get grEEN – Environmental Education Network

Background

Mobility creates opportunities. Europe without borders enables increased mobility. Europe without borders also means sharing environmental problems and sharing solutions for environmental problems. Working with people of other countries that have a different background can create huge opportunities when it comes to find ways to protect the environment and the nature and create sustainable development.

In August 2010 GNF, the Polish environmental NGO Stowarzyszenie Ekologiczne "Etna" and the municipality of the Spanish town Villacanas started the project get grEEN. The aim of the project is to enable the exchange of experiences of adults that work in the field of environmental education, to build partnerships, learn best practices and create synergies for the development of new initiatives. Funding is provided by the EU-Lifelong Learning Programme Grundtvig.

Project Implementation

Within two years, employees or associate partners of the participating institutions will attend six meetings that look at environmental education in various forms. Main goal of the environmental education network is to empower and create environmental education structures that in the same time enable an added value for the local population and the region. Each partner will host two meetings. Each meeting will have a special thematic focus and comprise case study visits, presentations from other participants and continuous work on a final common action plan.

The environmental education network will bring together various stakeholders involved in environmental education from the three countries. This variety helps to learn about differences and similarities of environmental problems. Also, the participants will learn best practices from the other regions and will exchange their knowledge, experience and ideas. The detailed environmental education topics covered by the partnership are:field education - infrastructure, interpretation trails, open air museums; publications and media; innovative approach to education - arts, IT technologies; mobilizing adults -volunteering for nature, educational programmes and events, involving parents via kids; working with groups sensitive for exclusion, providing access to nature reserves for handicapped people; specific target groups - farmers, planners, road managers, tourists, consumers.

Objectives

The partnership will bring forward the development and implementation of common environmental education activities and will spread the message to others interested in the topic via internet and direct contacts. All involved partners are deeply involved in the local networks in their countries linking NGOs, local authorities and businesses.

Specific objectives are

to exchange experience across Europe in the field of environmental education for general public

to prepare a common work programme for the partnership

to implement chosen environmental education activities in at least bi-lateral cooperation between countries participating in the partnership

to share the experience inside partner’s countries

Result of the partnership will be a common action plan and the implementation of at least two concrete projects that are developed during the meetings.

Project Meetings

In total, six project meetings are planned within the frame oft he project.

Further information and details about the meetings are available on the separate pages.

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get grEEN – Environmental Education Network; Practical learning for adults at the Living Lakes

August 2010 – August 2012

Germany, Poland, Spain

Stowarzyszenie Ekologiczne "Etna" and the Spanish town Villacanas

EU-Lifelong Learning Programme Grundtvig

About Lifelong Learning Programme

This project is funded with support from the European Commission.

Since the year 2000, the EU Grundtvig programme has offered a framework and financial support for European cooperation in the field of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education. The overall objective is to strengthen the quality, relevance and European perspective of adult education and learning practices through European cooperation and exchanges.

The Grundtvig programme focuses on the teaching and study needs of learners taking adult education and ‘alternative’ education courses, as well as the organisations delivering these services. It aims to help develop the adult education sector, as well as enable more people to undertake learning experiences, notably in other European countries.