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edge as possible and produce the
maximum public impact. The central
steering body for the UN Decade in
Germany is the National Committee
set up by the German Commission
for UNESCO. It brings together thirty
experts and institutions, and is intended
to represent the full spectrum
of sustainability: members include
Federal Ministries, such as the
Education, Development and Environment
ministries, alongside representatives
from Parliament, the
States or Länder, and NGOs, as well
as from the media and from private
enterprise. This broad composition
ensures that planning and organisational
decisions on the implementation
of the Decade are made on the
basis of the widest possible consensus.
The Chairman of this body is the
renowned German expert on education
for sustainable development, the
educational scientist Gerhard de
Haan from the Freie Universität in
Berlin. In order to further expand the
number of stakeholders involved, the
National Committee has invited 100
further initiatives to take part in a
UN Decade Round Table.
What do we hope to achieve over
the course of the UN Decade? This
question is answered by the National
Action Plan for Germany for the UN
Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development, which was drafted by
the National Committee and the
Round Table, and was presented to
the general public in January 2005.
The Action Plan sets four objectives
which are to orientate the Decade
activities in Germany:
1. Further develop the concept of education
for sustainable development
and broadly spread good
practices;
2. Networking of stakeholders in education
for sustainable development;
3. Improvement of public awareness
of education for sustainable development;
4. Strengthening of international cooperation.
(The Action Plan is also available in
English at www.dekade.org).
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President Lübke
at UNESCO. German
President Heinrich
Lübke pays an official
visit to the Secretariat
of UNESCO in
Paris, and is received by
acting Director-General,
René Maheu (22nd June).
In order to encourage the participating
stakeholders to take more concrete
measures, the political document
of the Action Plan is supplemented
with a so-called ‘Catalogue
of Measures’. The Catalogue of Measures
lists in detail the contribution
which each stakeholder intends to Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
Photo: Hans-J. Aubert
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