Objectives
General Objectives
- Promoting the role environmental education plays in developing and enriching human identity and constructing more healthy individuals, communities, and societies.
- Highlighting the contribution environmental education brings to social innovation by addressing socio-ecological issues and contributing to eco-development within all societies.
- Emphasizing the role environmental education can play in public policy development, and how public policy can strengthen environmental education.
Operational Objectives
- Fostering inter-sectoral collaboration in environmental education amongst universities, colleges, schools, museums, parks, NGOs, political and economic organizations, etc.
- Stimulating partnerships and networking.
- Providing a context for conducting an evaluative assessment of environmental education initiatives accentuating research, action, links between research and action.
- Encouraging the emergence of new programs and projects following the Congress.
- Furthering the professional development of participants.