The 27th Conference of Parties will be hosted from the 6th to the 18th of November in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. WEEC Network will follow the event, the opening plenary session will be held on the 6th of November, from 10 am to 1 pm.
According to the scientific community, the window for action on the climate crisis is rapidly closing, and COP27 represents (or should represent) a decisive moment to act based on the successes achieved (and failures) and future goals.
COP, the Conference of Parties, is the annual meeting of the countries that have ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international environmental agreement signed during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992). Its main objective (so far missed) is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, which are responsible for global warming.
COP27 is also an opportunity for all stakeholders to take a stand to address the global challenge of climate change effectively.
A part of the event will be dedicated to environmental education, as in the last editions.
Egypt – according to official statements- takes charge of the COP27 presidency recognizing the gravity of the global climate challenge and the value of collective action as the only means to address this threat, committing itself to support an inclusive, transparent and party-driven process to ensure timely and appropriate action. For further updates, we suggest following our work through our journals and socials.
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For the World EE Day 2022 the Centre for Research in Environmental Education and Training (Centr’ERE) of the University of Quebec in Montreal, organised a lecture programme, discussing topics of high relevance.
These days mark three symbolic dates whose meanings significantly influence the relationship with education, indigenous peoples and the environment.
On 5 October, for International Teachers’ Day, the Education – Environment – Eco-citizenship Coalition invited its members and the general public to participate in a meeting to update the proposed Quebec Strategy for Environmental Education and Eco-citizenship. The meeting was an invitation to explore the trajectory of this public policy proposal, from its origins, through a series of steps taken by the Coalition to date. We have also presented recent updates to the proposal, opening up a new collective assessment
The 12th of October, known as the Day of the Discovery of the Americas, is symbolically identified as Indigenous Resistance Day, commemorating the 530-year struggles of the First Peoples against colonisers. This event joined the movement for an engaged eco-citizenship, aimed at confronting the current wave of colonisation of territories by the extractive industry.
The seminar took place within the framework of Environmental Education Days 2022 and, more specifically, within the activities of the project Resistaction – Critical and political dimensions of environmental education in the context of socio-ecological conflict and their contribution to the emergence of alternatives, which examines these realities in Quebec and Chile.
Meanwhile, on 13th October, as part of the Environmental Education Days celebrations, Centr’ERE invited participants to a conversation about the place and role of critical pedagogies in this fundamental dimension of education.
In particular, critical pedagogies, associated with the thought of Paulo Freire, have been criticised for not making ecological issues explicit, whereas their potential and proven transformative and emancipatory power leads us to reflect on updating their role in environmental education and eco-citizenship. On the occasion of the Environmental Education Days, Centr’ERE invited participants to a conversation about the place and role of critical pedagogies in this fundamental dimension of education.
A Conference debates on political education in environmental and development issues, concluded the celebrations on 14 October.
This conference proposed to open the debate from a reading of the history of environmental and development education. It discussed the successive currents of environmental education, sustainable development and the Anthropocene era, with a view to highlighting the presence or absence of political education. The paper also pointed to a recent paradigm shift, following two decades of strongly behavioural education for sustainable development, towards education for the Anthropocene that offers more potential for political socialisation. This paper accompanied the publication of number 63 of the journal Éducation et socialisation on the subject, edited by Angela Barthes, Lucie Sauvé and Frédéric Torterat.
00WEEC Networkhttps://weecnetwork.org/wn/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEEC-Logo_200.pngWEEC Network2022-11-02 11:19:162022-11-02 11:19:16The World EE Day 2022 at the University of Quebec
The fifth edition of the World Environmental Education Day took place from 14 october to 26 October 2022.
The Weec Network invited all the stakeholders of environmental education to join the World Environmental Education Day organising special events to highlight the importance of environmental educational actions all over the world.
Here we present a selection of interesting celebration taken place around the world:
In Cameroon, People Earthwise (PEW), organise a mobilisation of schools and teachers, youths and natural resource-user groups, through various out-reach media, to engage in environmental protection actions. In particular, this year’ events included press interviews; information letters on WEE Day; EE and Environmental Protection calls through social media avenues.
Meanwhile, in Macau, the University of St. Joseph organised a two days session workshop “Measuring microplastics in the coastal environment: a citizen science workshop” on microplastic pollution.
The workshop will train citizen scientists the steps that they can take to help understand and address microplastic pollution in our coastal environment. Participants will learn some background information about microplastics, proper sampling techniques, sample extraction and analysis through hands-on training sessions.
In South Africa, the University of the Witwatersrand and the Water Community Action Network (WaterCAN), this year for World Environment Day, they have been teaching students how to test water quality testing, then conducting water tests in the Greater Johannesburg area as well as across the country involving other volunteer citizen scientists. The students are all in their final year of a Bachelor of Education degree and will confidently go into schools equipped with knowledge and skills to foreground the importance of water quality in environmental education.
The Water Citizens Action Network (WaterCAN) established a ‘citizen science’ methodology that allows for an increase in citizen understanding of, and participation in, addressing South Africa’s water quality issues. The program is aimed at democratising water by involving citizens in basic monitoring of the quality of their water resources and to raise the alarm around poor quality and inadequate quantities of water. It involves a process to empower people to be able to test water resources, monitor and hold government accountable for the state of the quality and quantity of the water resources that they are receiving.
Although this is an ongoing project to monitor water resources, it being submitted as a World Environmental Education Day 2022 campaign project to support the initiative.
As well, in Latvia, as the EE Day 2022 initiative has been organised an international conference on biodiversity from 20 to 22 October 2022 at Daugavpils University.
In Moscow, Russia, this autumn will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the free environmental education program Open Ecological University, founded in 1987 at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. The project of this year has been devoted to the discussion of “Planet Earth and the need to Ecocatarise” and, besides the introductory lecture of Professor Valery S. Petrosy, there were 8 lectures of eight professors with the discussions of particular aspects of the concept.
In Italy, on the EE Day, Istituto per l’Ambiente e l’Educazione Scholé Futuro – Weec network organized the Earth Festival second edition.
Three days, from 14 to 16 October, in Lombardy on the Lake Maggiore river, full of events, conferences and activities thought to people awareness raising to climate change and environmental education. The topic of the second edition of the Festival was sustainable tourism and Biodiversity. The festival is Earth Prize’s heritage, that ‘s took place for three years.
In Canada, from 17 to 23 October, the Municipality of Dysart et al organised the Waste Reduction Week. The municipality will be educating residents about the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling with daily social media hints and tips.
Thanks to Professor André Francisco Pilon of the University of São Paulo and his studies on environment and sustainability, Brazil has formally joined the World Environmental Education Day 2022.
00WEEC Networkhttps://weecnetwork.org/wn/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEEC-Logo_200.pngWEEC Network2022-10-27 09:33:002022-10-27 09:33:0045 years after the Conference in Tbilisi: World EE Day 2022 celebrations 
The Canadian Confederation and Saint-Francis-Xavier University are launching a call for applications for scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year. These scholarships are for nationals of developing countries, third world countries and European countries. The scholarships cover the period of a training cycle of a maximum of six (06) semesters and the travel costs, i.e. the round-trip plane ticket (Pays de Provence-Canada) is payable. of the Canadian Confederation.
The prerequisite for the application is: -Be a maximum of 18 to 55 years old
understand and speak correctly one of the languages of instruction in Canada (Spanish, English, German, Italian and French)
withdraw from Saint-Francis-Xavier University in Canada, the scholarship application form via the email address: stfx_ca@ik.me
00WEEC Networkhttps://weecnetwork.org/wn/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEEC-Logo_200.pngWEEC Network2022-10-18 11:27:102022-10-18 11:27:10Canada: Call for Scholarships 2022-2023
From October 5 to 14, 2022, Centr’ERE the Center for Research in Education and Training relating to the Environment and Eco-citizenship at UQAM invites you to the Environmental Education Days!
These Days offer a program rich in spaces for sharing, reflection and discussion. Highly topical subjects will be addressed such as the development of public policies supporting EE, the current relevance of critical pedagogy, the challenges of political education with regard to environmental issues and learning at the heart of social mobilizations. concerned about extractive expansion, particularly in indigenous territories.
00WEEC Networkhttps://weecnetwork.org/wn/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEEC-Logo_200.pngWEEC Network2022-10-12 15:09:502022-10-12 15:09:50Centr’ERE celebrates the World EE Day
The World Environmental Education Day is celebrated on 14 October. 40 years after the UN Conference in Tbilisi (Georgia).
From 10 to 25 October schools, parks, environmental education centers, public institutions, associations, museums … aim to organise special events to highlight the importance of developing educational action to build transversal skills. To focus on the complexity of the challenges in a world where everything is ever more interconnected. To affect perception of the human relationship with the environment, to affect attitudes and therefore individual and collective behaviors. To make people awaring protagonists of a change towards more environmental friendly, more livable and more equitable societies. On October 14, 1977, the United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education, organized by UNESCO and UNEP, opened in Tbilisi (Georgia’s capital), which ended on October 26 with a statement of great relevance, still today.
The Coordination of the World EE Day is taken care by the world-wide network of environmental educators who, each two years, give life to the main congress in that field (the WEEC, World Environmental Education Congress).
The celebrations of the fortieth anniversary of the 1977 Tbilisi Conference took place on 9 September in Vancouver at the WEEC World Congress.
Read the Appeal for a World Environmental Education Day_EN and support the campaign to exhort the UN, the leading institutions worldwide, all our colleagues, all citizens interested in a more sustainable and pleasant future to endorse and to spread our call to recognize and to celebrate every year, on October 14th, the World Environmental Education Day.
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00WEEC Networkhttps://weecnetwork.org/wn/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEEC-Logo_200.pngWEEC Network2022-09-26 16:25:522022-09-26 16:25:5220th Anniversary of the IUCN-Med, meeting in Spain
Deadline extention. We are pleased to inform you that the deadline to participate in the Call for Bids to host the WEEC2026 has been extended until October 31, 2022.
We hope that this extension will help the destinations that are contacting us and that are finalizing their applications. We are always available to answer your questions and to help you submit your application. We remind you that we are available to meet you online to speed up your work.
We hope that the possibility of hosting the WEEC congress in 2026 will be a source of knowledge and networking for all environmental education operators.
The road traveled in these 20 years by our congress has already seen 11 editions and the next stage will be held in Abu Dhabi in 2024. The world is renewing itself and with it also environmental education: climate change, environmental and social crises, new research and scientific breakthroughs are central themes of our lives around the world. The WEEC congress is more important than ever to share academic research and environmental activism.
Who will be next to host the WEEC? Be part of the history of the WEEC, participate now, taking advantage of the extended deadline
Remind that only the public or private non-profit organizations (universities, foundations, associations, …) can apply the candidacy.
The winner will be assigned indicatively by 31st December 2022. The official announcement of the 13th WEEC will be at 12th WEEC 2024 in Abu Dhabi, on 1st February 2024
The candidatures will be assessed mostly according to the following criteria:
Please ask for the official application form to: secretariat@weecnetwork.org or download it here
From the 25th to the 29th of July Turin (Italy) hosted the Climate Social Camp, an international event that sees the participation of movements, collectives and activists from all over the world. The goal is to create a moment in which people can confront themself and discover different realities, with the aim of discussing the issues of global warming and climate change.
Among the participants, the international movements Fridays For Future and Extinction Rebellion, both focused on the fight for climate justice. In addition, numerous people representing MAPA, Most Affected Peoples and Areas, showed up to share their stories and raise awareness about how the fight for the environment affects everyone and not only a small part of the population. Michelin Sallata, from Indonesia, and Nansedalia Ramirez, from Mexico, were two of the many guests who made touching and important speeches.
The organization of the camp
The camp was in a park of Turin, where different areas were settled up, such as the camping area, three marquees for conferences, evening events and meals, and open spaces for workshops and relaxation areas.
During the week, mornings and afternoons were moments for debates and group activities, analyzing the theme of the climate crisis from many different perspectives, also thanks to the multiple guests who proposed and addressed different topics, such as antispecism, ecotransfeminism, work, migration. This helped to analyze the theme of climate justice and climate crisis through a 360-degree analysis, raising awareness and educating about environmental problems from multiple angles, and spreading information about realities connected to a more ethical and sustainable development.
The camp was an event accessible to all: meals were vegan and gluten free, designed to be as inclusive and sustainable as possible, and a psychological support desk was also set up.
Fridays For Future at the Campus and the Friday strike
Throughout the week, a series of afternoon conferences organized by Fridays For Future took place at the Luigi Einaudi Campus of the University of Turin. This ended with the meeting “The great blindness: how to tell about climate change in the media”, a round table that saw some of the directors of the most famous Italian newspapers, such as La Stampa, La Repubblica and Il Corriere della Sera, discussing with activists about how in these days the media deal environmental issues and topics such as greenwashing.
The Climate Social Camp ended with the Friday strike, the symbol of the environmental movement Fridays For Future. The march started from the park and ended in Piazza Castello, where a last meeting was held to involve tourists and citizens to listen to the speeches of the participants of the camp.
Our magazine “.eco” followed the whole event: we want to mention the honorable behavior of the participants, who preserved the original state of the park without polluting it, and also to the environment of mutual respect and cultural exchange that was maintained during the whole event. This positive and predominantly young atmosphere, of lightness but also social commitment, could remember the festivals of the 60s and 70s, such as the famous Woodstock. But in this case, the music, the chats, and the new friendships are only the outline of the greater final goal: the fight for respect and rights of all living beings and of our planet.
00WEEC Networkhttps://weecnetwork.org/wn/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEEC-Logo_200.pngWEEC Network2022-08-11 13:30:182022-08-11 13:30:18A week camping to fight the climate crisis
TThe São Paulo School of Advanced Science for a Sustainable and Inclusive AMAZONIA (SPSAS AMAZONIA) will be held from 21st of November to o5th December the Hotel Fonte Colina Verde in São Pedro/SP, Brazil.
The objective of this School is to provide young postdoctoral fellows (and PhD candidates) with a multi and interdisciplinary vision, based on science and valuing indigenous and traditional knowledge, of the main problems that have historically hindered sustainable
development, conservation, and social inclusion in the Amazon. It also aims to discuss the existing alternatives to these fronts and jointly build with early career scientists, new proposals to solve these problems.
For any queries, please contact spsas-amazonia@biota.org.br
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By Michela Colpo and Francesca Santangelo
The São Paulo School of Advanced Science for a Sustainable and Inclusive AMAZONIA (SPSAS AMAZONIA) will be held from 21st of November to o5th December the Hotel Fonte Colina Verde in São Pedro/SP, Brazil.