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Opening session*
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Kazuhiko Takemoto
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Director, United Nations University - Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)
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David Malone
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Rector, United Nations University (UNU)
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Irina Bokova
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Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology, Japan
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Shigeo Kitamura
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State Minister, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
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Michinari Hamaguchi
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President, Nagoya University
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Dzulkifli Abdul Razak
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President, International Association of Universities (IAU)
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| 10:30 - 12:30 |
Session 1 – High-level Panels *
Panel members will reflect on challenges, opportunities and on unfolding innovations in the areas of the whole institution approach and engagement with the critical partners and sectors, discussing how to turn such inspirational practices into full-scale institutional changes.
Panel 1. The Whole-institution Approach
The discussion focuses on the need for coherent planning of higher education strategies, management, research, education, outreach, as well as ways of developing HEIs' capacity to develop a whole-institution approach.
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Yuji Suzuki
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Professor, Hosei University
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Hans van Ginkel
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Former UNU Rector
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Kazuhiko Takeuchi
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Senior Vice Rector, UNU/ Professor, University of Tokyo
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Eva Egron-Polak
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Secretary-General, IAU
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Rajib Shaw
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Professor, Kyoto University, CAS-Net JAPAN
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Wu Jiang
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Vice President, Tongji University/ Chair, Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability (GUPES)
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Panel 2. Engagement Across Boundaries / Working with Critical Sectors
The discussion focuses on strengthening the science-society interface, engagement with traditional knowledge, private sector, communities, youth and policymakers
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Mario Tabucanon
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Visiting Professor, UNU-IAS
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Dzulkifli Abdul Razak
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President, IAU
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Ibrahim Abouleish
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Founder and Chairman, SEKEM Initiative
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Goolam Mohamedbhai
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Former Secretary-General, Association of African Universities
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Anantha Kumar Duraiappah
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Director, UNESCO-MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development
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Yusuke Saraya
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President, Saraya Co., LTD.
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| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:45 |
Session 2 – Parallel Session I
Area 1. The Whole-institution Approach
Group 1. Bringing together learning and knowledge for sustainability - innovative institutional development
Rio+20 reaffirmed the need to deliver institutional coherence for sustainable development, including at the level of economic, social, environmental and technical stakeholders. To be at the forefront of preparing critical actors to make this transition, higher education has to transform itself as a system, including the ways universities are governed, operated, and structured. The whole-institution approach calls for a philosophy and strategy for how sustainable development has to be integrated, holistically, throughout individual HEIs. This session explores such ongoing innovative practices and visions such as Higher Education for Sustainability Initiative (HESI).
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Mario Tabucanon
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Visiting Professor, UNU-IAS
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Dzulkifli Abdul Razak
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President, IAU
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Clemens Mader
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Research Associate, Leuphana University Luneburg and University of Zurich/ COPERNICUS Alliance
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Angelo Riccaboni
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Rector, University of Sienna/ Chair, IAU Working Group on HESD
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Kim Smith
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Coordinator, RCE Greater Portland/ Professor, Portland Community College
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Emma Torres
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Senior Advisor, The Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office to the UNDP
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Group 2. Assessment for sustainability
Amid rising criticism of dominant ranking schemes and the emergence of new discourses on the quality of higher education, HEIs and their stakeholders have begun to develop new approaches to assessment of its practices. These developments are complemented by progress at the national level, where nation-states have focused on modifying their systems of HEI's quality assessment. This session will discuss quality assurance as a process for transformation that is to be considered in combination with strategic, cultural, and political dimensions of higher education. It will also focus on the assessment and accountability of HE partnerships for sustainable development, including longer-term impacts in terms of educational and societal outcomes.
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Zinaida Fadeeva
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Senior Specialist for Policy and Strategy, ESD Programme, UNU-IAS
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Laima Galkute
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RCE Lithuania/ Associate Professor, Vilnius University
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Rob O’Donoghue
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RCE Makana/ Professor, Rhodes University
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Katarina Gårdfeldt
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Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology
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Javier Benayas
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Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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Jean-Christophe Carteron
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Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, KEDGE Business School
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Group 3. Transformative leadership
Leadership in sustainability change requires current and future leaders to be able to process series of key competencies including system- and long-term thinking, dealing with complexities, and developing learning and knowledge across disciplines and sectors. This session will discuss these competencies as well as strategies to enhance and sustain leadership in higher education and leadership qualities in graduates, including methods and tools for testing and developing competencies for leadership in sustainability.
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Daniella Tilbury
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RCE Severn/ President, Copernicus Alliance
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Geoff Scott
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RCE Greater Western Sydney/ Emeritus Professor, University of Western Sydney
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Akinbode Agbaoye
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RCE Minna/ Deputy Executive Secretary, the National Universities Commission of Nigeria
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Mirian Vilela
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Executive Director, Earth Charter International and its Center on Education for Sustainable Development, University of Peace
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Group 4. Capacity development for the whole-institution approach
Focusing on strategies for integrating sustainable development to develop a culture of sustainability and promote inter-disciplinary research and learning, community, and policy engagement, this session will deal with the need to develop HEIs' capabilities for ESD including human resources development for ESD.
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Kiran Banga Chhokar
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Indian RCE Focal Point
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Heila Lotz-Sisitka
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RCE Makana/ Rhodes University
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Takashi Mino
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Professor, University of Tokyo
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Arjen Wals
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Wageningen University
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John Holmberg
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UNESCO Chair in ESD, Chalmers University, Sweden
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Stephen Sterling
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Professor, Education for Sustainable Development, Plymouth University
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Area 2. Engagement across Boundaries
Group 5. Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) - Sustainability Science and engagement with society
Academic networks that facilitate multi-stakeholder learning for sustainable development can inform policy-making processes at the national and international levels and facilitate translation of the latest achievements of science and technology into sectoral and developmental (sustainability) practices. This session will attempt to identify and discuss these processes.
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Yuto Kitamura
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Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
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Masaru Yarime
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Project Associate Professor, Science, Technology, and Innovation Governance, University of Tokyo
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Alimullah Miyan
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RCE Bangladesh/ Founder Vice-Chancellor, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology
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Michel Ricard
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Head of the UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Development
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Zainal Sanusi
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Director, Centre for Leadership Training, Higher Education Leadership Academy, Ministry of Education Malaysia
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Group 6. Working with different types of knowledge
Humans have developed holistic traditional knowledge of their lands, natural resources, and environment over many generations. The need to learn from the experiences of local and traditional communities in managing health and natural resources (including biodiversity), supporting local livelihood practices, and maintaining culture has become of interest in the HE community. This session will explore ideas and practices where HEIs aspire to engage with other knowledge communities beyond utilitarian considerations, on new multilateral perspectives on cultural diversity, and through co-engaged learning. Among other issues, the session will focus on incorporating traditional and indigenous knowledge of sustainability into formal HEI curricula.
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Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana
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Research Coordinator, UNU-IAS
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Francisca Teresa Salinas Gamero
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RCE Lima-Callao/ Professor, Ricardo Palma University
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Betsan Martin
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RCE Waikato/ RESPONSE
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Juan Remigio Saldaña Rojas
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Rector, Universidad Científica del Perú
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| 14:45 - 15:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:00 - 16:15 |
Session 3 – Parallel Session II
Area 3. Working with Critical Sectors and Groups
Group 7. Innovative learning with the private sector
Business and industry can play a key role in partnering with communities and HEIs to accelerate the search for sustainable development solutions. This session will address good practices in covering sustainability in business management education and making higher education in sustainability relevant to the business workplace.
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Jonas Haertle
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Head, PRME Secretariat, UN Global Compact
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Aurelien Decamps
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Professor, Kedge Business School
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Jiaojiao Li
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World Economic Forum
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Jos Hermans
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Regional Advisor to the European RCEs
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Koichi Kaneda
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Senior Director, CSR, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
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Group 8. Innovative learning with communities
Local solutions for sustainable development depend on good multi-stakeholder engagement and learning through local networks. Local stakeholders can play a key role in supporting such opportunities for all members of the community. This session will focus on reflecting local sustainability concerns into curricula in an increasingly urbanizing world.
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Hani Sewilam
Zinaida Fadeeva
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Professor, American University, Egypt
Senior Specialist for Policy and Strategy, ESD Programme, UNU-IAS
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Ibrahim Abouleish
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Founder and Chairman, SEKEM Initiative
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Marlene Chikuni
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RCE Zomba/ Lecturer, University of Malawi
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Alfredo Tomas Ortega
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RCE West Jalisco/ Professor, University of Guadalajara
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Frans Lenglet
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Director, SWEDESD, Uppsala University
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Rob O' Donoghue
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RCE Makana/ Professor, Rhodes University
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Group 9. Innovative learning with youth
Supporting youth as change agents for sustainable development depends on ESD, including in non-formal and informal learning, and building skills for participation in social change processes. This session will focus on preparing youth for employment through sustainability education.
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Ranjana Saikia
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RCE Delhi/ Director, Educating Youth for Sustainable Development, TERI
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Julies Elsabe Mathilda
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RCE Namibia/ Senior Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Namibia
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Jonathan Yee
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RCE Saskatchewan/ Canadian Commission for UNESCO
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Tricia Alegra Jenkins
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Director, International Centre for Excellence in Educational Opportunities, University of Liverpool
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Viktor Kjeldgaard Gronne
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Human Rights & Solidarity Coordinator, European Students Union
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Area 4. Engagement with policies
Group 10. Research priorities in light of the future Global Action Programme (including teacher education)
This session will focus, among other issues, on scenarios of higher education development, policy frameworks, whole-institution approaches to transformation, competencies of learners and educators, engagement with critical stakeholders, and upscaling of higher education transformation.
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Zinaida Fadeeva
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Senior Specialist for Policy and Strategy, ESD Programme, UNU-IAS
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Roger Petry
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RCE Saskatchewan/Luther College at the University of Regina
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Heila Lotz-Sisitka
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RCE Makana/ Rhodes University
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Hilligje van't Land
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Director of the Membership and Programme Development, IAU
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Maik Adomssent
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UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development, University of Luneburg, Germany
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Group 11. Science-policy interfaces for sustainability
This session will focus on building bridges between the scientific and technological community, including HEIs, on the one hand, and public policymakers and policy-shapers on the other. Promoting evidence-based policymaking and policy monitoring and evaluation through the efforts of HEIs and scientific networks and enhanced and regular dialogue with policy makers and civil servants will also be highlighted.
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Mahesh Pradhan
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Head, Environmental Education and Training Unit, UNEP)
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Yuto Kitamura
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Associate Professor , Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo
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Michel Ricard
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Head of the UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Development
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John Holmberg
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UNESCO Chair in ESD, Chalmers University, Sweden
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Asma El Kasmi
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UNESCO Chair in Water, Women and Decision Power, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
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Group 12. Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) and the post-2015 agenda
The session revisits HESD in the context of the emerging post-2015 agenda. It will explore, among other things, the role of ESD in bridging earth/environmental sciences and the social sciences, enhancing the usability of sustainability-related information for decision making, and preparing HEIs in advance for a transition to a greener economy.
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Norichika Kanie
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Senior Research Fellow, UNU-IAS/ Associate Professor, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Hans van Ginkel
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Former UNU Rector
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Eva Egron-Polak
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Secretary General, IAU
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Kartikeya V. Sarabhai
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Founder Director, Centre for Environment Education
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Stephen Sterling
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Professor, Education for Sustainable Development, Plymouth University
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| 16:15 - 16:45 |
Break |
| 16:45 - 17:45 |
Session 4 – Reports from the Parallel Sessions and the Student Summit *
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Yuji Suzuki
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Professor, Hosei University
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| 17:45 - 18:00 |
Closing * |