In Conversation with Won Jung Byun: The ESD for 2030 Framework after COVID-19
Can the COVID-19 crisis become a catalyst for the transformations that education has long needed? In the second conversation of the dialogue series “In Conversation with …”, Won Jung Byun, Senior Project Officer in the Section of Education for Sustainable Development at UNESCO Headquarters, spoke about the role of the then recently adopted “ESD for 2030” framework and its roadmap in building forward from the pandemic with more resilience and inclusion.
The theme of the conversation was “How do we rise better, resilient and inclusive from COVID-19? ‘ESD for 2030’ framework and its role in building forward better”. Amid new initiatives to strengthen the role of education, the conversation looked at the framework as a potential catalyst for the 2030 Agenda.
Presentation by Won Jung Byun (PDF) · Short summary of the conversation (PDF) · ESD for 2030 Roadmap (UNESCO)
Speaker: Won Jung Byun, Senior Project Officer, Section of Education for Sustainable Development, UNESCO Headquarters
Moderation: Matthias Barth, Leuphana University Lüneburg
About Won Jung Byun
At the time of the conversation, Won Jung Byun's work at UNESCO focused on ESD policy, in particular on the new global framework “ESD for 2030” and its roll-out through the roadmap. She was the team's focal point for the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development in Berlin in 2021. Before joining UNESCO, she had worked from 2005 as executive director of the United Nations University's Regional Centre of Expertise on ESD (RCE) Tongyeong, Republic of Korea, co-founded the Tongyeong Education Foundation for Sustainable Development (2011) and the education centre Sejahtera Forest (2015), and served as Regional Coordinator for 42 RCEs in Asia-Pacific from 2009 to 2014.
This conversation was part of the dialogue series “In Conversation with …”, which the Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning (ISDL) and the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana University Lüneburg ran in 2021 as part of the cooperation in the UNITWIN network. The series asked how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) can help to build forward better after the COVID-19 pandemic and highlighted the role of Global South–North partnerships in achieving the 2030 Agenda.
