IAU took part in Global Survey on HESD – First Insights on the State of Higher Education for Sustainable Development Study

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.
First Insights on the State of Higher Education for Sustainable Development Study - by Clemens Mader
For more than twenty years, higher education institutions from around the world have elaborated and implemented different methods to integrate sustainability into their education, research, operations, and in- and outreach activities. Beginning with the Talloires Declaration in 1990, in addition to other recent declarations like the Rio+20 Higher Education Treaty , as well as the IAU Iquitos statement on Higher Education for Sustainable Development all call for a transformation of higher education in order to better foster sustainable development through an institution wide approach that reflects all of the different roles of HEIs. Today, the UN Sustainable Development Goals which are currently being developed as well as the draft implementation plan of the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development are strengthening their call for engagement of HEIs. More in Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.