Message from the ProSPER.Net Secretariat

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Greetings from the ProSPER.Net Secretariat. This month we are holding our first ever online ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme! Along with our co-host Social Innovation Japan, we have spent the last two weeks with a fantastic group of participants exploring interdisciplinary solutions and building leadership skills needed to approach the climate crisis. We will bring you a report and outcomes from the event in the coming months!

Registrations are still open for the ProSPER.Net Webinar on Sustainability in Higher Education, 'Planetary Health Perspectives: Lessons from COVID-19 towards Climate Action', to be held in October. We hope you will be able to join us.

If you have any news, open calls, upcoming events, or publications you wish to share in a future bulletin, please complete this form and email your submission to the ProSPER.Net Secretariat at ProSPERNet@unu.edu (submissions close on the 15th of each month).

Sincerely,
ProSPER.Net Secretariat

Open Calls

YouthForesight Community Forum

Practitioners and stakeholders working on young people’s education and skilling, employment, entrepreneurship, and engagement are invited to join the YouthForesight Community Forum. Co-hosted by the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth and Generation Unlimited, the Forum aims to create an interactive and digitally connected community that collaborates to create positive change for young people. Further information is available here and the Forum can be joined here. 

Latest News

Cross-sectoral Partnerships in Higher Education Highlighted at 9th World Sustainability Forum

The 9th World Sustainability Forum took place virtually from 13-15 September, 2021, in which UNU-IAS presented in a session organised by IAU, 'Higher Education and Research – How universities around the world engage with Sustainability and build partnerships for the SDGs'. This session focused on higher education's role for sustainable development, presenting the IAU's work on its strategic priority of HESD (Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development), how it fosters this around the world, and how collaboration between universities and HEIs can be increased. As an IAU partner organisation representative, Dr Jonghwi Park, Academic Programme Officer and Head of Innovation and Education at UNU-IAS, presented on examples of practice, specifically looking at partnerships within the Higher Education sector and across sectors. Read more

ESD Publications & Other

Non-conventional Learning on Sustainable Development: Achieving the SDGs

The paper 'Non-conventional Learning on Sustainable Development: Achieving the SDGs' has just been published, as a Commentary, in the journal Environmental Sciences Europe. It describes the role of methods which are not commonly used, but whose effectiveness means that they may foster learning on matters related to sustainable development as a whole, and in particular assist in the implementation of the SDGs. The full text is available as open access and can be freely downloaded here.

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