Summer School - Education for Sustainable Development, 15 May - June 6 2017, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation Israel

Publish Date: Mar 06, 2017

Deadline: Mar 19, 2017

Event Dates: from May 15, 2017 12:00 to Jun 06, 2017 12:00

Background

“Education Towards Sustainable Development (ESD) meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”

Brundtland Commission, United Nations, March 20, 1987

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) aims to preserve environmental integrity, economic viability, and a just society for present and future generations. ESD addresses these objectives through the establishment of broad teaching and learning processes that emphasize an interdisciplinary and holistic approach, which promotes critical and creative thinking in education. ESD pursues this endeavor with the understanding that human behavior may be altered to limit harmful effects on the environment.

In May, 2015, UNESCO’s Conference on World Education, held in Incheon Korea declared new Education goals for the year 2030. "Our vision is to transform lives through education, recognizing the important role of education as a main drive of development," the declaration reads. "Building on the legacy of Jomtien and Dakar, this Incheon Declaration is a historic commitment by all of us to transform lives through a new vision for education, with bold and innovative actions, to reach our ambitious goal by 2030." This new vision is embodied by the UN’s global goals for 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing the vision that in order to achieve equality and fight world poverty, all countries must commit to sustainable development.

Education for sustainable development (ESD) is not a particular programme or project, but is rather an umbrella for many forms of education that already exist, and new ones that remain to be created. ESD promotes efforts to rethink educational programmes and systems (both methods and contents) that currently support unsustainable societies. All educational programmes need to be based on five fundamental pillars of learning: Learning to know: Learning to do, Learning to live together; Learning to be; Learning to transform oneself and society

The Program adheres to the understanding that the promotion and implementation of ESD should become an integral element in school curriculum, and that the path to establish institutions based on the tenets of ESD requires thorough, long-term development and support activities.

The Program will follow the main principle of ESD to “Think Global, Act Local.” This principle involves combining the needs and resources available in developing countries to charter the path for the future and support Sustainable Development. The program will follow this principle by first assisting community members implement projects that will produce tangible results despite the wider scope of the needs of their communities. By doing so, the program will improve economies, societies, and the environment at the local and global levels.

Implementation of Education towards Sustainable Development in Schools

In theory, educational systems have the responsibility of spearheading orientation towards sustainable development. But actual experience shows that one of the main problems in introducing new subjects is the difficulty of their acceptance by formal educational systems.

Every school has to be open to this subject and begin a process of learning and internalization.

Core Values of Education towards Sustainable Development

  •   Respect for the environment

  •   Democracy

  •   Lifetime learning

  •   Equality

  •   Progress towards peace

Application

Application Requirements

For this course we would like to accept: Directors of Departments in MOE’s and municipalities Principals, Head teachers, Supervisors, Curricula Developers, Teachers of teachers.
Application forms should be sent to the relevant Israeli Mission and to the Ofri Center by or before 19.3.2017

Application forms
Application forms and other information may be obtained at the nearest Israeli mission or at MASHAV’s website.
Completed application forms, including the medical form, should be sent to the relevant Israeli mission in the respective country.

Location and Accommodation

MASHAV awards a limited number of scholarships. The scholarship covers the cost of the training program including lectures and field visits, full board accommodation in double rooms (two participants per room), health insurance (see below) and transfers to and from the airport. Airfares and daily allowance are not included in the scholarship.

About MASHAV

MASHAV – Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation is dedicated to providing developing countries with the best of Israel’s experience in development and planning. As a member of the family of nations, The State of Israel is committed to fulfilling its responsibility to contribute to the fight against poverty and to the global efforts to achieve sustainable development. MASHAV, representing Israel and its people, focuses its efforts on capacity building, sharing relevant expertise accumulated during Israel's own development experience to empower governments, communities and individuals to improve their own lives. MASHAV’s approach is to ensure social, economic and environmental sustainable development, and is taking active part in the international community’s process of shaping the Post-2015 Agenda, to define the new set of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

MASHAV’s activities focus primarily on areas in which Israel has a competitive advantage, including agriculture and rural development; water resources management; entrepreneurship and innovation; community development; medicine and public health, empowerment of women and education. Professional programs are based on a “train the trainers” approach to institutional and human capacity building, and are conducted both in Israel and abroad. Project development is supported by the seconding of short and long-term experts, as well as on-site interventions. Since its establishment, MASHAV has promoted the centrality of human resource enrichment and institutional capacity building in the development process – an approach which has attained global consensus.

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