Partner - Steering Committee Member

CHEDD

Collèges des Hautes Etudes sur le Développement Durable (CHEDD) / Association des acteurs Régionaux de l'Economie et de l'Environnement (AREE) (FRANCE)

 

AREE is an association of regional actors in economy and environment. AREE pilots the College of High Studies on Sustainable Development (CHEDD) (Valenciennes, France). It works for a large comprehension of the development, to be integrated in a sustainable development approach and thus by according importance to the environmental, temporal (future generations) and ethical dimension (good governance). Its ambition is also to raise awareness among decision-makers concerning a complete definition of sustainable development and help them integrate and translate it into their policies and strategies.

AREE’s role in the proposed project, through CHEDD, is to help raise awareness, but also train and accompany decision-makers and allow replications of the approach. It will bring its know-how in the organization of awareness raising activity aiming to create a common culture of the sustainable development originated in the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences. AREE will specifically be involved in the communication, project management and organisation of conferences. It will also be involved in the working group concerning behaviours as its pedagogic expertise can be here widely exploited.

Ms Ingrid JURRIENS engineered and managed different types of projects at the service of a targeted, international public in the R&D, cultural, industrial, diplomatic and institutional branches. Guest-speaker of CHEDD Valenciennes on the theme of cross-cultural awareness and competencies since June 2006, she is in charge of the associations AREE (Regional Actors for Economy and Environment) and CHEDD (College of Advanced Studies in Sustainable Development) since June 2007 and contributes as such to the training programmes & seminars, consultancy missions, publications, study trips and international (pilot)-operations and colloquia. As partner of TIC21, AREE and CHEDD provide specific scientific input and participate in the ICT21 Energy Efficiency project of the European CIP/ICT-PSP programme.

Mr Michel GIRAN is the founder and general delegate of ADOME (Association pour le Développement des Outils Multimédias appliqués à l’environnement). He is also the founder of these websites, planètécologie (http://www.planetecologie.org), in 2001, ecobase 21: www.ecobase21.net.    
He has co-organised several events, such as TIC21 and has created numerous websites related to environment matters.