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On 25 October 2024, The United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) in its role as ProSPER.Net Secretariat, hosted the ProSPER.Net 18th General Assembly and 24th Board Meeting. Held online, the meeting was attended by representatives…

We are pleased to announce the call for applications to participate in the 2024 ProSPER.Net Young Researchers’ School (YRS). This year’s YRS will be held from 16 to 22 December 2024 in Colombo and Kandy, Sri Lanka, under the theme…

Applications are now open for membership to ProSPER.Net for 2024.   Membership is limited to higher education institutions located in the Asia-Pacific region that offer postgraduate education and research in sustainable development (SD) and in fields related to education for sustainable…

The ProSPER.Net Secretariat would like to invite members to submit self-nominations to host the upcoming ProSPER.Net programmes and events for 2024. Over the years, the network members have taken turns hosting the ProSPER.Net Leadership Programmes, Young Researchers’ School, Sustainability Forum,…

On 21 October 2023, UNU-IAS co-organised the ProSPER.Net Sustainability Forum as part of the UN Weeks at Sophia University. The event discussed the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the provision of inclusive and equitable education, particularly its impact on…

The linear economy has recognised limitations in supporting the decoupling of economic growth from finite natural resources. In contrast, the circular economy offers a promising model to overcome these limitations and assist in achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs). One…

The global call to action on sustainable development transitions higher education from the traditional ‘ivory tower’, discipline-oriented paradigm into one of innovative problem solving and creating sustainable solutions. The new paradigm takes on the interplaying sustainability issues in an inter-trans-disciplinary,…

On 4 March 2023, UNU-IAS organised a special session at the 14th International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development (ICERD) in a hybrid mode. Under the theme ‘Circular Economy Education for Sustainable Development in Local Communities‘, this event explored the…

Highlights: Twenty-one participants from 10 countries across the Asia-Pacific region participated in the 2022 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme on shifting to net zero. Throughout the programme, participants attended online lectures and workshops, built climate leadership skills, and learned about strategies towards…

The ProSPER.Net 16th General Assembly and 23rd Board Meeting, hosted by UNU-IAS, was held on 19 October, 2022. Over 35 representatives from the network attended the online meetings. Opening remarks were given by Prof. Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi, (Director, UNU-IAS) followed…