Conference Programme
Making the Invisible Visible
16 - 18 December 2010
Checkland Building, Falmer Campus, University of Brighton
The conference programme includes keynote speakers as well as a large number of interactive workshops, world cafes to exchange experience and ideas as well as opportunies for networking.
Members of the International Environment Forum have decided to attend this conference in lieu of their annual conference, due to their great interest in the topics. They will hold their Annual General Meeting separately on Thursday 16th December.
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Thursday 16 December
| 8:30 | Registration begins | |||
| 9:30 | Formal Opening |
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Overview of Conference Themes and Context |
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People's Theater - Germany |
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| Plenary Session 1: Developing an Overview | ||||
| 9:50 | Indicators and the Need for Values DESD we can? Learning our way out of Unsustainability in the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) Values. Why do successful businesses consider them a competitive advantage? The Earth Charter: Meeting a Need for a Universal Values/Ethics Framework |
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| Pannel Discussion & Questions led by Arthur Dahl, University of Brighton (Ex-Deputy Director, UNEP) | ||||
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| Plenary Session 2: Recent Developments | ||||
| 11:30 | Values as the basis for action in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: the Youth as Agents of Behavioural Change Initiative |
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A New Framework of Values-based indicators & the 'We Value' toolkit |
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TSIPANI ECHERI: The Presence of Values in Environmental Education Through the Arts |
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| Discussion and questions from this session | ||||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| (Pastries and coffee provided – in foyer – after your lunch) ONGOING INFORMAL INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES |
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| SPECIALIST SESSIONS | ||||
| 14:30 | 1.Values Systems Windows on the World: Views from Minessence Jackie Le Fèvre View PDF (656kb) View PDF (1.18mb) View PDF (273kb) View PDF (247kb) View PDF (99kb) |
2. Indicators for SD and ESD Environmental Indicators Bedrich Moldan - 0:00 on audio track View PDF (1.21mb) The Sustainable Self: a personal approach to education for sustainability Paul Murray - 02:03:00 on audio track View PDF (1mb) |
3.Unmeasured things we value: sharing examples NGOs in Rural Dev Ahmet Akyurek View PDF (1.82mb) View PDF (1.54mb) |
4.`WeValue’ & EC-Access Taster Session Interactive workshop: using ‘We Value’ system for exploring and measuring values, And Earth Charter’s EC-Access system |
16.45 18.15 |
(Light Buffet and coffee provided – in foyer) ONGOING INFORMAL INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES Scribble Board – Quiet Corner – Self-forming discussion groups - Creative Assessment Tools |
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18:20
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Public Professorial Inaugural Lecture View PDF (56mb) |
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| 19:40 | Reception | |||
| 19:50 | First bus departs for Brighton | |||
| 21:00 | Second bus departs for Brighton | |||
Friday 17 December
| 8:30 | Registration continues | ||||
| 9:00 | Welcome Back Marie Harder, Co-ordinator of EU FP7 ESDinds project, University of Brighton |
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| Plenary Session 3: Challenges and Progress in Using Values | |||||
| 9:50 | New Developments in Understanding Values |
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The ‘Good Governance for Medicines’ Programme |
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Values in Education and Design |
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Measurement -why values can soon be embedded everywhere Panel Discussion & Questions led by Marie Harder, University of Brighton |
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| 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:30 | Sub-Plenary Session 1 (Lecture Theatre) |
Sub-Plenary Session 2 |
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12:00
12:20 |
Building Values-Driven Organizations, Communities and Nations
Richard Barrett, Barrett Values Centre Healthy University-CSO Partnerships
David Wolff, Community University Partnership Programme, University of Brighton The role of values in achieving a more sustainable development David Chittenden, PERL - Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living The Impacts of using Values-Based Indicators in projects worldwide Alicia Jimenez, Earth Charter international |
Faith based communities and their engagement with the environment through long term plans Martin Palmer, Alliance for Religion and Conservation - 02:00 on audio track
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| 12:40 | Panel Discussion & Questions for each session | ||||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
(Pastries and coffee provided – in foyer – after your lunch) ONGOING INFORMAL INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES |
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| SPECIALIST SESSIONS | |||||
| 14:30 | 5.Monitoring & Evaluation ‘Social Return on Investment ‘used in Tower Hamlets Karina Berzins Validity Checks of WeValue Martin Zhradnik - 07:00 on audio track Youth-Led M&E David Woollcomb - 39:00 on audio track Measuring Social Impact Simon Northmore - 01:15:00 on audio track Measuring Empowerment Andrew Bartlett - 01:48:00 on audio track |
6.Values Systems in Business AtKisson Inc: COMPASS Michael Lunn ‘WeValue’ in Business Serge Thill Values Technology Sara Wolcott, IDS Minessence System: Organisational Change Jackie Le Fèvre |
7.Co-Inception Co-Design, Co-Production Design for Social Learning: Transformative Learning Jody Boehnert Co-Design in Action Nick Gant Design-thinking for social innovation Nil Gular The Need to Design ‘Soft’ Indicators Kirsten Reeves (tbc) |
8.Partnerships Healthy University-CSO Partnerships David Wolff Partnerships in WeValue Gemma Burford - 15:00 on audio track Experiences of partnerships in Global Action Plan International Marilyn Mehlmann 47:00 on audio track How Project Quality links to Values John Smith - 26:00 on audio track |
9a.`WeValue’ Taster Session Interactive session exploring and measuring values |
16.45 18.15 |
(Light Buffet and coffee provided – in foyer) ONGOING INFORMAL INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES Scribble Board – Quiet Corner – Self-forming discussion groups - Creative Assessment Tools |
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18:20
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People’s Theater, Germany |
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| 19:10 | First bus departs for Brighton | ||||
| 20:10 | Second bus departs for Brighton | ||||
Saturday 18 December
| 9:00 | Welcome Back |
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PANEL SESSION: CHALLENGES AND PROGRESS IN USING VALUES |
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| 9:05 | Beyond GDP Economics and the need for Measuring Values Intelligent Commissioning and links to Big Society ‘Effective’ versus ‘Successful’ CSO Projects View PDF (330kb) Policy Initiatives, Values and Indicators Panel Discussion & Questions |
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| 10:40 | Coffee break | ||||
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12:30 |
Identifying New Communities of Practice: Specific Ways Forward The Future of the Global Economy View PDF (165kb)
Listen to audio - Final panel discussion |
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| 13:00 | CLOSING COMMENTS | ||||
| 13:15 | First bus departs for Brighton | ||||
| 14:15 | Second bus departs for Brighton | ||||
