Join the Environmental Education Network in Abu Dhabi from January 29th to February 2nd, 2024
Are you passionate about environmental education and eager to connect with leading experts in the field? The World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) is just around the corner, and there are only five days left to take advantage of our special Early Bird discount. Don’t miss this golden opportunity to become a part of our vibrant community.
WEEC Congress Highlights:
The WEEC Congress is set to take place in the stunning city of Abu Dhabi from January 29th to February 2nd, 2024. It promises to be a gathering of some of the world’s foremost experts in environmental education.
One key feature that sets WEEC apart is our commitment to inclusivity. If you haven’t received acceptance for your abstract yet, worry not! You can still secure the discounted rate even after the deadline has passed.
Registration Costs:
Conference Delegate (Teachers, Academics, Business Community): USD 450
Conference Youth (Students, Young Researchers, and Young Professionals, age between 18-30 years): USD 400
Conference Pass for NGOs or Residents of Least Developed Countries: USD 350
This is a unique opportunity to engage with the latest developments in environmental education, connect with like-minded individuals, and contribute to a more sustainable future. Act now to secure your spot at the WEEC Congress at a discounted rate before it’s too late!
To register and learn more about the event, please visit our official website.
Don’t miss out on this chance to make a difference and be a part of a global network dedicated to environmental education. We look forward to welcoming you to Abu Dhabi for the WEEC Congress in 2024!
00WEEC Networkhttps://weecnetwork.org/wn/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEEC-Logo_200.pngWEEC Network2023-09-15 11:42:572023-09-15 11:42:57Last Five Days to Secure Your Early Bird Discount for WEEC Congress!
The deadline for the abstract submission of the 12th World Enviromental Education Congress has been postponed by the Socio – Scientific Committee to September 15, 2023!
The decision to extend the Call for Abstract for 2 extra weeks has been taken by the Committees after receiving a great amount of abstracts from all over the world; witnessing the great response from EE experts and people interested in taking part in the WEEC Congress, the SSC agreed to give more time to new potential abstract submitters in order to increase the participation at the Congress and make it an even more incredible and meaningful experience as it already promises to be.
Send your abstract today! If approved, your work will be presented and discussed during the sessions of WEEC 2024 in Abu Dhabi, together with all the other works submitted by attendees from all over the world. One of the 10 themes must be the central argument of your abstract, in order to spark discussion on the role of EE today and in the challenges of the future.
Your work can be submitted as an oral presentation, as a poster or Pecha Kucha format, or can be structured as a more interactive workshop experience or a round table discussion.
Queensland Association of Outdoor & Environmental Education Centre Leaders (QAOEECL) with the support of the AAEEQ Chapter present The Inaugural Big Idea Oration, held in Stamford Plaza Brisbane and online on September 7, 2023 at 4:30 pm. A timely and amazing event, with talks from two renowned educators presenting their ideas about Outdoor & Environmental Education in the Contemporary World. In the first part of the event, Dr Ron Tooth, Honorary Associate Professor UQ and Founding Principal of Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre, will give a talk on “Enchantment: Designing Pedagogies for a Fractured World“, discussing contemporary scholarship on enchantment/disenchantment and First Nations philosophies to explore alternative ideas and to challenge “our habit of dividing the world into passive matter (it) and vibrant life (us)“.
In the second part, Professor Emerita Annette Gough OAM will speak about “Outdoor & Environmental Education in the Contemporary World” and how should outdoor and environmental education evolve to address the growing impact of the climate emergency and meet the needs of society in a post-COVID-19 world, while also learning from its tradition about what to keep and what to change.
The event will be live streamed, therefore capable of reaching audiences Australian wide and even globally. For more information on ticketing, click here.
00WEEC Networkhttps://weecnetwork.org/wn/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEEC-Logo_200.pngWEEC Network2023-08-31 09:26:532023-08-31 09:26:53The QAOEECL – Inauguaral Big Idea Oration
Speaking 4 the Planet is an Arts-based competition for young people. It invites participants to express themselves and their ideas about a sustainable world through the following modes: • Speaking (prepared and impromptu) • Drama (impromptu) • Art (prepared and impromptu) • Writing (prepared and impromptu) • Video • Memes • Performance poetry • Song
Originating in 2013 at The Jannali High School in Sydney, Australia, as an initiative for high school students, S4P has evolved to include primary schools (Kids 4 the Planet), universities and adults (Adults 4 Planet A). Ten years after its birth, these elements emerge:
Schools/Youth
Increased student confidence and competence in speaking up. They describe themselves as ‘advocates’.
Helped students take on leadership roles.
Increased environmental awareness and activity at schools. Participation has stimulated school-based environmental education initiatives.
Inspired whole-school involvement in preparation for the competitions held at schools.
Expanded understanding of the social, political and economic elements of sustainability – not just the environment.
Established local networks of students. ‘We learn that we are not alone,’ said one concerned student.
Teachers
Increased teacher awareness and pedagogical changes, including increased integration and connections to multiple curriculum areas.
Increased awareness of the connections between sustainability and core competencies.
Communities
Improved relations between schools and local councils, businesses, and NGOs.
Increased appreciation of the role of the Arts in sustainability and in bringing about change.
Created public speaking and employment opportunities outside of school: Toastmasters, local councils, community events, AGMs, youth events.
Influenced the World Environmental Education Congress Secretariat to hold youth events with their biennial conferences.
Provided artworks for used in climate action campaigns and marches.
Future
Speaking 4 the Planet will continue to be available for use as an education initiative highly effective in raising awareness, improving pedagogy, inspiring action, building networks, and influencing individual choices and broader policies. S4P will continue to evolve and adapt to need and interest. In the near future, S4P will include these elements: • Competitions for university students • Global competitions • Competitions for adults and community organisations
If you are interested in finding out how you can adapt the S4P initiative for your audience and purpose, please contact Phil on phil@speaking4theplanet.org.au
Please find links to twovideos done by 7yr old students to support the use of a WED theme and SDG 4 in the conduct of sustainability and arts competitions in Sydney:
Do you have an innovative idea about how to protect marine life? Or tackle marine debris? Or help coastal communities adapt to the effects of climate change? GEEP is excited to announce its 2023 Youth Innovation Challenge: Saving Our Seas! In partnership with the Taiwan Ocean Conservation Administration (OCA), this year’s challenge provides an opportunity for young people ages 15–30 around the world to share their innovative solutions to protect marine resources and support people of all ages to be engaged stewards for marine conservation. We’re looking for solutions that are innovative, feasible, and informed by research. Winning solutions will receive global recognition and a $1,000 USD prize!
NAAEE (North American Association for Environmental Education) and partners develop programs to advance E-STEM (Environment, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), the integration of environmental education into STEM learning for youth.
The Pratt & Whitney E-STEM Awards support promising E-STEM programs across the globe to build environmental literacy, STEM skills, and pathways to environmental careers through two funding opportunities: E-STEM Prizes and E-STEM Grants. E-STEM Prizes recognize excellence in established programs and E-STEM Grants support and enhance new programs.
They are particularly looking to support applicant organizations that engage students (ages 11–22) in taking action on climate change solutions, sustainable energy, and/or sustainable aviation; work with underrepresented audiences in STEM; and use partnerships to boost their impact.
Click here to read and learn more about the funding opportunities for the Prizes and Grants .
00WEEC Networkhttps://weecnetwork.org/wn/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEEC-Logo_200.pngWEEC Network2023-06-16 12:22:532023-06-16 12:22:53Pratt & Whitney E-STEM Awards – Apply by June 28!
Every month, several thousand people visit the «Éducation relative à l’environnement» journal website. These include researchers, students, community members and committed citizens, who keep abreast of the latest research and reflective practices in the field of environmental education. The magazine is free access, free of advertising and totally independent. It is free from any commercial or political influence. Its only current support is a grant from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture.
We are convinced that the degradation of our environments is one of the major challenges of this century. Environmental education plays a major role, by raising awareness of our relationship with the world and the spaces around us. Their integrity must be preserved. It is the driving force behind awareness and change on an individual, collective and even political scale.
To ensure the continued existence of the journal Éducation relative à l’environnement and the dissemination of French-language research in this fast-developing field, we need your help. Despite 25 years of recognition for its quality, the magazine is going through a difficult period and is in danger of disappearing.
Due to the many demands of today’s online scientific publishing world, editing work has taken on greater scope and requires greater commitment.
If ever there was a time to support this publication, it’s now.
Every contribution, large or small, secures its future. Even with just $10 Canadian, you can help ensure the continued production and distribution of Éducation relative à l’environnement Journal. It only takes a minute.
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.
00WEEC Networkhttps://weecnetwork.org/wn/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/WEEC-Logo_200.pngWEEC Network2022-11-04 14:06:432022-11-04 14:06:43COP27, the annual hope to fight climate change
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 
