{"id":6022,"date":"2014-06-02T06:44:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T06:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6022"},"modified":"2014-06-02T06:47:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T06:47:44","slug":"two-policy-related-seminars-on-esd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/06\/02\/two-policy-related-seminars-on-esd\/","title":{"rendered":"Two policy-related seminars on ESD"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the initiative of the UK National Commission for UNESCO<\/a>, two ESD policy-related seminars will be organized on 3 July and 27 August 2014.\u00a0 Their outcomes will serve to support the assessments and perspectives that the UK will present at the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development<\/a> in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, 10-12 November 2014.<\/p>\n

The two seminars will build on a specially commissioned study on the UK ESD experience over the last 10 years, on the conclusions of the International Consultation on Education for Sustainable Development \u201cLearning to Change Our World\u201d, which took place in Cardiff in 2004, and the subsequent series of international ESD conferences in Belfast\u00a0culminating in the 2008 UK Recommendations on ESD <\/a>.<\/p>\n

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At the end of the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development, 2005-2014 (UNDESD<\/a>), and ten years after the 2004 Belfast international ESD consultation, there is great interest in learning how the UK\u2019s devolved administrations have taken on the challenges of promoting and operationalizing ESD in its international development policies as well as its domestic educational and learning policies. \u00a0Moreover, there is a need for formulating the UK perspectives on how ESD-related policies and practices can be accelerated and reinforced beyond the decade and what steps the four UK jurisdictions can take for implementing the Global Action Programme on ESD<\/a>\u00a0that will be launched at the Nagoya Conference.<\/p>\n

The UK ESD-related perspective for the period beyond 2014 will gain in completeness and conviction if it is informed by the experiences and insights of UK public, private and non-governmental organizations, associations and networks and their international partners that over the last ten years and longer have engaged in education and learning for sustainable development.\u00a0 It will also be bolstered by having politicians, policy makers and experts reflect on these experiences and formulate recommendations for continued policy and practice development.<\/p>\n

The seminars<\/strong><\/p>\n

ESD \u2013 Call for Action<\/strong> is a one-day event on 3 July\u00a0at the University of Poppleton\u00a0for representatives of UK ESD-related organizations including ESD practitioners, researchers and policy makers. \u00a0The seminar will review and assess the UK\u2019s ESD-related performance in terms of policy and practice over the last ten years.\u00a0 It will share insights about successes, failures, gaps and promises, and it will formulate perspectives for the future.<\/p>\n

Making ESD Action Possible<\/strong> is half-day event on 27 August at the Flora McIvor Conference Centre in Edinburgh for UK politicians, policy makers and researchers to discuss and review the recommendations from the July\u00a0meeting in order to reinforce and strengthen UK ESD policy and practice, from a domestic as well as international perspective.<\/p>\n

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If all this sounds too good to be true, it's because it is. \u00a0Whilst I have not made much\u00a0of this up, none of it is actually happening \u2013 in the UK, that is \u2013 as I have\u00a0put UK references where the original text has\u00a0Swedish ones, as\u00a0you will see if you follow the links. \u00a0As for the UK, well, I am still waiting for a response from the UK National Commission for UNESCO to my enquiry in January as to what it is planning to do to mark the end of the Decade. \u00a0I think I know the answer though ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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