The Expert Workshop on Education: Priority activity 10 for the
programme of work on Communication, Education and Public
Awareness (CEPA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity was
held in Paris from 17 to 19 March 2008 at the offices of UNESCO.
The meeting was the first opportunity for experts on education
to exclusively discuss the issues of mainstreaming biodiversity
into education in the context of the Convention on Biological
Diversity. The following recommendations were made: (a) Formal,
informal and nonformal contexts of education are equally
important, but have their own specific mechanisms, opportunities
and actors. There are however good reasons for promoting and
enhancing collaboration between all fields of education, as this
is likely to result in greater effectiveness. The expert felt it
would be useful to think of education in terms of learning
processes. This better reflects the need to capture the notions
of interaction and internalisation; (b) The Expert Workshop
recognised the complexity o