Education and responsibility

Teaching guide This teaching guide was created in the framework of the Children and Youth International Conference « Let’s Take Care of the Planet » project, launched by the Ministries of Education and Environment of Brazil and is supported by the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress. In France and in Europe, it is coordinated by the Monde Pluriel organization, in partnership with (...)

kachkaniraqmi We are here, we are still Abstract The growing “environmental crisis,” which is a subset of the whole current civilization crisis and is irrevocably interacting with it, can be more descriptively called a “socioenvironmental crisis” in that it has to do essentially with the clash, tension, and inadequacy of human societies in their relations with the rest of the environment, (...)

An international process on climate-change impacts and youth commitments The Brazilian Ministry of Education, in partnership with UNESCO and the UNEP – United Nations Environment Program, invites all the UN countries to participate in an International Conference of children and youth for the environment to involve the youth from all continents in a process of awareness raising, reflection (...)

20-pages presentation: Introduction - Historical Context - What is the Children and Youth International Conference for the Environment? - Objectives of the International Conference – Principles - Organizational Structure – Steps - Calendar of Events - Expected Results

Horlicks Wizkids one of India’s largest literary and cultural events for schools packed with action, excitement and entertainment. Horlicks WIZKIDS 2007 by Activity was bigger than ever before, touching 27 cities across India, more than 3,000,000 students from 4500 schools. The event featured 40 different competitions for students from 1st to 12th Std. Within the purview of the Horlicks (...)

On 16 June 2007, CERPAC together with a young people’s group organized a children’s ceremony awarding the best students from a neighborhood in Guédiawaye (a town in the Dakar Region of Senegal). The date was not chosen at random: the Day of the African Child has been celebrated on 16 June every year since 1991, to commemorate the massacre of hundreds of children during a protest march in Soweto (...)

The Indian Charter facilitation team, in association with Activity, an edutainment company, has successfully facilitated the drafting of Indian Children’s Charter of Social and Environmental Responsibilities for the second year. Horlicks Wizkids – 2007, a personality competition that recognizes the outstanding students, who are all-rounders and have a good balance of character & (...)

Anugraha John, representing Global Citizens for Sustainable Development and World Youth Water Alliance in partnership with Nina Gregg (Charter of Human Responsibilities- USA), has planned a series of events to engage US youth in peer dialogue on the notion of "Youth Responsibilities in the United States." Activities ranging from presentations, film screenings, discussions, and group (...)

The fourth International Conference on Environmental Education organized by UNESCO, UNEP and other partners in collaboration with Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad, India was held in Ahmedabad between November 24 and 28, 2007. There were around 30 working group sessions varying from Non Formal Spaces of Learning, Education towards sustainability concerns of Natural Resources in (...)

Cronograma 2007 - Establishment of Agreements for International Cooperation between Brazil, the participating countries and the partners Formation, in each country, of a Coordination Group composed by three instances, or a tripod : Government (Ministries of Education, the Environment and others, as Culture, Science and Technology…), University and Civil Society (NGOs and Youth Movements). (...)

What is the Children’s Conference on the Environment? It is an educational campaign that brings about the political dimension of the environment to schools and other instances children and youth organizations. It mobilizes and engages children in science research and their communities in the debate about contemporary challenges on social and environmental issues. The Conference is a process (...)

; On September 11, 2007, the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) announced a new policy that will, over time, reduce the impact of the university on the environment. This policy will require major new campus buildings to conform to standards for environmentally friendly buildings. The University has also recently signed two major environmental documents: the Talloires Declaration and the (...)

The Conference “RESPONSIBILITY IN A GLOBAL AGE” was held on May 31/June 1, 2007 in Tbilisi, Georgia. It addressed three main issues: Responsibility and Education, Relation between Rights and Responsibilities and Public Administration as Public Service. The conference was attended by more than 40 participants from Georgia and various parts of the globe (US, France, China) and consisted of a (...)

The Youth Festival 2006 was successfully held last December 1-3, 2006 participated in by 80 young people from different parts of the region. Although the event started with an off-season typhoon hitting Metropolitan Manila, the participants braved the weather forecast to come together, conduct a series of lectures and discussions on the theme: “Weaving Responsibilities to Confront the (...)

Invited to speak during the 10th SEAMEO-INNOTECH International Conference held in Quezon City, Philippines, last November 15-17, 2006, I had the opportunity to present the Charter for Human Responsibility. SEAMEO INNOTECH is short for Southeast Asian Ministers Regional Center for Innovative Education and Technology. (http://www.seameo-innotech.org/) Theme of the Conference was "Learning (...)

Short synopsis of the programme The Regional team for the Charter in India had a lot of discussions and interactions since May 2006 with an “edutainment” company, The Activity, based in Bangalore, initiating a programme incorporating the Charter of Human Responsibilities in its Horlicks Wizkids 2006 event. The Activity as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agreed to promote and (...)

The idea to share knowledge and techniques is present in many experiences of self-managed training that fit in the concept of popular education, but what differentiates the school of multiversity to other initiatives? (the whole text is in Spanish only)

Following the Conference, Edith Sizoo, Coordinator of the International Charter Team, wrote to Mr Lula, Mrs Silva and Mr Haddad.

A methodology based on meetings and publications