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common aim of sustainable development and to apply these insightsto enhance the dimension of sustainability in education. Orientationtowards sustainable development is compatible with the notion ofhope, which is a uniquely human capacity and emerges throughpersonally relevant experience as an orientation towards sustainablegoals in future aspirations.The path chosen for the Institute’s development required a soundscientific basis. For this reason, in 2002 the Institute establishedthe Journal of Teacher Education and Training. In time, the Journalexpanded its scope, gradually acquiring the dimension of educationfor sustainable development, and in 2007 it adopted a firm focus onsustainability in teacher education. Since 2007, the Journal has beenknown as the Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability (JTEFS).It has become a forum for the meeting of different views, ideas andresearch to promote the further development of studies and practiceof teacher education in all areas of formal and non-formal educationin relation to sustainability. The articles published in JTEFS explorethe content and forms of professional and academic teacher education,problems and tasks of teacher in-service education and otherissues to help teachers to become responsible mentors for sustainabledevelopment.The editorial board of JTEFS unites more than 40 experts in thefield of teacher education and sustainability from such countries asLatvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Germany, Hungary, theNetherlands, Malta, USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaicaand South Africa. Over the years, JTEFS has gained internationalrecognition and is now available in the electronic databases CABIand SCOPUS and, since 2009, on the electronic platform VERSITA. 1Presently JTEFS has positioned itself and become publicly known asa scientific journal dedicated to the topic and mission of reorientingteacher education to address sustainability.More diverse scientific research and practical sustainability-relatedexperience has also been reflected in the two volumes of collectedarticles Education and Sustainable Development: First Steps TowardChanges (2006 & 2007) published by the Institute incollaboration with its international partners. Thesevolumes represent an interdisciplinary view of researchersfrom various countries on the theory and practiceof education and sustainable development, inspiring acomplementary approach and modelling the frame ofreference for implementation of the holistic conceptionof sustainability in education. In spring 2010 theInstitute established a new scientific journal, Discourseand Communication for Sustainable Education (DCSE),an international, peer-reviewed journal that providesa forum for the examination of policies, theories andpractices related to discourse and communication forsustainable education. The diversity of this journal isapparent in the variety of its theories, methods andapproaches, and its avoidance of limitation to oneschool, approach or academic branch. It welcomespapers that explore inspirational ideas in sustainableeducation and are written and presented in innovativeor experimental ways.In 2005 the Institute established the Baltic and BlackSea Circle Consortium in Educational Research (BBCC).The consortium was created as a network for discourseand communication in the international collaborationregarding teacher education and research in educationfor sustainable development. It unites teacher educationand educational research institutions, initiallydrawn from the countries around and near the BalticSea (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland and Germany)and the Black Sea (Hungary and Turkey). In 2005,representatives of BBCC contributed their experienceto the ‘UNESCO Educational Sector Guidelines andRecommendations for Reorienting Teacher Educationto Address Sustainability’, the preparation of whichImages: © Inga BelousaBBCC president Ilga Salite and ISE director Dzintra Iliško at the opening of the 7thJTEFS/BBCC conference “Sustainable Development. Culture. Education”, 2009,Daugavpils, LatviaWelcoming Anita Pipere, the first editor of JTEFS journal, at the 7thJTEFS/BBCC conference in Daugavpils[ 96 ]