Capacity Development

The ESD Team at UNU-IAS is looking for a Senior Programme Associate to coordinate the overall work of the ESD Project including the day-to-day management as well as programme outreach, event coordination, and budget management. Deadline has been extended to…

2017 International Essay Contest for Young People Young people from around the world are invited to enter the 2017 International Essay Contest for Young People organized by the Goi Peace Foundation, a GAP Key Partner. https://en.unesco.org/news/international-essay-contest-young-people-2017-participate-15-june

Since 1992, MCFA has been promoting environmental causes throughout the Americas to support projects that align with four central aims: Biodiversity Conservation, Environmental Education, Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development. Ideal timing for proposals is during the first quarter of the…

Future Earth and the Stockholm Resilience Centre are looking for brilliant ideas with potential to make major breakthroughs on the SDGs. The outcomes of the SDG Labs will be presented on 24 August during the joint “Ideas and Innovation” policy…

Funded by the Government of Japan, the third edition of UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD consists of three annual awards of US $50,000 for each recipient. All stakeholders involved in ESD (regional governments, public/private educational institutions, NGOs, local communities, media) have…

ISCN Sustainable Campus Excellence Awards: 2017 Call for Nominations! Deadline is March 3, 2017. Categories are Building and Innovative Infrastructure, Campus Planning and Management Systems, Innovative Collaboration, and Student Leadership http://bit.ly/2jUYCkT

‘Public Policy & Governance Beyond Borders’ is the guiding theme of this year’s Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) international conference, to be held in Brussels on 13-14 July 2017. We are now delighted to announce that MGSoG/UNU-MERIT…

UNU and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), are looking for several JSPS–UNU Fellows to conduct research in Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and related to the UNU Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR). Join the ESD team and work with…

The Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) provides a concrete contribution towards the efforts of member universities to consolidate their initiatives in the field of sustainable development in many ways. Read more

This book collects interdisciplinary reflections from researchers, educators and other experts about the linkages between environmental quality, human health, human education and well-being, including inequality, unplanned urbanization, migration, lifestyles, and consumption and production patterns. Contributions of a 200 words abstract…