Call for application: Sejahtera Residency Program @ Sejahtera Centre, Tongyeong
Submitted by RCEtongyeong on Wed, 2015-07-29 17:32Sejahtera Residency Program @ Sejahtera Centre for RCEs in Asia Pacific, Tongyeong
Sejahtera Residency Program @ Sejahtera Centre for RCEs in Asia Pacific, Tongyeong
ProSPER.Net is excited to announce that it is currently developing a co-sponsored internship programme with the Global Compact Cities Programme and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. This pilot collaboration will be based on two urban research focused internships for postgraduate students from ProSPER.Net universities in the Asia Pacific region. Interns will be based in a selected city government and assist that city with completing a Global Compact City Scan assessment.
Negotiations are underway to set objectives and targets and establish a framework for implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be adopted by the United Nations in September 2015. SDGs differ from their precursors, the Millennium Development Goals, in that they are meant to apply universally to all countries. We define universality as the ‘appropriateness’ of goals, targets, and indicators for global adoption.
Top-tier universities from across the world have joined forces through the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN), to incorporate sustainability in their teaching, research, and campus operations.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) provided some answers to the question: what sorts of skills are needed to cope with continuous change, and how can these skills be developed? According to a recent survey, senior business executives agree that the top three skills their companies need are problem solving (50%), team working (35%) and communication (32%). Of some concern, however, is the perception of skills gap in the workplace by 52% of the executives.
RCE Tongyeong invited as one of 20 partner organizations of UNESCO Global Action Programme in Training
RCE Penang is delighted to invite you to this webinar focused on embedding Education for Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction in primary and secondary education:
Title : Linking Education for Sustainable Development, Climate Change Education and Disaster Risk Reduction Education
Speakers: David Selby and Fumiyo Kagawa (Sustainability Frontiers, UK/Canada)
About 135 Regional Centers of Expertise (RCEs) have been accredited by the United Nations University – Institute for Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) throughout various regions of the world within the UN declared Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) from 2005-2015.
LAST week, the University of the Philippines (UP) hosted the 8th Asia-Pacific RCE Conference. Before the day I learned I was going to be part of the technical working group for the conference, I didn't know what RCE was. I asked the assistant who handed the memo what RCE was, and she could only manage a smile for an answer. Poor me, I got a smaller world.
Opening Ceremony RCE Eco-Park & Sejahtera Center for RCEs in Asia-Pacific
23 May 2015
Tongyeong City, Republic of Korea
United Nations University
Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
5–53–70 Jingumae,
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8925
Japan
Tel: +81 3 5467 1212
Fax: +81 3 3499 2828