Global Environmental Youth Convention
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Lund University, Sweden
 Caretakers of the Environment/Sweden
June 14-21, Lund-Sweden
 

 
 
 

Distance Learning Project Up and Running A unique feature of the upcoming Global Environment Youth Convention in which Caretakers of the Environment acts as a co-organiser, is the distance learning project. Distance learning is used to get the delegates from the many countries that will attend in June of 2000 (100 countries have already registered!!) to exchange information, ideas, concerns and solutions prior to the conference.  Through a carefully developed modular program the hosts are guiding the delegates through a series of themes such as biodiversity, sustainability and local agenda 21. The delegates explore these key issues as part of small international groups spanning several continents. In June the delegates will leave virtual reality and meet the students they have been corresponding with via email and internet life in Lund!  In order to see whether the distance learning project actually works the program is carefullt monitored and evaluated. If you are going to participate in June but have not yet joined the Distance Learning Project the don’t’wait any longer! Get going!  Email Birgitta Norden at: BNorden@lu-imi.iiiee.lu.se

  Five-Day Convention in Lund

Discuss preventive environmental strategies, give an account of project work and meet young people from other cultures. These will be just a few of the main activities when some four hundred students and around a hundred teachers from all over the world get together in Lund in the middle of June 2000 for a five-day convention.

The Lund convention is one of the high- points of Global Environmental Youth Convention Year 2000 organised by IIIEE and the Swedish branch of Caretakers of the Environment. All participants will be coming together with their teachers. The idea is that a convention will be held at three-year intervals.
      During their time in Lund, the participants will give an account of their group work and listen to speakers from various areas within preventive environmental strategies. They will also take part in group work and workshops. Furthermore, the participants will have the opportunity to visit places of interest in and around Lund.
      An important aim of the convention is for participants to get to know one another, swap experiences and make new contacts. After the convention the participants can continue to keep in touch through the Global Intelligence Network.