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The Haifa District 2nd Conference for Environmental Literacy and Sustainability at Madatech
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The Haifa District 2nd Conference for Environmental Literacy and Sustainability was held at Madatech on Thursday, Feb. 4th. Over 400 teachers and educators participated in a day of tours, lectures and workshops which were organized in association with Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection and Ministry of Education – Haifa's District, Haifa Municipality, KKL-JNF, and The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. |
For Our Future
"The exceptional response of pedagogical persons – directors, school and kinder garden teachers - to participate in this conference, warms the heart and indicates that the values of environmental protection have been assimilated and shows the true will of educators to assimilate these values in students and the new generation, in order to improve the quality of the environment". Knesset member, Dov Hannin, on his lecture during the conference
For Our Education
The conference's objective was to respond the growing request from Haifa's educators to receive literary tools to implement environmental protection and promote sustainability values as part of educational values. The conference engaged mainly in global warming and its consequences, towards a green school community.
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For Our Society
The conference hosted significant lectures:
Knesset member, Dov Hannin: A Global Challenge – A Local Confrontation
Ramat Hanadiv Education, Dr. Salit Ron: From and Ecological Footprint to our Handprint.
Madatech's Curator, Dr. Tal Berman: A UNESCO Report Of Global Warming and Climate Changes.
Participants were greeted by Mr. Shlomo Katz, Haifa's District Ministry of Environmental Protection director, Ms. Zivit Linder, Head of Education Department in the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ms. Sarah Dar, Haifa's District Ministry of Education science supervisor and Dr. Ronen Mir, Madatech's CEO. |
For Our Environment
Throughout the conference, Madatech held various tours, among them touring the Madatech's Green Energy exhibition, traveling to the Kishon outflow and various workshops such as Blue box, environment protection over the years, glass recycling, environmental literacy and co-existence in schools, varied biology in the forest and grove and the show: Dr. Molecule saves the environment"
For Our Prospect
Green organizations, educational institutions, environmental, sustainability and educational literacy companies and entrepreneurs held an environmental exhibits display.
For Our Humanity
Madatech, who hosted the conference, is a partner in the ACCENT project, dedicated to facilitating activation on climate changes, using various tools, involvement and social and business networking. 15 science organizations and museums from Europe and Israel are partners in this project. All partners meet on regular basis in order to discuss ways of dealing with climate changes issues and its opening event was on COP15, the climate changes global convention, held in Copenhagen early this year. This year's objectives are defining strategies to raise public awareness and encourage citizens to take an active part in dealing with climate changes through dialogue and actions, and the conference at Madatech is one of the tools towards achieving these goals.
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