1,200 ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERTS ATTENDING CONGRESS IN MARRAKECH

The 7th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC 2013), a great success, will take place in Marrakech from June 9 – 14, 2013

Under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI and under the Chair held by Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa, President of the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection (FM6E), very aware of environmental education’s role, has ensured that the Kingdom hosts WEEC for its ten year anniversary.

Nearly 1,500 delegates from around the world are expected to participate for one week at the 7th WEEC in Marrakech, an event where experts come to discuss and exchange experiences on the important issue of education and environmental awareness.

THE WEEC 2013 SETS AN EXAMPLE AS AN ECO-RESPONSIBLE CONGRESS
The Mohammed VI Foundation, which co-organized this conference on environmental education, wants to make an eco-friendly event and reduce its carbon footprint to a minimum. It is also an opportunity for the Foundation to promote its carbon program.
From June 9 to 14th, the World Environmental Education Congress 2013 is about to receive over 1,200 delegates from around the world to share their experiences on environmental education and the best ways to raise awareness about these critical issues.
Advocating teaching by example, the event organizers, the WEEC Secretariat and the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection, opted to make this conference a green event and issued a charter advocating ways to protect the environment during the six-day conference, and a daily approach after the conference completion.

In June 2013 Marrakech welcomes WEEC 2013, a major conference on the environment

The 7th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) will be held in Marrakech from June 9 – 14, 2013. The choice of Morocco as a host country is the result of efforts by Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa, who chairs the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection. Extremely aware of the role of education in protecting the environment, during the last Congress in Montreal in 2009 she took the opportunity to propose Morocco as a destination. As a result, the Foundation is co-organizer of this event.
This major conference is being hosted by the city of Marrakech in June. Every two years, the World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) regroups over 2,000 participants from 108 countries, who come to discuss education and environmental awareness. The conference has been hosted by Portugal, Brazil, Italy in 2005, South Africa, Canada and Australia. Morocco is the first Arab-Muslim host country for the conference.
Major international institutions such as UNESCO, ISESCO, FEE and UNEP, represented by its General Executive Directors of the leading figures in the environment (teachers, writers, activists, etc.) will participate in the plenary sessions.

The WEEC is coming to Marrakech

The 7th WEEC (World Environmental Education Congress) will be held in Marrakech's Palais des Congrès from 9th to 14th of June 2013.

What are the main educational themes that run through our century ? What do we need in order to develop a more active nation, a more responsible social consciousness, a more tolerable future ? These will be the main topics discussed at the Palais des Congrès in Marrakech, from 9th to 14th of June 2013, at the 7th WEEC, World Environmental Education Congress.

The Congress is held under the high patronage of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI, and under the presidency of Her Royal Highness the Princess Lalla Hasnaa, President of the Foundation Mohammed VI for Environmental Protection.

Costal urban sprawl and protection of the marine environment

Until 15 January 2013 it is possible to present abstracts only for the thematic areas:

- Social Movements and building ecological societies
- Communications and the impact of social media
- Ecological economics and green economies
- Creative impulses

Until 15 January 2013 it is possible to present posters for all the thematic areas