Building RCE Rhine-Meuse

Jos Rikers, Jos Hermans and Jos Eussen
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Jos Rikers: Jos Rikers works at the Open Universiteit Nederland (the Dutch Open University) and is a senior policy officer on international relations in the Rector’s office. He co-founded the RCE Rhine-Meuse in 2004 and has been one of its co-directors since then. Email: j.rikers@rcerhine-meuse.org
Jos Hermans: Jos Hermans was the senior policy advisor on international relations at Zuyd University, The Netherlands, until his retirement in December 2008. He too is a co-founder of the RCE Rhine-Meuse and was one of its co-directors until January 2009. Email: j.hermans@rcerhine-meuse.org
Jos Eussen: Jos Eussen is the director and founder of KidsLive! Foundation. He is the developer of the OPEDUCA concept, which was adopted in 2009 as the basis for the RCE Rhine-Meuse activities. In 2008, he joined the RCE Rhine-Meuse as a co-director to create a more direct relationship between the RCE and primary and secondary school organisations. Email: info@opeduca.nl

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2010, vol. 4, issue 1, 93-104

Abstract: The Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) Rhine-Meuse is one of the first seven pioneer RCEs and the first in Europe. It was established in 2004 after a preparation period that began in 2001. The period 2005–07, which is described and analysed in this article, was when the RCE established a position in the region and proved its added value. The RCE received funding from the European Regional Development Program to start up and from the Province of Dutch Limburg for 2006–07, enabling it to build a regional network with a central office, to set up an Internet-based communication and knowledge distribution system and to initiate its first pilot projects. Evaluation of the first two years of activities showed that serving the complex Euregion, Rhine-Meuse proved to be difficult in practice. This article focuses on stakeholder issues, the maturing of the RCE’s management system and its position in the region, and concludes with a perspective for the future.

Keywords: RCEs; sustainable development; regional; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/097340820900400115

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