CERES Education
Education lies at the heart of CERES, which has grown from its humble beginnings into one of the largest sustainability education providers in Victoria. CERES Education provides a wide range of services:
Excursions – Come to CERES!
Incursions – CERES Education comes to you!
The Outreach team takes the CERES knowledge and skills to schools and early childhood centres through the ResourceSmart Schools program and on request
VET programs at CERES include a range of pre-accredited programs in Horticulture, Environmental Education and Sustainable Events and the Certificate II in Horticulture and Kitchen Operations
Choose from gardening, cooking, craft, permaculture and sustainability. Our learning experiences nurture you and the earth
CERES Global invites you to travel on unique participatory, cross cultural, educational and skill sharing programs.
Day service program for young adults with a disability
A place to connect, share and learn
CERES Sustainability Hub features stories from schools, service providers, inspirational educators and centres that we work with. Access sustainability curriculum resources for teachers and trainers.
Education Blog
Environmental & Sustainability Educator of the Year 2018
The Environmental & Sustainability Educator of the Year 2018, Lorna Pettifer In 2018 Lorna Pettifer Manager of Education and Training at CERES was awarded the inaugural Environmental & Sustainability Educator of the Year [...]
Motives – Change – Inspiration – CERES Environmental Education Course
In September to October of this year, I undertook the environmental education course hosted at CERES. My main motive for doing the course was to see what other options I had for environmental work, [...]
Mini Case Study: Growing Plants Can Change Your Life
Gregory Lorenzutti Gregory Lorenzutti is a Brazilian-Australian artist based in Melbourne, Australia, working between the spaces of photography, dance and urban farming. Photography, dance... and farming? Strange bedfellows you might think, but [...]
Smart Urban Forests at CERES
A new Swinburne University-led pilot program introduced at CERES Community Environment Park is using water-sensor technology to better manage urban forests. Swinburne University Water Resources Engineering senior lecturer, Dr Scott Rayburg, and his team [...]
No time not to use the regular plates
On Friday I went with my sons and several thousand other Victorian children to the steps of the Treasury Museum for the Students Strike For Climate Change. From a respectful (non-embarrassing) distance it was [...]
Exploring Permaculture in Timor Leste June 2018
by Jane Burns, CERES Education Outreach Area Manager I recently had the opportunity to facilitate a trip to Timor-Leste (East Timor) with CERES Global Education to learn about how this country [...]