Citation
(2010), "World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 11 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe.2010.24911baf.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day
Article Type: Feature From: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Volume 11, Issue 2
The “World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day” will be held on Friday the 3 December 2010. Under the theme “Sustainable development: towards local solutions to a global challenge”, the event will consist of lectures on different aspects of sustainable development prepared by some of the leading experts in the field. The lectures will be prepared in a way that allows the contents to be understood by university students on an international basis. The “World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day” will disseminate not only scientific information on sustainable development, but also approaches, methods, strategies, and examples of projects and other types of action taking place all over the world. The event also celebrates ten years of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (produced by Emerald Publishing, UK), the world’s leading scientific journal on sustainability issues in a higher education context.
The “World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day” will be held on Friday the 3 December 2010. It is organized by the Research and Transfer Centre Applications of Life Sciences of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany (HAW Hamburg), as part of the “International Climate Change Information Programme” led by HAW Hamburg whose details on which can be seen at www.iccip.net. The “World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day” will involve thousands of universities across the globe. The “World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day” is recognized by UNESCO as a project in the framework of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). It is being organized in partnership with many organizations in different countries.
Further details can be seen at: www.sustainability-day.net