News
You'll find here the latest news from within PERL and relevant happenings in education and research about responsible living outside of PERL. If you have an item that should be here, contact us on PERL@hihm.no.
An enthusiastic and creative second PERL think tank was held at UNESCO in Paris on October 12-13, 2011.
The complete program for the upcoming conference "Beyond Consumption: Pathways to Responsible Living" is now availabel. Please see PERL conference .
Students are invited to make a 60 seconds video about sustainable / responsible living.This video competition is opened to full or part time students of all ages who are attending Secondary, Further or Higher Education at the time of submitting their entry
Deadline : 15 February 2012
Partners in the PERL work group, Active Learning Methodologies, have created a Training Manual for teacher training seminars. The Training Manual builds on practical experience from a number of different countries and is intended as an aid to other teacher trainers. It is interdisciplinary and is a contribution to the U.N. Decade on Education for Sustainable Development.
The Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living” (PERL) invites you to share your ideas about a sustainable lifestyle beyond consumption with academics and political decision makers worldwide! The deadline for submission is 15 January 2012.
Commit, encourage and volunteer” was the motto of the UN DPI-NGO conference: Sustainable Societies; Responsive Citizens in which 7 PERL partners participated. This sixty-fourth annual Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization (DPI/NGO) Conference was held on the 3rd-5th September 2011 in Bonn, Germany following two days of global and regional UNEP consultations with ngo representatives.
An overview of projects and initiatives about education and research about responsible living lead by Hedmark University College (1996-2011) has been made available.
Close cooperation with national governments in their efforts to develop consumer citizenship education is an important part of PERLs work. August 23, 2011PERL assisted in the establishing of a new national advisory board for consumer education in Norway.
Miriam O'Donoghue, of the City of Dublin VEC, Curriculum Development Unit, is the recipient of the 2011 Tower Person Award for Consumer Educators.
The Forest Extension Institute (SKI) in Norway, the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) and PERL recently received approval from Nordplus to carry out a project in the Nordic-Baltic region on education for sustainable development.
