Proyecto Boost - Promoting Environmental Education For Sustainability in the Basque Country Mikel Ballesteros Garcia (Basque Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment) Europe Regional Meeting 2023 12-14 September 2023

1. Proyecto Boost-Promoting environmental
education for sustainability in the Basque
Country. Using collective intelligence for
networking
EUROPEAN RCE MEETING 2023
Transformative Education for Sustainable
Regions
September 12, 2023
Mikel Ballesteros García
Senior Advisor Environment &Information Systems

2. BOOST MODEL: BC FOR
SUSTAINABILITY-heal the world

3. Challenges
Exponential increase in commitments (ODS, Green Deal,
EVES, Climate Emergency….)
Exponential increase of social demands
Lack of sources
Information dispersal
Lack of communication
No coordination
Not knowledge management

4. Management
model
To act efficiently we must
organize ourselves better
Chance
The current context favors
constructive awareness and
sensitivity
Responsability
People are key to creating the
right conditions

5. Add, connect
resources and internal
talent, ...
Add, connect
resources and external
talent (Open us), ...
We need...
Communication,
participation,
collaboration...
Network
organizational
metastructures

6. New decree

7. BOOST PROYECT-CORE
Create collaboratively a network of communities that work in the Basque Country
in the field of Environmental Education for Sustainability, which interacts in the
areas of training, innovation and knowledge management and connects with
citizens through a reference communication channel, to enable awareness-
raising. both in the protection of the environment and in the achievement of a
new environmental ethic, based on that necessary intelligent relationship
between the environment and human activity.”

8. Participation card

9. Entities that sign the participation letter

10. Basque Country EAxS Boost model
Building Bridges in Times of Climate Urgency
Collaborate to take education beyond the classroom.
Build networks to broaden community efforts toward effective changes

11. Basque Country EAxS Boost model
We call on world leaders to give us the skills and training to build a sustainable
world.

12. Basque Country EAxS Boost model
Climate Education
Use environmental education to address the current human impacts
of climate change, such as weather-related disasters and climate
injustice, as we create and balance a new world for the future

13. Protection of the
Natural
Environment and
Biodiversity
Soil and water
protection
Climate change
(climate
emergency)
Circular
Economy
Environmental
Damage and its
Restoration
Single-use
plastics
Climate
Challenges.
Environmental core
topics
Basque Country
EAxS Boost model
Climate Education
Overcome challenges in
relation to reducing and
mitigating the impacts of
climate change.
Consider climate
emissions, climate risks
and the circular economy,
and increase the level of
knowledge about
sustainability and climate
change in formal and
non-formal
environments

14.  TARGET
FAMILIES

15.  TARGET
 PROFESSIONALS

16.  TARGET
 THIRD AGE

17. LEGITIMATION

18. Legitimatión...
Law 10/2021 on
Environmental
Administration of the
Basque Country”.
“The environmental body of the
Autonomous community of the
Basque Country, in coordination
with other public administrations,
will develop action programs on
environmental education and
awareness with specific
objectives and concrete
measures to achieve them.

19. Today...
Decree 130/2022
of November 2
Promotion of environmental
education for sustainability
(EAxS) in the Autonomous
Community of the Basque
Country.

20. Basque Country EAxS Boost model
Proposal for a COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION on learning for environmental
sustainability. Brussels, 14.1.2022 -COM(2022) 11 final
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, HEREBY INVITES THE COMMISSION TO:
► Facilitate cooperation and peer learning among Member States and stakeholders on learning for
environmental sustainability.
► Identifying, recording and sharing good practice examples, including through existing online
platforms and support the networking of national and other organizations active in education and
environmental sustainability in formal and non-formal education and training.
► Develop and share resources, materials and research on learning for environmental sustainability,
in cooperation with Member States, including on a new European sustainability competence framework

21. Basque Country EAxS Boost model
The need
EExS Basque
Country 2030
Strategy
Citizen training aimed at
Climate Education
Activation of coordination and
collaborative networking
instruments

22. Core objectives
Decree...
. Creation of the
Center for
Innovation, Training
and Knowledge
Management
Creation of the
Digital Platform in
Environmental
Education for
Sustainability
Promotion of the
Aztertu+
Participation and
Citizen Science
Program
Collaborating
Entities and
Sustainable
Educational Center
Seal
The need
Promotion of Non-
Formal and Informal
Education
Digital and
Broadcast Channel

23. STRATEGIC LINES

24. BC EAxS Boost model 1
Environment
Biophilia/Intelligent
Relationship
Human action
2
No Formal and
Informal Education
Skill development
3
Add talent
Create public private
collaboration networks
Help Understand the Context
 Helping individuals and social groups to
acquire a basic understanding of the
environment as a whole, related problems
and the presence and role of humanity in it,
which entails a critical responsibility.
Strategic lines

25. BC EAxS Boost model
1
Environment
Biophilia/Intelligent
Relationship
Human action
2
No Formal and
Informal Education
Skill development
3
Add talent
Create public private
collaboration networks
4
Technological
platform/
Connect networks
5
Diffusion/Visibility
Presence in mass media
Innovate by applying smart solutions
Strategic lines

26. BC EAxS Boost model 1
Environment
Biophilia/Intelligent
Relationship
Human action
2
No Formal and
Informal Education
Skill development
3
Add talent
Create public private
collaboration networks
4
Technological
platform/
Connect networks
5
Diffusion/Visibility
Presence in mass media
6
Capacity Building
Per to per concept
7
Analyze/Evaluate
Measure to manage
and improve
Develop tools for Training,
Monitoring, Analysis, Evaluation
and contextualized
dissemination of Data
Líneas Estratégicas

27. STRATEGIC PROJECTS

28. B CENTER-INNOVATION,TRAINING
AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
CENTER

29. B CENTER-Physical center

30. WINTER
Template
B-CENTER
PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL CENTER
 Network of qualified centers with offices in the
different Historical Territories (Matrix Center
+Ekoetxeak)
 Matrix center
 Activities Center:
 Training and qualification
 Tutorships
 Ecosystems that generate initiatives
 Container, incubator and idea accelerator
 Promotion of innovation centers
 Events and conferences

31. WINTER
Template
Network of physical centers
B-center
B-center

32. WINTER
Template
Transformation of spaces
Innovation / Expert training / Training / Knowledge
Management

33. WINTER
Template
Digital Transformation
Digital CHANNEL-Connectivity-Diffusion-Knowledge Management

34. B CENTER- TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM

35. B center:
Technology platform+
Basque Digital Channel in Environmental
Education for Sustainability (EExS)
 Common core for confluence, distribution and support
of information and content in the field of EExS in
Basque Country
 Interoperable with public and private platforms that
work in Basque Country in this area
 Managed by the Center for Innovation, Training and
Knowledge Management at EExS (B center)

41. Focus area

42. Support area

43. B center:
Technological platform
 Multiagent
 Interoperable
 Multiservice
 Dissemination Space
 Information Space
 Networking space
 Innovation and projects space
 Training space
 Monitoring space (back office)
 Interaction space-social networks-podcats
 Toolkit

44. INTEROPERABLE PLATFORM
 EXCHANGE AND PUBLICITATION OF
DATA, INFORMATION, CONTENT AND
KNOWLEDGE
 CONTENT SYNDICATION

45. B CENTER PLATFORM
N PLATFORM

46. B CENTER:
Digital and broadcast channel

47. Support area

48. OPEN (I)
EAxS digital and broadcast channel. Strategy
 Addressed to:
 Citizenship
 Families
 Professionals from different sectors of activity
 Skeptical people with the current climate emergency situation
 Connected to the technological platform of the B center, that will provide the
channel with data and contextualized information adapted to the
aforementioned target groups
 The platform generates contents and the channel will be in charge of
distributing them "intelligently" (content curation) adapting it to each
profile.
 It must have an active presence in the social networks with the greatest
influx, as well as provide inputs to the media with the highest audience
rating.

49. OPEN (II)
EAxS digital and broadcast channel. Contents
Data-General information
News
Articles-Publications-Guides-Newsletter
Studies-Projects-Success stories
Activities-Experiences
Contests-Challenges
Programs
Courses (online, in person)
Training (online, in person)
Aids
Events
Video tutorials
Podcasts (interviews, monographs,...)

50. B CENTER:
Analytical Channel

51. OPEN (I)
Analytical Channel in Environmental Education for
Sustainability
 It will allow us to know the situation of Environmental Education for
sustainability in Basque Country, as well as its evolution in each of the
fields of study involved
 Centralize and homogenize data and information from different sources,
having shared and public tools for the exploitation and provision of this
information
 Offer a personalized vision oriented towards the different vertices of
management: citizens in general, families, professionals, environmental
agents and management (strategic vision)

52. OPEN (II)
Analytical Channel in Environmental Education for Sustainability
Data Analysis and Information
Monitoring
Study and prospecting of Indicators
Knowledge management
Trend study
Self-control
Assessment
Contextualized dissemination of data and information

53. Development of the Digital Data Channel-EExS- Education for Sustainability
Data channel-EExS
Collaborative
entities
Channel
Dynamic
Information
Exploitation
System
Channel
Educative community
Citizenship
Channel
(Sustainable
channel)
Citizenship (open channel)
Contextualized data
publication
DATAWAREHOUSE
MULTIDIMENSIONAL
DATAMART
Platform
Data bank
ETL
Data
channel
(Strategic plan)
Transactions
Reading
Transformation
Data upload
Iintegrations (Open Data, IDE Euskadi)
Collaborative
Entities
(Capacitación-Mentoríng
EExS Area:
• Staff
• IH Team
• IHOBE
Strategic vision
Management area
vision
Agents Vision
Collaborators vision
Citizenship Vision
Educational Centers+
Rest of the Educational Community
Informal education
(Facilitation
(Contextualized dissemination)
External platforms
Interactive Data

54. Basque Country EAxS Boost model
that's why we're here…to
learn together:
building bridges

55. The problem is not wrong, but do not even try.

56. Million of thanks to each of you!

57. Contact
Mikel Ballesteros García
Senior advisor e-
environment&Information
Systems
m-ballesteros@euskadi.eus
Mikel.ballesteros@gmail.com
Phone: 34-945019901
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