9th Tongyeong ESD International Forum 

12-13 December 2017, Sejahtera Forest, Tongyeong, Republic of Korea 

The 10th ASEAN+3 Leadership Programme, organized in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on 10-13 October 2017, was hosted by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia.

Photo: RCE Minna

RCE Crete is a partner of a European Commission funded programme ‘Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education’ within the ERASMUS framework. The project focuses on the development of an MSc programme in Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security held at Jerash University (Jordan) and the Suez Canal University (Egypt). The project involves four universities from Jordan and four universities from Egypt.

COMMEET is a new TVET initiative envisioning tailor-made vocational education and entrepreneurship training for regional communities anywhere in the world. The goal of COMMEET is to achieve optimal embedding of TVET and entrepreneurship initiatives in these communities.

Every year, Japanese universities meet at the Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) Forum to promote Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The HESD Forum is the biggest meeting in Japan of its kind. 30 participants from HESD member universities attended the Forum at Ritsumeikan University, Japan, on the Shiga Campus.

Photo: RCE Minna

African youths have an integral role to play in bringing about Sustainable Development, Good Governance and sound Leadership on the continent. For this reason RCE Minna, Nigeria in collaboration with RCE Grand Rapids, Michigan USA, for the second time, brought together,virtually, young people from across Eastern, Western and Southern Africa to discuss ways of addressing the challenges of Leadership and Governance on the African continent. 

RCE Thiruvananthapuram together with its major stakeholder the Centre for Innovation in Science and Social Action (CISSA) has won the Global Prize of the Education in Sustainable Development (ESD) Okayama Award for 2017 for the project 'Kerala Children’s Agricultural Science Congress'. The project was selected for the Award from among 11 nominated projects in the first-round of selection. As many as 44 applications from 29 countries competed for the Award.