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16 août 2013

HIgher education and sustainable development (HESD)

http://www.iau-aiu.net/sites/all/files/imagecache/scale_crop_120x80/IAU%20Horizons%2019.2%20Front%20cover%20picture%20-%20ENG.jpgThe latest edition of the IAU Horizons (Vol. 19 No.2) is now available online.
Working Group on Higher Education and Sustainable Development (WG-HESD) renewed.
The terms of Reference of the WG-HESD have been reviewed and adopted at the IAU Board Meeting, held in Manchester, in April. Building on the IAU Policy statement entitled: IAU Kyoto Declaration on Sustainable Development and the related activities, the Members of the WG-HESD advises the Administrative Board and the Secretary General on the overall positioning of IAU within this broad theme. More specifically the Working Group provides recommendations on initiatives and strategic partnerships to be pursued by IAU to enhance higher education’s contribution to sustainable development. The Group will also provide advice how to actively engage IAU Members and other experts in the areas as providing strategic direction for the further development of the global IAU portal on HESD (www. iau-hesd.net – see below) and will contribute to defining the IAU 2014 International Conference 2014 on Blending Higher Education and Traditional Knowledge for Sustainable Development.
The IAU Global Platform on Higher Education and Sustainable Development (HESD) fosters your actions towards sustainability online.
Our new portal on HESD is a collaborative platform aiming at centralising and disseminating information on activities and actions undertaken all over the world by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and related to higher education and sustainable development. You can navigate the portal online at: www.iau-hesd.net and provide us with your feedback and comments on any aspect using the following form: www.iau-hesd.net/en/contact.
What is available (in English and French)?
A homepage featuring latest news, actions, projects, or documents relating to HESD; and additions featured;
A map localising institutions and organisations actively promoting HESD;
A global calendar listing events related to HESD;
A database linking key charts, declarations, other key documents on HESD;
A series of practices describing actions towards sustainability as undertaken by HEIs, organisations and the civil society;
Research tools.
Why contribute?
To showcase the wealth of your activities and lead others to develop similar or new innovative approaches to HESD;
To ensure the information published on the portal to be accurate and up-to-date.
To improve the existing information fed through desk top research and provided by Member Institutions.
Your University will receive full benefit for actions / documents / etc., submitted and full visibility online. Participation is free of charge and your input will not be reused without your prior consent.
How can you contribute to the platform?
Everyone can contribute. The HESD Portal will bring together the whole Higher Education Community:
Global, regional and national stakeholders: intergovernmental organisations, associations, nongovernmental and not-for-profit organisations working in the field of Higher Education. Countries Administrations, Ministries of Education, Academia, HE administrators;
Higher Education Institutions actors: thinkers, administrative staff, teachers, students.
Contributions:
You can share information and promote your work by entering related projects and documents, using the submission form: www.iau-hesd.net/en/node/1413 For future reference, thank you for providing IAU with the contact details for the person in charge of sustainable development activities at your institution (if such a person is appointed), including Title, Name, Function, E-mail.
The portal is being presented at different events organised by IAU Secretariat, IAU Members and UNESCO in the context of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UN-DESD – www.unesco.org) and will act as gauge indicating the involvement of HEIs in the process and adherence to the principles. Milestones to be penned down in your agendas:
Iquitos, Peru, March 19-21 2014 – IAU International Conference on Blending Higher Education, Sustainable Development and Indigenous Knowledge (www.iau-aiu. net/content/international-conferences);
Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, 10-12 November 2014 – UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development – Learning Today for a Sustainable Future (www.unesco.org/new/en/education/events/calendar-ofevents/ education-global-conferences/) Contact: Dr. Hilligje van’t Land (h.vantland@iau-aiu.net).
The IAU-HESD Project is undertaken with financial support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

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