Introduction | IGEE 2009
From September 30th to October 2nd 2009, educationists, members of government and non-governmental organisations and sustainable development practitioners from over 20 countries gathered in Karlsruhe, Germany, for the First International Greening Education Event.
Arshad Rab, Chief Executive, Etech Germany and Dr. Volker Hahn,
City Administration Karlsruhe welcomed the delegates. After the
welcome statements, Dr. Hahn declared the event open.
For an unprecedented 3 days, the practitioners enjoyed the
exceptional opportunity - fully in line with the European Year
of Creativity and Innovation - of getting to know inspiring
greening education initiatives in many different countries. But
before starting off with this journey, the issues related to
climate change and sustainable development policy making
challenges were presented.
One of the important features of this event was that it was a
gathering of the peers, by the peers and for the peers. There
were no specific personalities or experts dominating the
proceedings and there was no agenda for furthering a particular
view point to green education. The event brought together
creative, enthusiastic and motivated practitioners from around
the world to discuss the challenging and burning issue of
greening education. It offered a unique opportunity to meet like
minded people, invigorate knowledge-sharing and foster
collaborations.
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