Regional Center of Expertise

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Regional Center of Expertise

• Education for Sustainable Development
• April 2006

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Overview

• Barcelona in the world
• Conceptual framework
• Vision mission
• Structure composition
• Activities

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Location
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Global framework
shareholders
Businesses
Non-developped countries
employees
suppliers
Governments
clients
the World
International Organisms
Industrialized countries
NGOs
Civil Society
consumers
savers
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Stakeholder traditional perspective
CLIENTS/ CONSUMERS
INVESTORS
COMPETITORS
CIVIL SOCIETY
Organization
COMMUNITIES
SUPPLIERS
EMPLOYEES
GOVERNMENTS
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Stakeholder alternative perspective
Context 1
Context 3
Context N
Context 2
Context 4
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SD Conceptual framework

Public sector


Society
SD
Economy
Enviroment
Private sector
Third sector
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Key actors
Public sector
ORGANIZATIONS
Private sector
Third sector
Society
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Key actors approach to SD
Third sector
Social movements
Policies
Sustainable Development
Private sector
Public sector
CSR

Legisl.
Democracy
(broad sense)
Society
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The push and pull effect
Public sector
Framework Recommendations, legislation, etc.
Action Training, cases, guidelines, etc.
Framework Recommendations, theories, concepts,
guidelines, etc.
Framework Strategies, policies, initiatives,
etc.
Organization
Private sector
Third sector
Actions Training, pressure, activism, boycot,
accusation, etc.
Actions Practices, rights, etc.
Framework Consumption, democracy, etc.
Actions Boycot, protest, individual change, etc..
Society
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RCE Barcelona approach
RCE movement
Third sector
Social movements
Policies
Sustainable Development
Private sector
Public sector
CSR

Legisl.
Democracy
(broad sense)
Society
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Conceptual framework the two axes

• Vertical axis Coherence in education in all
  stages of formal education

• Horizontal axis
• Coherence of EfSD among all actors and
  stakeholders
• Universities
• Education centers
• Mass-media
• NGOs
• Governments

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Vision and Mission of RCE Barcelona

• Vision People of all ages and backgrounds have
  access to the knowledge, skills and attitudes
  they need to be able to change to a more
  sustainable way of doing things, individually and
  collectively.
• Mission To become a centre of reference and
  leadership in learning for sustainable
  development through creating innovative tools,
  initiatives and programmes in key areas of
  training, research, social dialogue and
  international networking.
• Coordination Didac Ferrer and Marc Vilanova Work
  team Didac Ferrer, Marc Vilanova, Heloise
  Buckland and Mireia de Mingo.

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Our working principles

• To work with organizations that promote learning
  activities for people of all ages, cultures and
  backgrounds, promoting coherence where possible
• To promote interaction between people and
  organizations of different sectors (e.g.
  government, education, business, civil society,
  museums and media)
• To work with other organizations that have strong
  networking capacities
• To complement and strengthen existing learning
  for SD networks, activities and organizations to
  maximize efforts
• To interact with other regions promoting learning
  for SD
• To act as a catalyst for new, innovative ways of
  learning for SD
• To maximize resource efficiency, transparency and
  evaluation in all activities and be a learning
  organization

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The universitary nucleus UPC and ESADE

• ESADE
• Leadership in CSR
• Sustainability reporting

• UPC
• Leadership in ESD in technical field
• Sustainable vision 2015
• Environmental plans since 1996

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Composition of RCE Barcelona networks involved
GUNI AGS EESD CRUE IJLV ACEU
SEKN EBEN EABIS CEMS ....
World Cities Agenda 21 ICLEI ....
UPC ESADE AjBarcelona GENCAT ECODES ESF
ECEA ENCORE NRG4SD CRPM
GRI SiRi Co. GRI Avina Expo2008
WFEO EWB Int. CONG-D ITDG
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Potential partners RCE BCN
Press
Education centers
Civil society
Public sector
Organizations from other regions
Companies
Museums
Sostenible
Other RCEs
SMES
UPC ESADE ECODES ESF Aj. Barcelona UniZar
Theaters
TVCatalunya
Camper
Fundació Un Sol Món
Trade unions
FICMA
Amnistia Internacional
Rosa Sensat
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Key activities RCE Barcelona

• The five key areas of activity of RCE BCN are
  based on the two-axes approach

Vertical axis Research
Logical network Assisting RCEs in Latin America
Return to society Science Shop on SD
Center Training
Horizontal axis Networking and media
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Activities Research and innovation

• Promote research and innovation in EfSD through
  production and dissemination of knowledge
• Future projects
• Collection EfSD (original, translations)
• Funding research
• L4SD1000
• Current projects
• A publication on leadership for SD
• (BCN Agenda 21)

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The question

• what are the most effective actions institutions
  should promote for individual and collective
  learning for SD?

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L4SD1000 Research project proposal

• Learning for Sustainable Development through 1000
  life stories in 10 places worldwide during 10
  years
• A unique worldwide Research Project for the ESD
  Decade
• Vision
• At the closing event of the Decade, all RCEs
  will meet and present jointly the results of this
  research investigation carried out with more than
  1000 citizens of different places in the world
  and at different life-phases, and will give a
  useful answer to the question
• what are the most effective actions institutions
  should promote for individual and collective
  learning for SD?
• Strategic Objectives
• To have at the end of the Decade a sound research
  investigation on where Learning for
  Sustainability happens during a life in order to
  orient decision-making in ESD at all levels
• To link in a single worldwide ESD project all
  Regional Centers of Expertise creating thus a
  research network on ESD

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Activities Networking and media

• Promote the collaboration among actors active in
  the field of EfSD through the organization of
  events.
• Future projects
• Day of innovation and imagination (DI2) for a
  better world
• Cycle on EfSD tools workshops meetings
• Current projects
• UN Decade Website In collaboration with a renown
  portal on sustainability (www.sostenible.es)
• 16 visions on EfS from different sectors
• Barcelona TV emmission

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Activities Training

• Promote the education and training of persons
  with leadership capabilities and with an
  integrating view of both axes.
• Future projects
• International training scholarships
• Training of trainers
• Open platform
• Current projects
• Development of a training programme on leadership
  for SD

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Activities Assisting RCEs in Latin America

• Promote and assist the creation of RCEs in Latin
  america.
• Future projects
• Common platforms
• Funding
• Common tools
• Current projects
• Creation of RCE in LA (Perú, Curitiba)

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Activities Science shop on SD

• A Science Shop is a mechanism to transfer
  knowledge from universities and research centers
  to organized society that cannot buy it (see
  www.scienceshops.org).
• Future projects
• Extend the idea of a SSSD to other RCE
• Current projects
• Creation of Pilot Science Shop in Sustainable
  Development

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Criteria for the first activities selected

• They connect different sectors
• Builiding RCE Barcelona as a multisectorial
  network
• They are based on already existing networks
  oriented to SD
• Making use of huge previous efforts
• They directly involve different actors in their
  own design and management
• Real perspectives, with feet on land
• They look for an important dissemination
• Visibility of a cultural change
• They use already existing frameworks
• Based on existing opportunities and resources

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Calendar
Any Phaser 2005 2006 2007 2008
First Consortium and funding Strategic and action plan Networking and events
Second Review action plan Funding Program development
Third Program consolidation Evaluation and reporting Revise consortium
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Funding

• Funding sources for fixed budget
• Public organizations in Spain
• European Commission
• Private company member quota
• Founding partners institutional support and
  resources
• Additional program or event specific funds
• Corporate sponsorship, support or partnership.
• Foundations and other sources (such as Avina
  foundation, and so forth)
• Possible global RCE sponsorship.

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Organization

• BoardRCE BCN
• Respresentative of each organization member of
  the core of RCE Barcelona
• Representative network RCE Europa
• Representative UNU
• Generalitat de Catalunya

• Academic committee
• 2 independent academic named by Board
• 2 independent practitioners named by Board
• Member from core organizations

Society

• Executive committee
• Representative ESADE, UPC, GEN CAT, ECODES,
  Ajuntament

• Working team
• Didac Ferrer
• Marc Vilanova
• Heloise Buckland
• Mireia de Mingo
• Sandra Benveniste

RCE
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Characteristics of RCE Barcelona

• Characteristics
• Structural form of multi-organizational and
  multi-stakeholder networks
• Based on partnerships and collaborations built on
  common objectives and sharing or pulling
  resources
• Open to all type organizations
• Active at local, regional and global level.
• Propositive but not normative.
• Systemic focus, not structural or cosmetic.
• Center for Sustainable Development

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Thank you very much

• Didac Ferrer (didac.ferrer_at_upc.edu)