For schools and teachers
"CO2nnect - CO2 on the way to school"
CO2nnect is an international school campaign. The overall goal is to promote education for sustainable development, while focusing on the theme of transport and climate.
Participation is free and schools in all countries are invited to participate.
454 schools (1607 classes and 43 123 pupils) from 38 countries have signed up on CO2nnect.org and in the first three months since the website opened, 279 schools, with 20 453 pupils/reporters from 30 countries have posted results, answered the questionnaires, submitted questions to the researchers on line and uploaded climate ideas, photos and project reports about their CO2nnect related activities.
Go to www.co2nnect.org!!!
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The SUPPORT project
SUPPORT is a network of organizations working to promote high quality Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), with the support of the EU Comenius Lifelong Learning programme .
Education for sustainable development should help young people become lifelong learners and active and responsible citizens. New kinds of educational frameworks are needed to enable pupils to understand complex issues and provide them with opportunities to acquire relevant skills, reflect critically and develop their own values and attitudes regarding sustainable development. Read more about SUPPORT to see what we are doing.
Get in touch with us!
The SUPPORT network consists of organizations from Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Korea (Republic of), Macedonia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
The network consists of ministries of education, universities, research institutes and NGOs , all striving for a better understanding of ESD in the education sector. Each organization's contact person can tell you more and inform you about local or national campaigns. To see the list of organisations and their respective contact persons, go to the list of partners and members.
"CO2nnect - CO2 on the way to school"- international ESD school campaign
SUPPORT offers an international ESD school campaign for which we have chosen the theme of transport and climate. The campaign involves schools, research institutions and local communities. CO2nnect will be open throughout 2009 and for more years to come, and all information is available at www.co2nnect.org . Note that the activities are open to any school from any country and that it is for free. Contact us if you have any questions regarding how to participate.
To view a PPT about CO2nnect, click here.
To download a "teacher's guide" to CO2nnect, click here.
Sustain - international website with educational tools
Learning activities and thematic materials are being developed on the website sustain.no . Tools and activities on this webpage have been used by schools in over 50 countries!
Discuss and learn more about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
In 2008-2010, partners of the SUPPORT network will organize a number of thematic conferences, workshops, Comenius contact seminars and Study Visits within EU's Lifelong Learning Programme to bring together teachers, learners and specialists to share perspectives, cooperate and exchange best practice in ESD. You can see the events listed in our calendar (link) and we hope you will find something that is of interest to you!
You can also find intersting links on ESD under "External links".
We collect success stories
The SUPPORT project will strive to compile the experiences and lessons from the project and to disseminate and communicate it to policy makers in participating countries. A main component in this work is to write a book which will include a number of "success stories" of collaboration for education for sustainable development. If you know a real ESD success story, please, get in touch with the SUPPORT secretariat.
SUPPORT secretariat (project coordinators)
e-mail: post@support-edu.org
Faye Benedict: +47-6496 5974
Åsa Renman: +47-6496 5684
The Norwegian Directorate of Education and Training (responsible institution)
Astrid Sandås: e-mail: astrid.sandas@udir.no phone: +47-2330 1482