IAU Work on Higher Education and Sustainable Development – From Iquitos to Nagoya and beyond

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.
Quality education at all levels of the education system is the key to enabling humanity to face present and future challenges (Higher) Education for sustainable development (HESD) is considered as one of the avenues for success hence the continued efforts by IAU to support HESD through targeted projects and initiatives, information gathering and dissemination, networking and exchange throughout the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development.
Today, initiatives are being launched and have been launched by international organizations such as ACU or IAU, by various UN organizations such as UNESCO, UNDP, UNDESA, UNGC to help craft the next steps: the new development agenda and related education policies. Higher education has to continue to play its fundamental role in this agenda and related policies and in enabling individuals and countries to achieve them. More in Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.