ProSPER.Net and Networking in Higher Education: Advancing ESD and Developing Leaders for Sustainable Development

In preparation for the International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development, Nagoya 9 November 2014, and the UNESCO World Conference on ESD, Nagoya, Japan, 10-12 November 2014, IAU prepared a special issue of IAU Horizons on The role of higher education in the post 2015 Development Agenda. Download Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.
ProSPER.Net and Networking in Higher Education: Advancing ESD and Developing Leaders for Sustainable Development - by Aurea Christine Tanaka and Mario Tabucanon
Networking in education serves as a strategy to gather educators and researchers who share specific goals, to create opportunities for institutional change and to further innovative practices that are experimented and then widely disseminated within the network and beyond 10 . When this process is institutionalized and is extended to include members from different countries, the inherent characteristics of a platform for academic exchange and cooperation, institutional transformation, curriculum development, capacity building and policy influence are internationalized, and constitute a way through which global agenda can be translated into local actions. Partnerships that are developed within a network approach have also been stressed as a mechanism for sustainable development implementation since the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). More in Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.