Présentation
Le RCE Bretagne est un Centre Régional d'Expertise en Education pour le Développement Durable. Dans un RCE, les établissements scolaires, la science, l'industrie et les institutions gouvernementales travaillent ensemble en vue de générer des processus d'apprentissage susceptibles de contribuer à l'élaboration d'un avenir plus soutenable.
La décennie 2005-2014, désignée par les Nations Unies comme "La Décennie pour l'Education en faveur du Développement Durable (EDD)" vise l'éducation comme agent de changement afin que les valeurs, les attitudes, les comportements et les habitudes de vie des citoyens de la Terre respectent les principes fondamentaux du Développement Durable. Cette Décade envisage donc un monde où tous pourraient bénéficier d'une éducation de qualité permettant d'envisager, dans les domaines du Social, de l'Environnement et de l'Economie, les changements destinés à construire un avenir plus " soutenable ".
A l'initiative de l'Université des Nations Unies à Tokyo, les Centres Régionaux d'Expertise en Education pour le Développement Durable ont donc été créés. Il s'agit d'un concept stratégique afin de promouvoir l'Education en faveur du Développement Durable sur le plan local et régional (avec extension sur le plan national et international) dans le but de réaliser les objectifs fixés par la Décennie pour l'Education en faveur du Développement Durable (2005-2014), phase d'élaboration, qui sera suivie d'une seconde décennie (2015-2024), phase d'action et de réalisation.
Pour plus d'informations, voir le site de UNU-IAS.
Il existe plus d'une centaine de RCEs à travers le monde, sur les cinq continents.
Les domaines relevant des projets Education pour le Développement Durable des Centres Régionaux d'Expertise en Education pour le Développement Durable :
- La biodiversité ;
- le réchauffement climatique ;
- la protection de l'environnement ;
- la lutte contre la pollution ;
- l'Education, à tous les niveaux ;
- la santé ;
- la sauvegarde du savoir traditionnel
- la réduction des risques de catastrophes ;
- la jeunesse ;
- la formation des professeurs ;
- la production et la consommation responsables;
- le développement et l'apprentissage de ce qui est équitable.
Education, Recherche, Consultation et Communication sont les quatre pôles autour desquels se regroupent les Partenaires du RCE Bretagne, mais l'une des particularités des RCEs est également d'entrer en relation les uns avec les autres tout en conservant leur propre spécificité, d'où l'intérêt des échanges, à travers le monde, des informations et des savoirs locaux et régionaux.
Par ailleurs, la Bretagne étant une terre de tradition, riche de son passé historique et culturel, de son folklore, mais aussi de l'incroyable diversité de ses paysages et de son attachement ancestral à la nature, la ligne directrice du RCE Bretagne, qui lui donnera sa coloration personnelle, sera le lien entre le savoir traditionnel et l'éducation pour le Développement Durable.
Le dossier de candidature du RCE Bretagne a été présenté en Septembre 2012 au Centre Mondial des RCEs, Université des Nations Unies - Institut des Hautes Etudes (UNU-IAS), à Yokohama, au Japon, pour soumission au Comité UBUNTU des Pairs, qui se réunit une fois l'an, en Décembre de l'année en cours. Après avoir fourni les précisions complémentaires qui ont été demandées à la suite de cette soumission, le RCE Bretagne (RCE Brittany) a été officiellement reconnu par l'Université des Nations Unies le 5 Avril 2013.
Le RCE Bretagne a été reconnu officiellement par l'Université des Nations Unies en 2013 : c'est le premier RCE en France.
Françoise Laveuve
Founder and director of RCE Brittany
par Françoise Laveuve
L'Education pour le Développement durable est bien autre chose qu'une simple transmission du savoir concernant les enjeux du Développement Durable, et la manière dont les aborder. Elle met l'accent sur le changement des mentalités, le développement des compétences en matière de pensée critique et systémique et le renforcement des capacités devant faciliter le changement. Il s'agit de donner aux gens, aux collectivités et aux organisations, de nouvelles gammes de compétences et de connaissances, afin qu'ils puissent identifier les défis du développement durable, et y répondre par des moyens conduisant à des changements durables à long terme.
Brittany is a vast peninsula in the west part of France ; it is about 270 km long, extending over an area of 27 208 km2 with a coastline of 2730 km, the third of the total length of the French coasts. Its population is 4,354,377 inhabitants. Land and sea are its main particular banner and they feed it. Today, fishing and agriculture are still the two pillars of Brittany's economy.
Brittany is a land of tradition, rich of its historical and cultural past, its folklore, but also the incredible diversity of its landscapes and its ancestral attachment to nature. It was interesting, for a RCE in Brittany, to establish a link between traditional knowledge and Education for Sustainable Development, as a guideline, especially because the region has always been at the forefront of educational advancement and research. Ecology is an official value since 1970.
On another side, Brittany is particularly affected by the energy choices it is forced to make; its peninsular situation makes it dependent on other regions for energy supply (more than 92% of its energy consumption is dependent on imports). It is also affected by soil and water pollution due to intensive agriculture and livestock farming. But Brittany is increasingly involved in sustainable development: a lot of associations, foundations and networks developed advanced studies, offer reliable solutions, implement effective actions. The concept of sustainable development is now integrated at all levels of education.
The first aim of RCE Brittany was first and foremost to bring together the various actors of sustainable development and coordinate their efforts, and to develop the goal of Education for Sustainable Development. RCE Brittany was officially acknowledged by the United Nations University on April 5th, 2013: It is the first RCE created in France.
Françoise Laveuve
Founder and director of RCE Brittany
Françoise Laveuve. The interaction of Humanism values and Holism values as a necessary driving force of the Education for Sustainable Development at the regional level, Envigogika 17 (1) 2022.
Kalterina Shulla, Walter Leal Filho, Salim Lardjane, Jan Henning Sommer, Christian Borgemeister. Sustainable development education in the context of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, Vol. 27 (2020).
Kalterina Shulla, Walter Leal Filho, Salim Lardjane, Jan Henning Sommer, Amanda Lange Salvia, Christian Borgemeister. The contribution of Regional Centers of Expertise for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019.
Salim Lardjane & Anna Maaria Nuutinen. Graphical Knowledge Representation Tools for High Quality Learning, Envigogika 2018.
Salim Lardjane & Françoise Laveuve. A teacher's perspective on the interactions between the United Nations' SDGs, Envigogika 2018.
Salim Lardjane, Françoise Laveuve & Anna Maaria Nuutinen. The need for fundamental change in Education, Envigogika 2017.
Mind Maps and Concept Maps in Education. Book, draft version 2016.
Sylvain Barré & Salim Lardjane. Introducing Sustainable Development notions to students of Mathematics using a nested cycles model. Poster, 2014.
by Françoise Laveuve
The European RCE Meeting 2018 was hosted by RCE Brittany, France, and was held at Université de Bretagne Sud, Tohannic, Vannes. The meeting was attended by twenty RCEs from thirteen countries : Austria (RCE Euregion tyrol), China (RCE Hangzhu), Czechia (RCE Czechia), Denmark (RCE Denmark), Finland (RCE Helsinki Metropolitant) France (RCE Bordeaux Aquitaine, RCE Brittany, RCE Paris Seine), Germany (RCE Nuremberg, Candidate RCE Oldenburger-Munsterland, RCE Ostwürttemberg-Aalen, RCE München), Greece (RCE Crete), United Kingdom (RCE Cymru, RCE East Midlands, RCE London) Poland (RCE Warsaw Metropolitan), Russia (RCE Nizhny Novgorod), Scotland (RCE Scotland) and Sweden (RCE Skâne). RCE Belarus, unhappily, could not come. Were represented : the Association Ecodemia, Belarus, and Imperial College, London. Dr. Kumi Tashiro, Deputy Director, Office of Environment Education, Ministry of Environment of Japan, Dr.Philip Vaughter, from United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), and Dr. Jos Hermans, Regional Advisor to the RCE Community- Europe also attended the meeting.
The overarching theme of this meeting was : "ESD and the SDGs: how can RCEs coordinate both to achieve the SDGs?"
The meeting was supported by the United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainablity (UNU-IAS), the Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS) , and the UBS Laboratory of Mathematics (LMBA). The purpose of this conference was to share the projects and ideas of the different European countries on the proposed thematic, and share all the positive achievements that had been realized concerning the SDGs they had chosen to explore according to their local possibilities, and to strengthen the links between them by a pooling of projects, in order to make the achieving of the SDGs possible.
On August 29th, 2018, after a short presentation of the overarching theme and the reasons of this choice by RCE Brittany, the meeting was officially opened by Dr.Kumi Tashiro, from the Office of Environment Education, Ministry of Environment of Japan, who emphasized on the importance of Education in Sustainable Development, the importance of UNU-IAS, and the importance of RCEs network. The networks must be strengthened and platforms must be created. Then Dr. Philip Vaughter, from UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability explained the United Nations System, and announced the 11th Global conference 2018 in Cebu - in the Philippines, from December 7th to 9th 2018. Then he explained the principles of the new-look profile page, with its sub-sections, with for example a section for illustrative photos, and also photos of activities. This profile page takes the place of the annual reports, consequently all the projects must be described, the communication channels and contacts details must be mentioned. RCEs, then, are highly requested to update their RCE profile page.
19 interventions and 3 workshops have followed on August 29th and 30th. The meeting was preceded by a welcome dinner on August 28th evening, and followed by a field trip on August 31st afternoon (discovery of the Gulf of Morbihan aboard a tourism boat).
It was a very lively conference with very interesting, various and very high quality presentations, with constructive discussions between the participants during the breaks and already working affinities or common themes to be explored in networks, all that suggesting interesting joint work opportunities for the coming time. The atmosphere of the meeting was particularly excellent.
Some Key topics
- Importance of the NGO COMMEET ; the subject is TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training, and Entrepreneurship). The aim is to help students who can't go to university. TVET must be a priority throughout the world. Furthermore, there are opportunities in TVET for migrants because it is an Entrepreneurship Education, the next step being: how sustainable migrants' entrepreneurships can develop regional community. There is a policy recommendation on curriculum development for Vocational Schools towards ESD, that is methods for Education for ESD competencies and curricula.
- Support for entrepreneurship projects financed by local companies in some towns or countries.
- Education has often been the topic developed by various RCEs, as: * "projects in Tertiary Education for SD", or: * "the project of learning cities", but also:
- Introducing in primary schools the means to reduce the production of energy and the use of resources
- Rethinking the competencies in Basic education by introducing SDGs in school culture
- Developing a school action plan inspired by the 17 SDGs
- SDGs and Statistics: Research on the interactions between the 17 SDGs and how to challenge students by interesting them to look for interactions by themselves
- Developing competencies for a socio-economic development, (Erasmus Project and Knowledge Alliance)
- Development of Centres of Excellence in CCSAFS (Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security) in Egypt (Cairo), and in Jerash University, Jordan, project financed by Erasmus. There will be major ESD Activities projects up to 2022.
- The preservation of the heritage represented by nature in general, including the sea, has been the subject of various interventions.
Each intervention was presented with a PPT. These PPTs are available on https://rcebretagne.org.
Challenges
- Build on the strengths and successes achieved to develop our action
- Open new ways of collaboration between RCEs on ESD to be more effective in achieving SDGs
- Strengthen our links and build collaborative projects
- Keep up to date our profile page
Opportunities/way forward
- Collaborative project on Intuitive Thinking
- TVET as a solution for empowering people for entrepreneurship in their community
- Collaborative project on social justice
- Collaborative project of statistical visualization of the interrelations between the SDGs by the synthetic study of the specific studies in the different European countries
- Working transfer of expertise towards Africa, the Middle East and South-East Asi
Action points
The three thematics of the workshops during this European Conference, Vannes, remain on the agenda as the guiding threads of our work and our relations:
- Evaluation of ESD and RCEs
- Communication strategy among the RCEs
- Priorities for European Community
Conclusion
A very big warm thank you to everyone, thank you for the help received, thank you for the quality of the interventions, but also the good mood, the enthusiasm, the warm relations, all this giving desire to work together more.
The conference was therefore motivating, the links between us were strengthened, and amplifying the collaborative work has appeared as an indispensable necessity.
Overarching theme
ESD and the SDGs : how can RCEs coordinate both of them to achieve the SDGs ?
Other themes
Françoise Laveuve, RCE Brittany
Philip Vaughter, United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
Update from the Global RCE Service Centre and the UN System
Detlev Lindau-Bank, RCE Oldenburger Münsterland; Ros Wade, RCE London; and Jos Hermans, Regional Advisor to the RCE Community - Europe
Curriculum development in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET);
Opportunities for the new target groups of migrants for TVET;
Community empowerment for TVET
Margaret Fleming, RCE East Midlands
Mari Nuutinen, RCE Helsinki Metropolitan
SDGs and school culture in Finland
Ulrich Holzbaur and Daniela Dorrer, Candidate RCE Ostwürttemberg-Aalen
The cooperation between university, city administration, and society in Aalen
Michel Ricard, RCE Bordeaux Aquitaine
Learning cities and the example of Bordeaux
Jana Dlouha and Jiri Dlouhy, RCE Czechia
Challenges to Sustainability addressed by the Regional Centre of Expertise Czechia
Vasiliki Kioupi, Imperial College London
Integrating the SDGs into school action plans: Results from a teacher training workshop in Greece
Vassilios Makrakis and Nelly Kostoula, RCE Crete
A rubric for assessing the integration of the Earth Charter into the CCSAFS program
David Rangan, RCE Denmark
On the track of new didactic tools for Education in Sustainable Development
Betsy Jane King, RCE Scotland
Addressing SDG 4.7: Values and learning for sustainability in initial teacher education
Einir Young, RCE Cymru
Welsh universities joining forces to put the Well-Being of Future Generations Act into practice
Christian Buettner, RCE Nuremberg; and Janne Leino, Chen Xiaping, and Fu Weija, Hans Seidel Foundation Shanghai/RCE Hangzhou
ESD in teacher training: Best practices from Germany and China
Andrey Dakhin, RCE Nizhny Novgorod
Johanna Bernhardt, RCE Euroregion Tyrol
CASE - Competencies for a sustainable socio-economic development
Monika Mansson, RCE Skâne
Goal 14 and ocean literacy in Malmö
Françoise Laveuve and Salim Lardjane, RCE Brittany and UBS
A teacher's perspective on the interaction between the SDGs
Martin O'Connor, RCE Paris-Seine
Environmental justice in an intercultural frame - empowering local communities for sustainability
Anna Kalinowska, RCE Warsaw Metropolitan
Members of the following RCEs and Organizations have taken part in the European RCE Meeting 2018 :
Candidate RCE Ostwürttemberg-Aalen, Germany
Ecodemia Belarus
Hans Seidel Foundation, Germany
Imperial College, England
Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations University, Japan
Ministry of Environment, Japan
RCE Bordeaux-Aquitaine, France
RCE Bretagne, France
RCE Crete, Greece
RCE Czechia
RCE Cymru, Wales
RCE Denmark
RCE East-Midlands, England
RCE Euroregion Tyrol
RCE Hangzhou, China
RCE Helsinki Metropolitan, Finland
RCE London, England
RCE Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia
RCE Nuremberg, Germany
RCE Oldenburger Münsterland, Germany
RCE Paris-Seine, France
RCE Scotland
RCE Skane, Sweden
RCE Warsaw Metropolitan, Poland
Tel : +33(0)2 97 46 34 15
Françoise Laveuve : francoise.laveuve[at]rce-bretagne.fr.
Salim Lardjane : salim.lardjane[at]univ-ubs.fr.