Asia-Pacific

New ProSPER.Net co-sponsored internship with Global Compact Cities Programme and RMIT University

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.

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UGEC Blog: Implementing the Urban Sustainable Development Goal in Atlanta and Delhi

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.

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Wenhui Award for Educational Innovation 2015: Innovations for Skills Development for the Future

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.

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Thailand

RCE Penang Webinar - Linking ESD, Climate Change Education and Disaster Risk Reduction Education (10 April 2015, 2-3pm UTC+8)

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)

Education for sustainable development: Moving forward

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. 

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Philippines

Sustainable peerage

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.

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