List of Winners
1. Year 2010
Winners of the 2009-2010 travel awards| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Rosslynne Waiyigo Kiragu | Kenya | Water purification at Elimu daycare kindergarten |
| Shankar Musafir | India | Urban Jungle |
| Kimberley Smith | England | Early Years ESD – A case study of children’s centre |
| Theodora Avgeri | Greece | Working together – Acting together World Environment Day |
| Agapi Liapaki | Greece | The Polar Bear Project |
2. Year 2011
Winners of the 2010-2011 travel awards| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Winners of the 2010-2011 travel awards | China | ESD in Science Education |
| Eunhye Park | Korea | Keeper of Green Earth |
3. Year 2012
The winners of the 2011-12 travel awards| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Micheli Alves Machado | Brazil | Educacão na infância para a Sustentabilidade |
| Adriana Stoller | Argentina | Primera Infancia en el Siglo XXI: Derechos de los Niños a vivir, jugar, explorar y conocer el mundo |
| Alice Medina | Brazil | Los jugetes que han nacido en el patio de la sostenibilidad |
4. Year 2014
The winners of the 2013-14 travel awards| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Libby-Lee Hammond, Dr Sandra Hesterman, Dr Marianne Knaus and Mrs Mary Vajda |
Australia |
Children’s ideas about families’ access to food from a perspective of wealth and poverty |
| Jocelyn Uribe and Verónica Romo | Chile |
Protección de la Madre Tierra (Protecting Mother Earth) |
| Mercy Murugi Macharia | Kenya | Matarajio: Gender equality in Kenya |
| Jarmila Sobotova | Slovak Republic | All the children of the world |
5. Year 2015
Winners of the 2014-2015 travel awards| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Glynne Mackey | New Zealand | Loving the place where you belong: ecological identity |
| Incheon KCOMWEL Childcare Centre |
Korea | Children grow at a vegetable garden |
| Rodrigues Cristina Arto. Gabriela Roxana Cardarelli Ludovico Grillo |
Argentina | Education for a Sustainable World: EDS Technology Project |
| Guangheng Wang Xin Zhou |
China | How to prepare teachers to incorporate ESD into their daily work with young children: from the experiences of Shanghai kindergarten teachers |
| Rigmor Sletten Cecilie Hella Jaemie Walde |
Norway | A Musical Production that Promotes Global Social Fairness in Blaklokka Barnehage |
| Paulette Luff Zoe Miles OMEP UK |
UK | The Bat Conservation Project. ESD resources for Teacher Training created via the OMEP UK pre-school partnership with ALDERHOLT sunbeams |
| Gustavo Riestra | Uruguay | The scientific curiosity in early childhood: something that should be life-long |
6. Year 2016
| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Vassiliki Pliogou 5 researchers |
Greece | Children’s curiosity finds solutions for energy: a project for renewable and non-renewable energy sources for early childhood children |
| Lilian Atieno Okal |
Kenya | Water conservation in Kenya |
| Puttikul Patcharaporn Udomluck Kulapichitr |
Thailand | Education for Sustainable development in Thailand World Heritage site: Evidence based and Place based learning instructional model for enhancing environmentally responsible behavior of kindergarteners |
| Elizabeth Ivaldi OMEP Uruguay |
Uruguay | Building a sustainable school |
| Valene Martinez | USA | ESD From cradle through College and Beyond: We’re in this together! Group |
7. Year 2017
| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Diane Boyd | UK | Embedding ESD within the Context of Policy and Practice within the in Early Childhood Education in England-developing an Early Childhood ESD pedagogical framework |
| New New Aung | Myanmar | Upgrading Capacity of preschool children, Early Childhood Teachers and Educators in Myanmar on Education for Sustainable Development by understanding of The OMEP ERS-SDEC |
| Ewa Lewandowska | Poland | How to begin Change-Campaign for ESD in early education in Poland- the beginning |
| Erica Figueroa Ana Caneva | Argentina | Municipal schools of the local government of the City of Santa Fe: a policy for sustainable development focused on early childhood |
| Older Bustos Vera | Chile | I am responsible of the transformation of healthy educational spaces for the community: “Las Abegitas de Santa Babara ” |
8. Year 2018
| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Neda Grbin | Croatia | Menu with taste and smell of Mediterranean |
| Heejin Kim Hoewook Chung Eunyoung Kim Chowon Lee Hyeyoon Choi |
Republic of Korea | The Red Goat Project |
| Marina Bachmann Kate Harris Zane McCarthy |
New Zealand | Exploring gender neutral curriculum/culture |
| Beatriz Elena Zapata Ospina | Colombia | Development of Scientific Skills in Early Childhood in the framework of Education for Sustainable Development |
| Jeanete Franco N. (Head of the Communication Department and Citizen Participation and Mitzi Bown (Head of Design and the Education Area) |
Chile |
Children, the future conscious citizen and the guardians of our plant and livestock heritage |
9. Year 2019
| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 OMEP ESD Student Award | ||
| Hande Güngör | Turkey | Development of Ecological Footprint Applications and Sustainable Life Opportunities in a Preschool Education Institution |
| 2019 OMEP ESD Award | ||
| Sylvie Martel | Canada | CPE Tortue têtue, sustainable childcare |
| TUĞÇE AKYOL | Turkey | Education for sustainable development From theory to practice |
| Marit Heldal | Norway | Learning from Sustainable Early Childhood Education and Care in a Refugee Camp |
| Mie OBA | Japan | Peace education for young children and future early childhood teachers with an effective learning resource Kamisibai of a story of Hiroshima |
| Bournier Florencia, Larrosa Veronica, Silva Fernanda, Zuccolo Sylvia |
Panama | Project Turtles In search of a sustainable environment |
10. Year 2020 (Digital WA)
| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 OMEP ESD Student Award | ||
| Marijana Tumpić | Croatia | Children’s development through sustainable development |
| 2020 OMEP ESD Award | ||
| Maria Gerasina | Russia | Ecological quest-festival "Children on guard of the Earth! |
| Robinson Andrés Garrido | Chile | To the encounter with our ancestors. Interculturality and sustainable education in kindergartens in the city of La Ligua |
| Adwoa Okuwa | Ghana | We can grow what we eat |
| Lis Mathiasen & Dawn Butterworth | Australia | Education for Sustainable Development: Focus on climate change |
11. Year 2021 (Digital WA)
| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 OMEP ESD Student Award | ||
| Anja Kočiš | Croatia | Finaktivci |
| Lucija Cimić, Petra Dumbović, Lucija Skuliber, Katarina Jelinek, Ivančica Žarković and Josipa Kodrić, | Croatia | Recycle a toy, promote sustainability |
| 2021 OMEP ESD Award | ||
| Hideki Oka | Japan | Work on sustainable online cross-cultural exchange that nurture the global sensitivity of young children |
| Sofia Zätterström | Sweden | edChild - Sharing educational activities within sustainable development through a global community of early childhood educators |
| Şebnem Feriver | Turkey | Children as System Thinkers: Exploring Water with Education for Sustainable Development |
12. Year 2022
| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 OMEP ESD Student Award | ||
| Tyler Rogers, University of Canterbury |
New Zeeland | Interactive sustainability felt book for infants and toddlers |
| Lucija Cimić, Petra Dumbović, Lucija Skuliber, Katarina Jelinek, Ivančica Žarković and Josipa Kodrić, | Croatia | Recycle a toy, promote sustainability |
| 2022 OMEP ESD Award | ||
| Diane Boyd, Janet King, Stacy Mann, Joe Neame, Angela Scollan, Naomi McLeod | United Kingdom | 2022 Early childhood education for sustainability - SDG / STEM resource |
| Oyindamola Sonola, Tokunbo Doherty, Funsho Chikezie, Tutu Odlélola | Nigeria | 2022 activity based, low cost initiative – from waste to experiential play, learning and development |
| Tania do Amaral Gomes, Carline Susan de Castro, Eloina Aparecida da Silva | Brazil | 2022 Nice at the Lagoon – De Boa na Lagona |
| Misun Kim | Korea | 2022 To us, by us and for our change |
13. Year 2023
| Name | Country | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 OMEP ESD Student Award | ||
| Maria Fernanda Aburto, Fernanda Alvarado, Sofia González and Ursula Neculman | Chile | Center of Creative Reuse |
| 2023 OMEP ESD Award | ||
| Mélanie Bélanger with colleagues Martine Bertrand, Carine Marina, Geneviève Goulet-Jutras, Annick Drouin, Monique Talbot, Lizbeth Gallego Robles | Canada | Sustainable preschool (CPE Durable) |
| Özge Metin ASLAN and Esen Hacıömer | Turkey | Play for the Planet: Supporting Creativity and Sustainability in Early Childhood Education |
| Choi Eun-joo | Korea | Children and Teachers Together – A Study on ESG in Children’s Play - from a Teacher’s Perspective |
| Oh Young Hee | Korea | When Thoughts Grow, the World Changes |
