Office for Climate Education (OCE)

The OCE's action, targeted particularly at primary and secondary school teachers, accompanies the publication of the IPCC reports by providing teachers with high-quality, multilingual and royalty-free teaching resources.

The resources developed use active teaching methods such as investigation-based science teaching, project teaching, role-playing and debates, etc. They are oriented towards action and positive thinking and emphasise the societal issues of adaptation and mitigation. 

These resources, produced by the entire ECO partner network, are adapted to the different local contexts and tested in the classroom. 

Depending on the audience and the needs, OCE offers professional development activities focusing on scientific content, societal issues, classroom practices or project management. They can take the form of training with immersive situations, distance learning, conferences, field visits (schools, laboratories, industries, farms, eco-centres, etc.) or methodological support to enable the emergence of local educational projects.
 
The OCE also organises seminars, summer schools and symposiums bringing together teachers, trainers and scientists to promote the projects implemented in the field and to animate the network.

Based in Paris, the OCE's operational team coordinates a vast network of local and regional partners, which already includes some sixty partners in over forty countries. 

This network relies both on the scientific community (laboratories, academies of science, etc.) and on NGOs, which contribute their expertise in the development of educational resources, in teacher training and in their support in the field.

This community of practice, accompanied by the OCE, ensures that the school as a whole and its social environment are set in motion in a sustainable and profound way.