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North East Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) in Education for Sustainable Development (EfSD) is a network of education organisations convened around specific projects intended to develop and deliver EfSD at the local level. It is part of a global network of RCEs created to achieve the goals of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), by identifying the relevance of its global objectives to the communities in the North East. The goal of the ‘Decade’ is to integrate the principles, values and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning.

RCE global network brings together institutions at the regional level to build new platforms to share information and experiences, to engage in dialogue through educational partnership, and to promote better access to quality education, environmental stewardship, social justice, and improvement of quality of life.

RCEs will promote the goals of Education for Sustainable Development; re-orient education to focus on sustainable development issues (by engaging with existing programmes and strategies and designing new sustainable development curricula emphasising issues concerning our local communities); and raise public awareness about the centrality of education to a sustainable future.

For any further information please contact Aidan Doyle, RCE North East co-ordinator, Aidan.Doyle @ ncl.ac.uk

RCE North East Steering Group