Year: 2020

The ownership of the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by local authorities and communities, civil society and the scientific and academic community is vital to the realisation of goals. Many countries promote partnership and local implementation at…

Individuals, institutions, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or other entities are invited to apply for the 2020 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT in education. This year’s theme is “the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to…

Andalas University in cooperation with Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, will organise a webinar to discuss the current major issues in disaster risk reduction and their implication on higher education under the title, ‘Natural and Non-Natural Disaster Risk Reduction and…

UNESCO is organising a series of regional online launch events of the ESD for 2030 Roadmap which provides guidance for Member States and other stakeholders for the implementation of the new global framework ‘Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the…

On 15 October, 2020, the ProSPER.Net Joint Meetings – the 14th General Assembly and 20th Board Meeting were held online, hosted by UNU-IAS. Close to 50 representatives from the network attended the annual meeting, held virtually this year due to the ongoing pandemic.   The meeting began with opening remarks from Prof. Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi, Director,…

Organised by the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), the ProSPER.Net Webinar on Sustainability in Higher Education was held on 16 October, 2020, under the theme ‘Accelerating transition towards achieving the SDGs during and after the COVID-19 pandemic’.  Bringing…

***This open call has now closed.*** The ProSPER.Net Secretariat would like to invite members to submit self-nominations to host the ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme for 2021.  Over the years, the network members have taken turns in hosting the Leadership Programme. Hosting ProSPER.Net programmes/events gives the host…

Calling students and university professors and researchers – the 2nd edition of the Challenge Campus 2030 is calling for projects to submit their vision for a campus of 2030; one that has achieved all 17 SDGs. Organised by Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), the United…

UNU-IAS will co-organise a webinar on the theme of Sustainable Lifestyles for a Green Recovery: COVID-19 and the SDGs, with Sophia University, the Ministry of the Environment Japan (MOEJ) and the Global Environment Outreach Centre (GEOC). This webinar will be…

The 3rd webinar for the Disaster Risk Reduction Education Series (DRR-Edu Series), will be on the theme, ‘Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation: Context, Approach and Praxis’. This event is one of the webinar series conducted collaboratively…