ESD for 2030
In 2020, UNESCO has launched its new ESD programme "Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the SDGs (ESD for 2030)". In line with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the related 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the programme runs until 2030.
ESD for 2030 - Towards Achieving the SDGs
With the extended programme, UNESCO supports the "Decade of Action" and contributes to accelerating sustainable solutions to all the world’s biggest challenges. "ESD for 2030" focuses on the interlinkages and tensions among different SDGs and provides learners with opportunities to practice balancing them. Many of the existing instruments, for example, the UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD and the five priority action areas (policy, education and training, educators, youth and communities), as well as the goal to implement ESD into the educational systems continue within the new framework. Nevertheless, there are numerous advancements as well, like the focus on psychological and social preconditions and the transformation of ESD into political mobilization.
"ESD for 2030" has been launched at an international conference organised by UNESCO and supported by the German Government as host. The conference provided impulses to further strengthen ESD in educational policy and practice and to accompany the strategic design of the new programme. It took place from May 17th - 19th, 2021 in Berlin. In addition, a National Launch Conference was the kick off for the programme in Germany.
To support Member States in implementing the UNESCO Framework for the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) beyond 2019 and its Roadmap, and to follow up on the Berlin Declaration on Education to Sustainable Development (May 2021), UNESCO is establishing the new ESD for 2030 Global Network.
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The ESD for 2030 roadmap
The ESD for 2030 roadmap sets out the urgent challenges facing the planet and underlines the implementation of the "Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the SDGs (ESD for 2030)" framework, which aims to increase the contribution of education to building a more just and sustainable world. It outlines actions in five priority action areas on policy, learning environments, building capacities of educators, youth and local level action, stressing further ESD’s key role for the successful achievement of the 17 SDGs and the big great individual and societal transformation required to address the urgent sustainability challenges.
Learning to change the world! What is Education for Sustainable Development?
How do we want to live in the future? What and how do we need to learn to make that future possible? How, where and what can we learn in order to actively shape the sustainable transformation ourselves? Global challenges affect us all and can be resolved jointly. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) provides answers to these questions.
Video series: Living ESD
The German UNESCO Commission and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research present the video series "BNE Leben" (Living ESD). The video series shows examples of successful ESD implementation from Germany.
Living ESD: Places of transformation
How does Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) contribute to making our society fit for the future? How, where and what do we learn in order to actively shape the sustainable transformation ourselves? In the first video of the series "Living ESD", we are hearing first-hand from people who are redesigning teaching and learning environments via the Whole Institution Approach and who promote competences that enable learners to advance the social transformation.
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: :Living ESD: Technological Future
How does Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) work in the digital space? How can technological progress be critically accompanied and evaluated in connection with sustainability? In the second video of the series "Living ESD", people are talking about how to use digitalization for new formats of ESD and how innovative approaches can be used to reach new audiences.
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: :Living ESD: Structural change
How is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) implemented in Germany? What is the National Platform and who is represented? Who is involved in the implementation of the National Action Plan on ESD? In the third video of the series "Living ESD", people who shape the national ESD process in Germany and promote the structural anchoring of ESD at national, regional and local level are being interviewed.
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: :Further Informations
Links:
UNESCO website on the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development