FEE visit to the Indian Ocean States

Our CEO, Daniel Schaffer, left our Head Office in Copenhagen a week ago on a mission: to visit our FEE members in the Indian Ocean States.

Thanks to the great collaboration between our organisation and the Indian Ocean Commission in the region, Daniel has completed a successful series of meetings with local representatives, talking about Eco-Schools and the other four FEE programmes.

Follow his blog here.

FEE's CEO at the Green-Campus Network Meeting

Following the end of the UN decade for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in 2014, UNESCO identified five focal areas to be the foundation for the Global Action Programme (GAP) that was put in place to follow the decade. One of these areas is Transforming Learning and Training Environments. This is also referred to as embedding the Whole Institutional Approach (WIA) towards ESD. The Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) has taken an important part in defining WIA for the GAP based on its long experience with the Eco-Schools seven step methodology.

FEE EcoCampus is an international award programme that guides all third level institutions on their sustainable journey, providing a simple framework to help make sustainability an integral part of campus life. Like Eco-Schools, EcoCampus leads to transformative thinking and can help enhance the curriculum and get the whole institution united behind something important.

On 2 February 2017, Daniel Schaffer, CEO of the Foundation for Environmental Education spoke at the Green-Campus Network Meeting in Dublin, Ireland. Watch below!

GreenMetric World University Rankings 2016 - FEE EcoCampuses at the top!

The UI GreenMetric World University Ranking is an initiative of Universitas Indonesia which was launched in 2010.

The aim of this ranking is to provide results on the current condition and policies related to Green Campus and Sustainability in universities all over the world. It is expected that by drawing the attention of university leaders and stakeholders, more attention will be given to combating global climate change, energy and water conservation, waste recycling, and green transportation.

In 2016, FEE EcoCampus Universities ranked close to the top of the list! Congratulations to University College Cork, Dublin City University and University of Limerick, Maynooth University, University College Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland, Universidade da Coruña, Vigo University in Spain, University of Maribor in Slovenia, Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences in Latvia, and all the other universities for their efforts towards sustainable campuses! 

See the overall ranking here.

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A World in Common - Teaching Resource by the Danish Outdoor Council

Take our hand and come with us to Uganda, a country almost in the middle of Africa. Here we will experience how Climate Change affects the country and the people, who live there.

In August 2016, the Danish Outdoor Council launched the teaching resource “En verden til fælles” (in English: A World in Common). The resource focuses on children’s lives especially with regard to Climate Change, sustainability and democracy in Uganda and Denmark. 

The resource raises questions that will make the pupils reflect on their own lives as well: What does a child in Uganda do during a normal day? What is it like to go to school in Uganda? How do you get water in Uganda? How is your own life different from the life of a child in Uganda?

Besides supplying this resource, the Danish Outdoor Council also runs an information campaign for schools in which the pupils get a chance to produce campaign materials, which will be used in a national information campaign in Denmark. The Civil Society in Development, an independent association of 280+ small and medium-sized Danish Civil Society Organisations, finances the teaching resource and the information campaign.

The Danish Outdoor Council works with Eco-Schools in Uganda and Tanzania in cooperation with local environmental organisations which ensure that the local communities surrounding the schools develop sustainably.

The resource is mainly available in Danish, but here you can find the example available for the English class.