SDGs Training for Multipliers

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Hosted by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations and Gaia Education. 26th September 2017, Hayweight House, Edinburgh. Register now.

The Gaia Education Team |

This is to invite you to join the vitally important conversation about how to accelerate the implementation of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the local and regional scale in ways that are carefully adapted to the bio-cultural uniqueness of your community.

The training is based on a se…

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Celebrating the signing of an MoU between Gaia Education and Tallinn University

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Gaia Education signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Tallinn University to offer the first 4-year bachelor degree transcending our 4D curriculum.

The 1st September marked both the beginning of a new Academic Year in Estonia and the signing of an MoU between GaiaEducation & Tallinn University.

A milestone of years of collaboration between Gaia Education and a whole generation of Estonian educators, designers and practitioners including Toomas Trapido, Sven Aluste, Rinu Lepa, Marit Otsing…

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Transforming Our World: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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An invite for you to join the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) training in New York.

The ‘SDG Flashcards’ contain more than 200 questions structured into the four dimensions of Gaia Education’s whole systems approach to sustainability (social, ecological, economic and worldview).

Participants will explore these four dimensions of each of the 17 SDGs in question-focused small group conversations aimed at collaboratively identifying actions and strategies that …

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Une troisième édition réussie pour le cours EDE à la Cité Écologique

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La 3ème édition du programme EDE à la Cité Écologique au Québec, Canada, fut un réel succès.

par Nébesna Fortin et les membres de la Cité Écologique |

Notre cours en Éducation au Développement d’Écovillages, le EDE, a été une fois de plus un réel succès! Offert par l’équipe du C.A.P. Éco-Communautaire à l’écovillage la Cité Écologique au Québec, le programme s’est déroulé du 7 juillet au 7 août. Dans ce cours d’immersion en écovillage d’un mois, nous avons accompagné de manière…

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Aromatic and Medicinal Plants training for Young Migrant Women, Sicily

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Renewables have the potential of improving the quality of life for millions around the world while advancing progress in all areas of development.

By May East, Unitar Fellow |

In May 2017, Gaia Education and Sicilia Integra, in partnership with Arcolaio and Passwork and supported by Eileen Fisher, conducted a week-long training in growing and processing aromatic and medicinal plants for 12 migrant young women in Sicily. The women ranged in age from 16 to 30 and had come from va…

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Educators must light the flame of current and future young ‘glocalisers’

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The task before current educators and young glocalisers is to harness their aspirations so that they can redesign the human planet.

By May East, Unitar Fellow |

Worldwide, two billion babies will be born, each one reaching school age and needing access to high quality education between now and 2030, according to the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. In the same period more than 1.2 billion young people will transition into adulthood and be…

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Co-creando el futuro que queremos en la ecoescuela El Manzano

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By Lizzy Haro

Un nuevo viaje transformador en El Manzano, Cabrero, Chile. Cada Curso EDE, Curso de Diseño de Ecoaldeas, es una nueva comunidad de des/aprendizaje, un grupo de personas de diferentes nacionalidades, edades, género, profesiones, pero con un propósito en conjunto de adquirir herramientas y habilidades para poder co-crear el futuro que queremos.

Los desafíos sistémicos actuales nos movilizan, ya que tenemos que adaptarnos rápidamente a las condiciones de un mundo en cambios ace…

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ToT Brasil 2017

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By Emmanuel Khodja, Unitar Fellow |

A previsão inicial eram 30 vagas, mas com 60 inscritos, May East e Rona Ribeiro aceitaram o desafio e agilmente redesenharam o possível para tornar o programa mais inclusivo e acessível (com o menor custo se comparado aos outros lugares). Com a ajuda da Equipe de Terra Una na produção, acrescentando a mim Emmanuel Khodja como apoio à facilitação (que agradeço pela oportunidade) e aproveitando a sabedoria do voar em bando, o ToT surpreendeu ao conseguir le…

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A powerful tale of integration on the shores of Sicily

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This is the story of Sicilia Integra, a project developed to support the socio-economic integration of migrants through sustainable agriculture.

By the Sicilia Integra team

If we say Sicily, what is the first thing you think about? Let us guess: mafia? Corruption? Well, today we want to tell you a different story, a story that clashes with the common stereotypes normally associated with the Mediterranean island and which instead does justice to the image of Sicily as a cultural…

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Gaia Education certified EDE by As One Network Community in Japan

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In April, the As One Network Community hosted a Gaia Education certified EDE in Japanese.

By Giovanni Ciarlo |

The course is hosted within the city of Suzuka, an industrial centre in the Mie Prefecture, South-West of Nagoya. The region stands out for its numerous rice fields spread throughout the city and countryside. Ms Hiroko Katayama, representative of GEN-Japan, is one the principle organisers of the EDE, in collaboration with GEN-Japan and the As One Community.

The co…

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