Join UNESCO for an online workshop series on how to transform society through learning with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), starting from September 2020. The discussions will be organized in the framework of the new programme ESD for 2030 and will lay the ground for the UNESCO World Conference on ESD, taking place on 17-19 May 2021, in Berlin, Germany.
The series of online workshops is organized in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany, and with the German Commission for UNESCO as advisory partner
Objectives:
- To share the key reflections from the pandemic on redesigning a more sustainable and just world beyond Covid-19;
- To discuss ways to harness the transformative power of ESD based on the reflections and support the implementation of the ESD for 2030 framework in the next decade.
Dates:
The online workshops will be held once a month, every second Wednesday, starting September 2020. To make the online workshops accessible to participants in different time zones across the world, three different time slots will be used on rotational basis (for details, please see concept note). After the workshops, a recording and short article summarizing the discussions will be made available online.
The first online workshop, “The Big Conversation: Education for Sustatainable Development and the World Beyond COVID-19”, will be a joint thinking process to collect observations and questions on the transformation we need in the world beyond the pandemic and how ESD contributes to this transformation. It aims to provide an opening to a number of topics that will be discussed in the upcoming workshops.
Date & Time: Wed 9 September 2020, 12:30-13:30h GMT+2, see more detail in workshop agenda.
Working languages
The online workshops are conducted in English. Live interpretation in French will be provided for some of the workshops. Written interactions during the workshop are available in English and French.
Technical specifications
The online workshops are organized on the platform Zoom. The detailed agenda of each session and the link to access the session are shared in advance through the online page for the series: https://en.unesco.org/themes/education-sustainable-development/ESDfor2030-workshops
