Announcing the 2009 World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development

21-12-2007 - UNESCO’s Director-General and Assistant Director-General for Education have announced that the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development – Moving into the Second Half of the UN Decade” will be held in Bonn, Germany, from 31 March to 2 April 2009.

Some 700 stakeholders from all over the world will attend the conference, which is being organized by UNESCO and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, in cooperation with the German Commission for UNESCO.

Registration will begin in November 2008

Contact: esddecade@unesco.org

Related links

• United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) (2005-2014)
  Learn how UNESCO fulfils its mission as a lead agency for the promotion of the Decade.
  
• The UN DESD International Implementation Scheme
  Approved at the 172nd session of UNESCO’s Executive Board
  
• The UN DESD International Implementation Scheme in brief
  A user-friendly booklet on the essential elements of the DESD