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enSI: Environment and
School Initiatives (I.n.p.a./ivzw)
25 years of networking for EE and ESD
Who and what is enSI?
Environment and School Initiatives
ENSI is a decentralised international
network, set up in 1986 under the
auspices of OECD's Centre for
Educational Research & Innovation
(CERI).
Who and what is enSI
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ENSI is an international government-based
network that places emphasis on school
development in the field of Education for
Sustainable Development.
Who and what is enSI?
For 25 years, enSI has supported educational
developments such as active approaches to
teaching and learning, and citizenship
education through research, policy
development and the international exchange of
experiences and knowledge.
Partners and Members
enSI’s main partners:
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Governments committed to improving
education for sustainable development
Pilot schools with teachers and students
Researchers and experts
Teacher educators and their students
Member countries and
partners involved in enSI
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, New Zealand,
The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, UK
Associate members of enSI
Associate members of ENSI:
 CEE India
 AAEE Australia (Australian Association for
Environmental Education)
 EEA (European Environment Agency)
 University of Bordeaux, UNESCO chair for
ESD
 University of Cheongju, Korea
Individual members of enSI
Individual members of ENSI:
 Autonomous University of Barcleona (Prof.
Dr. M. Espinet)
 Sains University, Malaysia (Dr. Norizan binti
Esa)
enSI works in cooperation
with
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UNESCO (Decade on ESD)
UNECE (Steering Committee on ESD)
UNEP / Carpathian Convention
OECD/CERI, Project ILE (Innovative
Learning Environments) and CELE
(Centre of Effective Learning
Environments)
Aims of enSI
To promote and facilitate the development of
an ecologically sustainable society and
related actions within educational systems
on a high quality level.
Aims of enSI
To create innovative research networks
which link the practical reality in schools
and communities with academic
educational research and institutional
decision making.
Aims of enSI
To foster the democratic participation of
students as active citizens in shaping the
environmental conditions of their life and
work
Strengths of enSI
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ENSI´s strength lies in the combined work of
policy makers, researchers, teacher
educators and their students and pilot
schools with teachers and students.
Activities of enSI
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ENSI influences policy decisions at the
international level by combining international
processes of quality development and
pedagogical improvement and formulating
guidelines and criteria such as the UNECE
process on ESD.
Activities of enSI
ENSI organises and affects the exchange of
expertise in the field of research education on
sustainable development by offering a
platform for senior experts, as well as for
young innovative researchers.
Activities of enSI
ENSI is analyzing curricula for ESD and reflects
case studies on innovative learning
environments, carries out research on these
with cross analysis studies, and develops
trends and guidelines for future-orientated
education.
Activities of enSI
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ENSI supports schools by offering tools for
their own development, and promotes
international exchange by influencing and
initiating networks across Europe (currently
COMENIUS multilateral projects and
networks) and other regions of the world.
Junior Researchers - an enSI Project
ENSI gathers a group of 20 junior researchers
from the field of ESD. They meet annually and
have an exchange on current relevant
research questions, learn from each other,
have the chance to hear senior researchers
and get mentoring for their research work.
CoDeS - an enSI initiated COMENIUS
multilateral network
Collaboration of Schools and
Communities for Sustainable
Development
Status: Submitted, February 2011; Selection
Summer 2011
Aims of CoDeS
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Pedagogical approaches to
ESD and
Science learning
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Collaboration SchoolCommunity:
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Conditions, structure
Common interests
Learning arenas
Sustainability of projects
Collaborative knowledge
building
Systems thinking
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Patterns / shared
interests for
collaboration
Inclusive design of
learning arenas
 Isolated communities
Social media
Social learning
experience
Life-long learning:
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Mutual learning, exchange
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The role of Junior Researchers
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Reflective group of critical friends
Follow-up on process
Feed-back on drafts and piloting
Attending partner meetings and conferences
Preparing a series of report (own publication)
on lessons learnt
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ENSI’s work is intercultural
exchange
ENSI respects and takes to account the
differences between nations and cultures, its
added value is the result of the exchanges
that international networking can stimulate.