National Centres of Excellence on Implementing ESD into Municipalities and Regions – Which Concepts are Needed? Mr. Detlev Lindau-Bank, RCE Oldenburger-Münsterland Europe Regional Meeting 2019 13-14 September, 2019, Heraklion, Greece

1. National Centres of Excellence on Implementing ESD
into Municipalities and Regions –
Which concepts are needed?
Detlev Lindau-Bank
RCE Oldenburger Münsterland 2019

2. Sustainability Guidelines of
RCE OM - University of Vechta
• Sustainable Development as a
development "that meets the needs of
the present generation without
compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs."
• Protection of the global environment
is the basis, which requires a careful
handling of natural resources
• In addition to this ecological
dimension of sustainable
development, it is equally important
to consider the social, cultural,
economic and political perspectives.
Economy
economical
capabilities
Social
social
justice
Ecology
ecologically
acceptable
Culture
normative
variety
Policy
democratic
negotiation

3. • ESD as a location factor
• ESD as a guiding principle
• ESD as a cross-cutting task
• ESD as a municipal sustainability code
• ESD as a networking strategy
3
Introduction
German strategy – Fields of action

4. 4
Goals and measurements
From Projects to Structure

5. 1. High level commitment
2. ESD as an integral part of press work
3. Municipalities regularly report on ESD
acticities
4. ESD is connected to existing programmes,
guiding lines
Marketing Concept
5
ESD as a location factor

6. 1. Further training for employees
2. Connecting municipal education and training
activities with ESD
3. ESD is explicit part of municipal guiding lines
4. Networking educational activities in the
sense of an ESD region
Organisation Development Concept
6
ESD as a guiding principle

7. 1. The municipalities are connected in a vertical
and horizontal direction
2. Samples of good practice
3. Getting ownership: Inviting institutions,
companies, organisations of the civil society as
partners
Project Managmenet Concept
7
ESD as a cross-cutting task

8. • Voluntary commitment to implement 17 SDG´s
(GAP…)
• Municipal action plan with concrete target
perspectives
• Reporting on ESD regularly
• ESD is anchored structurally
Evaluation concepts
8
ESD as a
municipal sustainability code

9. • Starting with early adopter
• Early adopter as change agents and trainers
for other municipalities
• Thinking out of the box – inter municipal
networking (RCE idea)
• Building personell relationsships
Networking Concept
9
ESD as a networking strategy

10. • Top-down-strategy
• Structure be understood as administration
• Bound to administrative limits
• Different understanding of regional (local) approach
• Danger of Buerocracy
• Experts instead of expertise
• Conflicting goals
• SD is taken to mean durable growth
• No content, non-committal
10
Conclusion
ESD-Concept
Conflict Management Concept

11. 11
All concepts are on the table. Let as use them!
Thank you very much for your attention