The Lusophone Network of Environmental Education (Redeluso) was founded in 2005, in Portugal, during the days of the Portuguese Association of Environmental Education (ASPEA). In 2006 some of its members met for the first time in person in Joinville (Brazil), during the V Iberoamerican Congress of Environmental Education. In this event, we decided to hold regular conferences, which had the following chronology:

2007 - Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
2013 - Cuiabá, MT, Brazil
2015 - Torreira, Murtosa, Portugal
2017 - Prince’s Island, São Tomé and Príncipe
2019 - Bijagos Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
2021 - San Vicente Island, Cape Verde

The program of the VI International Congress of Environmental Education of Portuguese-speaking Countries and Communities of continuity to the methodology of previous congresses, contributing to the formulation of public policies that help strengthen environmental education in the Portuguese-speaking countries and Galicia.

This space has specific objectives:

• Strengthen joint research, training and information processes in the field of Environmental Education, contributing to the debate on the future of the planet. This represents an invitation to participants to articulate their identities in the face of the challenges of Environmental Education in the Portuguese-speaking countries and Galicia;
• Improve scientific production in Portuguese, valuing the initiatives of periodicals and other means of dissemination on Environmental Education;
• Promote scientific communication on Environmental Education through educational communication, such as teaching materials and various digital systems, such as blogs, websites, school networks and discussion lists;
• To build a permanent learning process that favors the Lusophone identity in the philosophical structure of Environmental Education.

The structure of the congress was idealized based on the suggestions and contributions resulting from the participatory process in REDELUSO. Below are some of the contributions made at this last conference.