UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) (Page 3)

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Rethinking Higher Education: UNESCO's New Recommendation

How can a recommendation first adopted by UNESCO in 1974 guide education at a time of climate change and armed conflict? On 7 February 2024, the Rethinking Higher Education Dialogue Series brought together an online panel to discuss UNESCO's new Recommendation on Education for Peace and Human Rights,

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In Conversation with Mirian Vilela: Regenerative ESD and Peace with Nature

How can we foster collective human agency to build a reciprocal relationship with nature? On International Mother Earth Day, 22 April 2021, the dialogue series “In Conversation with …” hosted Mirian Vilela, Executive Director of Earth Charter International, under the theme “How can we build collective conscience and action to rise

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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

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In Conversation with Heila Lotz-Sisitka: ESD for 2030 as the Next Chapter

What opportunities does the new “ESD for 2030” framework open up for sustainability learning after the pandemic? In the first conversation of the dialogue series “In Conversation with …”, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Distinguished Professor of Education at the Environmental Learning Research Centre at Rhodes University (South Africa), shared her perspectives on