6th Global RCE Conference, European Continental Meeting, November 21st 2011, Kerkrade - Netherlands

Higher EducationRCE Award

ResultsNovember 22nd 2011

• Purpose of an RCE-Award

– Making the uniqueness of RCE´s visible - worldwide– The RCE-Award illustrates the Expertise of our network– The RCE-Award emphasizes Education– Marketing for RCE-Community– Raising awareness for local projects

Results of Thematic Network “Higher Education”November 22nd 2011

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• The RCE-Award may contain 5 to 6 Prizes• The Prizes will be awarded for good-practice-projects on

ESD• To be selected for an RCE-Award it is required:

– Education in the focus of the project– Cross-cutting issue (e.g. food, consumption; etc.)– Fullfilling criteria which are important to RCE as well (e.g.

linking of formal and non-formal educational sector; the activities are knowledge based; platform for dissemination; etc.

• It is not necessary that the selected project worked out in the frame of RCE – every project is welcome

RCE – Award - Conclusions

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RCE-Award - Model

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All Projects are on Education 5 Project awarded – Symbol: 5 Fingers of a handprint

Good practice not best practice, because every project has its own right and quality

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All RCEs are asked for raising

fundsand looking for

mentors

All RCEs are asked for raising

fundsand looking for

mentors

Process proposal

• Foundation of a jury, which will discuss the criteria of an RCE-Award the next months (see following list)

• RCE Oldenburger Münsterland will coordinate the process

Proposal

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RCE

Jana Dlonka Czech Republic Jana.dlonka@czp.cuni.cz

Jiri Dlouhy Czech Republic Jiri.dlouhy@czp.cuni.cz

Jane Claricoates Wales j.claricoates@swansea.ac.uk

Won J Byun Tongyeong rceorg@gmail.com

Javier Carbayal Lima-Callao javiercabayal@yahoo.com

Kalimantan

Detlev Lindau-Bank Oldenburger Münsterland Detlev.lindau-bank@uni-vechta.de

Andrej Dekhin Nizhny-Nowgorod adakhin@vvpaa.vvags.ru

Igor Arzgenovskiy Nizhny-Nowgorod Igor.arzgenovskiy@gmail.com

Geoff Scott University of Western Sidney g.scott@uws.edu.au

Phillip

Ingrid Muelá Severn rcesevern@glos.ac.uk

Elisabeth Bittner

Euphym Vyshkin Samara euphym@gmail.com

Ruth

Kennedy

Ason Sarah

Aho

Roger Petry Saskatchewan Roger.petry@uregina.ca

Making it work

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PresentationRCE Award

By Marion KlüberDetlev Lindau-Bank

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• Introduction

• Planning the final model

– Output: Agreement on one model

• Answering upcoming questions

• Making it work

Agenda

• RCE Meeting in Curitiba 2010• Award:

– outstanding academic research – extraordinary flagship projects

RCE Senegal; RCE Tongyeong; RCE Okoyama; RCE Kalimantan; RCE Hyogo-Kobe; RCE Bogota

RCE Oldenburger Münsterland; RCE Nizhny-Novgorod; RCE Sao Paulo; RCE Porto; RCE Curitiba

Senai-PR; SAAC REEP

History

• Different Categories for RCE Award– Undergraduate Thesis– MA Thesis– Doctoral Thesis– Post-Doctoral Study

• Language as a challenge– Abstract or short summary in English– Thesis in mother tongue could be judged by native speaker– All elected Thesis will be translated in English and – judged by a global RCE Award Jury

Results of the Curitiba-Discussion

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• What do we want to show to the world by raising a RCE-Award?

• Which criteria we have to figure out?– Innovative– Technology-based– Social impact– Transdisciplinarity– Clear position to the three pillars of sustainability– Matching basic goal of RCE– Local or regional importance

Basic Questions for 6th Global conference

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Outcome of a student research project

• 3 different models

• Parameters

• Indicators

Models for an RCE-Award

Model 1 – focused on purpose

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Model 2 – focused on area and purpose

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Model 3 – Content focused

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Indicators

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• Language barriers – abstract in english• Building a jury• Raising funds• Process – Coordination• Time table

Parameters

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Thank you

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