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indigenous groups of Taiwan at the Caretakers of the Environment International Conference inHungary, 2011. See more through this link.Consumers International and SWITCH-Asia Network Facility published “Mainstreaming SustainableConsumption in Asia”, which includes a reference to actions of the Earth Charter Initiative in the Asiaand Pacific region. This publication was launched during the 10th Asia Pacific Roundtable onSustainable Consumption and Production, in November 2011.The Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research, the ECI Affiliate in SriLanka, has been involved in the launch of the National Strategy on Education for Peace andSustainable Development. They are bringing the Earth Charter into this strategy.EuropeAffiliates in Spain, Portugal, and Germany organized several conferences, workshops, seminars, artexhibitions, and other activities around the Earth Charter with universities, schools, and also thegeneral public.The ECI Affiliate Fundación Valores in Spain held a workshop forteachers in Cáceres titled “Values and Sustainability Education with theEarth Charter” in October to enhance individual learning fordeveloping individual and social abilities for a better quality of life.Also in Spain in 2011, the Department of Education Sciences of theUniversity of Granada approved a new 6-credit programme titled“Earth Charter Platform for Action (PACTA)”. The Programme isavailable for any student within the Department. The general objectiveof the Programme is to promote holistic learning (cognitive,affective/emotional, and action) based on Earth Charter values. Thisproject is more open and less formal and academic compared to typicalcourses.Thirty artists showed their creativity in an exhibition called "EarthCharter - Transformations in Art and Sculpture" held in the town ofWarburg, Germany in July. An opening event was held where a talk wasgiven about the history of the Earth Charter. This is part of "Earth Charter and Arts", a project thatwas started two years ago by the arts organization "Art Driburg" and the Ecumenical Initiative OneWorld, a German Earth Charter Affiliate.ECI Affiliate Earth Charter Switzerland created and delivered a one-week course at the LifeFair, asustainable development fair in Zürich, in September, 2011. The course called "Ways towards an Earthfriendlylifestyle” included several aspects of the Earth Charter. The course, which is in German andaimed for 5th and 6th graders, lower and upper secondary school students, visitors to the fair, and25Earth Charter Annual Report 2011