Strengthening participation –Local action moves the world!

Morning lecture 1The 12th of July 2012

At the CPUBy Kirsten Paaby

«Yes, but what can we do and how can we participate..? Any

good news?

The Ideas Bank - rooted in the Futures Studies

Tradition

Robert Jungk – world citizen and future researcher

«The Future has already started»

Social Innovations

Local sustainable practices

Give back democracy to the people:The Futures Scenario Workshop

From Rio – call for democratic mobilisation

From Johannesburg – call for education and life long learning with a focus on:

COMPETANCE OF ACTION

The Ideas Bank Model: Best practices - new dialogues - futurepictures

Local sustainable community development

Professional assistance to National programs such as:•Local Agenda 21•The Frontrunner Community program•Livable Communities

Our contribution:•Pedagogical presentations on sustainable community development •Methods for dialogue and partnership•Collecting and dissemination of best practices

«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.»

Samsø Energy Academy

• Students in all ages meets the people behind the work to be selfsufficient with enery and creating a vital local community

• The students learn what they themselves can do – instead of threatening with the global warming

Democratic Ecology – the Halkær Ådal Valley, Denmark

«The stork has returned…»

..and it takes twice as long to shop at the Co-op»

The Future Scenario Workshop a successfull method

Hyldespjældet Housing Cooperative - Denmark - Worldrecord in action plans for sustainable development- Social equality - Energysavings, ecological consumption

The City District Sagene – innovative and creative work in making dialogues with the citizens – testemony of participation

Young People making the future

in Øvre Eiker (Norway)

Global follow up in Fredrikstad(Norway)

Twinning and exchange networks with towns in Guatemala since 1985

One of the doors to participation Education

From Rio – call for democratic mobilisation

From Johannesburg – call for education and life long learning with a focus on:

COMPETANCE OF ACTION

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

The Balancing Act

Nordic Campaign and pedagogic project promoting the UN decade for Education for sustainable development

The pedagogic platform of the Nordic civic formation -

Grundtvigs concept of civic formation: Formation of the individual – formation in community

Embraces the formation as an:•Individual•Member of the society•World citizen

«Lifeskills and a school for life»

Risør highschool in Norway –Eco-lighthouse and youth entrepreneurship

Glocal action – Proud students opened first fair-trade shop downtown Risør (Foto: Aust Agder Blad)

Nordens folkhögskola Biskops-Arnö(Sweden)

Glocal action – from Sweden to Africa

The Vestjylland folk high school (Denmark)-The «Garden of Wonder»- Sustainable solutions: Energy, food and buildings- Learning from experts – and practicing- Cooperation with the local civil society

«Ecological loops of learning»

In partnerships

«Our Common Learning»

«Our Common future»

The Balancing Actwww.thebalancinact.info

«Where to find more…..»• BALLE – Business Alliance for Local Living Economy• ICLEI – International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. Local

Governments for Sustainability www.iclei.org • The Transisition Towns Network• The Slow-food movement• YES!Magazine• www.idebanken.no • www.thebalancing.act.info • ………………………………….

Thank you for your attention