When, local time: Monday, 11 January 2016 (All day) to Wednesday, 13 January 2016 (All day) Where: India, Ahmedabad Contact: esdgconference@ceeindia.org The Conference aims to recognize education as a key enabler to the broader realization of SDGs. It is important for ESD communities to look specifically at each goal and determine how education can play an effective role in helping achieve this.

The event is promoted by the Autonomous Province of Trento, the TCIC and their 15 partners across Europe, that are currently involved in the EU-funded project “Global Schools”, aimed at embedding Global Citizenship Education (GCED) in the primary schools curriculum of 10 European countries. The event The great challenges that humanity is currently facing require that individuals own global competences. In other terms, that a new generation of citizens is formed with knowledge, skills, values and attitudes fostering a more sustainable and inclusive world.

Organized by the UNESCO Regional Office in Beirut, in cooperation with the Regional Centre for Educational Planning/ Sharjah, the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States and UNESCO office Doha. Global citizenship education (GCE) is one of the strategic areas of work for UNESCO’s Education Programme (2014-2017) and one of the three priorities of the UN Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) launched in September 2012.

Organized by the UNESCO Regional Office Beirut in collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Sudan, Sudanese National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO office in Khartoum Arab youth today need to be national and global citizens at the same time in order to increase their ability to compete in the era of the globalized economy. They also need education on global citizenship in order to understand many of the issues and problems they face and crises of global proportions.

Following the profound socio-political changes in the Arab region, what kind of innovations can be assessed today in terms of democratic citizenship and human rights education (CHRE)? In partnership with the Arab Institute of Human Rights (AIHR) and the International Centre for Human Sciences (CISH), UNESCO is organising a regional Conference to present the intermediate results of a regional report on innovative initiatives in non-formal education on CHRE in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia, from 3 to 4 November 2015, in Rabat, Morocco.

This Congress will aim to bring together over 200 stakeholders in global education (GE), from formal and non-formal education sectors, civil society platforms, governments, parliaments, local and regional authorities and intergovernmental organisations from Europe and beyond, using the principle of "quadrilogue" and of a holistic approach to global education. Objectives of the Congress The objectives of the Congress are to: 1.

International Symposium on Global Citizenship Education will be held on 18 November in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Organized by the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI), the symposium is themed, “Preparing School Teachers for the 21st Century: A Journey to Global Citizenship Education”. The speakers and discussion panels include: Dr. Utak Chung, director of APCEIU, Dr. Karen Pashby (University of Alberta, Canada), Dr. Monica Kruesmann (Think Global, UK), and other international specialists on GCED.

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) will organize a MENA regional advocacy workshop on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) for young people from 12 to 16 December 2015 in Amman, Jordan. Organized in partnership with the Generations For Peace, the workshop aims to build the capacity of dynamic young leaders from the MENA region to foster peace using the core components of GCED.

The Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) for the Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) invites you to a training session to help advocate for Global Citizenship Education (GCED) in your communities and countries Learn all about GCED, and use the ‘Education We Want, Youth Advocacy Toolkit’ to help you design, execute and monitor your own advocacy efforts. This youth-led and youth-centered session is open to participants in the 9th UNESCO Youth Forum

More than 150 world leaders are expected to attend the UN Sustainable Development Summit from September 25-27 at UN headquarters in New York to formally adopt an ambitious new sustainable development agenda. This momentous agenda will serve as the launch pad for action by the international community and by national governments to promote shared prosperity and well-being for all over the next 15 years.