Work-shop «The CP Study»
The 12th of July 2013
At the CPU
By Kirsten Paaby
«Sustainable development has been successfully
localised
No 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
University
Local Democracy
Learning for Local Democracy
the 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
2005-2014
The 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
New competance for action
The Target Groups:
• Pupils, students
• Society as a whole
• Life long learning
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?
• …………………………..