RCE Oldenburger Munsterland-2010

Submitted by RCEoldenburgerm... on Fri, 2010-04-09 13:52
1. Leadership, Vision and Objectives
1. Vision of your RCE: 
The vision of RCE “Oldenburger Münsterland” is to build a regional network for public and private institutions in the field of education and youth work to cooperate, research, discuss, support and develop Sustainable Development activities together so that, by the end of the UN decade for ESD in 2014, the groundwork will be laid for an educational region Oldenburger Münsterland towards Sustainable Development.

We wish to encourage the citizens and political representatives of the Oldenburger Münsterland region to think globally, and to coordinate their activities at a regional level.

RCE visions – Oldenburger Münsterland as an ESD Region
• Responsible citizenship and civil courage
• The region’s identification with the ideas of the RCE Oldenburger Münsterland
• Young people’s identification with the ideas of the RCE Oldenburger Münsterland
• Social, ecological, economical and cultural awareness of ESD
2. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
1
b. Transactional : 
4
c. Transformational : 
5
2. Social Network
3. Core partners: 
Stakeholders in the informal educational sector
• District Departments Cloppenburg and Vechta (local government)
• Social Service Departments (community leaders)
• Police Department Cloppenburg/Vechta (community leaders)
• Oldenburgische Landesbank (local business)
• Oldenburger Volkszeitung – Local Newspaper (local business)
• Münsterländer Tageszeitung - Local Newspaper (local business)
• District Traffic Watch (NGO)
• Caritas Sozialwerk, Cloppenburg (NGO)
• Dept Advice Service

Stakeholders in the formal education sector
• University of Vechta
• Vocational colleges
• Adolph-Kolping-Schule, Lohne
• Berufsbildende Schulen Technik Cloppenburg
• Berufsbildende Schule am Museumsdorf Cloppenburg
• Berufsbildende Schulen Friesoythe
• Center of regional learning of the University of Vechta
• Marketing Agency "Verbund Oldenburger Münsterland"
4. Cooperation and communication : 
The RCE Oldenburger Münsterland mainly consists of a board, executive committee and its secretariat.
The board and executive committee meets four times each year.

The secretariat duties of the RCE will be carried out by the social work faculty of the University of Vechta. The secretariat will carry out decisions of the executive committee and will represent the RCE nationally and internationally.
Andreas Hoenig and Detlev Lindau-Bank are the responsible representatives. Detlev Lindau-Bank is deputised for the secretariat with 10% of his position (4 hours/week). The secretariat have to co-ordinate the meetings of the executive committee, to manage the international contacts.

The RCE Oldenburger Münsterland will provide a website to ensure the communication among the stakeholders. On the website the results of the research-projects and the development of prevention activities towards sustainable development will be published. Furthermore our website will be linked up with the websites of UNU-IAS and other sites which provides information about ESD to underline the global perspective of our topics and project.
5. Facilitating development
Connections / Partnership with
UN institutions
yes/no: 
No
Other international organizations
yes/no: 
No
Other RCEs
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
RCE Nürnberg and our RCE work on prevention project and adresses young people and young adults.
International experts
yes/no: 
No
Expert organizations at national, regional and global levels
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
There are a lot of regional organizations (informal sector) who are interested in cooperating with the vocational schools in the frame of RCE OM.
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 : 
Stakeholders in the informal educational sector
• District Departments Cloppenburg and Vechta (local government)
• Social Service Departments (community leaders)
• Police Department Cloppenburg/Vechta (community leaders)
• Oldenburgische Landesbank (local business)
• Oldenburger Volkszeitung – Local Newspaper (local business)
• Münsterländer Tageszeitung - Local Newspaper (local business)
• District Traffic Watch (NGO)
• Caritas Sozialwerk, Cloppenburg (NGO)

Stakeholders in the formal education sector
• University of Vechta
• Vocational colleges
Adolph-Kolping-Schule, Lohne
Berufsbildende Schulen Technik Cloppenburg
Berufsbildende Schule am Museumsdorf Cloppenburg
Berufsbildende Schulen Friesoythe
8. Participation opportunities
a.Informational participation (people get informed about decisions and actions): 
4
b.Consultation participation (people are asked about their needs and opinions): 
3
c.Decision influencing participation (people are involved in decision making processes): 
3
4. Education & Learning
9. Educational activities : 
The course program which will be developed by RCE Oldenburger Muensterland is driven by educational ideas and the vision to build a educational region towards sustainable development.

The courses meets the needs of young people and young adults and should be an important part of the school programs.
10. Competences and capabilities : 
RCE Oldenburger Muensterland adresses regional experts to motivate and support them to develop and improve curricula, prevention programs, trainings and so on towards sustainabiltity.
Connections / Partnership with
a. Access to quality basic education
yes/no: 
No
b. Training for different sectors of the society
yes/no: 
Yes
c. Public awareness
yes/no: 
Yes
d. Reorientation of existing education
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Schools overwork their school programs.
12. Educational activities
a. Theory (communicating of ESD principles, strategies, examples): 
2
b. Discussion (knowledge exchange and mutual learning on ESD): 
4
c. Interactive & Multidimensional (Action oriented learning, e.g. workshops, intergenerational, interdisciplinary,…) : 
4
5. Research Integration
13. Research & Development (R&D): 
Research will have the following focus points:
• Developing an effective course program for Schutzengel-Project
• Developing prevention standards
• Establishing a regional youth report with the focus: sustainable development and planning one’s family

Two main research projects are run by the RCE Oldenburger Münsterland
1. Regular evaluation of the Schutzengel project
• All promoters and providers of the Schutzengel project will take part in this evaluation-process
• Evaluation design is carried out by the University of Vechta

2. Local Annual Youth-Report
• The University of Vechta started a research project with 12 BA Social Work students in July 2008
• The research group will collect available data on youth and young adulthood (supervised by Andreas Hoenig and Detlev Lindau-Bank, University of Vechta).
• This research-project will be mandatory part of the MA Social Work program (which commenced in the winter semester 2008/09)
14. Research partners : 
University of Vechta
Social Work Faculty
Department of Education
Centre of regional learning
15. Description of research
a. Disciplinary (focusing on one discipline of research, e.g. social aspects) : 
6
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: 
Europe
Country: 
Germany
Region: 
Europe
Type: 
Project Reports