Earth Successor Project - Local Actions on Empowering and Mobilizing Youth Mr. Hao Xin, RCE Hangzhou 13th Asia-Pacific RCE Regional Meeting 5 October, 2021

1. LOCAL ACTIONS ON EMPOWERING AND MOBILIZING YOUTH
EARTH SUCCESSOR PROJECT
Hao Xin 忻皓
Vice Director of RCE Hangzhou 联合国可持续发展教育杭州专业区域中心副主任
Executive Director of Green Zhejiang 绿色浙江秘书长
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未来使者——赋能并动员青少年的中国地方实践行动

2. RCE HANGZHOU
Prof. WU Weidong
Director of RCE Hangzhou
Director of Social Cooperation Dept. of
Zhejiang International Studies University
SEARCHING FOR 2022 ASIAN GAMES DREAMS
SEP 19, 2021
寻找2022个亚运梦想

3. Think of an idea
to change our world
and put it into action
MOTIVATION

4. Cultivating Global Citizens
who can take on the responsibility of global
sustainable development in the future
PROGRAM GOALS
MISSION
To establish a multidisciplinary and
sustainable curriculum system.
To engage various stakeholders
in the social governance process.
To promote a reproducible model of youth
education for sustainable development.
Curriculum System
Multi-stakeholders
Model Application
GOALS
培育能够在未来担当全球可持续发展大任
的地球公民

5. DISCOVER
STUDY
TOUR
MODEL
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MODEL
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MODEL
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MODULES

6. STRATEGIES
Motivation
• Integrate diverse social resources
• Improve the quality of ESD curriculum
products
• Increase supply level/capacity of related
programs
Training capacity
• Build ESD education centers
• Strengthen teacher training using methods by
guiding with technological innovation and integrating
with rural revitalization strategies
Multi-stakeholders
• Determine and match the experiential learning
needs of primary and secondary schools
• Establish an inter-school linkage mechanism
to connect the schools
• Motivate schools to participate in education
for sustainable development
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7. ESD & COVID-19
The 1st affiliated primary
school of Hangzhou
Normal University has
done some research
about the relationship
between COVID-19 and
SDGs.

8. RIVER ANGELS
Students are trained to become local waterway
protectors, environmental interpreters, and
innovators for water resource protection solution.

9. • Earth Successor aims to cultivate the ability of youth to
discover, analyze, and solve problems related to global
sustainable development.
• This program has sent over 3,000 primary and secondary
students on SDG-themed educational tours to more than
ten different provinces and semi-autonomous regions in
China as well as various international countries including
the United States, the Bahamas, South Korea, Australia,
New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, the countries in
Europe where Rhine River flows through, and more.
• During these trips, students had the opportunities to
engage in direct discussion with policymakers and this
had motivated the students in policy-level thinking.
STUDY TOURS

10. Network
Calvin Say
State House Speaker
Hawaii, U.S.
• Earth Successor program integrates a diverse
variety of social resources including the
government, international organizations,
schools, companies etc.
• Earth Successor’s international network of
partners and collaborators includes RCEs from
all over the world, the Hans Seidel Foundation,
Waterkeeper Alliance, H20 Global River Cities
Summit etc.
• Earth Successor connects more than 300
different schools and organizations dedicated
to sustainable development on six different
continents and has established a mechanism
for mutual visits with local governments.

11. • Earth Successor has connected with various provincial-level &
city level environmental bureaus and water bureaus, and
countryside/township governments as well as nearly 100
companies such as Alibaba, Nongfu Springs etc.
• Nearly 10,000 students have participated in hands-on,
experiential learning ESD activities such as “One Qiantang
River” and “Nature History”.
• For eleven consecutive years, Earth Successor has been
organizing Qiantang River SDG-theme painting day which is
the activity of painting the river wall along the Qiantang
Riverside. Until now, the painted river wall has grown to be
13.5 kilometers long.
• Earth Successor’s “Reading for the Earth” event has been held
annually for the past five years, and the beach cleanups
activity has been organized for seven consecutive years. These
events involve the participation of multiple stakeholders.
SOCIAL CONNECTION

12. This book provides people the creative inspiration, and guides learners to
experience the process of sublimation and moral internalization of the
concept of "learning sustainable development" in a dazzling array of visual
perceptions and practical experiences.
Prof. Shi Gendong
Executive Director of the National Working
Committee of the UNESCO China Education
for Sustainable Development Project
CURRICULUMS

13. • In Earth Successor program, we have cooperated
with partners to held the SDG speech competitions
in Mandarin, English, and German in order to
strengthen students’ understanding, cognition and
motivation to take action on SDG.
SPEECH COMPETITIONS

14. • Earth Successor works in alliance with the Department of
Education and has prepared various ESD curriculum plans.
• Earth Successor promotes ESD work in the countryside by
connecting rural schools with the top educators from city. The
program integrates rural revitalization strategies and has
established ESD centers in 5 rural and township areas.
• The Baizhang town in Zhejiang province has introduced a group
of volunteer scientists to reorganize the Science and Technology
Association of Baizhang town and lead the operation of an ESD
center. This served not only to improve the environment of local
villages, but also provide a place for local youth to engage in ESD.
Through these actions, Baizhang town formed its own mode of
sustainability educational development.
EDUCATION CENTERS

15. OUTCOMES
27,000+ students
have participated in Earth Successor activities
6 curriculum handbooks
have been published
5 ESD centers
have been established
2019 RCE Flagship
Project Award
Golden Medal of
2020 China’s Voluntary
Service Project Competition
102 schools
joined Earth Successor project

16. Add: Baizhang Charity Town, Yuhang Dist., Hangzhou, CHINA
Tel: +86 571-28120050 +86 15985900500
E-mail: greenxinhao@gmail.com