Addysgu am gynaliadwyedd yng NghymruEducating for a sustainable Wales

ESDGC

Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship

• Knowledge, values and skills• Individually and collectively• Locally and globally• An equitable and sustainable world

RCE Cymru/Wales

The United Nations University (UNU) describes a Regional Centre of Expertise as:

A network of existing formal, non-formal and informal educational organisations, communicating ESD to local and regional communities.

Functions of an RCE

• Governance – leadership• Collaboration – education, government,

research• Research and development – improving what

we do• Transformative education – for the world we

want

RCE Cymru Wales

• impetus from UNESCO-Cymru and Centre for Alternative Technology

• Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) consultations 2008

• Application led by Swansea University, then University of Wales Newport

• RCE Wales established in February 2010• Secretariat hosted by Swansea University • Thematic groups – food, energy, global citizenship

Canolfan Organic CymruOrganic Centre Wales

• Established 2000 - Wales AgriFood Partnership• Welsh Government Sponsored body• Dissemination of information • Farmers, processors, retailers, schools, public• BOBL Supply Chain Efficiencies project• Based at IBERS Gogerddan

Educational activities

FACE – Farming and Countryside Education

Food Group

Transformative Education and Food: Thoughts from Wales – topic paper

Individual experience and

learning

Individual behaviour and action

Culture and collective

learning

Food systems, climate change, economics

Food chain event, Coleg Powys

What knowledge, skills and values do we need for a sustainable food system?

Where next

BOBL food conferences:• Cardiff Food Council• Gwynedd Food Charter• Aberystwyth University?Mapping for sustainable food systemsResearch and collaboration

How does Wales lead?

“Leadership is authentic self-expression that creates value” Kevin Cashman