Planète Urgence is a French non-governmental organization (NGO) that has the primary function of sending volunteers overseas to participate in various humanitarian missions to help local populations in their development efforts or to work on environmental protection programmes.

Planète Urgence engages in activities mostly in West Africa, but some environmental projects are in Zimbabwe, the West Indies and Indonesia, while other more specialized development projects take place in India and Bolivia.

You can learn more about Planète Urgence here

Responsible for Work Package 1 : Project coordination
DDEFI coordinates the PASDEL project in cooperation with its local partners, gathering the key actors of the problematics on the ground.
DDEFI provides trainings for companies, schools, public offices and any other organisation interested in Sustainable Development.
More information at www.ddefi.fr

Work Package 2 : Pedagogical aspects

The “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi is the oldest higher education institution in Romania. Since 1860, the university has been carrying on a tradition of excellence and innovation in the fields of education and research. With over 40000 students and 900 academic staff, the university enjoys a high prestige at national and international level and cooperates with over 180 universities world-wide.
The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration is one of the most dynamic faculties within “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi from the point of view of educational opportunities, the number of students, academic expertise and modern learning facilities. It offers higher education in the fields of economics and political and social sciences with a three level structure (undergraduate, master, doctorate), with a choice between full-time and part-time distance learning education.
Within PASDEL project, the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi is the leader of the Work Package 2 “Pedagogical aspects”. The role of the university in this project is to assure discussion and exchange of experience in the pedagogical approaches developed for each target group.

The Eco-Counselling Centre of Galati trains executives according to their needs in terms of sustainable development. It has close links with the Eco-council Institute of Namur, which has contributed to its creation and implementation of "eco-councillors" training courses, adapted to different Romanian contexts (rural, urban, target groups of unemployed people and workers).

Within PASDEL, the ECCG aims to achieve full integration of these training objectives in all its programmes concerning environmental education.

The ECCG will support the Namur Eco-counselling Institute with expertise in valorisation and communication of the project and its results.
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Pawel Wlodkowic University College in Plock is a non-state institution, and was established in 1992.

The University gathers six faculties: Administration, Computer science, Pedagogy, Political science, Physical education and Management.
The Ministry of Education grants the college permission to offer BA programs in all faculties and MA programs in three faculties. Teacher training and postgraduate courses in over forty specializations are offered for 2 000 students every year.

Currently over 10 000 students make it one of the largest non-state universities in Poland. The University tackles themes corresponding to the objectives of PASDEL and so brings pedagogical and particularly technological expertise useful for the PASDEL project.

The PWUC in Plock is responsible for the Work Package 3 (Integration / Technical adaptation) due to its specialisations in computer sciences.

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CIFAL Plock (International Training Centre for Local Authorities from Central and Eastern Europe) is a part of the CIFAL network.

Plock CIFAL Centre operates within the countries of Central and Eastern Europe building the capacities of local authorities in the field of public-private partnerships and the role of private sector in sustainable urban development. Since the first training course in December 2004, nearly 400 local government representatives from the cities of Central and Eastern Europe have participated in various courses.

The main goal of all CIFAL centres is to create a platform to facilitate meetings of local authorities, where they can exchange views and experiences on city management, information technology use, sustainable development and urbanization.

In CIFAL Plock trainings participate the representatives of local authorities from Central and Eastern Europe (target countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine, Georgia)

CUEC is leading the evaluation and monitoring work package of the PASDEL project.

Charles University has 17 faculties with 40 000 students. The Charles University Environmental Center (CUEC) was created in 1992 in order to promote sustainable development in higher education and the wider public.

CUEC’s tasks include advisory and expert support to University representatives, the acquisition, processing and mediation of information on environment and sustainable development issues relevant to study programmes and lifelong education. CUEC staff initiate the establishment of study programmes and courses, collaborate in their accreditation and find topics for bachelors’, masters’, doctorate, and dissertation papers and participate in teaching at the University faculties and beyond.

CUEC is focused on developing competences such as collaboration, communication, critical thinking and complex problem solving for sustainability among students of the PASDEL courses. It is crucial to develop these competences among students to enable them to be effective in their profession within or beyond academia.

The Institute was created in 1989 with the objective of providing environmental management training. With a pluralistic approach and work in collaboration with the public, private, education and NGO sectors, the Institute has ensured firm support for its goals.

The Eco-Counselling Institute of Namur trains executives who will participate in the definition of the training needs in terms of sustainable development in the firms they go on to join. It wishes to support these "training managers" by providing high quality environmental training content.

It constitutes then the base of a future decision-makers network, trained to deal with the realities of sustainable development, and benefiting from the training tools created by the PASDEL project.

Within PASDEL, the Namur Eco-council Institute is responsible for the WP5 (Valorisation-Marketing). That organisation, by its nature, is capable to advise the partnership in its valorisation and communication strategy of the produced modules. Indeed, the Institute must promote its existence and the quality of the trainings provided throughout Belgium, and its membership of the eco-council European network gives it wide access though the network’s transnational policy useful for PASDEL valorisation.

The Institut Eco-conseil website

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organisations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. It comprises more than 950 members all over the world.

The ICLEI European Secretariat is responsible for serving the approximately 180 members in Europe. The Secretariat was established in Freiburg (Germany) in 1992. Its activities started around the theme of Local Agenda 21 and its implementation across Europe.

ICLEI’s mission is to build and serve a worldwide movement of local governments to achieve tangible improvements in global sustainability through the cumulative effects of local actions. Focus is on natural resources and ecosystems and their interaction with human settlements.

ICLEI’s role in the PASDEL project is mainly in the context of Work Package 4, Evaluation. ICLEI will especially assess the learners’ satisfaction with the contents of the produced training modules. For this, experts of ICLEI’s International Training Centre (ITC) will be involved that are located in the same office as the European Secretariat and shares with it a 15 year track record of working with local governments in the area of sustainable development.

For the evaluation tasks, ICLEI will cooperate with the Environment Centre of the Charles University in Prague that contributes with a complementary view of a training actor in the academic sector, but will also assess the educational dimension of the created tools.

Furthermore, ICLEI will be involved in Work Package 5, Valorisation. In this context, ICLEI will link PASDEL to its international network that represents a major asset for raising awareness on the newly developed training opportunities among the public authorities of the target countries. This support will become particularly crucial when the project will be extended to new countries in a later development step.

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The consultancy company Transport & Travel Research was established in 1991 and has offered 15 years of services of assistance to private and public actors in the field of transport in the United Kingdom and Europe.

The expertise gained in terms of planning, project management and evaluation, especially in the framework of European co-operation has lead TTR to assist local authorities to obtain European financing and to manage the funded projects.

The services are addressed to local authorities, enterprises, associations involved in land planning and implementation of sustainable development strategies. TTR is engaged in the fields of transport, energy, water, waste and other environmental issues; but also in communication, social responsibility, inclusion, governance methods and participation.

The TTR France Office’s involvement in the PASDEL project stems from cooperation with ADDH in Identifying an appropriate funding source and developing the PASDEL project proposal

TTR and its French office, through its expertise in European projects management in the fields of transport, energy and sustainable development, assists DDEFI (the PASDEL coordinator) in the project management, reporting and implementation of the dissemination strategy.

The TTR Website