download PROGRAMME
DATES: 19-23 April, 2010
VENUE: Scandic Bergen City Hotel, Bergen, Norway
MAIN THEME: "Learning for a sustainable tomorrow" - reorientation of the education system for ESD
TARGET GROUP: Education policy makers and education authorities • Local policy makers and local authorities • School leaders/ head teachers/ principals/ managers of schools • School ESD partners • Teacher trainers • Teachers (primary, secondary, vocational) • Education researchers • Inspectors
ORGANIZERS: the SUPPORT project, the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training and the Municipality of Bergen
FEE: The conference fee (€ 300) and conference meals package (€ 237) is a total of € 537 EUR. This includes:
- Conference materials
- Access to all conference and works sessions
- Poster space in poster exhibition
- Coffee/tea during conference breaks
- Lunch Tuesday to Friday
- Dinner Tuesday, April 20th at the Hanseatic wharf "Bryggen" (hosted by the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training)
- Dinner Thursday, April 22nd, at "Fløybanen" (hosted by Bergen Municipality)
Dinners on Monday and Wednesday night are not included in the basic meals package, but can be added at EUR 35 each.
Please, pay the conference fee and meals package by March 31st. See the payment instructions for bank details etc.
Accommodation
The organizers can make the hotel reservation for you if you submit the registration form by March 1st.
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See the following pages for further information:
- Programme
- Accommodation
- Registration form
- Payment instructions
- Travel to Bergen
- General info (currency, weather, Bergen)
- Venue - Scandic Bergen City Hotel
- Comeinus funding
- Need a visa for Norway?
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PROGRAMME
There will be keynotes by leading experts in the field of ESD and competencies needed for the future. There will also be thematic sessions to explore various ESD-related themes and task force sessions to develop messages and priorities for various actors.
Click here to see the programme outline.
REGISTRATION
To register, please fill out and submit the registration form.
PRE-REGISTRATION
For a pre-registration certificate, send a request by e-mail to post@support-edu.org with: your name • title/profession • organisation/institution • post address • telephone • e-mail
PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS
The conference fee and meals package should be paid to the account below by March 31st.
You will receive a receipt of the payment on arrival to the conference. (If you need an invoice to make the payment, please notify us by e-mail: eu-support@umb.no .)
Note that you pay for the accommodation directly to the hotel (by cash or credit card) at check out.
The amount to be paid depends on your choice of optional dinners, as listed in the registration form. (See the registration receipt which you should have received after submitting your registration form.)
- Conference fee and meals package with no additional dinners (537 EUR)
- Conference fee and meals package with Welcome dinner on Monday 19th (572 EUR)
- Conference fee and meals package with dinner on Wednesday 21st (572 EUR)
- Conference fee and meals package with dinners Mon 19th and Wed 21st (607 EUR)
Payment details
Deadline for payment:
March 31st, 2010
Account holder
NAME Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training
ADDRESS Postboks 2924 - Tøyen
TOWN Oslo
POSTCODE N-0608
COUNTRY Norway
CONTACT PERSON Astrid Sandås
TELEPHONE +47 23 30 12 00
FAX +47 23 30 12 99
E-MAIL post@utdanningsdirektoratet.no
TRAVEL TO BERGEN
There are direct flights to Bergen from a number of cities. Click here for some links which may be useful. The page also contains information on how to travel to Bergen by train and ferry.
GENERAL INFO
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Currency: Norwegian Kroner (NOK)
The currency in Norway are Norwegian "Kroner". 1 EUR is about 8.5 Norwegian kroner, or one krona is about 0.11 EUR.
For more current rates, see for instance
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic or
https://www.dnbnor.no/en/markets/foreign_exchange/fx_rates/
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Weather
Weather is a hot topic in Bergen - or perhaps one should say a wet one? The rainiest months are usually in the autumn however, while the weather in April can be anything from sunny 20 centigrades to chilly 0. Average temperatures towards the end of April should be somewhere around 5-10 degrees Celsius.
Check theese websites for more info:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT004060 or
http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Hordaland/Bergen/Bergen/statistics.html (If you notice that it says "Bergen (Florida)" - that is the name of the weather station in Bergen!)
To see the most recent weather forecast for Bergen, click here :
http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Hordaland/Bergen/Bergen/
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Bergen
Bergen is a beautiful old town on the west coast of Norway, in Hordaland county. It was founded around 1070 and is the second largest city in Norway with 250 000 inhabitants. The city, surrounded by mountains and fjords, has a rich cultural life and is full of historical sites to visit.
Two Bergen-websites for the visitor: