Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Public Health
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The Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Public Health is responsible for the sustainable protection of man and the essential prerequisites for human life in Bavaria: for the protection of nature and landscape, of soil, water, air and climate, for public health and food safety, for animal health and the protection of wildlife, for radiation protection and nuclear safety. The Ministry is furthermore in charge of Education for Sustainable Development.
Environmental Education has a decisive influence on how Education for Sustainable Development is implemented in Bavaria. The cooperation of non-governmental organisations and the state, together with consistent promotion over more than ten years, have resulted in the establishment and support of valuable structures for Environmental Education outside the school system. The state as promoter and partner provides an important basis for this unprecedented successful development.
Important mainstays of this are Extracurricular Environmental Education, support of a gap year taken to work as a volunteer in environmental projects (Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr – FÖJ) and Citizens’ Community Networks. The project “Marketing for Environmental Education”, the Bavarian Working Group on ESD and the learning network “Citizens’ Community Network” are examples of the successful cooperation of state and society in the framework of the catalogue of measures of the German National Plan of Action.
Contact:
Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment
and Public Health
Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt
und Gesundheit (StMUG)
Rosenkavalierplatz 2
81925 München, Germany
phone + 49 89 9214-00
fax + 49 89 9214-2266
Person to contact: Heike Wagner
Heike.Wagner@stmug.bayern.de
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