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• Dec 15, 2011: CoDeS: First mailing All relevant information from the newly started COMENIUS multilateral network CODES Newsletter from December 2011...
  
  Content of this mailing:
  1. Welcome to CoDeS 2. What is CoDeS all about?
  3. CoDeS master plan, version December 2011
  4. Important links
  5. Next event: The Vienna Conference, May 1-3, 2012
  6. CoDeS Homepage: www.comenius-codes.eu -Mailing 1.pdf
• Dec 15, 2011: CoDeS: project master plan CoDeS master plan based on proposal from February 2011.
  Updated December 8th, 2011 -CoDeS Masterplan.pdf
• Dec 13, 2011: CoDeS: First partner meeting CoDeS started its work on November 13-16 in Friedrichsdorf/Germany with the first partner meeting. 35 persons gathered to discuss the master plan, deliverables, work packages, and the next event. After three intense days of exchange and discussion all partners agreed to their contributions to the new network. For more information about the first partner meeting contact CoDeS secretariat at ch.affolter@ensi.org
• Dec 12, 2011: CoDeS: New CoDeS web site is open now! Visit CoDeS website and get all information about the network and its activities! -comenius-codes.eu
• May 12, 2011: 09. -12.October 2011 ICMEE International Conference on Measurement and Evaluation in Education International COnference at the School of Educational Studies, University Sains, Malaysia, Penang -ICMEE front.JPG
• May 11, 2011: OECD Conference in Athens/Greece Better Value for Schools: Making Public-Private Partnerships Work for Educational Infrastructure...
  
  REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 20 MAY 2011!
  
  
  
  OECD Conference on
  
  Better Value for Schools: Making Public-Private Partnerships Work for Educational Infrastructure
  
  30-31 May 2011
  
  Athens, Greece
  
  
  
  Organised by the
  
  OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE)
  
  and the
  
  School Buildings Organisation, Greece
  
  
  
  A key challenge for governments is to meet the changing needs of education within the constraints of tighter budgets. As governments seek to find ways of improving value for money from PPP agreements that can last over 25 years, this conference will explore the key issues behind successful PPPs in educational infrastructure, drawing on the expertise from different countries, the European Investment Bank and other institutions.
  
  For further information, consult the web site www.bettervalue4schools.gr or contact Hannah.vonAhlefeld@oecd.org.
• Apr 27, 2011: Drivers and Barriers Drivers and Barriers to Implementing ESD with Focus on UNESCO's Action and Strategy Goals for the second Half of the Decade. -Drivers and Barriers UNESCO.pdf
• Apr 3, 2010: Are Women the Key to Sustainable Development? Sustainable Development Insights, No. 3, April 2010
  By Candice Stevens, Boston University...
  
  This issue explores the possible link between advances in achieving gender equality and advances in achieving sustainable development goals. The paper concludes, “As indicated by both theory and evidence, the lack of progress on gender equality may be at the heart of the failure to advance on sustainable development. If women were in more productive and decision-making roles, we could be moving faster and more assuredly towards sustainability in the economic, social and environmental sense. Sustainable development is a political concept because it is about good governance, which will be hard to achieve until we get closer to gender parity. Research is needed to test the hypothesis that women are more risk-averse than men and that women leaders would be more apt to follow sustainable development pathways. Given the importance of gender to sustainability, these issues should feature more prominently in sustainable development discussions and be highlighted in a 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development.”
  
  Sustainable Development Insights is a series of short policy essays supporting the Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership (SDKP) and edited by Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The series seeks to promote a broad interdisciplinary dialogue on how to accelerate sustainable development at all levels.
  
  Candice Stevens is the former Sustainable Development Advisor of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where she was also Head of the Industry Division, the Science and Technology Policy Division, and the Environment and Trade Unit. Previously, Dr. Stevens was an economist in the US government in the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce, and the US Congress. She now consults on economics of sustainable development from her office in Paris, France. -UNsdkp003fsingle.pdf
• Feb 12, 2010: Quality Criteria for ESD-Schools in Croatian Ova je publikacija namijenjena institucijama različitih razina odgojno-obrazovnog sustava, ali i pojedincima – učiteljima, ravnateljima, stručnim suradnicima, učenicima, roditeljima. Ukratko, namijenjena je svima onima koje zanima poboljšanje kvalitete obrazovanja za održivi razvoj. Ona nudi osnovni instrumentarij samo-vrednovanja u provedbi obrazovanja za održivi razvoj, ali istodobno može poslužiti i kao smjerokaz za uvođenje novih ili proširivanje postojećih aktivnosti u stalnom nastojanju poboljšanja kvalitete obrazovanja.
  
  Published by Søren Breiting, Michaela Mayer, Finn Mogensen, in 2005 -QC_HR-web.pdf
• Feb 12, 2010: Carpathian Mountains ESD Training Tool Kit Published by Éva Tóth Ambrusné, Ildikó Bajkó, Carmen Bucovala, Sebastian Catanoiu, Luminita Chicinas, Katalin Czippán, Hubert Hilbert, Horaţiu Popa, Ana Seke, Ciprian Stanciu, Miroslav Tadić, Eliza Teodorescu, Mária Tóth, Ion Zamfir, Mihai Zotta, in 2009...
  
  The Carpathian Mountains ESD Training Tool Kit was developed in partnership by ENSI (Project Casalen) and UNEP (Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention) and contribution of other partners, with the support of OMV in the framework of the Move and Help initiative.
  
  The English version of the Carpathian Mountain ESD Training Tool Kit was developed on the basis of the original Romanian version. The main aim of the English version is to provide the basis for the development of further adapted local versions of the Tool Kit, which can be used in other Carpathian countries and other regions.
  
  If you are interested in the work of the CASALEN network or in the Tool Kit, and especially partners who are producing Carpathian- or similar educational material, and are interested to join a regional ESD effort please contact:
  Tamara Mitrofanenko at Tamara.Mitrofanenko@unvienna.org
  Attila Varga at varga.attila@ofi.hu -Carpathian Mountains ESD Tool Kit.pdf