Torvald Jacobsson

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YMPYoung Masters Programme on Sustainable
Development

• Torvald Jacobsson
• Director, YMP

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YMP what is it?

• Global web-based education and learning network
  for ESD
• Designed for students between 16-18 years
• Free of charge for schools, teachers and students
• 113 countries and 20 000 students since 1999
• User-created real-time, real-life case gallery,
  that grows over time
• All course material in English with built-in
  narration and glossary. Learning platform soon
  available in several languages.
• Promoting local activities and international
  networks
• Course duration18 weeks, plus voluntary project
  work
• New platform opens now, end of October 2011 with
  a initial capacity of 200 000 students
  simultaneously.

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YMP - How does it work?

• A teacher registers 3-5 students
• The group is allocated to a global virtual
  classroom
• Access the course material online or download to
  a local computer
• Discuss learning activities and findings with
  your local group and teacher
• Present and disseminate your learning activities
  and findings in the virtual global classroom
  (online/offline, (offline activities often
  outside school)
• Feedback is provided and received by groups and
  teachers in an innovative system of peer review,
  based on experience from the IIIEE
• Fulfil all learning activities to receive a YMP
  Diploma
• Upload your approved project work to be eligible
  for participation in entrepreneurship courses,
  scholarships and to be able to attend the YMP
  global youth conventions

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Project Work Portugal (Poverty)

• Partnership/exchange of teachers between Portugal
  and S. Tome e Principe (island nation in Africa).
  Presentations by teachers impacted students in
  Portugal.
• Focus on Millennium Development Goals to Reduce
  Poverty and Promote Equality, and increase
  awareness of poverty and sustainability.

• Solidarity show organised by students in Portugal
  to collect school materials to send to Africa.
  Organised shipment of school materials to Africa.
  

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Project Work China (Energy)

• The students wanted to explore if biogas can be
  used in urban areas. Biogas can be used to help
  people make meals, supply heat and electricity,
  and the waste residue of biogas can be used as a
  natural fertilizer.

• The students designed a biogas generator model
  appropriate for urban areas, and presented the
  project to the local government. The students
  created a blog that contains information about
  the project.
• The students combined an engineering challenge
  with information dissemination and engaged the
  local government.

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Project Work Sweden (Water)

• The students wanted to explore preventive and
  sustainable solutions to the eutrophication
  problems in local lakes caused by extensive
  agriculture.
• The students contacted the local government and
  discovered the expansion of wetlands around the
  lakes as a measure for trapping nutrients leaking
  from agriculture and private households.

• The students investigated further solutions and
  interacted with a private company that markets a
  waste water treatment system based on a natural
  ecological process.

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IIIEE and the Origin of YMP

• International perspective on sustainability
  solutions
• Peer learning! Students to students with teachers
  and tutors as facilitators or guides
• International Masters Programmes
• Diversity of cultures, backgrounds and educations
• Collaborative learning (teams) individual
  activities, small groups, class interactions
• Web-based education and action research
• Alumni network vibrant and interactive
• YMP a living lab for taking the IIIEE
  experiences to the internet and young students.
  Now up-scaling in participation with UNESCO et al.

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Experiences of Participants

• Students creative, fun, developing visions,
  applying ideas, know the world, YMP Diploma
• Teachers networking, expanding learning and
  teaching possibilities, catalyses ESD in local
  curricula, YMP Teacher Certificate

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Vision for the YMP

• The most comprehensive
• and exciting learning network
• on sustainable development
• in the world!
• Available for free
• for young people everywhere!

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Community-based Learning
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Challenge

• 20 years experience on collaborative ESD learning
  The know-how of the IIIEE
• Adapted to the contemporary web Social network
  strategy, gamification, self-explanatory GUI etc
  Global not American!
• Facilitated Peer-learning
• Off-line local activities in synergy with on-line
  dialogue and interaction
• Transformative learning promoting local change
• Collaborative textbook snapshots of the world
  right now through eyes of your peers.
  Differences and similarities

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Summary of the YMP

• Scientific base of knowledge
• Proactive, practical and empowerment approach
• Global outreach and interaction
• Rapidly growing gallery of real-life cases
• Facilitated peer-learning
• Scale advantages
• Good experiences from China

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Thank You!

• WWW.GoYmp.org
• Torvald Jacobsson
• Director, YMP
• Lund University, Sweden
• torvald.jacobsson_at_iiiee.lu.se
• 46 70 5236547