The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, represented by the CSSP is pleased to be in cooperation with the TEMPUS and EU Commession,in the EduCamp (Education for Sustainable Development beyond the Campus)Project.

The Project work plan consists of 9 work packages. Each of the first 5 packages is aiming to achieve one of the five objectives. The other 4 packages are covering dissemination, sustainability, quality control & management. The leaders and partners responsible for each package have been carefully selected to achieve the planned 52 deliverables over the three years.

To achieve these objectives, it was necessary to select consortium members that represent different stakeholders & have the required capacity and know-how. Therefore, the consortium includes 7 EG and 3 EU universities, 2 SMEs, 3 NGOs, 2 Ministries, and Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Four Regional Centers of Expertise (RCE) on ESD which are members of the ESD Global RCEs Network are involved in this consortium. The two Education Ministries will ensure the successful implementation, access to schools, and project sustainability. The direct target groups are the university professors & undergraduate students. The indirect beneficiaries are the schools, teachers, & children. The proposed mechanism enables transferring and sharing ESD knowledge and promoting SD in at least seven governorates including Cairo.

This project is in line with the EC strategy for sustainable development (2008), the UN Decade Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), and the Egyptian Education Reform Policy (2008-2010), this project aims to promote the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the Egyptian society. The project is the first initiative in Egypt that brings universities and schools together in a structured mechanism. The specific objectives are; a) establishing seven Centres of Excellence inside the Egyptian universities to offer ESD services, b) Developing ESD teaching kits for basic education, c) developing innovative ESD teaching methodologies for school children, d) developing and implementing a training of trainers programme for school teachers, e) constructing a virtual environment for sharing knowledge on ESD.