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Ecocitizenship and Sustainable Development: a dialogue for a citizen school

How do you learn to be an ecocitizen? Eco-citizenship is learned at home, on the street, on the bus, in the field or on the beach, on TV or on the Internet ... True, but it is school, on a structural basis, that should help create responsible citizens - from the youngest to the oldest - more active and committed citizens to environmental causes and sustainability. This is how school accompanies, completes and corrects the (non-formal) learning process in the school of life. If life teaches what, school explains why.

At the first levels of education, the Reference of Environmental Education for Sustainability identifies ecocitizenship as "a fundamental aspect of education, as a process of awareness, promotion of values and change of attitudes and behavior towards the environment, from a sustainable development-based perspective”

In this sense, environmental education is the construction of "social values, knowledge, skills, attitudes and competences aimed at the conservation of the environment, an asset for common use of the people, essential to a healthy quality of life and its sustainability" .

Educating is a collective mission. Educating for citizenship is a State mission. Educating for ecocitizenship is a common responsibility of the present generations, looking to the future for generations to come.

This is the backdrop for the conferences on "Ecocitizenship and sustainable development: a dialogue for a citizen school", which will feature thematic panels organized into two sections: - education and ecocitizenship. Within each section, multiple sub-themes might join the debates concerning concepts such as :

[1] Page 11 of Referencial de Educação Ambiental para a Sustentabilidade, produced by the Directorate-General for Education of the Ministry of Education, in Portugal https://www.dge.mec.pt/sites/default/files/ECidadania/ref_sustentabilidade.pdf

[2] Law n. 9.795, 27 April 1999, establishing the National Environmental Education Policy in Brazil (http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/l9795.htm)