Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living
The Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living (PERL) is a new project building on the six years of work of the Consumer Citizenship Network.
PERL is a partnership of educators and researchers developing methods and materials to encourage people to contribute to constructive change through the way they choose to live.
PERL’s approach is to build bridges and to collaborate by recognising that people need to find their own lifestyle changes—based on good information and the principles of sustainable human development.
PERL is contributing to the Marrakech Process on Sustainable Production and Consumption, as well as the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), with the active participation of UNEP, UNESCO, the Italian Task Force on Education for Sustainable Consumption and the Swedish Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles.
PERL has been granted funding under the EU Lifelong Learning Program Erasmus Academic Networks for 2009-2012. Other financial supporters are the Norwegian Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion, UNEP and the Swedish Environment Ministry.
PERL started on 1 October 2009 and will run until 30 September 2012.
For more details please see the PERL documents below.
More information about PERL and a new website will be published soon.
Latest News
New report analysing the consumer education content in Norwegian school text books since 2006. The report is in Norwegian with an abstract in English.
Work Groups
The first collective Work Group meeting was held in Rome on 22 January 2010. See the bar on the right for the Rome presentations, the Work Group Description and Calendar, and a list of PERL partners.
Some of the start-up Work Group meetings originally planned for October have had to be postponed due to circumstances beyond our control.
All the Work Groups have a standard Terms of Reference and will be required to complete pages 4 to 12 of the EU's reporting template for the Progress and Final Report.
The Work Plan and Reporting template and accompanying instructions are below.
Work Group Work Plan and Report template
Instructions for filling in the Work Plan template
Steering Group
The Steering Group first met in the beginning of October 2009 and made significant progress in preparing for the next three years.
Steering Group Terms of Reference
PERL Documents
PERL Final application to the EU
PERL Final application to the EU - budget
EU evaluation of the PERL application
Useful links
European Programme in Consumer Affairs - Intensive programme and summer course
Cambridge Compiles List of Top 50 Sustainability Must-Reads
Skolemagasinet - Norwegian news on educational materials and school development (in Norwegian). Section on understanding consumers.
The Norwegian Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion also supports PERL.
