On December 3, 2015, Daugavpils University UNESCO/UNITWIN Chair, Baltic and Black Sea Concortium in educational research (BBCC) has approved the director and co-directors of a virtual Institute of Sustainable Education (ISE).
On the second day of UNESCO LNK and Daugavpils University’s conference “Bridging Education and Science for Sustainable Development”, namely, on December 3 rd , the members of the Baltic and Black Sea Consortium in educational research (BBCC) gathered for the meeting. The meeting has appointed BBCC members for the membership in the board of the BBCC international Institute of Sustainable Education (ISE). The agreement about the establishment of the virtual International ISE was confirmed at the 13th InternationalJTEFS/BBCC conference “Sustainable Development. Culture. Education” that took place in Riga from May 5-6 in Riga Technical University (for more info, see www.du.lv).
The members appointed for the BBCC ISE board were invited to appoint the head of the virtual BBCC ISE. The board has confirmed for this position the candidature suggested by the UNESCO/UNITWIN Chair from Toronto professor Charles Hopkins, namely, BBCC ISE general director professor Siebren Miedema from the VU University in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). The head of the DU UNESCO/UNITWIN Chair professor Ilga Salīte suggested to appoint as BBCC ISE co-directors assoc. professor Dzintra Iliško and professor Anita Pipere from Daugavpils University (DU) BBCC ISE board members have supported this proposal.
The membership in a virtual ISE is seen in ISE home page (www.ise-lv.eu/). In December Daugavpils University’s ISE home page will be restored and will serve as a home page for the virtual BBCC ISE. Historically, the establishment of BBCC was supported by the Faculty of Education and Management and ISE was established in 2003. After the reform processes in 2014, ISE was reorganized as a Centre of Sustainable Education, but the name of ISE was preserved by the BBCC, resulting in the establishment of virtual ISE within the BBCC network.
Since 2000 universities who were engaged in BBCC network will continue educational research on education for sustainable development and teacher education.
The cooperation of ISE and BBCC reflects the experience that can be described by the wisdom pronounced by the Latvian poet J. Rainis: “Pastāvās, kas pārvērtīsies…” (“One who changes will survive”).
Reforms in higher education and science invite transformations. DU Faculty of Education and Management and ISE in its dynamic development have created international BBCC network and prompted a development of Daugavpils University’s UNESCO/UNITWIN Chair and opened a virtual BBCC ISE.
The Board of BBCC International virtual Institute of sustainable education
approved in the meeting of ISE members during the 2-3rd December (2015) conference in Daugavpils University
| General Director and Co-directors of BBCC ISE |
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| Siebren | Miedema | VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Director of BBCC ISE |
| Dzintra | Iliško | Daugavpils University, Latvia Co-director of BBCC ISE |
| Anita | Pipere | Daugavpils University, Latvia Co-director in research publishing in UNESCO Chair in DU and BBCC |
| Co-directors of BBCC ISE from countries |
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| Andreas | Brunold | University of Augsburg, Germany Co-director of BBCC ISE from Gernany |
| Charlotte | Holland | RCE Dublin, Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development for the greater Dublin Region Co-director of BBCC ISE from Ireland |
| Abdülkadir | Kabadayi | Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey Co-director of BBCC ISE from Turkey |
| Abbas | Bazargan | University of Teheran, Iran Co-director of BBCC ISE from Iran |
| Marika | Veisson | Tallinn University, Estonia Co-director of BBCC ISE from Estonia |
| Rytis | Vilkonis | Šiauliai University, Lithuania Co-director of BBCC ISE from Lithuania |
| Tuula | Keinonen | University of Eastern Finland, Savonlinna campus, Finland Co-director of BBCC ISE from Finland |
| Eugeniušz | Switala | Daugavpils University Latvia/Poland Co-director of BBCC ISE from Poland, BBCC secretary |
| Domenico | Sgambati | Marine Protected Area of Punta Campanella, Italy Co-director of BBCC ISE from Italy |
| Lenka | Danielova | Mendel University in Brno, Czech republic Co-director of BBCC ISE from Czech republic |
| Olena | Pometun | National Academy of Educational Science of Ukraine, Ukraine Co-director of BBCC ISE from Ukraine |
| BBCC network coordinators from countries |
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| Daniel | Fischer | Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany BBCC network coordinator from Germany |
| Tanja | Tillmanns | Dublin City University, Ireland BBCC network coordinator from Ireland |
| Ulla | Harkonen | University of Eastern Finland, Savonlinna campus, Finland BBCC network coordinator from Finland |
| Lidija | Ušeckiene | Šiauliai University, Lithuania BBCC network coordinator from Lithuania |
| Pavel | Vyletal | Mendel University in Brno, Czech republic BBCC network coordinator from Czech republic |
| Barbara | Mazur | Bialystok Technological University, Poland BBCC network coordinator from Poland |
| Tomasz | Zygmunt | State School of Higher Education, Poland BBCC network coordinator from Poland |
| Oleksandra | Borysenko | Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine BBCC network coordinator from Ukraine |
| Sofia | Saveleva | Association "Education for Sustainable Development", Belarus BBCC network coordinator from Belarus |
| BBCC and REC (Regional Center of Expertise appointed by UNU) cooperation coordinators from countries |
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| Detlev | Lindau-Bank | University of Vechta, Germany BBCC and REC cooperation coordinator from Germany |
| Eridiana | Oļehnoviča | Daugavpils University, Latvia BBCC and REC cooperation coordinator from Latvia |
| Rea | Raus | Statera, Statera Research Center, Estonia BBCC and REC cooperation coordinator from Estonia |
| Rima | Bakutytė | Šiauliai University, Lithuania BBCC and REC cooperation coordinator from Lithuania |
| Irina | Semko | Regional Center of Expertise “Eсodemia”, Belarus BBCC and REC cooperation coordinator from Belarus |
| UNESCO Chairs and representatives from UNESCO National comissions |
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| Charles | Hopkins | UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability, York University, Canada |
| Arjen | Wals | Wageningen University, Netherlands UNESCO Chair |
| Ilga | Salīte | UNESCO Chair of Education for Sustainable Development, Daugavpils University, Latvia |
| Baiba | Moļņika | UNESCO Latvijas Nacionālā komisija, Latvia |