The International Youth Initiative Program (YIP) is a new social entrepreneur training in Järna, Sweden, for youth aged 18 to 25 who want to create a positive social change in the world. – A course in how to bring your own initiative into being. Each year, they publish recorded lectures online. Here are the ones [...]

In partnership with Hewlett-Packard, Life City is a website aimed at supporting non-profit organizations, educational institutions and communities to help increase job skills and foster entrepreneurial development through innovative use of information technology. HP works with local partners who offer training for young people and very small businesses in underserved communities. The aim is to [...]

Event Description: European Youth Meeting for Sustainable Development organised by Sillamäe Society for Child Welfare with partners from around Europe will take place in Tallinn from 19th – 24th July 2011 in Estonia on the theme of youth involvement in ensuring sustainable development. What role can and should young people and youth organisations play in [...]

Yury Lifshits wrote an amazing article on Mashable with a review of 9 clusters of education tech companies. As he shares, “fortunately, most innovation is centered around a short list of fundamental ideas”. It’s interesting to mention that our new tool for direct online co-creation, the GreEn Forum Academy, is actually based on his number [...]

I’d like to share with you an interesting opportunity for self-development! ENERGIA has developed an online course to get acquainted with the gender and energy concepts. The online course has been used as part of the capacity building efforts in both the Africa and Asia regions and has been made public. Training Content The e-learning course [...]

On the basis of its work with thousands of educators, the Center for Ecoliteracy has developed a framework for schooling for sustainability that we call “Smart by Nature™“. “Smart by Nature™ is based on four guiding principles: 1) Nature is our teacher: To envision sustainable communities, we look to design principles evolved since the advent [...]

Hi everyone, It is great to be a newbie here at GEF. Lucy nudged me to share with you a project I am working on so here goes! This project journey coincides with my educational one and was born from a need. In 2008 I began searching for a degree program in sustainability. It took [...]

Dates and venue The NISA Winter Session will be held on January 30th – February 6th, 2011 in Baku, Azerbaijan. January 30th and February 6th are the dates of arrival and departure. Participants will be accommodated in the Crescent Beach Hotel & Leisure Resort (Address: Crescent Beach Hotel, Salyan Highway Shikh Settlement Baku, Azerbaijan; Category: [...]

Great school!! Take 5 minutes to get inspired http://www.greenschool.org/2010/07/07/making-a-difference/

Hei all, I wanted to share an interesting learning and teaching tool, which can really change your perception of school! Till now all of us knew how difficult is to find the appropriate information put on a nice and understandable way online with the possibility to receive a feedback. Well, the team of Supercool School [...]