RCE Cairo-2012

Submitted by RCEcairo on Mon, 2012-08-06 00:00
1. Leadership, Vision and Objectives
1. Vision of your RCE: 
To shape a sustainable future by educating and mobilising the region's population and key actors towards sustainable devleopment in the RCE Cairo scope area.
2. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
3
b. Transactional : 
5
c. Transformational : 
2
2. Social Network
3. Core partners: 
SEKEM Development Foundation
SEKEM School
SEKEM Environmental Science Center (SESC)
Wadi Environmental Science Cener (WESC)
Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development
Heliopolis Academy for Arts and Sciences
RCE Graz Styria (Austria)
RCE Creitas Oeste (Portugal)
RCE Ireland (Ireland)
International Institute of Education/ Egypt office (IIE)
Egyptian Association for Educational Resources (E-ERA)
SEKEM Group of companies (consisting of 8 companies)
RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
4. Cooperation and communication : 
Most of the comunication is maintained through direct communication via skype, phone, email, and virtual environments. We also hold regular coordination meetings with the consortium partners of our TEMPUS projects that we are involved in, in order to ensure the fluend progresss of work in the projects.
5. Facilitating development
Connections / Partnership with
UN institutions
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
UNIDO
Other international organizations
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
GEN International, IIE
Other RCEs
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
RCE Graz-Styria (Austria)
RCE Crete (Greece)
RCE Creias-Oeste (Portugal)
RCE Ireland (Ireland
International experts
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Birgit Birnstingl-Gottinger (Oecocluster, Austria)
Prof. Dr. Hassan Abou Bakr (ESD Expert, Egypt)
Kosha Joubert (President of GEN International)
Prof. Dr. Ronnie Lessem and Dr. Alexander Schieffer (Trans4m, Geneva)
Expert organizations at national, regional and global levels
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Wadi Environmental Science Center (WESC , Egypt)
International Institute for Education (IIE)
Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)
Ceifa Ambiente, Portugal
6. Social network
a. Information network (exchanging information, e.g. building up a database for SD projects): 
2
b. Knowledge network (creating knowledge by collaboration, e.g. finding synergies between partners by experience exchange): 
4
c. Innovation network (creating innovation by co-creation and shared vision,e.g. investigating new solutions for challenges by f: 
4
3. Participation
7. Participation of actors : 
Generally there are three ways how new projects are initilaized:

- RCE Cairo approaches partners with ideas for new projects
- existing partners approach us with ideas for new proejcts and initiatives
- external organisations or individuals approach us with their ideas for projects or initiatives

Besides of that we constantly hold meetings with our partners out of which new ideas are generated and we discuss the implementation of the activities. We warmly welcome any ideas for events and are happy to take over an active role in the organisation of events, however considering our commitments in already existing projects and our current capacities.
8. Participation opportunities
a.Informational participation (people get informed about decisions and actions): 
6
b.Consultation participation (people are asked about their needs and opinions): 
2
c.Decision influencing participation (people are involved in decision making processes): 
2
4. Education & Learning
9. Educational activities : 
By developing new and interactive teaching materials that operate within the Egyptian curricula we bring a dimension of ESD into schools as well as universities. Our new engagement with the Global Ecovillage Network furthermore promotes ESD on the community level and thus helps us to mobilize the regions population to become active and to work towards a more sustainable future.
10. Competences and capabilities : 
In EduCamp competences are being shaped by the Training of Trainers module in the EduCamp project. The benefit is that the capacity is build with multiplyers (university professors and teachers), who further infuse ESD through their teaching. Room for applying the newly gained competences is given in the Center of Excellence, where the trained professors offer techer training while the teachers can apply the gained knowledge directly in the classroom since the training content is in line with the Egyptian school curriculum.
Connections / Partnership with
a. Access to quality basic education
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
developing innovative, and easy-to-use ducational materials for schools
b. Training for different sectors of the society
yes/no: 
No
c. Public awareness
yes/no: 
No
d. Reorientation of existing education
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Project on reorienting university curricula to address sustainability (RUCAS)
12. Educational activities
a. Theory (communicating of ESD principles, strategies, examples): 
2
b. Discussion (knowledge exchange and mutual learning on ESD): 
2
c. Interactive & Multidimensional (Action oriented learning, e.g. workshops, intergenerational, interdisciplinary,…) : 
6
5. Research Integration
13. Research & Development (R&D): 
The R&D component is addressed in the EduCamp project since the development of ESD resource kits requires research in the respective thematic fields (agriculture, biodiversity, energy, water, general sustainability issues) in order to develop state of the art ESD learning materials.
14. Research partners : 
1. RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
2. Karl Franzens University of Graz (Austria)
3. University of Limerick (Ireland
3. Centre of Studies, Information and Education for the Environent (CEIFA)(Portugal)
4. Cairo University (Egypt)
5. Alexandria University (Egypt)
6. Suez Canal University (Egypt)
7. Fayoum University (Egypt)
8.Zagazig University (Egypt)
9. Heliopolis university for Sustainable Development (Egypt)
10. Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
11. SEKEM Development Foundation (Egypt)
12. Wadi Environmental Science Center (Egypt)
15. Description of research
a. Disciplinary (focusing on one discipline of research, e.g. social aspects) : 
5
b. Interdisciplinary (taking interrelations between disciplines into account, e.g. economic effects on the environment and peopl: 
3
c. Transdisciplinary (involving affected people into your research activities, e.g. interviews with affected people): 
2
Tagging
Continent: 
Africa and Middle East
Country: 
Egypt
Region: 
Africa and Middle East
Type: 
Project Reports