Sixth International CCN Conference

The sixth international Consumer Citizenship Network Conference dealt with: Making a difference: putting consumer citizenship into action
The conference investigated the proactive role of the consumer in the transition to more sustainable human development around the world. Central topics which were focused on were: understanding consumer citizenship behaviour; education for consumer citizenship; and cooperation to further consumer citizenship. The conference marked the conclusion of six years of cooperation between the partners of The Consumer Citizenship Network and the transition to new forms of collaboration. 200 persons from 40 countries attended. The conference particularly appreciated the presence of participants from Burkino Faso, Kenya, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Japan, Chile and Brazil.

The CCN conference included: panel discussions on issues such as global perspectives on education for sustainable consumption as well as 62 research paper presentations on a wide variety of topics some of which were:
 Effects of Personal Carbon Trading
 Designing Rituals to Promote Sustainable Ways of Living
 Life Values as the Basis for the Formation of a Citizen
 The understanding of the Social Responsibility and Consumer Rights in the countries of the Former Soviet Union.
 Consumptions and lifestyles in the press
 New alliances among food producers and consumers.
 Psychometric evaluation of children‟s eating behaviour: a tool to improve education regarding children‟s food consumption
 Green consumption – a state responsibility?
 The UNEP Global Environmental Citizenship Project and the Participation of Latin American Consumer Organizations
 Examining attitudes of consumers in Poland
 Enabling consumers to change the market by participation in the decision making process
 Fair Trade and donations: Do consumers care?
 Transdisciplinary Consumer Citizenship Education
 Using fashion as a platform to engage & excite
 From Consumer to Stakeholder Citizenship: A Model for moving towards „World Citizenship‟
 Windows of opportunity for sustainable consumption: The de-routinization effect of life events
 Education for sustainable development: The case of traditional life skills among the Nama people,in Namibia
 Consumer Citizenship Education in Japan‟s Home Economics Curriculum
 Consumer Empowerment in the Digital Era. A Case Study of ICT - Enabled Process in South Africa and Norway
 Gender empowerment in Nepal for sustainable development

The conference was organised by The Consumer Citizenship Network, an Erasmus thematic network of educators and researchers. The conference was hosted by the Technical University of Berlin, Germany and coordinated by the Hedmark University College, Norway. The conference was made possible with the support from the SOCRATES programme and the Norwegian Ministry of Children and Family Affairs and Ministry of Education and the Swedish Marrakech Task Force for Sustainable Lifestyles.

Victoria Thoresen

Português
Em Berlim conheci a presidente da CCN, Victoria Thoresen, que me recebeu com cordialidade. Victoria Thoresen Wyszynski é Professora Associada de Educação no University College, em Hedmark, Noruega, e gestora de projecto da Consumer Citizenship Network (Rede de Cidadania do Consumidor). Thoresen tem se especializado no desenvolvimento curricular, na educação global, na educação para a paz, o no valor de base da educação, na aprendizagem ao longo da vida e na educação dos consumidores. Além de muitos anos de experiência como professora e professora formadora, Thoresen foi membra do conselho nacional norueguês de revisão do currículo nacional do país e também um membra do Comité Nacional Norueguês para a educação dos consumidores. Thoresen, escreveu livros didáticos para as escolas de formação de professores e tem funcionado como consultora internacional educacional. Ela é, atualmente, assistente do PNUMA e da U.N. Marrakech Process Task Forces no desenvolvimento de um currículo de base para a educação para o consumo sustentável. Por anos, ela foi presidente do conselho de administração do Centro Norueguês da Paz e membra da National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is da Noruega. Thoresen tem a função também de perito internacional contribuindo para a criação de normas internacionais (26.000) para a Responsabilidade Social. Foi um prazer!

English
In Berlin I met the president of CCN, Victoria Thoresen, who received me with warmth. Victoria Wyszynski Thoresen is Associate Professor of Education at the Hedmark University College in Norway and project manager of the Consumer Citizenship Network. Thoresen has specialized in curriculum development, global education, peace education, value-based education, lifelong learning and consumer education. In addition to many years of experience as a teacher and teacher trainer, Thoresen has been a member of the Norwegian national board for revision of the country’s core curriculum and also a member of the National Norwegian Committee for consumer education. Thoresen has written textbooks for schools and teacher training and has functioned as an international educational consultant. She is presently assisting UNEP and the U.N. Marrakech Process Task Forces in the development of a core curriculum for education for sustainable consumption. For a number of years she was chairman of the board of the Norwegian Peace Center and a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Norway. Thoresen functions also as an international expert contributing to the creation of International Standards (26000) for Social Responsibility. It was a pleasure!.