Pasaulē divas trešdaļas trūcīgo iedzīvotāju dzīvo lauku apvidos, un viņu iztika ir atkarīga no lauksaimniecības. Pārtikas un uztura nodrošinājumam ES vienmēr ir atvēlējusi centrālo vietu attīstības sadarbībā, un tirdzniecības attiecībās un kaimiņattiecību un paplašināšanās politikā tā pievērš īpašu uzmanību pārtikas nodrošinājumam un ilgtspējīgai lauksaimniecībai un zivsaimniecībai. ES ir lielākā humānās pārtikas palīdzības sniedzēja pārtikas krīzēs cietušajām personām visā pasaulē un iegulda ļoti daudz līdzekļu, reaģējot uz situāciju valstīs, kuras apdraud bads.

Lai nākotnē tiktu izskausts bads un veicināta ilgtspējīga praks, ES ir jāturpina darbs pie ilgstspējīgi ražotas pārtikas, lai ar to tiktu nodrošināti cilvēki. Pamatojoties uz ES 2030. gada lauksaimniecības perspektīvām, ES nav gaidāms pārtikas nodrošinājuma trūkums, ja nebūs ievērojamu tirgus traucējumu. 

A good practice in Greece in promoting environmental awareness and sustainability education is the Environmental Education Centers. Greece has a network of 53 public Environmental Education Centers, one in every Prefecture.

 These Environmental Education Centers organise each year Seminars and Workshops for teachers of Primary and Secondary Education and other adult citizens. Apart from that the teachers (from Primary and Secondary Education) who work in these Centers design and offer Environmental Education Programs for school teams. These programs can last from 1 to 3 days.

Another good practice of Environmental Education Centers in Greece is the Thematic Networks they coordinate in local, regional and national level. Teachers and students are asked to participate voluntarily in these Thematic Networks exchanging ideas, good practices and educational material. The Thematic Environmental Education Networks organise at least one Teachers' meeting annually, so that teachers are trained in pedagogical methods, discuss and exchange ideas and educational material. The Thematic Environmental Education Networks also might organise Action Days such as the Reuse Day organised annually by the "Anakyklososte"  Network, that is coordinated by the Environmental Education Center of Vamos in Chania (in the western part of the island of Crete). 1.000 -2000 teachers and students paricipate in this Action Day, organising reuse actions and workshops in their schools all over Crete.

The Environmental Education Centers in Greece were created by the Ministry of Education and Religion and were supported by EU funds (except for the teachers' salaries thar are paid by Greek funds).

it has been a great pleasure for me and Claudia D'Eramo to follow and moderate this enthusiastic and informative discussion on Environmental awareness in adult education!

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We will do the same in order to publish a dedicated blog-post that will summarize all your precious indications on projects and initiatives from all around the world.

For the timebeing, we want to close this discussion with a breaking news from another European Platform, EUROPEANA - the European Digital Library, which has just announced a new action on climate change. The Europeana Network Association represents galleries, libraries, archives, museums, as well as cultural heritage institutions and professionals from all over Europe that want to express their support for pursuing meaningful climate action and encouraging the Europeana Initiative towards discussion and collective action.

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Altheo Valentini (Moderator)

Even though I am a Hungarian ALE professional, I would like to share a best practice I have witnessed in Ireland via the Irish Rural Link (link is external) (IRL) while visiting Maynooth University as an Erasmus+ scholar. Founded in 1991 its aim is to develop the organisation and management of IRL in a manner that is inclusive, participatory and sustainable. As a non-profit organisation now directly represents over 600 community groups with a combined membership of 25,000.

Also the Irish Rural Link is determined to highlight, publicise and respond to key rural issues through operational projects and programmes and it is run by a small and dedicated core of professional staff members which aims at all times to drive forward the rural agenda, aid members and influence the various political levels on rural issues. A determined mission indeed. 

In recent years, Albania has prepared several comprehensive documents, related to the environment and the preparation of new documents is on-going. Strategies and action plans usually determine targets and indicators for the purpose of monitoring progress. The relevance of progress monitoring, the regular collection of data and the calculation of indicators, and analysis and evaluation of data and indicators is increasing as these steps are required for decision-making on timing and allocation of limited financial resources. This is extremely important for progress reports prepared on the implementation of different cross-cutting strategies and the NSDI. ​