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”Ministers have to be very clear and focused over the next 48 hours if we are to make it,” said conference president Connie Hedegaard of Denmark.
The conference so far has been marked by sharp disagreements between China and the United States and deep divisions between rich and poor nations.
Trying to ease the tension, U.N. [...]
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48 very crucial hours at COP15
Posted by ChangeMaker on december 16th, 2009
Posted in Climate Change, Education, Environment 
Tags: Africa, Climate Change, Environment, Millennium Development Goals, UN 
1 Comment »Please Help the World
Posted by ChangeMaker on december 8th, 2009
”Please Help the World”, film from the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in Copenhagen from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Shown on December 7, 2009 at COP15.
Posted in Children, Climate Change, Education, Environment Tags: Children, Climate Change, Earth, Environment, Millennium Development Goals, Water No Comments »International Vocational Teacher Education IVTE
Posted by ChangeMaker on november 16th, 2009
Personalised International Vocational Teacher Education with a Finnish Touch – online programme by HAAGA-HELIA and MKFC.
The HAAGA-HELIA School of Vocational Teacher Education is one of the five vocational teacher education schools in Finland. It is part of Haaga-Helia, a leading Finnish University of Applied Sciences.
The traditions of this teacher education programme reach back well over [...]
Second LiA report from Kenya
Posted by ChangeMaker on oktober 28th, 2009
I hope that you have read Maria’s first report from Nairobi. As mentioned before Maria is one of MKFC Stockholm Folkhögskola students who studies ”Environment and Sustainable Development”, and lives in Kenya Nairobi.
Maria has sent her second report recently. She actively participated and worked about two months with an NGO, Green Care Habitat (GRECAH), that [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Education, Environment Tags: Africa, Environment, HIV/AIDS, MDG, MKFC, NGO No Comments »Register to ENO Climate Change Campaign 2010
Posted by ChangeMaker on oktober 27th, 2009
ENO Programme invites schools and children & youth associations to take part to the climate change campaign that will take place from November 2009 to January 2010. Intoductory weeks and activity packages are available here. They are both for basic and advanced levels, varying from arts and drama to scientific articles and radio stories.
The mascot [...]
Machu Picchu Stars
Posted by ChangeMaker on oktober 26th, 2009
Machu Picchu Stars produces ethnic Peruvian dolls and children’s clothes. The members of Machu Picchu Stars have come a long way since the project began. In the beginning they were very timid as before they had hardly left their homes unassisted.
Now they have developed more confidence and greater self esteem which brings about hope and [...]
The danger of a single story (TED Talks)
Posted by ChangeMaker on oktober 19th, 2009
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
LiA report from Kenya
Posted by ChangeMaker on oktober 12th, 2009
Maria, one of MKFC Stockholm Folkhögskola students who studies ”Environment and Sustainable Development”, lives in Kenya Nairobi. Every student has to do six weeks trainee work during the first semester. They can choose an institute, a governmental organization or an NGO that is working with an environmental issue as their practice place.
During this trainee period [...]
Posted in Children, Education, Environment, Grassroots Tags: Africa, Environment, MKFC, Women 1 Comment »International Vocational Teacher Education (IVTE)
Posted by ChangeMaker on oktober 7th, 2009
MKFC starts a new post-secondary education for teachers in cooperation with the Finnish Polytechnic HaagaHeliä.
This professional training, (Vocational Teacher), is an e-learning course in English, which gives you qualification in EU.
In this way teachers can accomplish the pedagogical competence in addition to their skills, they already have, while working. Course duration is one year and [...]
Sign up for Blog Action Day
Posted by ChangeMaker on oktober 4th, 2009
Blog Action Day occurs on October 15, exactly the same day as the two previoue years. If you want to attend – register your blog here.
This time, climate and climate-change is the important issue. UN climate conference holds in Copenhagen in December.
Posted in Climate Change, Education, Environment, Sanitation Tags: Climate Change, Environment No Comments »
