Sustainable development

Learning to do your part

Becoming aware and discoverins hot to act

Environment and sustainable development education put forward by Idée Education Entrepreneuriale aims at making us aware to the fact that we live inside a fragile biosphere which is a unique ecosystem where everything is linked, interconnected and interdependent. It is essential to teach how to act for environment and sustainable development of our community and our planet. We educate young people and adults of all ages to choose the part they want to take, the role they want to play, the commitment they want to make. This exciting educational vision implemented in the school by the approach of conscious educational entrepreneurship is guided by a basic idea: every stone laid has its importance, it is a contribution aiming at building a place of life that is more balanced and harmonious.

SEEING FURTHER, IMAGINING BIG AND CONTRIBUTING to

At the heart of this essential search for balance, there is our constant relationship with the nature that nourishes us, with the community and the society inside which we are « cohabitating » and with the economy, as related to many existential needs. In this perspective, a set of coherent and often simple educational actions needs to be implemented. Conscious educational entrepreneurship enables young people and adults to learn how « to imagine big » using simple, complex or innovative solutions, for the emergence of better ecological, social and economic health for the planet and its communities. Our hope is that this will result in greater social justice and more equitable prosperity for all.

LEARNING together

Regardless of the human environment inhabited, each action for sustainable development and environment has its impact. To educate in this perspective is within the reach of all educational environments. Indeed, it is a question of provoking reflection and putting young people into action around activities, projects and educational micro-enterprises in entrepreneurship that raise awareness of the essential balance « human-nature-economy ».

CONSCIous entrepreneurship and civic commitment

All our actions, in particular those carried out through approaches such as conscious entrepreneurship and civic commitment, tend to act in favor of truly sustainable development. Our approaches contribute to a better balance of the space forming our living environment on small or larger scales – neighborhood, village, town, region, nation, and the world.

Our contribution to sustainable development

The overall vision and educational actions led by Idée Éducation Entrepreneuriale help bring innovative ideas to schools and create favorable conditions for the development and initiation of activities and projects that have direct benefits for sustainable development and environment.

Our approach consists in accompanying, supporting, inspiring, equipping and valorizing such realisations in the educational environments.

We accompany educational environments in the implementation of structuring projects. Our flagship project, that of Entrepreneurial Community School, fosters increased awareness and commitment from youth, the educational team and school partners towards sustainable development.

We animate a network of schools, organizations and individuals (the international network OIECEC) that wants, by means of Conscious Educational Entrepreneurship, to act in developing the power of action by young people towards sustainable development of their communities. We share promising initiatives and winning practices to facilitate collaboration and mutual inspiration.

Our fall Convention in Conscious educational entrepreneurship is a gathering not be missed to discover, share and exchange on educational practices enabling sustainable development. Our educational immersion stays aim at inspiring participants to become committed to sustainable development while inducing them to discover the numerous possibilities offered by Conscious Educational entrepreneurship.

We provide the educational institutions that we accompany and members of our international network with tools and digital platforms enabling them to share their achievements, to generate ideas and have a better understanding of how Conscious Education Entrepreneurship can be put into the service of sustainable development.

Through the Happiness at school project, we offer specialized services and develop specific tools for educational teams and various interveners so that they can better assist youth in many ways affecting their well-being, health, commitment and success. A comprehensive health that enables us to work more effectively towards sustainable development.

Do you know the sustainable development obectives of the United Nations?

There are 17 goals that address the global challenges we face, from poverty and environmental degradation to inequality, peace and justice. These goals provide a roadmap to a better and more sustainable future for all. 17 goals to transform the world.

Through our educational activities, we seek to raise awareness of school communities to the importance of these goals and their role in contributing to reach one or many of their targets. We promote the emergence of conscious agents for change who are aware of the impact of their actions and committed to sustainable development.

Some promising initiatives in supported environments

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Our commitment goes even further

Idée Éducation Entrepreneuriale believes in being a role model through its choices and actions so that they demonstrate a strong commitment to sustainable development.

We have developed an Action Plan to refine our vision, for our living environments. This action plan, which guides our team’s overall commitment, includes four broad objectives:

Make available new scientific knowledge and innovations contributing to sustainable development by the school.

Provide rigorous, diligent and flexible guidance to schools in order to support pedagogies and educational ideas that contribute positively to the environment and sustainable development.

Facilitate, between the schools involved, exchanges and sharing of experiences related to the protection of the environment sustainable environment objectives.

Demonstrate  Idée éducation entrepreneuriale’s leadership in environmental education and sustainable development within the school system.