Best practices of eco-schools international programme implementation for teritary level in Ireland and Russia

n/a Eco-Schools international programme is one of five programmes of FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education). In each participating country it is run by a FEE-member NGO, In Ireland in is run by An Taisce and in Russia by Keep St. Petersburg Tidy NGO. Initially the programme was designed for sc...

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Main Authors: Madison, Olga, Ryan-Fogarty, Yvonne
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10344/5514
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Summary:n/a Eco-Schools international programme is one of five programmes of FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education). In each participating country it is run by a FEE-member NGO, In Ireland in is run by An Taisce and in Russia by Keep St. Petersburg Tidy NGO. Initially the programme was designed for schools. Since 2003 kindergartens and supplementary education centers joined the programme in Russia and in some other countries. In 2007-2008 the tertiary level institutions got interested in the programme in Ireland, Russia, Portugal, Iceland and Spain. This paper addresses to the best practices from two of five countries running Eco- Schools for the tertiary level. It is important to note that in all five countries the initiative to join Eco-Schools programme came from students.