Hamburg Office of Urban Development and the Environment
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Hamburg plays an active role in the national Round Table of the UN Decade of ESD, where many stakeholders meet.
Some Hamburg stakeholders actively take part in different Working Groups at the national level. Since the beginning of the Decade, more than 70 projects from Hamburg have been conferred the title of Official German Projects of the UN Decade. In Hamburg’s Plan of Action the initiative “Hamburg Learns Sustainability” assembles about 120 model projects. Via an online database subjects and suppliers can be contacted and link-up within the educational areas, but also between the different areas can be speeded up.
However, Hamburg is not only a city but also a constituent Federal Land, German state. The Federal Länder are important partners in the Round Table. Hamburg was the first Land with its own Plan of Action to support the UN Decade. Many other Federal Länder have now also developed their own Plans of Action.
Right at the start of the UN Decade Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein began to cooperate across state boundaries. Soon afterwards Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg Western Pomerania also joined, with Bremen taking part as an observer. All these states are located on the coast, either on the North Sea or the Baltic. To avoid duplication and to discuss joint interests and problems, they founded the North German Partnership to the support of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005–2014 (NUN). In a framework agreement the Länder committed themselves to cooperate at all educational levels. A big, inter-state conference takes place every two years, with the first taking place in Lübeck (2005), the second in Hamburg (2007) and the third on 3rd–4th September 2009 in Schwerin.
Contact:
Hamburg Ministry of Urban Development and Environment
Hamburger Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt
Geschäftsstelle Hamburg lernt Nachhaltigkeit
Stadthausbrücke 8
20355 Hamburg, Germany
phone + 49 40 428 402141
fax + 49 40 427 940803
Person to contact: Renate Uhlig-Lange
Renate.Uhlig-Lange@bsu.hamburg.de
http://www.hamburg.de/nachhaltigkeitlernen
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