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Title: Youth%20Eco%20Summit


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Youth Eco Summit
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About YES
  • Partnership between UWS, the NSW Dept of
    Education Community and the Sydney Olympic Park
    Authority (all RCE-GWS partners)
  • Unique curriculum-based event for primary and
    secondary school students
  • Includes hands-on workshops, seminars, displays
    and activities around all aspects of
    sustainability
  • Platform for students to teach students, and for
    industry and tertiary educators to engage with
    youth

3
Partnerships
  • Partnership between UWS, DEC and SOPA
  • YES was a formal partnership between the 3
    organisations before the partnership was
    strengthened further through our RCE network
  • These 3 organisations work together to fund,
    coordinate and organise the event.

4
Our Stats
  • Between 2010 to 2013 we have engaged with 10,000
    students from all over the state, including
    disadvantaged and rural/remote students
  • Live video conferences and web streaming
    broadcasts across New South Wales, Australia and
    around the world are used to engage students that
    are unable to attend
  • The initiative has involved 65
  • environmental organisations

5
Education and Market Transformation
  • YES is a living laboratory for anyone who is
    developing, delivering or researching
    sustainability pedagogies
  • It exemplifies the shift to a 21st Century model
    of integrated, real-world, collaborative
    education and serves as a model of practice for
    the delivery of education services in Australia
  • YES is successfully delivering localised action
    through effective collaboration and linking
    leveraging existing networks
  • As the new Australian cross-curriculum theme of
    sustainability rolls out YES offers a proven,
    effective and accessible means for all teachers
    and students to engage in a 21st century approach
    to learning about ESD

6
ESD and SD practices
  • YES has enabled the RCE-GWS to position itself as
    a leader in sustainability and educational action
    across Western Sydney
  • YES brings prestige and recognition that goes
    beyond the local area to the international arena
  • It showcases community engagement and in doing
    so takes Education for Sustainable Development
    to the forefront of our community

7
Evidence of inspired change for Sustainability
  • YES was the recipient of the NSW Green Globe
    Award for Public Sector Sustainability in 2013
  • YES was highlighted at the Equity In Education
    Symposium in 2013
  • Global links with Germany, Malaysia and Alaska
    have been established
  • A YES presentation and workshop was given at the
    International Health Symposium on
    non-communicable diseases in Western Sydney in
    2011
  • YES received a learning for Sustainability
  • Award for Excellence in 2013

8
Evidence of inspired change for Sustainability
  • Yes Project
  • http//www.uws.edu.au/
  • Teacher Education
  • http//uws.edu.au/rcegws/rce/teacher_educational_f
    or_sustainability/schools_engagement_project/youth
    _eco_summit
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