RCE AWARDS

2017 RCE Awards for Innovative Projects on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

Established in 2012, the RCE Award celebrates projects and programmes on ESD within the Global RCE Network, honouring RCEs who have made outstanding contributions to address local sustainable development challenges in their regions. 

The Award recognises projects and programmes that bridge local and global perspectives on sustainable development, those that engage with transformative learning and research, and initiatives that contribute to community engagement, research & development and capacity development of stakeholders and partners.

The winners of the sixth annual RCE Awards, presented at the First RCE Thematic Conference held in Okayama, Japan from 5-7 December, 2017 covered projects across the themes of Biodiversity, Climate Change, Health and Nutrition, Higher Education & TVET, Sustainable Consumption and Production, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Youth. Recipients were awarded across three categories: (1) Outstanding Flagship Project, (2) Acknowledged Flagship Project, and (3) Honourable Mention.

Congratulations to all of the winners!

OUTSTANDING FLAGSHIP PROJECT

RCE Georgetown – Coastal institute for sustainability leadership

Project Type: Contributing to community engagement

Thematic Category: Climate Change

RCE Severn – Thread counts: A sustainable fashion and textiles forum

Project Type: Engaging with transformative learning and research for sustainable development

Thematic Category: Sustainable Consumption and Production

RCE Saskatchewan – Community collaboration for potash mine engagement

Project Type: Contributing to community engagement

Thematic Category: Sustainable Livelihoods

RCE Greater Portland – Global Goals Fair

Project Type: Contributing to capacity development of stakeholders and partners

Thematic Category: Sustainable Livelihoods

ACKNOWLEDGED FLAGSHIP PROJECT

RCE Greater Dhaka – Environmental volunteering as an ESD tool towards implementing the SDGs in Bangladesh

Project Type: Contributing to capacity development of stakeholders and partners

Thematic Category: Higher Education & TVET

RCE Greater Eastern Uganda – Mainstreaming environment and sustainability issues in university academic and non-academic programmes through RCEs

Project Type: Engaging with transformative learning and research for sustainable development

Thematic Category: Higher Education & TVET

RCE Severn – Changing communities, changing perceptions

Project Type: Contributing to community engagement

Thematic Category: Higher Education & TVET

RCE Espoo – Let’s learn sustainable lifestyles together

Project Type: Engaging with transformative learning and research for sustainable development

Thematic Category: Sustainable Livelihoods

RCE Greater Masaka – Lake Victoria catchment environmental education project

Project Type: Contributing to capacity development of stakeholders and partners

Thematic Category: Youth

RCE Kano – Community mobile solar powered tech classrooms

Project Type: Contributing to community engagement

Thematic Category: Youth

RCE Zaria – Design and development of an aquaponic filter for purification of contaminated water

Project Type: Engaging with transformative learning and research for sustainable development

Thematic Category: Youth

HONOURABLE MENTION

RCE Chandigarh – Documentation of state bird of Punjab, India: Northern goshawk

Project Type: Species Protection

Thematic Category: Biodiversity

RCE Penang - Choose, decide, and evaluate for healthy living

Project Type: Contributing to community engagement

Thematic Category: Health and Nutrition

RCE Port Harcourt – Participatory community engagement as an innovative approach for achieving SDG 17

Project Type: Contributing to community engagement

Thematic Category: Youth