ELENA is a case study in the UNECE evaluation report

Ten years of the UNECE Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development, Evaluation report on the implementation of the UNECE Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development from 2005 to 2015 was published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)This evaluation report summarises the progress, challenges and achievements of Economic Commission for Europe member States from 2005 to 2015 in implementing the UNECE Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development.

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High lights of ELENA – a successful Closing Event in Laufen

A dream became reality, when the closely eighty participants showed up in the conference room of Kapuzinerhof, in Laufen. The idea of the ELENA Closing Event was born three years ago, when the colleagues of ANL (http://www.anl.bayern.de/ Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management) in cooperation with the eight other partners submitted the Comenius proposal. The project is based on the Tiere Live (http://www.anl.bayern.de/projekte/tierelive/) experiences but enlarges it to international level and the participating countries adapted the modules to their own country-specific circumstances.

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More than 2000 students from Sibiu county were involved during the last three years în ELENA project

ELENA-Comenius project –Experiential Learning and Education for Nature Awareness, implemented between November 2013 and October 2016 meets the end. The National Conference will take place in Sibiu today, October 21, at the Academic Centre.

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ELENA – Face to face with nature - national workshop - summary

As we are coming to the end of the 3 year ELENA project it was time to organise the ELENA national workshop in the Budapest Zoo in Hungary.

During the event the participants not only had the opportunity to learn about the results and experiences of the ELENA project but it was also a meeting where we could appoint targets which are to be reached in the form of cooperation thus helping the further integration of ELENA in practice. These opportunities can connect the results of the ELENA project with public education, zoopedagogy and entrepreneurship education.

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ECOGON board game

In ELENA project systemic games are important to discover the connection between the animals, nature and human life. Therefore a new board game, ECOGON developed by a student Micha Reimers (Gaiagames) was welcomed and supported by Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL) within the ELENA project.

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