Umeå kommun
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Umeå and Kajiado, Kenya
Project: Service Design in Libraries The county organization in Kajiado, Kenya is planning for the first public library. The library will be a centre point for literature, information and much more. The library will be located in an area with a high number of non-reading population. Kajiado lacks capacity for governance, management and coordination of…
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Umeå and Cau Giay, Vietnam
Project: Educators – Agents for Sustainable Development The main goal of the project is to establish better understanding among selected teachers in the pre-school and primary school on the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and on ESD which contributes to behavioural change, readiness and capacity to act for sustainable development. This project is also aimed at…
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Umeå and Cau Giay, Vietnam
Project: Managers – Agents for Sustainable Development The main goal of the project is to increase the capacity among a selection of managers of school areas, schools and pre-schools to support education for sustainable development (ESD) which contributes to behavioural change, readiness and capacity to act for change based on the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.…
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Umeå kommun – Chan-ba
The project energy saving innovation in Urban housing will tackle the joint challenges of raising awareness/knowledge, engagement and participation in the perspective equality and democracy and how that can be a driver regarding energy saving actions and sustainable indoor environment in urban housing. By gathering project implementers linked to this field and relevant stakeholder we aim…
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Umeå kommun – Kajiado County
The city of Umeå and Kajiado County Government have established a collaboration in an inception phase financed by the ICLD. The project described in this application aims at strengthening the capacity within the Kajiado County Government in the area of integrated environment systems for waste and water management. The application is based on a thorough…
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Sustainable Management of Waste and Energy
In April 2007, a joint agreement on friendly co-operation between the cities Xi´an in China and Umeå in Sweden was signed. The agreement focuses on three areas: Culture, Biotech and Energy and environmental technologies. Xi’an is the capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, and the typical features of Xi’an region include relatively high proportion…
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Sustainable Management of Water
In April 2007 a joint agreement on friendly co-operation between the cities Xi´an in China and Umeå in Sweden was signed. The agreement focuses on three areas: Culture, Biotech and Energy and environmental technologies. For Xi’an, as the capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, and with a growing economic development, the water pollution from…
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Sustainable Strategies for Sustainable Education
The vision of this project is to create an outstanding organizational capacity to support ESD in the cities, and to interact with other stakeholders at regional, national and international level. This means that the partner organizations will improve their organizational learning in order for supporting ESD in the district, cities and other settings. This will…
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Integrated Management Processes for ESD
The overall vision of this project is to enhance integrative approaches for ESD, i.e collaboration between important political and management levels where every level is of importance for having results in the area of ESD. Of central importance is that representatives from the schools support the general purpose of the strategic project for ESD. The…
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Horisontal Implementation of ESD
Today major changes and an adaption are required affecting all global citizens. 2015 is the year that many important decisions for the future should be taken, such as the new Global sustainability goals; SDGs which will affect all levels and individuals in a community. Knowledge and education are the most powerful tools for reducing poverty…