La Universidad Nacional de Rosario participated in the First Provincial Forum on Comprehensive Environmental Education “Territories that teach, communities that transform.”
Three hundred people participated in Rosario's First Provincial Forum on Comprehensive Environmental Education, which took place on October 22 at the UNR University Cultural Center and continued on October 23 at the UNL Faculty of Engineering and Water Sciences.
During the meeting, 60 environmental education experiences from academic, community, neighborhood, and institutional settings were presented. Spaces for exchange were created, and discussions focused on challenges and opportunities for building a more just and sustainable society, with the participation of teachers, activists, public officials, and popular educators.
The reflections focused on the comprehensiveness of environmental education, orienting it toward a critical approach that seeks to question the causes of the crisis, not just its consequences. There was also a discussion about who provides environmental education and how, in a profound epistemic debate that continued on the second day and will surely inform the Second Forum in 2026.
The experiences were presented orally and in poster format, and two panel discussions were also held with national experts in Comprehensive Environmental Education. The first panel, titled "How does Environmental Education contribute to addressing environmental conflicts?" was presented by Claudia Gotta, director of the BIOCENO Academic Program "For a New Era Centered on Life" at the UNR Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Also participating in this panel were Maria Laura Canciani, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Moreno, and Ana Sardisco from the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Humanities, Art, and Environmental Issues at the UNR.
The second panel, titled "Comprehensive Environmental Education: Tools and Strategies for Transformative Action," was led by Guillermo Priotto, Project Director of the Institute for the World of Work at the National University of Tres de Febrero; Carolina Piedrabuena, Secretary of Education of the Province of Santa Fe; and Andrea Paoloni, Director of Climate Action for the Municipality of Rosario.
A workshop on contributions to the development of the Provincial Strategy for Comprehensive Environmental Education of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Santa Fe was also held. This workshop sought to engage various stakeholders in defining environmental education policies. This workshop, in addition to being a space for collective development, is part of Comprehensive Environmental Education Law No. 27.592 (or Yolanda Law), which promotes environmental training in the public sector.
Journalist: Victoria Arrabal