in Europe and beyond

Green Pack – the product• Focus on TeachersFocus on Teachers

• Pupils 11-16 yearsPupils 11-16 years

• Various materialsVarious materials

• Relevance to curriculaRelevance to curricula

• InteractiveInteractive ( (games, games,

discussions, brainstormingdiscussions, brainstorming))• 22 topics in 5 chapters22 topics in 5 chapters

22 topics on Environment and Development

• Environmental components: air, water, soil, biodiversity

• Treats to the environment: urbanization, noise, waste, chemicals

• Human activities and impacts on the environment: energy, transport, industry, agriculture, forestry, tourism

• Global challenges: climate change, ozone depletion, acidification, seas & oceans

• Values: consumer society, health & environment, citizens’ rights, our Earth in the future

Green Pack – the process• Feasibility Study of education for sustainable development in

the beneficiary country (relevance to the environmental challenges and the school curricula)

• Development of a country specific Green Pack and its promotion

• Training of teachers and Green Pack dissemination

• Green Pack up-grading, production of next edition(s), training…

Green Pack – the partnership

Ministries and other key players responsible on education, environment and development - at national level

Teacher training centres, NGOs, universities or scientific institutes, educational & information centres, schools - at professional level

Trainers, teachers, artists, editors, designers - at expert level

Business organizations - at international, national and local level

Implementation of Green Pack programmes

• Poland – 2001-03 (support – Toyota)• Hungary, Bulgaria – 2002-04 (support – Toyota)• English version – 2003 - Ministerial Conference Environment for Europe

in Kiev and Green Week in Brussels (support – Toyota)• Czech Republic, Slovakia – 2003-05 (support – Toyota)• Albania – 2004-06 (support – the Dutch Ministry Foreign Affairs)• Russia – 2004-06 (support – Toyota, Finnish Ministry of Environment)• Turkey – 2005-07 (support – EC LIFE Third Countries, Italian Ministry

of Environment and Territory, Toyota)• Azerbaijan – 2004-06 (support – OSCE, British Petroleum)• Belarus, Central Asia – 2005-06 (support - OSCE)• Macedonia – 2005-07 (support - Austrian Development Agency)

Green Pack achievements and perspectivesGreen Pack achievements and perspectives

So far:• About 1,200,000 students

educated; • Over 11,000 teachers trained;• In 8 language (3 other in

progress).

Next steps and plans:• projects in Balkans, Central

Asia, Ukraine; • special interest expressed by

France, India, Italy, Kuwait, Spain, UK

• language versions in Spanish, Chinese, French, Arabic.

Key themes on Sustainable Development (UN/ECE

Strategy on ESD) covered by the Green Pack

Covered: environmental protection, natural resource management and biological landscape diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, responsibility in local and global context, citizenship, ethics;

Partially covered: democracy and governance, justice, human rights, health, cultural diversity;

Not covered yet: poverty alleviation, peace, security, gender equity, corporate responsibility.

It is worth to visit the following web-site: http://greenpack.rec.org

for more information:

Kliment MindjovProject Manager Education for Sustainable DevelopmentThe Regional Environmental Center 9-11, Ady Endre ut., 2000 Szentendre, Hungaryphone: +36.26.504.069fax: +36.26.311.294e-mail: kliment@rec.orgwww.rec.org

REC Network

- Head Office in Hungary

- 16 Country Offices in

Central and Eastern Europe

- 200 staff (some 30 nationalities)

- Over 300 projects per year

- EUR 11 million annual turnover

- Operations beyond Central

and Eastern Europe