Sustainable and Social Entrepreneurship – A Curriculum / ProSPER.Net Outlines Modular Course

This ProSPER.Net project was led by TERI University, as a collaboration between the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and Tongji University. It showed a detailed assessment of the policy and regulatory interventions, more specifically, the fiscal and financial instruments shaping the development of decentralised energy systems in China, India, and Thailand.
UNU-IAS and UN ESCAP are developing guidelines on multi-stakeholder partnerships for the Agenda 2030 in Asia Pacific. To produce them, they need your input. Submit this questionnaire until October 6th. Read more
Isabel Franco, a JSPS Research Postdoctoral Fellow at Keio University and UNU-IAS, is conducting an online survey to understand stakeholders’ perceptions about how universities collaborate with local communities on impactful sustainability education and research. Your feedback will help to build knowledge about pressing challenges and opportunities in a multi-stakeholder collaborative environment. Read more
Transforming Together: The Values and Actions Needed to Respond to the SDGs in the United Kingdom
26 participants from six RCEs in the UK met at the University of Edinburgh on 20-21 June 2017. The event was hosted by RCE Scotland. This was the first meeting of the UK RCEs since June 2013, and was held as a follow-up to the European RCE meeting in London in 2016.
Aims of the Meeting
Photo credits: RCE Lagos
Within Lagos State there are over 1,500 primary schools run outside the set standards of government primary schools, reaching those in isolated locations, such as unreachable settlements in swamps, providing students with housing and a formal education at low costs.
Child labour has been a is one of the major challenges in North Central Nigeria and indeed in Nigeria. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), child labour deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.
We are proud to say that finally the role of the RCE network is recognized and its importance in implementing the SDGs! Read the latest UN report on sustainable development where RCEs are specifically mentioned here.
The report is available in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian.
Under point 33. it says:
RCE Thiruvananthapuram along with Centre for innovation in science and social action (CISSA) organized a talk on ‘KNOW AFRICA- History, Development and Science’ by Prof. Mammo Muchie (Research Chair and Professor of Economics Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa) at the Institute of Engineers, Thiruvananthapuram on 31st July, 2017.
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