The role of education is to be a foundation and driver for building a sustainable future. Following the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, educators must unite and commit to deliver the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development Global Action Plan and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Working closely with our international partners, we bring together resources from HE and FE institutions worldwide. The partnerships provide the opportunities to radically increase sharing between the Southern and Northern Hemispheres to enrich the understanding of what sustainability means for an educational institution.
With the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability (GUPES), we bring the latest news, resources and case studies across the world.
“Universities and colleges have to take the lead on a global scale to ensure our students have the skills and knowledge to ensure a social, economic and environmentally responsible future for us all,” Iain Patton, CEO, EAUC.
The Platform for Sustainability Performance in Education joins organisations which have created sustainability assessment tools designed for universities and colleges based worldwide.
Along with our sister organisations, AASHE (USA) and ACTS (Australasia), we are dedicated to sharing the knowledge and experience of education institutions. For instance, the International Green Gown Awards are testament to this as they celebrate good practice across scales and borders to demonstrate the real potential of good sustainability practice in the sector.
Université Laval has been engaged since 2008 in a comprehensive approach to sustainable development, and has significant results: 38% of greenhouse gas emissions, 19% of water...
The "kitchen garden and feeder" in partnership with the city of Beauvais, Picardy DRAAF gives the ability to people in precarious situations to garden and cook from...
Universities have been identified as being critical in developing sustainability - focused skillsets and mindsets (UNESCO, 2004; UNCSD, 2012). A UK-based survey further...
Providing a training pathway for lecturers which is aimed at the implementation of sustainable development in their classes.
In connection with specific societal challenges (food, raw materials, poverty, diversity, etc.) we offer students levers for implementing ESD at class and school level
In these Honours Classes students are acquainted with biotechnological practice in a biological lab under the direction of Prof. Dr. Robert Zwijnenberg and bio-artist Boo Chapple
A meeting and exploratory pathway which offers students who are interested in sustainable management a unique opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of some inspiring...
A one day conference on 'systems thinking' linked to sustainable development.
Training day for all staff members of the university college about the various themes of sustainability.
Abstract This study is concerned with the analyses of the quality of water in terms of its physical, chemical and biological characteristics; the aquatic resources in terms...
Fiji National University (FNU), Nature Trust of Fiji and Nature Fiji have discussed a project which would see rainforest being protected in the area comprising the Garrick...
University of Wollongong (UOW) has successfully trialled a new method of planting wetland plants in the university pond network. Establishment of plants on pond embankments and...
Professor Mohamed Tahiri I started in 2007 with a Switzerland NGO that specialised in the environment and I worked with a local team for at least one year in an application...
Being still within the UN-decade of biodiversity and still being far from reaching the goals in biodiversity conservation at the same time, the consequences of degrading...
The Lisandro Alvarado University has an Agroecológicas Technology Demonstration Centre (CenecoAgro) for combating desertification. Species have been added to the...
Transitie UGent is a group of around 200 staff members, students and external stakeholders who are engaged in sustainable development at our university.
The Learning Network 'Sustainable and Innovative Tourism' is aimed at teaching staff in tourism and seeks to provide information and teaching material focused on...
Network for and by lecturers from teacher training programmes and interested parties from civil society. This learning network exchanges knowledge and builds expertise in...
Network for and by lecturers from the social work programme and interested parties from the field. The learning network aims to build and exchange knowledge about the...
These sessions for and by professors and lecturers from the Flemish economic programmes are aimed at discussing the relationship between sustainable development and economy and...
Systems and Scenario Thinking is a course within the minor 'Leadership in a globalising context', an optional package of 20 credits which Bioscience Engineering...
This workshop is an inspiring, interactive introduction to enable students to use the essential international component of sustainable development in their future professional...
This course discusses the positive and negative impact of logistics and mobility on society, economically as well as socially and ecologically. It focuses on how the sector can...
In this free series of lectures - since 2014 also the basis of the university-wide optional course 'Sustainability Thinking' – each year one sustainability theme is...
The design and construction of a solar car to compete in the world championship in Australia.
An example of good practice in Curriculum from Ecocampus (Belgium) Each year, the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care of the University of Ghent organises a...
Project 'Corporate Social Responsibility' has been a compulsory course at the Faculty of Applied Economics for five years now. It is fleshed out through an integrated...
This course aims to introduce students to the complex field of sustainability thinking. The ambition is to approach sustainability challenges as central political issues for the...
During a workshop future teachers learn about the vision on and are shown practical examples of bringing the world to the classroom.
Future preschool teachers are given a session on how the theme 'food' can be implemented in a sustainable way among preschoolers, with a balance between theory and...
Students work out an exhibition stand in interdisciplinary teams within the framework of a CSR market on 21 May 2015. Their audience will consist of students from the 5th and...
Future entrepreneurs are currently insufficiently prepared in mainstream programmes for their contribution to corporate social entrepreneurship. The ESF project HET IVOOR wanted...
This guideline highlights sustainable development as a guiding compass in education. Competences for sustainable development act as an important lever for this.
Ecocampus developed an ESD competence profile for graduated teacher training students (in cooperation with the teacher training learning network)
The work package Ecodesign in Higher Education (EHE kit) provides concrete guidance to teachers, professors, programme coordinators and training councils to integrate ecodesign...
Students with a different background and expertise try to solve a real business case together. In this way the project meets the needs of the business community
During 10 days participants from socio-educational care work and business studies in Flanders and other European countries (Sweden, Spain, Bulgaria, Finland and Germany) take...
The Global Citizenship and Youth Participation in Europe Report identifies the context within which the Schools for Future Youth Project takes place in terms of evidence on...
Prof. Dr. Arjen Wals often begins his lectures by handing out pieces of a Happy Meal from fast food chain McDonald's. The students, divided into small teams, are all given...
The Ecolizer calculates the environmental impact of your product quickly and easily. You can calculate the overall environmental impact, but also the impact of each phase in the...
Every two years, PXL-Tech organises a Sustainability Day. During this Sustainability Day students and lecturers are given the opportunity to familiarise themselves with all...
FEVIA Trophy and Ecotrophelia are innovation competitions for food. They are aimed at the Flemish education sector and are organised by FEVIA, the Belgian Food Industry...
The Ecorace Challenge is a competition organised by nv De Scheepvaart and Waterwegen & Zeekanaal NV, two major waterway managers in Flanders.
Since the beginning of the 90s, the term 'sustainable development' has been widely adopted in common language
The OVAM Ecodesign Award for students is open to all students enrolled in design studies for 3-dimensional products, such as product development, industrial design, product...
UNESCO has released a Clearinghouse on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)which comes with a comprehensive Resource Bank.
Around the world there is growing attention to sustainability (including at KU Leuven). The many students' associations in Leuven that are engaged in sustainability and are...
University college PXL orients its education towards learning for sustainable development. The Education Service works along two tracks to that end.
The participating organisations form a heterogeneous group, in which each organisation focuses on education, involves learners and/or provides services to educational...
Within the framework of the module 'Kind in de wereld' (Child in the World), students work with current affairs