Moving into the Second Half of the UN Decade - World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development

From 31 March to 2 April 2009, the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development – Moving into the Second Half of the UN Decade will be held in Bonn, Germany. Organizers of the conference are UNESCO and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, in cooperation with the German Commission for UNESCO. Five years into the Decade, the conference will follow four objectives: to highlight the relevance of ESD to all of education; to promote international exchange on ESD, especially between the North and the South; to carry out a stock-taking of the implementation of the UN Decade and to develop strategies for the way ahead.

In this context, the German Commission for UNESCO will organise a workshop with 25 young people from around the world with demonstrated engagement in Education for Sustainable Development. The workshop will take place one day before the opening of the World Conference in Bonn, Germany. Participants of the workshop will also take part in the World Conference. Workshop results will be presented at the Conference.

Young people between 18 and 35 years of age are invited to submit applications for participating in the workshop ”Young ESD Voices from around the World” and in the World Conference itself by 9 February 2009.  

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