“Environmental Education Act” has been implemented nearly ten years in Taiwan. It’s the time to review, revise, and enhance EE certification and its quality towards a better outcome for next stage. This project aims to review the domestic and foreign literature of EE certification, and organize a series of formal and/or informal disalogues to collect external expectations and needs. Besides, through the process of strategic planning, the project execution team and the staff in the Environmental Professionals Training Institute, Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan (abbreviated as EPTI) set the meeting at least once a month to digest the information collected along the time. It is expected to establish the organizational vision and goals for EE certification and to form feasible strategies and practices as well.
During the project executing period, various types of meetings were held to collect opinions and suggestions on the current implementation of environmental education certification and the development trend of the next ten years from all stakeholders, including 2 expert and scholar consultation meetings (a total of 41 people), 4 district forums with north , central, south, and east areas (164 persons in total), and 1 stakeholder meeting for ‘The Next Perspective for EE Quality Enhancement’ (51 persons in total), totaling 256 peoplep involved. The project execution team targeted the three types of certification (including personnel, institutions, facilities and venues) and six aspects (including organizational operations, environmental education content, capacity building and counseling, application and evaluation, cross-field communications and participation, and market positioning and marketing) to conduct a comprehensive analysis, and jointly study the purpose, vision, goals and strategies of the environmental education certification for the next ten years. At present, the EPTI has gradually adjusted some implementation strategies in the documents of their current implementation plan. At the same time, in response to laws and regulations-related strategies, it is proposed to provide positive suggestions for "environmental education certification and management related measures amendment"
The EPTI intends to accelerate EE certification and encourages environmental learning for all citizens.The vision is to establish a dynamic and cross-field EE resources platform, ensuring diversified and high quality outdoor and environmental learning. Thus, this project also planned and designed brochures of EE certification, disseminating the achievements of the past ten years, with expectation to enhance the overall image of the organization.
