📅 21 March 2024
Tokyo, Japan & Virtual
On 21 March 2024, UNU will host “Education as an Instrument of Social Transformation: Synergies Between Key UNESCO Education Agendas and the Earth Charter”, a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Ms. Mirian Vilela, Executive Director of Earth Charter International. This hybrid event (online and in-person) will start at 18:00 on Zoom and in the 12F Conference Room at UNU Headquarters in Tokyo.
The Earth Charter is an ethical foundation for actions to build a more just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It articulates a mindset of global interdependence and shared responsibility. It offers a vision of hope and a call to action while serving as an educational instrument and reference tool for development policies, planning, and decision-making.
Ms. Mirian Vilela will join UNU Senior Vice-Rector Sawako Shirahase to explore the work of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) with the Earth Charter, which lies at the intersection of sustainability, ethics, and education. The discussion will cover how this work is linked to the UNESCO ESD and global citizenship education agendas, as well as the Futures of Education initiative and UNESCO’s Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development.
This event will be an opportunity to consider the synergies among UNESCO efforts on education for change and the SDGs as well as to learn about the Earth Charter as an instrument of social transformation.