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HLLENIC REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION
RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS
Environmenal Education for Sustainable
Development,
PRESENTATION
Conference for the Official Lauching of the UN
Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
in the Mediterranean Region Athens, 26-27 Nov.
2005,
Ameur JERIDI (M.A. Applied Linguistics) President
of APNEK Language teacher, Institut Supérieur des
Etudes Juridiques Politiques, Université de
Kairouan, Teacher of Environmental
Education, Institut Supérieur des Cadres de
lEnfance, Université de Carrthag,Tunisia.
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The Presentation
Less exhibition enumerationMore APNEKs
maturing perception of the place of Environmental
Education for Sustainability (EES) within a more
than a 2-decade endeavour ? APNEKs Art Craft
of handling EES awareness of Communication
EDUCATION as the raison dêtre of NGOs, as a
key instrument to social change
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• Association for the Protection of Nature
  Environment, Kairouan
• Volunteer NGO for Environment Sustainable
  Development
• founded 1984
• www.europsolar.com/apnek
• apnektunisia_at_yahoo.fr

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• Grand Award of the president of the Republic for
  nature environment protection 1994
• In Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC since 1997.

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has an AGE officially born 1984 ?2 decades ?
accumulated experience expertise, outreach,
contribution, relations, IMAGE. Locally,
nationally, regionally, internationally
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has an IDENTITY Karouanese-Tunisian Arab-Africa
n Mediterranean
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has a MOTTO Do Good, Do Well
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has an AMBITION Make a (green) difference.
In Kairouan, in Tunisia, in the
Mediterraneanthrough Communication EDUCATION
at large
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has a SPIRIT Openness Optimism anchored in
faith in Good and Well DOING
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has a Progressive, Progressive MISSION From
mere dissemination of the idea of nature
environment protection to mobilization and
volunteering for environment SD.
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• has a conceptual / logical matrix / mould
• THINKING good sense realism
• BEING internal organization, human interaction
  management
• DOING volunteering project implementation
• RELATING Cultivating mutually constructive
  interaction exchange

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• has methodological tools
• Good WILL
• A progressive, prospective STRATEGY
• Progressive, prospective OBJECTIVES
• A progressive, prospective METHODOLOGY

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• has resources
• Steering Board, Executive Team, Volunteers
• Relational (institutional personal)
• Material (headquarters, computers, a Mobile
  School)

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• Objectives
• Environment protection sustainable development
  through
• Information communication
• Awareness-raising education
• Field work participation
• Exchange experience sharing

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• Strategic Invariables
• Communication
• Partnership
• Professionalism
• Support to and cooperation with national and
  regional programs (government, IGOs, NGOs)

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• Target Groups
• Youth (school youths, students)
• Women
• Educators
• The Public at large
• from Kindergaten to Universtity

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• Major topics treated disseminated in APNEKs
  communication and EES Programs (in the framework
  of the governmentss, MIO-ECSDEs RAEDs
  Programs)
• Biodiversity and WATER
• Cleanness domestic WASTE
• The MEDITERRANEAN SD
• DESERTIFICATION international partnership
• The urban environment LOCAL AGENDA 21
• Renewable energy

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• Major EES international participations
• UNESCO international Conference Environment
  Soceity Education for a Sustainable Futre,
  Thessaloniki (Greece), Dec.1997
• RAED / MIO-ECSDE / UNEP-MAPs Regional Workshop
  on Environmental Communication Education, Cairo
  (Egypt), Oct.2000
• UNESCO International Experts Meeting on
  Environmental Education, Santiago de Compostella
  (Spain), Nov.2000
• UNESCO International conference on Environmental
  Education Sustainability, Thessaloniki
  (Greece), 1997
• Regional Workshop on Environmental Citizenship,
  Beirut (Lebanon), Nov.2004

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• Types of Local National Events settings held
  
• Seminars
• Workshops
• Conferences
• Campaigns
• Days
• Provincial and national radio TV channels

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• International Events (to be) organized
• International Scientific Camp Ecology and
  Patrimony in the Kairouan Environment, Dec.
  1992
• International Workshop Partners Against
  Desertification, Kairouan, March 1996
• Arab-Mediterranean Workshop Solidarity for
  Sustainable Development, Tunis, March 2002 in
  the Johannesburg process.
• International Symposium Biotech, Food
  Sovereignty Sust.Devt , Kairouan 9-11
  Dec.2005.
• COMPSUD 5 MEDIES launching in Tunisia
  Kairouan, Nov.2006.

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• ACHIEVEMENTS
• Contribution in environmental awareness raising
• Support to regional (Euromed Arab) exchange
  networking initiatives UNEP-MAP (MCSD), RAED-UE
  (RCSWMP), MIO-ECSDE (MedActionDay, Medies,
  Compsud)
• APNEK The voluntary, good-willed DOOR
  institutional representative of MIOECSDE RAED
  in Tunisia
• with BELIEF, AWARENESS, PATIENCE

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• Major EES Tunisian Euromed Partners
• Ministry of Environment Sust. Dev.
• National Agency for Environment Protection
• National Agency for Waste Treatment
• DDC
• Embassy of Finland in Tunis
• UNEP-MAP
• MIO-ECSDE
• RAED

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• SYNTHESIS
• Environmental Communication Education for
  Sustainability
• is the heart, the core of APNEK performance
• Targets different groups uses various channels
• Favours learning by doing learning through
  play
• Is diffused into all APNEKs activities
  programs

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• LESSONS LEARNED
• EES has impact only by DOING i.e. practice
• INTEREST is a basic factor for inverting
  behaviour towards desired schemes
• EES is GOOD GOVERNANCE of mentalities
  behaviour

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Thank you for paying attention see you all in
Tunisia soon in Dec. 2005 in Nov. 2006