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From the blog of Daniel S. Mariaschin at The Times of Israel

Share As a follow-up to the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development held on 17-19 May 2021, and in line with the Berlin Declaration, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of Cambodia and the UNESCO Phnom Penh Office co-organized a national consultation on ESD for 2030 on 5 July 2021. Over 180 participants from MoEYS, concerned government ministries, development partners, representatives from NGOs, universities, education institutes took part in the online event. Th...

Jul 6, 2021 The webinar, which was moderated by Earth Day advocate and former UNEP Director of Communications Nick Nuttall, kicked off with launch speeches by Vibeke Jensen, Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills, and Susan Hopgood, President of Education International. Speakers from education, government and not-for-profit sectors then took part in a moderated discussion about the importance of teacher preparation and climate education, as well as the necessary precursors f...

Collective power and support in achieving universal climate change education were at the heart of the second meeting of Education International’s Climate Network.

Role of teachers in education for sustainable development highlighted by educators and partners The importance of providing quality education for sustainable development (ESD) was highlighted at the recent UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development. This vital topic – and ensuring that teachers receive initial and continuous training on that topic – was raised by Education International’s member organisations and partners during various sessions at the confe...

Share Paris: Education is not giving students sufficient knowledge to adapt, act and respond to climate change and environmental crises, according to a new report published by UNESCO on the eve of the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, which will take place on line from Berlin (Germany), from 17 to 19 May. The study, Learn for Our Planet, analyzed educational plans and curricula frameworks in close to 50 countries across all regions. More than half make no reference to c...

Five key takeaways from Austria’s mobile government (mGov) experience Image Imagine being able to change your home address, receive official documents, and order an election card all in one place. These simple tasks in reality can take an extremely long time for citizens in other parts of the world but in Austria, you don’t need to look further than your mobile phone.   through the Berlin Declaration on December 8, 2020. The rationale was simple: even if governments have implemented e-gov...

Wednesday ,30 December 2020  Ten years will have passed next 25 January since the Egyptian people took to the streets to demand radical political change under the slogan “the people want to change the regime.” What they wanted was the departure of former president Hosni Mubarak and to substitute the political system he had presided over with a more democratic and transparent one. Their concerns and aspirations revolved around domestic politics rather than foreign policy.   However, the hi...