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RCE Greater Western Sydney calls for university case studies in sustainability assessments

RCE GWS is seeking university case studies in the global RCE community that engage with “powerful assessment” tasks. ‘Powerful assessment' means assessment tasks which are integrated, real-world based and tap in combination the personal, interpersonal and cognitive capabilities we know characterise successful early career graduates. Specific areas of interest are:

Submit Paper for International Review of Education: Non-formal and Community Learning for Sustainable Development

This is a formal invitation to submit a paper for Critical Case studies of Non-formal and Community Learning for Sustainable Development, Special issue in International Review of Education

Special Issue editors:
Arjen E.J. Wals, Alexander Leicht &Yoko Mochizuki
Invitation to submit paper outline

GDN: Call for proposals mobilizing local knowledge for competitiveness strategies

The Global Development Network (GDN) is launching a new research program on Industrial Policy in developing countries as the chosen partner of the Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice of the World Bank Group, with the financial support of the Competitive Industries and Innovations Program (CIIP).

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India

Strengthening ESD at the local level, by Alexander Leicht, UNESCO

Contribution to the September RCE e-bulletin 2015 by Alexander Leicht, Chief of Section, ESD, UNESCO (a.leicht@unesco.org)

The Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) aims at generating and scaling up ESD action across the world. The GAP was endorsed by the UNESCO General Conference in 2013 and acknowledged by the UN General Assembly in 2014 as the follow-up to the UN Decade of ESD. It was launched at the World Conference on ESD in November 2014 in Japan.

UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education

Since 2005, the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize has rewarded innovations in teaching and learning that leverage technology to improve educational outcomes. The theme for the 2015 edition of the Prize is Pedagogical Innovation in the Use of ICT in Teaching and Learning.

UNU Blog: SDG 3: Getting Past the Pathological: Governing Global Health

This article is part of UNU’s “17 Days, 17 Goals” series, featuring research and commentary in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, 25-27 September 2015 in New York City.

Goal #3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

UNU Blog: SDG 2: Taking Hunger Out of the Poverty Equation

This article is part of UNU’s “17 Days, 17 Goals” series, featuring research and commentary in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, 25-27 September 2015 in New York City.

Goal #2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture

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