1. www.sustain.no A potential international support system for Education for Sustainable Development

2. www.sustain.no Meet Otto a cod, in the North Sea  Environmental challenges for Otto first weeks:  Born with toxic chemicals  Feeds on microlayer, highly contaminated  UV-radiation affects his growth  Nutrients produces toxic algae's, reduces his food  Climate change changes his feeding areas  After some months:  Very difficult to get away from the industrial fleet  Moves coast outside Africa  Meets Helen, just to become father – no success  Caught by the EU fleet  Sold as ecological sound product due to new fishing gears

3. www.sustain.no Lessons learned in Norway  Pupils experience that they are able to contribute something useful to society. They do “real work” and produce high-quality results.  Impressive concrete results can be achieved when many schools join together  Better learning and working environment when the school leadership, maintenance people, teachers and pupils co-operate.

4. www.sustain.no Lessons learned in Norway  The Network gives legitimacy to interdisciplinary, action- oriented teaching methods. Teachers and schools receive the support they need for these learning approaches.  Co-operation with “heavy” ministries and research/scientific institutions lends credibility to the school’s work.  The network creates win-win situations between the schools and other parts of the society

5. www.sustain.no Utilise the learning

6. www.sustain.no Can this be utilised internationally?  Norwegian lessons learned, and toolbox experience is for us one element  ENSI projects/work has many good evaluations/results to be utilised  Other national lessons learned, supplements and underlines the general conclusions

7. www.sustain.no The questions are  Is it possible that an international toolbox can be an added value to national systems?  Can an international toolbox enhance certain ESD aspects by being tuned for international comparable issues? How must such a toolbox be constructed and operated in order to give a positive answer to this questions?

8. www.sustain.no First prototype of an international edition developed

9. www.sustain.no Builds on Norwegian web solution

10. www.sustain.no User to do menu

11. www.sustain.no 6 thematic issues chosen

12. www.sustain.no Easy activity structure

13. www.sustain.no Reporting tool on each issue

14. www.sustain.no Reporting tool on each issue Preface

15. www.sustain.no Mapping tool for data navigation

16. www.sustain.no Projects more emphasised

17. www.sustain.no Participants Activities Intro text Project pages

18. www.sustain.no Support Latest observation Project plans Project pages Latest pictures

19. www.sustain.no The questions where  Is it possible that an international toolbox can be an added value to national systems?  Can an international toolbox enhance certain ESD aspects by being tuned for international comparable issues? How must such a toolbox be constructed and operated in order to give a positive answer to this questions?

20. www.sustain.no Constructing requirements 1  UN decade topic/UNESCO topic structured  Broad sustainable development approach  Hands on learning – student data gives the value  Activities tuned for international comparison of data  Tuned for sharing the students evaluation, discussion and conclusions

21. www.sustain.no Constructing requirements 2  Must work on slow Internet lines  Must be tuned towards international comparison of the results  Must not double English national solutions available for general use internationally  Should provide extensive links to other related teaching support systems both on national and international level

22. www.sustain.no Constructing requirements 3  Students text based evaluations/results must be in English to be comparable  Guidelines, support text and resources might be developed in several languages  Scientific support, user help desk etc can be done by contact person in each country

23. www.sustain.no Cover it all......? Must try to make activities: - That covers enough SD thematic issues across environmental, social and economic challenges - That utilises different executing and teaching methodologies - That gives a good mixture of outdoor and at school field work - That ensures international collaboration and learning across countries - That contributes directly to the ENIS ESD strategy if used in the learning in schools Must try to make activities: - That covers enough SD thematic issues across environmental, social and economic challenges - That utilises different executing and teaching methodologies - That gives a good mixture of outdoor and at school field work - That ensures international collaboration and learning across countries - That contributes directly to the ENIS ESD strategy if used in the learning in schools

24. www.sustain.no What is the international aspects Max values in Europe Min values in Europe Average values in Europe Our school energy use

25. www.sustain.no Good mixture of thematic issues?  Biological diversity  Climate and air quality  Consumption and resources  Democracy and participation  Energy and renewable resources  Water issues

26. www.sustain.no How to proceed? The Norwegian Directorate is open for:  Maintain the solution at our current servers for international use  Make this prototype into an ENSI ICT operational “product” – thereby also basis for ENSI evaluation projects later  Develop it further in 2006 with active involvement from other countries  Establish an international operational editorial board

27. www.sustain.no Contact information: Astrid Sandås, Directorate for Primary and Secondary Education Astrid.Sandas@utdanningsdirektoratet.no  : +47 23 30 13 18 Astrid.Sandas@utdanningsdirektoratet.no Geir Endregard, NILU gen@nilu.no  : +47 63 80 81 10 gen@nilu.no Brage Frøland, School laboratory Univ. in Bergen brage@uib.no  : +47 55 58 24 15 brage@uib.no