The seventh WEEC: World Environmental Education Congress

Since 2003, thousands of people around the world have participated in the WEEC (World Environmental Education Congress).

Next year will mark the tenth year since the first Congress was held in Espinho (Portugal) in 2003 and we will find ourselves together again in Marrakesh (Morocco) for the Seventh WEEC, from 9 to 14 june 2013.

We are working hard so that this coming Congress will be interesting and fruitful. As always, the focus of attention will be on all themes relative to environmental education and all the protagonists − academics, those from civil and industrial society – will be welcomed.

Moreover, for the first time, a WEEC is being held in a country with an Arab - Muslim culture, and for the first time a theme (the relation between city and countryside in search of harmony) will be the object of great transversal attention across all the thematic areas, obviously without ignoring all the other themes.

We have tried very hard to keep the enrolment costs down. Morocco is a destination that is relatively inexpensive and of exceptional natural and cultural interest, so we hope to be in large numbers in Marrakesh in less than one year.

I hope that you will renew the interest you have already shown for the WEEC and that you can participate in the important appointment of 2013: visit the website www.weec2013.org and, if you can, give us a hand in publicizing the news of the WEEC 2013 to your contacts and in newspapers and magazines, websites, blogs, Facebook profiles, etc.

Thank you for your vauable help. I hope to see you again in Marrakesh. In the meantime, feel free to contact me for information, comments, and advice by writing to secretariat@environmental-education.org.

My kindest regards, Mario Salomone, WEEC General Secretary