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5 Years of HESD – Looking back – moving forward
The year 2009 marks the completion of the first half of the UN Decade ‚Education for Sustainable Development’. This provides the opportunity to critically reflect on what has been achieved so far and which tasks and challenges remain to be addressed. Thus, it seems natural to take stock and consider achievements to date, as well as to identify tasks and challenges and to highlight promising strategies and solutions. The central question remains, what value is added by integrating questions of sustainability into teaching and learning in higher education? Education for sustainable development can be an impulse for innovation to advance teaching and learning in higher education, at the same time it requires constant renewal in education for sustainable development itself to meet the manifold challenges.
The 3rd international conference - hosted by the UNESCO Chair ‚Higher Education for Sustainable Development’ in cooperation with the Universiti Sains Malaysia - is asking for the specific implications for higher education, focusing on higher education practice, research and teaching/learning. Locating the regional focus of this year’s conference on the Asia-Pacific region will continue the international dimension of the conference and will highlight the intent of cross-cultural dialogue. At the same time, the conference links to the prior two conferences held in Lüneburg/Germany and San Luis Potosi/Mexico and continues the discussions among sustainability in higher education stakeholders.
In a 3-day program with lectures, workshops, poster presentations and round tables we will catch up with the topic and present state of the art research. An optional field trip after the conference will be on offer.
