Work-shop «The CP Study»

The 12th of July 2013At the CPU

By Kirsten Paaby

«Sustainable development has been successfully localisedNo longer a distant, theoretical concept but on filled with meaning and evoked in everyday realities» Stefan Kuhn, ICLEI Director for Urban Governance

Local Action has moved the world!

Some key findings from the ICLEI-review:«Compared to processes initiated by the public sector…the civil society actors are usually characterized by a higher degree of creativity and willingness to explore new solitions..»

«Local sustainability processes are hubs of social innovations.»

CPU 2012

The Context

Citizen

Participation

Active learning

UniversityLocal Democracy

Learning for Local Democracythe Study

The study and the third phase in a global context:•A contribution to the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development

Photo: Namsdal Newspaper

The Aim of the Study

• Systematic picture – wealth and local participation

• Map concrete experiences – responses to wide spectrum of social challenges

• To build Intellectual and experiental resources

The Second Phase

Case country studies from 11 countries:

Croatia, Hungary, Norway, Romania, Slovakia,Spain,

United Kingdom, Germany, Belarus, Georgia,Serbia

6 Cross-cutting Chapters

* Political, Institutional, Legislative Factors* Local Authorities, Institutions, Leadership* Civil Society* Civic Education and Young People* New Technologies and E-Government* Citizenship and Social Inclusion

2005-2014The UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development – ”learning to change our world”

The Decade promotes:

• Interdisciplinary and holistic learning

• Values-based learning• Critical thinking• Multi-method approaches• Participatory decision making• Locally relevant information

The Target Groups:

• Pupils, students• Society as a whole• Life long learning

New competance for action

Ecological loops of learning

In partnerships

Third Phase of the study• To develop the pilotes of a training

module based on the study• To be presented, disiminated, evaluated at

the CPU in 2014 and 2015• How? Who? What?• …………………………..