RCE Denmark
Overview
RCE Denmark acts as a regional forum for education for sustainable development – a national interdisciplinary connection for practical research and development of ESD. It is an open professional network of researchers, civil servants, NGOs, educational institutions, teachers and many more people with an interest in ESD. The geographic region the RCE covers is the whole of Denmark.
Photo credit: RCE Denmark
The goals and objectives are:
- To support and develop collaboration across research, practice and policy
- To support and develop collaboration across organisations and disciplines
- To support national and global knowledge flows
The secretary is supported by a collaboration between VIA University College and Københavns Professionshøjskole (the two largest polytechnical institutions covering different parts of Denmark)
Name of organisation: VIA University College
Role: Secretary partner in RCE Denmark
Contact name: Jeppe Kiel Christensen / Ditte Karla Lott Lauritsen
Contact email: jkcn@via.dk / dika@via.dk
Name of organisation: Københavns Professionshøjskole
Role: Secretary partner in RCE Denmark
Contact name: Andy Højholdt
Contact email: andh@kp.dk
Name of organisation: Videnscenter for Håndværk, Design og Arkitektur, NEXT
Role: Institution member with a representative in the board
Contact name: David Rangan
Contact email: dara@nextkbh.dk
Name of organization: Kijani Institute
Role: Institution member with a representative in the board
Contact name: Niels Larsen
Contact email: niladk5@gmail.com
Name of organization: ØKO-net
Role: Institution member with a representative in the board
Contact name: Lars Myrthu-Nielsen
Contact email: lmn@eco-net.dk
Name of organization: NOAH
Role: Institution member with a representative in the board
Contact name: Marie Richter
Contact email: marieholtrichter@gmail.com
Activities
- ESD with vocational institutions in Denmark and Kenya - Practical Communities (USHIRIKA FITI) is an exchange project between three vocational institutions in Denmark and one in Kenya, where students from the carpentry and carpentry trades in both countries must collaborate on co-learning within sustainable development, global citizenship and knowledge of Denmark's development assistance. Learn more
- UBU.NU – a conference on Education for Sustainable Education - UBU.NU is an event in a series of conferences that will focus on ESD on a national level. The conference comes as a natural extension of the proposal for a national action plan for ESD. Learn more
- Open meetings - In RCE Denmark, we are working on an inviting format that supports our task of being a forum that shares knowledge about ESD. We call this format 'Open meetings' and it is for everyone who is curious about ESD.
- The literature list on ESD - Every year, two of RCE-Denmark's board members update the bibliography, which provides a comprehensive overview of both Danish, Nordic and international research literature and relevant policy texts on ESD. Learn more
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- National action plan for ESD - RCE Denmark supports the work with the national action plan for ESD. Both as academic professionals with research-based knowledge of ESD, and as representatives and participants in several of the eight educational partnerships that work nationally with ESD at several educational levels. This national political work extends further than RCE Denmark and therefore it also helps our association to want to strengthen our international work and network in the future.
- Knowledge Center for ESD - The above activity has created a space to discuss a need for a national Knowledge Center for ESD, which we in RCE Denmark have been proposing for several years. Now it is finally on the way and RCE Denmark is of course also involved in this work with fundraising and establishment.
- Ambition to strengthen our international network - Since there is a lot of national activity around ESD, RCE Denmark also sees a need to expand and strengthen our international network. Going forward, it will be an ambition for RCE Denmark to participate more actively in the international RCE work.
- National Action Plan for ESD
- UBU.NU – a yearly conference on ESD
- ESD with vocational institutions in Denmark and Kenya (Practical Communities (USHIRIKA FITI))
- Presentation of 'Apprentices for Sustainability' on COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh
- 'Apprentices for Sustainability' winning the honor of being named "Outstanding Flagship Project' by UNU-IAS for the RCE Awards in 2021
- 4.7 – a conference on ESD for high schools, business schools and vocational schools
- The Literature List and support for institutions on didactics on ESD
- Presenters of ESD and participants in several debates
- Non-profit consultant on ESD and didactics for the Danish Energy Agency
Projects
Communication Channels
Contact Details
JKCN@via.dk
dika@via.dk
