ENIRDELM-related professional activities

An aim of our network is to promote international collaboration in professional activities

The twice-yearly ENIRDELM Newsletter contains up-to-date information about existing and desired collaborations between members in professional projects and other international forms of mutual assistance. See the sections in the Newsletter entitled "ENIRDELM Matters" and "ENIRDELM Members' Project Updates". Please send the Editor at any time, any requests for, or reports on, collaboration that you wish to have included in the Newsletter

ENIRDELM International Research Project on

"EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" (EL4SD)

The following two initiatives for a multi-country research survey and development of the ENIRDELM web-site resulted from a workshop at the ENIRDELM Conference in Bergen in September 2008 and subsequent networking

Multi-country survey of School Leaders’ involvement with Education Leadership for Sustainable Development

Invitation to the EL4SD Blog

The blog has got off to a slow start with only two themes: “EL4SD Questionnaire Development” and “World Economic Forum Global Perspectives” and only two contributors.  Please have a look at ENIRDELM’s attempt to enter the blogosphere and consider adding comments or a new theme.  This can be done by sending an e-mail to Thomas Söderberg with your request and e-mail adress after which you will get a a permission to participate in the blog.

Participating Countries (EL4SD Research Group)

UK – Mike Bottery – Team Leader
Sweden – Erik Groth
Finland – Taipani Niemanen
Latvia – Ilse Ivanova
Slovenia -– Suzana Sedmak & Justina Erculj
Hungary – Tibor Barath
Iceland – Borkur Hansen
Czech Republic – Milan Pol
Belgium – Karel Binon
Norway – Ola Hoff Kaldestad
USA – Dean Bowles
Denmark – Hans Joergen Knudsen
Macedonia – Natasa Angelovska-Galevska
BiH – Sanya Hadzihajdic
Albania – Alqi Mustafai
Poland – Ela Walkiewicz & Dorota Ekiert

Facilitators - David Oldroyd & Thomas Soderberg

Any more ENIRDELM friends from elsewhere who are interested, please contact Mike.

ENIRDELM Matters

What ENIRDELM IS, HAS and MIGHT become? Notes from the Uppsala Annual Meeting

At the Uppsala Conference David Oldroyd gave a short presentation to stimulate Round Table Discussions on the above questions:

IS -

1. A self-sustaining; self-selecting network set up to bring together from across Europe, professionals interested in educational leadership; 
2. An annually migrating temporary institutional base linked to the conference event with geographically dispersed leadership, male and female.
3. A totally voluntary very friendly membership with a strong social as well as professional side that stimulates heads, hearts and hands;
4. Highly productive with many tangible outputs to its credit in the form of conferences, publications, projects and a web-site.

HAS –

1. Sustained itself for 17 years through the energy of its members;
2. Drifted north-westwards;
3. Many heroes in the form of conference organisers, editors, project initiators
4. Two sides - a strong face-to-face (F2F) and a weaker ICT approach to networking

MIGHT –

1. Try better to ‘catch the wave’ of the digital age by strengthening its electronic network through the website
2. Rediscover and discover participants from Eastern and South Eastern Europe

ENIRDELM EL4SD

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