The Ubuntu Alliance, in its meeting in April 2006 in Yokohama, established the Committee of Peers for RCEs. This Committee reviews applications for new RCEs and provides recommendations to UNU during the RCE acknowledgement process. The United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) acts as Secretariat of the Ubuntu Alliance. 

The Global RCE Service Centre is delighted to announce four new RCEs joining the network, who were acknowledged at the Ubuntu Committee of Peers for the RCEs meeting held virtually last month, on 11 December, 2020.

Please join us in extending a warm welcome to the new members of the RCE family: 

2020 RCE Awards for Innovative Projects on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

(Photo credit: The University of Edinburgh)

In the lead-up to the 12th Global RCE Conference in 2021, the hosts RCE Scotland will be hosting two pre-conference webinars.

The first of these, 'RCE Global Network 2021: Achieving the SDGs: Action through Learning' will be held on 4 February, 2021 from 8:00-10:00am GMT.  

During the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD, from 2015-2019, RCEs conducted close to 480 projects across 46 countries. Following on from the video released earlier this year highlighting the research that was conducted on these projects, a new booklet presents this analysis in full. Covering RCE projects at a global and regional level, the analysis conducted by Dr.

During the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD, from 2015-2019, RCEs conducted close to 480 projects across 46 countries. Research was recently conducted on these projects, both at a global and regional level, analysing the SDGs, themes, institutions, audiences and environments across the projects completed, all tied to SDG 4 (Quality Education).

Take a look at some of the trends here: