RCE Greater Western Sydney is looking for interested RCE Global Community Panelists to join an online discussion with Western Sydney University’s first year Bachelor of Health Science students. These students will be a cohort of 30 undergraduates undertaking the unit “Professional Pathways” before majoring in Health Promotion, Health Service Management, Therapeutic Health or Public Health.

RCE Penang is pleased to announce a Public lecture by Professor Charles Hopkins:

Reimagining And Implementing ESD Practices For Education Beyond 2030: Learning and Beyond

Date: 24th January 2017

Venue: Dewan Budaya, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Time: 8.30 - 12.00

The lecture will be livestreamed and the link added to RCE Penangs facebook page and here soon. RCE Penang is also soliciting interest from RCEs in Asia Pacific to organize an inter-RCE collaboration to benefit from this lecture.

We are delighted to announce that several new RCEs have joined the RCE network as of November 2016. Eight new RCEs from across all regions were acknowledged during the Ubuntu Commitee of Peers at the 10th Global RCE Conference, 23-25 November, 2016 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This brings the total number of RCEs up to 154.

 The 10^th Global RCE Conference which held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from 23-25 November 2016 discussed strategies to make substantial contributions to the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As 2017 will be an important year marking the mid-term of the GAP, the Conference also aimed to reflect on the achievements and challenges of RCEs and discuss how we can accelerate our actions by engaging and working with local communities.

2nd  Workshop for RCEs on IPBES Work Programme and Biodiversity & Ecosystem Assessments

22 November 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

​Organizer: United Nations University – Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Secretariat of the Regional Centres of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

Venue: Gadja Mada University Campus

Date: 22 November, 2016

Time: 14:00-18:00

Regional RCE Conferences - Open Call for 2017

We would like to invite RCE members from the African, Americas, Asia Pacific, and European communities to submit self-nominations to host the upcoming RCE Regional Conference for 2017.