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The en S I international NETWORK. Environment and School Initiatives is a decentralised international network under the umbrella of OECD's (Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development) Centre for Educational Research & Innovation (CERI)
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The enSIinternational NETWORK • Environment and SchoolInitiatives is a decentralised international network under the umbrella of OECD's (Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development) Centre for Educational Research & Innovation (CERI) • enSI has supported educational developments that promote environmental understanding, active approaches to teaching and learning, and citizenship education, through research and the exchange of experiences internationally since 1986. International Conference Szeged-Hungary
enSI partners and members enSI main partners are: • Governments improving their national EE policy • Pilot schools with teachers and pupils • Researchers and experts • Teachers educators and their students The following countries participated in 2003 in the OECD/CERI enSI Network: • Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland. International Conference Szeged-Hungary
enSIaims • to foster the democratic participation of students as active citizens in shaping the environmental conditions of their life and work, • to promote and facilitate the development of an ecologically sustainable society and action within educational systems, • to create stable research networks which link practice in schools with academic educational research and with institutional decision making. International Conference Szeged-Hungary
enSIprojects • Teachers education, supports the integration of innovative approaches into teacher education programs through environmental education. • Quality criteria for ecoschools, compares the criteria leading the eco-schools movement in every country aiming for the construction of a common set of quality criteria. • Learnscapes across the globe, involves the school community redesigning its school grounds to permit children, teachers and their communities to interact with their local environment. • SEED European Comenius 3 network promotes Environmental Education as a driving force for School Development and transfers models of good practise into teacher education. International Conference Szeged-Hungary