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Applications are now open for membership to ProSPER.Net for 2021. 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 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…

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…

Building on the discussions from the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) Special Event held at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), a HESI Roundtable event was held on 15 July 2020 to reflect on the discussions and work towards actionable…

On 8 July 2020, UNU-IAS co-organised one of six Special Events of this year’s UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) Special Event focused on how higher education can be redesigned to support sustainable development and regeneration,…

Since its inception, ProSPER.Net member institutions have launched a wide variety of joint projects ranging from the creation of an online postgraduate programme in public policy and sustainable development practice to the integration of sustainable development in business school curricula….

**Applications for membership to ProSPER.Net for 2020 have now closed.** 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 2019 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme was held from 24th – 30th November in Quezon City, the Philippines, hosted by the University of the Philippines Diliman. Under the theme, ‘Engineering Approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Towards Sustainable Development in…