Foundation for Environmental Education

21/08/2026

🌱 Our ecosystems need restoration. Education is part of the solution.

Schools puts schools, educators and students at the heart of ecosystem restoration.

By joining the movement, schools can turn learning into meaningful action, helping students understand their ecosystems and discover how they can contribute to restoring them.

🌍 Every educator can inspire change.
🌱 Every student can play a part.

Ready to join the movement? Become a School.
🔗 https://www.leaf.global/generation-restoration-schools

13/08/2026

The Plan'Eat Project Food Sustainability Education Toolbox is now available online!

Are you a teacher, educator, curriculum developer, or anyone looking for practical ways to promote healthy and sustainable food behaviours among learners?

Explore the free downloadable, ready-to-use resources, developed to support engaging, hands-on food sustainability education: https://www.ecoschools.global/planeat-project

Start with the User Guide to discover how the toolbox is organised and how its pedagogical resources support your teaching.

What’s inside the toolbox?
📚 A comprehensive Curriculum Framework
📝 7 easy-to-understand thematic fact sheets available in both written and video formats
🧑‍🏫 7 lesson plans with hands-on activities to engage learners
🌿 4 project-based learning activities aligned with the Eco-Schools Seven Steps Framework
🏆 2 booklets featuring lesson plans submitted by Eco-Schools teachers as part of the 2025–2026 FEE Lesson Plan Competition
📊 A Food Literacy Assessment Tool: a questionnaire designed for formative classroom assessment with learners aged 14-16
🎓 A free course is available on Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) Academy
🥕 A School Food Campaign Guide, inspired by the Global Action Campaign 2026
🎤 Practical guides to empower youth to take action as part of the Young Reporters for the Environment International Competition 2025–2026

Together, we can equip learners with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make healthier and more sustainable food choices.

12/08/2026

💡 From first ideas to first jobs

On 12 August, we celebrate International Youth Day and the many ways young people are already shaping environmental action across the Foundation for Environmental Education network.

Reflecting this year’s United Nations theme, “Different Contexts, Common Aspirations,” young people are learning, participating, and leading at every stage across our six programmes.

So, where can you find youth across the FEE network? Pretty much everywhere. 👀

🍏 Through Eco-Schools, young people lead Eco-Committees and turn ideas into action across their schools and communities.

🌱 Through Learning about Ecosystems and Forests - LEAF, young learners step outside the classroom, connect with nature and explore the importance of protecting forests and biodiversity.

🎤 Through Young Reporters for the Environment, young people investigate environmental issues affecting their communities and use journalism, photography and video to share the stories that matter.

🎓 Through Eco-Campus, students drive change across their universities and colleges, deepening their knowledge while building skills and experience for what comes next.

🔑 Across Green Key, young professionals in the hospitality sector put sustainability into practice inside hotels and other establishments around the world.

🌊 Across Blue Flag, young professionals working at beaches, marinas and tourism boats help protect our coasts and promote more sustainable practices.

And that journey doesn't end when education does. Young people take those experiences into the wider world as educators, environmental and conservation professionals, community leaders, hospitality and tourism professionals, and colleagues across FEE’s 110+ member organisations.

Creating opportunities for young people to build experience, enter the environmental workforce, and have a say in the organisations driving change is an important part of that journey.

Next week, we’ll put that into practice at FEE Head Office. 👋 Through the FEE Internship Scheme, led by Eco-Campus, we’re welcoming our newest interns and creating opportunities for young people to gain hands-on professional experience while contributing to FEE’s work.

💼 Discover the FEE Internship Scheme: https://www.ecocampus.global/internship-scheme

Happy International Youth Day! ⭐

11/08/2026

📢 Big news! Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) has appointed Audit Independer Group as Green Key's new independent Certification Body, effective 1 October 2026.

This partnership strengthens the independence, transparency, and integrity of Green Key's certification process, while enabling FEE to focus on supporting our global network and continuing to develop one of the world's leading eco-certification programmes for tourism and hospitality.

It also marks another important step in aligning Green Key with evolving regulatory requirements and our ongoing programme approval process with DANAK under ISO/IEC 17065.

Together, we're building an even stronger, more credible future for sustainable tourism.
🔗 Read more: https://www.greenkey.global/news

04/08/2026

Some moments belong on 35mm.
Some deserve IMAX.

Luckily, the FEE network gives us both.

Here's a glimpse of the people, places and programmes creating positive change around the world.

31/07/2026

This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming a delegation of professors and teachers from The National Association of Middle and High Schools Affiliated with National Universities of Education / Korea National University of Education to the Head Office of Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) in Copenhagen.

The visit was an opportunity to introduce FEE's global network and our education programmes, including Eco-Schools, Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE), Learning about Ecosystems and Forests - LEAF and Eco-Campus.

Through presentations and discussions, we explored how FEE’s Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) frameworks can be adapted to any context, reorientating education around local and national sustainability priorities and contributing to relevant and quality learning.

🌐 FEE in South Korea is represented by our member organisation FEE-Korea, with currently 23 Eco-Schools, 110 active Young Reporters for the Environment and 80 entries submitted to YRE National Competition 2025-2026, 84 Green Key establishments and 6 Blue Flag sites. It was wonderful to share our global approach and build new connections with educators in South Korea.

🫰 We look forward to continued collaboration and exploring new opportunities to work together in the future.

24/07/2026

🌊 Thirty Members of the European Parliament have called on the European Commission to ensure that new legislation strengthens consumer confidence without unintentionally putting the future of Blue Flag International at risk by increasing significantly administrative and financial costs for local municipalities.

For nearly 40 years, Blue Flag has recognised beaches, marinas and tourism boats that meet high environmental standards.

Today, the Programme is present in 22 EU Member States, with around 3,800 awarded sites, supporting cleaner water, environmental education and sustainable tourism.

Foundation for Environmental Education welcomes this cross-party support and will continue working with European institutions, Member States and partners to ensure Blue Flag remains a trusted symbol of environmental excellence across Europe.

Read more:

Blue Flag Welcomes European Parliament Support for the Future of the Programme The Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) welcomes a cross-party initiative by 30 Members of the European Parliament calling on the European Commission to safeguard the future of the Blue Flag Programme in

20/07/2026

🍏 What kind of education creates lasting change?

We asked FEE Board Member Kathy Young to share what makes FEE's approach to education so important.

"This type of education brings people closer to nature, encourages them to think about real strategies, and gives young people the opportunity to be actively involved. That's really strong and important."

At FEE, education is about more than knowledge. It's about creating opportunities, building confidence, and empowering people to take an active role in shaping a more sustainable future.

Watch Kathy's reflections and let us know: What role do you think education should play in creating positive environmental change?

16/07/2026

🌱 What inspires our CEO the most?

Not the framework itself, but seeing children and teachers transform it into real action in their schools.

Watch Daniel Schaffer reflect on the incredible creativity, energy and commitment he witnessed in Malaysia. Interrviewed by: Wan Rabiatul Adawiyah from Green Growth Asia Foundation