SEPN’s work involves extensive consultation with students, teachers, and organizations at all levels of the Canadian educational system. Working with SEPN provides opportunities to:
- Access graduate students and researchers to conduct research projects and syntheses on topics related to the Network research
- Establish regional, national, and international partnerships to conduct innovative and collaborative research
- Build a Network to further sustainability education in Canada
- Contribute to understandings of partnership dynamics and processes, knowledge flow among Network member organizations and the impact of participating in the Network on member
perspectives and activity - Increase expertise and capacity and further organizational mandates through research
- Further understandings of how policy contributes to the “policy-practice gap”
- Contribute to the evolution of sustainability policy and practice within SEPN member
organizations through collaboration - Develop directions for enhancing sustainability policy and practice in education in Canada and
abroad - Access research- and evidence-based models and decision-making tools to further sustainability policy and practice uptake in education across Canada
