January 2021 – weecnetwork

Call for ideas. African Youth Platform for Climate

27 January 2021/in News/by WEEC Network

As part of African Youth Platform for Climate initiative, a call was launched to choose the best ideas and projects of young start-ups in environment and climate fields.

Selected candidates will benefit from a 6 months incubation program to support their project and bring them to maturity.

Here you can find the Incubation Program

The African Youth Climate Hub is an initiative to respond to and amplify the voices and action of Youth, starting with African Youth. It aims to be a positive space for exchange and concrete support for young Africans both in terms of skills and knowledge and in terms of entrepreneurship and job opportunities. To learn more about them, visit their website.

Here you can submit your project

This initiative is a formal partnership between the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection, the YOUNGO (Children and Youth Constituency to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), OCP Group and University Mohammed VI Polytechnic . Additional partners are welcome, in particular African based partners for the initial African phase of this initiative.

WEEC2022: Abstract submission is open

27 January 2021/in Press/by WEEC Network

The 11th World Environment Education Congress will be held in Prague (Czech Republic) from 14 to 18 March 2022.
The beautiful and historical city in the heart of Europe is ready to host the first edition of the history of WEEC after the Covid’s pandemic.
We are at the beginning of a new world and a new way to imagine, teach and practice environmental education.
Are you ready to be part of it?

Researchers of all disciplines and all people (individuals and organizations, public and private) operating in environmental knowledge and values are invited to participate in the 11th WEEC.
The main theme is Building Bridges in Times of Climate Urgency.

The Congress will help us to build bridges for all: between different approaches to environmental education and education for sustainable development, across international boundaries, between formal, informal, and community education, as well as between researchers and practitioners around the world.

The participants will also have 14 sub-themes to explore: climate, ethics, communities, early childhood, water and so on… environmental education can be declined in in a 360° view.

Presentations can be used to describe and discuss on theoretical positions, researches, educational challenges, methods, best practices and educational tools.

Presentations may have different formats for on-site or online presentation: oral communication, pecha kucha (format for online and on-site presentation), paper, poster, round table, workshop, symposium (formats allowed only for on-site presentation), e-poster (format allowed only for online presentation).

Read here how to submit an abstract

Call for applications: 3rd Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards

27 January 2021/in News/by WEEC Network

The French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME), in partnership with the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and Plan Bleu, launches the 3rd edition of the Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards.

The Mediterranean basin is the second-most impacted area by climate change after the Arctic as shown in the recent MedECC (Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change) report.

Adapting to climate change is a priority for this particularly vulnerable area.

Cities and rural communities across the Mediterranean must therefore work to create stable social, economic and environmental conditions so that the region is better able to deal with the impact of extreme weather and events linked to climate change.

The 3rd edition of the Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards is an opportunity to raise awareness of the urgent need to take action and the importance of working together to create inspiring and innovative solutions that can be used throughout the region.

A competition to encourage territories to adapt to climate change

The Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards identify and mobilise the key players involved in implementing projects to adapt to climate change from coastal, urban and rural territories across the Mediterranean. The aim is to reward exemplary and replicable practices in order to encourage other parts of the region to take action to adapt to the challenges presented by climate change.

Previous editions of the Awards have celebrated more than 50 projects from across 15 Mediterranean countries, such as the coastal management plan designed by the County of Šibenik-Knin in Croatia, the work of the Union of Municipalities of the District of Bint Jbeil in Lebanon and many more.

Here are key competition dates:

20th January 2021 Competition start date
15th April 2021 Competition end date
June 2021 Award Ceremony

The Award Ceremony will take place during the European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA) in Brussels.

For further information: www.medadapt-awards.com

Let’s talk about education

12 January 2021/in News/by WEEC Network

Wednesday 20th January at 5 PM – 5.45 PM (Montreal local time)

During this webinar Parlons d’éducation (Let’s talk about education), Lucie Sauvé, WEEC Advisory Board member and associated professor at UQAM didactic Department, will answer Martin Duquette questions, deputy general director of CSSPI (Centre de services scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Ille) about environmental education.

You can follow the event live at this page facebook.com/uqamdiplomes/

To participate you just have to register at event on Facebook or LinkedIn

This activity is organized by the Bureau des diplômés of Quebec University in Montreal in collaboration with the Conseil de diplômés of Environmental Science Faculty.

For further information: https://diplomes.uqam.ca/55-a-l-agenda/1093-parlons-d-education

Call for ideas. African Youth Platform for Climate

WEEC2022: Abstract submission is open

Call for applications: 3rd Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards

Let’s talk about education

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