Network Meeting 2018, Bolzano

Recent developments on EE/ESD/GCE in your country or internationally we want to be aware of?

• Personal sustainability /personal approaches to ESD
• Nordic Conference on ESER every second year (next: Okt. 2627 2018, Örebro Sweden)
• ESD as an element of assessment of all teachers from 2019 in Hungary
• Norway: New national curriculum 2020 – ESD as a common theme in year 113

Is there an ESD/EE/GCE academic association or network in your country or region? (Name, contact,...)

• ANGEL Network (A world forum for academics and researchers in global education)https://angel-network.net/
• LfS (Learning for Sustainability Scotland)
• Eco Schools Scotland
• Fachdidaktikzentrum  NMG & NE PH Bern (Switzerland)
• EEASA, AAU, SADCREEP, ELRC (Southern Africa)
• Invite researchers from outdoor education networks, Journal: JAEOL
• DGFE – Commission on ESD

Questions/Issues you want to pose to the network?

• Is there any interest in writing a position paper? (Topic suggested: Education & political call for sustainability; what is education?
• An EE/ESD/ESER network meeting /gathering /workshops at the Emerging researchers conference?
• Add global citizenship /outdoor education to the name?
• Do you have intentional plans to collaborate with networks in Africa?
• How to involve social groups/people which are not working in academic institutions? Transdisciplinary Linking?
• Would this network be interested to collectively and personally pioneer academic life with less or no flying to show climate leadership? Flying usually dominates our carbon footprints as researchers…
• To organise few hours tour in school /NGO to see EE/ESD in practice next year in Hamburg?

Ideas for people in the network to work together?

• Between ECERs:
  • Commenter 1: Include section on newsletter for people who want to find collaborators; Social media; organise webinars, if that would be helpful
• During ECER:
  • Commenter 2:
    • ‘Speed dating’ sessions to facilitate introductions
    • Sessions devoted to collaboration (beforehand: people submit interests, what sort of things they would like to work on ect.
  • Commenter 3: Link with social justice & outdoor

Comment on: How to make network call more relevant (more people respond to it)?

• Have different groups of mailing list and one that will relate to call
• Diffuse the call in the French community

Comment on: What topics could we focus on in a summer school, pre-conference seminar?

• Personal sustainability /personal approaches to ESD
• Importance of emotions as deeper lying determinants of attitudes / behaviour/values related to ESD
• Methodology
• PreConference on ESEF/EE / ESD & Social Justice

Notes: Jutta Nikel, 10.10.2018