COPERNICUS Alliance Conference “Education for Sustainability: Building capacity in higher educ

3rd Oct 2014 00:00

We are pleased to share programme information and to invite participation in an international conference organised by COPERNICUS Alliance (CA) and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

This international Conference is taking place in the year the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development  (DESD, 2005-14) comes to an end and the Global Action Programme on ESD is taking shape. The Conference will review major trends and changes in higher education towards sustainability over the last ten years, with an emphasis on whole-of-institution approaches, curriculum change, university educators, ESD competences and quality enhancement. A state of the art report which maps existing ESD professional development opportunities for university educators in Europe will be presented at the event. This report has been developed as part of a newly funded European project entitled University Educators for Sustainable Development (UE4SD) coordinated by CA.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ms Bianca Bilgram (Rep of the Bureau of the UNECE Strategy for ESD and Head the Secretariat UN DESD of the German Commission for UNESCO, Germany); Prof Gerd Michelsen (UNESCO Chair in HE for SD, Germany); Dr Jana Dlouhá (Researcher at Charles University, Czech Republic); Ms Lenka Parkánová (President of Oikos International, Switzerland/Czech Republic); Dr Clemens Mader (CA Vice-President, Germany); Dr Mark Pegg (Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, UK) (TBC); and, Prof Daniella Tilbury (CA President and Chair of the UNESCO M&E Group for the DESD, UK).

For further information, abstract submissions and registration details please refer to the Conference Brochure (download below) and the conference website.

REGISTRATIONS and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE is Tuesday 15 July – please share the Conference brochure and website widely across your networks and with colleagues who may be interested.