Year: 2020

Sustainability: The Journal of Record invites contributions to a special issue focused on pandemics, socially equitable economic advancement, and resilient and sustainable systems. The special issue will explore the impacts of the pandemic, how it has revealed injustices across economic advancement and…

UNESCO is inviting young people to submit their stories about their COVID-19 experiences in written or video format, sharing any actions they have taken or creative ideas developed to face these challenging times. Stories will be disseminated through UNESCO’s social…

This webinar will focus on urban-rural partnership aiming at collective resilience in terms of different resources like food, water, and energy. The webinar will also highlight some recent research on urban food security in the context of COVID-19. Organised by…

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is co-hosting a webinar series along with Miyagi University of Education, Japan and UNESCO Jakarta office as one of the joint activities in its ProSPER.Net project, ‘Disaster Education For Integrating SFDRR And SDG In…

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has launched a photography contest, ‘Humans locked down, nature unlocked: a global photo contest on flora and fauna in the time of COVID-19 in support of the restoration of ecosystems’.    Submissions are being accepted of…

The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment 2020 (ICSBE) – The Kandy Conference – will be held at Earl’s Regency Hotel, Kandy, Sri Lanka from 10-12 December, 2020. Held since December 2010, with collaborations from local and worldwide universities and research institutions, the Conference is now accepting papers related…

Entries for the ‘ESD Okayama Award 2020’ are now open. Conducted by Okayama City and the ESD Okayama Award Steering Committee, the Award rewards outstanding ESD practices in local communities around the world to showcase ESD and to support organisations carrying…

From 31 August – 2 September 2020 educators from around the world will gather online for the Virtual Higher Education Summit 2020 (#HES2020). Co-organised by the COPERNICUS Alliance, saguf, td-net, the University of Bern, and the University of Lausanne, this forward-looking event…

The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) in cooperation with the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education are pleased to announce the 2020 SEAMEO-Japan Education…