What is Education for Sustainable Development?
Sustainable Development has its roots in the Brundtland Commission Report (1987) in which it was defined as development that ‘meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. It has remained high on the political agenda since the 1992 Earth Summit. Addressing the capacity of all stakeholders through education is crucial to the promotion of Sustainable Development.
The goal of the EfSD Programme is to help in the creation of a global learning space for EfSD by the end of 2015. The programme is intended to work on research and capacity development to integrate components into curricula at all levels of education and in all sectors of society.
The EfSD Programme collaborates closely with the Ubuntu Alliance – composed of eleven of the world’s foremost educational and scientific/technological institutions – to:
- strengthen collaboration between science and technology researchers and educators;
- better integrate science and technology into educational programmes for sustainable development;
- strengthen cooperation between formal and non-formal education.
In the near future the Swan Centre will be hosting a number of events to strengthen our research community’s understanding of both the issues and drivers of the Ubuntu Declaration and EfSD.
