Mission and vision
Our Vision
To bridge nature and education to transform learning and tackle the environmental crisis, with Costa Rica as an innovation lab.
Our Mission
To educate and empower students, educators and families as Guardians of Nature from their schools and homes through the collaboration and collective impact of the government, private sector, and civil society
Objetives
Support the Ministry of Education of Costa Rica to
To educate: through workshops, webinars, courses, and hands-on experiences, integrating nature into teaching and learning
To equip: providing students and educators with tools and resources to incorporate nature into teaching and learning.
To mobilize: engaging students and educators in concrete actions for nature through innovative strategies, while empowering those who lead the way.
Collective impact: To secure economic resources and strategic partnerships to fulfill and execute our vision and mission through the power of collective impact.
Cross-cutting axis: To communicate and share the actions of agents of change to inspire regenerative human development.
Conceptual Framework
1. Address legislation: Top-down approach, ensuring that we align our strategies to advance national and global policies and plans.
2. Focus on human behavior: Redouble efforts of the bottom-up approach, moving from awareness to concrete actions that will make a real impact.
3. Putting the main audience in the driver’s seat: students, educators, and families as agents of change.
4. Present a clear message repeatedly, through various channels.
5. Apply systematic and automated process for scale.
7. Adopt a long-term strategic approach.
Strategy
1. Interaction: Develop or strengthen mechanisms to connect people, resources, information, experiences, and materials, bridging nature with education.
2. Capacity development: Enhance professional and technical capacity to design, implement, and monitor the integration of nature into education systems.
3. Participation for local action: Stimulate and strengthen active participation in integrating nature into education, empowering teachers and students to become Guardians of Nature.
4. Mass Communication: Strengthen systematic and integrated communication strategies, tools, and methods to raise awareness, understanding, and a sense of responsibility in connecting nature with education.
