AGEPP 2nd International Workshops in Korea: members discussed directions and perspectives of the project

26-30 April 2007, ESD-J held the AGEPP* 2nd Workshops (AGEPP-2) in Tongyeong, Republic of Korea.

6 AGEPP members and 4 ESD-J staff gathered and spent over 10 hours for AGEPP meeting. The participants proactively discussed about the following agenda, based on the research experience of each country in 2006.

- 2006 case report collection process;
- Project management of AGEPP member organization ;
- Direction of 2007 case research; and
- Utilization of AGEPP after the project year.

The AGEPP member organizations will conduct the 2007 case research in each country and another 21 cases will be collected by the end of November.

This time, Korean ESD organizations also utilized AGEPP-2 to promote ESD and develop ESD network in Korea. So, ESD-J co-organized Korea International ESD Forum with LSAK, Council for Green Gyeongnam21, Tongyoung RCE, and Korean Environmental Education Network (KEEN), as well.

Besides AGEPP delegates from these organizations, about 90 teachers, government officials and NGO staffs participated in Korea ESD International Forum. AGEPP members presented the AGEPP 2006 cases. AGEPP members exchanged various views and opinions of ESD with the Korean participants.

* ESD-J has been undertaking a three-year project since 2005 - Asia Good ESD Practice Research Project (AGEPP). This project purposes for exploring community-based good ESD practices in each country, developing the case report database and networking ESD activists throughout Asian countries. The project is funded by Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program.

6 NGOs from 6 Asian countries, LSAK (Korea), Friends of Nature (China), BINTARI (Indonesia), CEE (India), NRC-NFE (Nepal) and EBC (Philippines) have participated in AGEPP. ESD-J hosted AGEPP-1 in Tokyo, Japan, in 2006, in order to clarify the direction of the project and issues to be included in the ESD case reports.

**The 2006 cases are now available AGEPP Web-site. PDF documents are also avairable to download.