Strategic development

Starting 2024, efforts started to broaden the scope of our engagement with the 18+ age group. This strategic programmatic shift aims to provide young people in formal and non-formal settings with a specialized platform that addresses their unique challenges and opportunities in promoting sustainability and environmental education.

1.     An accreditation programme – Continue with the Green Flag criteria-based accreditation of campuses based on seven steps facilitating both environmental and educational improvement. Prioritize hospitality and teacher training schools to support Eco-Schools and Green Key establishment with trained human resources. Develop a new system to allow higher education institutions without a member organisation to work directly with FEE.

2.     Professional development – Structure internships to give valuable experience to young people/students through our programmes and develop a cadre of young professionals. This could be a centralized service providing work-based learning opportunities at FEE HO and also with FEE Members.

3.     Research and Fellowship – Encourage research through young professionals – master thesis and PhD. Could be part of future projects and a tool for project evaluation and engagement with experts in the field of ESD. Fellowship could also be encouraged with academics and mid-career professionals. FEE could offer access to its network for collecting data and generating wisdom to shape the programmes and discourse. Stay tuned on to apply for our research collaboration 2024.

4.     Events and conferences – Organize conferences and events to engage the youth and academics. Discover our upcoming 1st international of FEE EcoCampus in Lisbon the 26-27th of April 2024.

5.     Leadership development – Strengthen the YRE programme at the tertiary level (18-25 age group). Rework the Fellowship programme to support young professionals working with FEE Membership. Learn more about YRE programme.

6.     Course Delivery – Partner for delivery of accredited courses on FEE Academy and in different institutions. FEE Members can work as experts and provide practitioners' perspectives on theoretical/academic courses. Find our more on FEE Academy.

7.     Engage with Workspaces – Life-long learning by offering a programme for organizations to run in their settings. Something similar to GK for workplaces.

8.      Advocacy and policy engagement - Establish the leadership of the FEE EcoCampus network in international efforts to green tertiary education (e.g. contextualization of UNESCO Green Quality Standards).