Biology · Social Studies · Sustainability

Jon Urskov Pedersen

Upper secondary teacher in Denmark, working to connect schools around the Baltic Sea through UNESCO.

  • Teacher of Biology and Social Studies at Egaa Gymnasium, Aarhus
  • UNESCO ASP coordinator for Sustainable Development in Denmark
  • General Coordinator and Danish Coordinator, Baltic Sea Project

About me

I teach biology and social studies at Egaa Gymnasium, an upper secondary school just north of Aarhus. I like teaching that starts with real questions: what we eat, how young people feel about pressure and performance, and how a democracy talks to itself.

Outside the classroom I coordinate the Danish UNESCO ASP network for sustainable development and, together with Martin Jarrath from Germany, the Baltic Sea Project. My job there is to bring teachers and students across borders, so schools around the Baltic Sea can learn from each other.

I also build my own small tools for teaching: quiz games, a peer feedback program and a web app for our lab sensors. You find them in the menu.

What I work with

Egaa Gymnasium

Biology and social studies in the Danish STX programme. I am also staff representative on the school board.

  • Diet and health in natural science
  • Young people and the performance society
  • Communities and democratic conversation
Visit egaa-gym.dk ↗

UNESCO ASP, Sustainable Development

The Danish network of UNESCO schools working with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

90 Danish schools · 167 countries
  • Annual national network meeting
  • New partnerships with Latvia and the Baltic states
Visit unesco-asp.dk ↗

Baltic Sea Project

UNESCO's school network for the Baltic Sea region. Denmark and Germany share the general coordination.

Since 1989 · Baltic Sea region
  • Coordinators meetings and youth camps
  • BSP newsletter and website
Visit b-s-p.org ↗

Coming up

  1. Stockholm, SwedenBSP conference
  2. Aarø, DenmarkBSP camp
  3. Damp, GermanyBSP closing conference