RCE in Europe

Continental meetingGlobal RCE Conference

Yogjakarta 2016

Detlev Lindau-BankRos Wade

1. Welcome and Introduction of colleagues2. Situation in Europe3. Topics of RCE´s in Europe4. Strategies about promoting RCEs actively in Europe– the new policy to help RCEs that need it – Support structure

5. Collaboration - urgent links with outer-European RCEs6. Report on Migrants in Europe and our policy towards that7. European RCE meeting 2017 in Dortmund, Germany8. Next Global meeting 2017

Agenda

• 37 RCE are active.– Running projects– Report– Website; Facebook– Collaboration

• 3 RCE candidates (Bukovina; Malaga)

• 2 RCE closed (RCE South North Sea; RCE Ireland)

2. RCE in Europe – current status

• 26 RCE reported last 2 years.– 16 RCE in 2016– 18 RCE in 2015– 16 RCE in 2014

• 50 projects by 18 RCE last 2 years– 14 projects by 7 RCE in 2016– 11 projects by 3 RCE in 2015– 25 projects 12 RCE in 2014

19 RCE sent a brief profile for the new webpageMany other projects mentioned in the annual reports

2. RCE in Europe – report

• 45 representatives from 17 RCEs. • Discussion about refugee paper. Most of the RCE are actually

not dealing with this topic but they were interested. RCE London and RCE Graz show off some interesting projects.

• In countries which have several RCE there is a tend to cooperation. National RCE meetings were held in UK, Sweden and Germany. In Germany Christian Büttner ist he speaker fort he German RCE.

• Brilliant Poster presentation• Nomination of two RCE communicators

2. RCE in Europe – Meeting of the European RCEs, London 22nd-23rd June 2016

• Forced migration– Alia Alzougbi of HEC Global Learning Centre (London RCE partner) shared

some of the work they have been doing in schools with Syrian refugees in Jordan and British school children.

– European RCEs also discussed at length a draft position paper (prepared by Pinar Guner) on refugees and forced migration.

• RCEs - SDGs and GAP– Discussion was held on the work of RCEs in relation to the SDGs and the GAP.

An excellent set of RCE posters were produced and shared• The Global RCE conference 2016

– difficulty for most RCEs of attending this due to cost – to avoid adding to the world's greenhouse gases– the global conference cannot speak for the majority of European RCEs if they

cannot contribute or be present in some way.

2. RCE in Europe – European Meeting

• ESD skills and TVET conference– A workshop run by Glenn Strachan and Betsy King was held

on skills for ESD which involved discussions and sharing of ideas and resources

• Transition Town movement– Hilary Jennings of the UK Transition Town movement spoke

of their work and discussed the potential for collaboration and synergy.

• UNESCO– Jaya Gajparia reported back from her visit to UNESCO to see

Bernard Combes from the ESD team.

2. RCE in Europe – European Meeting

• Contact list for European RCEs– Is already updated

• Dormant RCE– 2 RCE confirmed that they are not working any longer

• Fragile RCE´s– Support by mentor– Support by RCE Service Center– RCE are different, structures are flexible, some RCE have a

restart– Clarity is needed

2. RCE in Europe – Fragile RCE

• European RCE communicator role– The meeting felt that it would be useful to have two people to act as communicators

to the European RCE network. – This would NOT be a representative role and there was no mandate to speak on

behalf of European RCEs. – Ros Wade and Detlev Lindau-Bank agreed to take this on for the next 2 years until

the next European RCE meeting. • Draft- European RCE Communicator role description

– Not a representative role for European RCEs– Does not replace direct communications by individual RCEs with RCE Service Centre– Does provide regular (as appropriate) communications around the EU network to

circulate events, information– Circulates relevant information from the RCE Service Centre – Circulates UNESCO request for expertise and case studies – Provides an additional link with UNESCO as appropriate

2. RCE in Europe – communicators

• The RCE are seeking for a connection to the SDGs and to GAP. The projects shows that all SDGs and areas are covered

• most of the projects are multi-disciplinary • meet more than one SDG.• Nearly all of the projects involve schools and the informal

educational sector. • There are a lot of projects dealing with curiculum

development. – This is a focus which meets the guideline of the EU, which want

to shift from single projects to developing sustainable structures.

3. RCE in Europe – Topic and projects

Topics for collective actions:– Forced migration and refugees. A position paper is

prepared and project ideas are explored– Discussion was held on the work of RCEs in relation to

the SDGs and the GAP– Idea of (Sustainable) TVET Conference – Finding synergies with Transition Town movement – Food as RCE Wales, RCE West Sweden and other offers– Curriculum development as ongoing projects show

(CASE; MetESD; OPEDUCA; ACE Wild)

3. RCE in Europe – Topic and projects

• The monthly newsletter is very helpful as it links with the timing of our monthly bulletin to members.

• The use of the logotype and the option to be able to collaborate with other RCEs strengthen our motivation

• The RCE Munich is part of the "Association of German RCEs". There is a mutual exchange of ideas and strategies with other RCEs Two members of RCE Munich participated with articles to: Innovation in local and global learning systems for sustainability – Learning contribution of the RCEs.

• Proposal for the project presentation on the RCE portal: One of our members, the Global Callenges Network developed a presentation platform for sustainability projects called „WorkNet:futur“:

3. RCE in Europe – Benefit from linking to UNU

• key to the success of our projects and instrumental in engaging our university colleagues

• The RCE bulletins are useful – a major source of information; that gives great value to our work and it is a great brand image to the public.

• It would be beneficial for RCEs to receive more updates and communications from the RCE Service Centre

• The Global conferences can be fantastic opportunities for network, however with lack clarity on the agenda and insufficient notice

3. RCE in Europe – Benefit from linking to UNU

• The use of the logotype and the option to be able to collaborate with other RCEs, strengthen our motivation.

• The monthly contact with the RCE Service Centre is very helpful as it links with the timing of our monthly bulletin to members.

• we feel connected to a very large and extensive network across the world. That gives great value to our work and it is a great brand image to the public.

3. RCE in Europe – Benefit from linking to UNU

• to the success of our projects we are part of the national RCE network. There is a mutual exchange of ideas and strategies with other RCEs

• Participation to contribute to UNU-publications with articles.

• Proposal for the project presentation on the RCE portal

3. RCE in Europe – Benefit from linking to UNU

4. RCE in Europe – Strategies about promoting RCEs actively in Europe

new policy to help RCEs that need it Support structure

– Looking for synergies across Europe and on national level with other multi-stakeholder-networks

5. Collaboration - urgent links with outer-European RCEs

6. RCE in Europe – Report on Migrants in Europe and our policy towards that

3 Jahresplan - Welche Konferenzen besuchen wir, was bieten wir an

Thematic webinar for RCE

There is a open call

• Next European RCE meeting 7.-8. September 2017 is hosted by RCE Ruhr – It will be held back to back to the fair „FairFriends“

which will be in Dortmund. One of the largest fair on sustainable consumption and production.

– The RCE-meeting will be prepared and organized by RCE Ruhr (Peter Reichenbach), RCE Oldenburger Münsterland an FairFriend (Karin Lauerwald)

7. RCE in Europe – Next meeting 2017