European RCE Meeting Highlights Importance of Transformative Education

The 15th Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting was held in a hybrid format from 14-16 September 2023 at the Sejahtera Forest in Tongyeong City, Gyeongnam Province, Republic of Korea, hosted by RCE Tongyeong.
Time: 17:00-19:00 JST (in-person and online)
UNU-IAS will co-organise the ProSPER.Net Sustainability Forum as part of the UN Weeks at Sophia University. Under the theme 'Exploring the New Direction of Equity and Inclusion towards Transforming Education', the event will focus on the ramifications of the COVID-19 crisis on the provision of inclusive and equitable quality education, particularly its impact on vulnerable populations. It will also discuss the role of higher education institutions in striving for sustainability and inclusion in their activities.
Date/Time: 21 September 2023, 18:00 JST (online)
As part of the ESD-Net 2030 series of learning webinars on ESD pedagogy, this 3rd webinar will feature four organisations (the Office of Climate Education (OCE); the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS); the Media Development Center (MDC) at Birzeit University, Palestine; and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Greece) delivering simultaneous workshops highlighting and promoting innovative practices in ESD.
The 13th African Regional Meeting on 'Fostering Pan-African Collaboration for Just Futures' was hosted online on Thursday 17 August 2023, by RCE Makana and Rural Eastern Cape,
UNU-IAS will organise a session at the SDGs Youth Summit 2023 on the theme 'Youth Empowerment for the SDGs — UNU-IAS Stakeholder Dialogue'.
Held with the support of the Global Environment Outreach Centre (GEOC), the event will discuss challenges and opportunities to enhance meaningful youth participation in policymaking, and feature a panel discussion with RCE Yokohama youth member Ryoga Hiroki.
The Global RCE Service Centre is delighted to announce two new RCEs joining the network, who were recently acknowledged as new members:
RCE Ogun has won the bid to host the 2023 Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) Nigeria, an event held under the umbrella of YOUNGO, the official youth constituency of the UNFCCC. The theme of the conference is ‘Building Resilient Systems for a Climate Smart Economy in Nigeria’, and will take place from 11-13 September 2023 at the Covenant University Centre for Research Innovation and Development (CUCRID) from 10am each day.
From 15 May-15 July 2023, the RCE Youth Art Challenge exhibition was held at the Global Environment Outreach Centre at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan.
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