2021 UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development

Deadline: April 30, 2021.

The UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for sustainable development, funded by the Government of Japan, consists of three annual awards.

The Prize and award winners recognize the role of education in connecting the social, economic, cultural and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. It was established by the Executive Board of UNESCO at its 195th session within the framework of the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD and officially announced at the UNESCO World Conference on ESD (10-12 November 2014, Aichi-Nagoya, Japan).

ELIGIBILITY

Eligible for the Prize are institutions and organizations with a specific ESD project/programme that must:
• be ongoing and have been running for at least 4 years
• show presence of evidence of results and a high impact relative to the invested resources
• be replicable and scalable
• contribute to one or more of the 5 priority action areas of the ESD for 2030 framework (i.e. advancing policy, transforming learning and training environments, developing capacities of educators and trainers, mobilizing youth, accelerating sustainable solutions at local level.

PRIZE

  1. Each laureate will receive an award, a diploma and the sum of US$50,000. The funds will be transferred to their bank account in the week of the award ceremony.
  2. All winners will be invited to join the ESD-Net 2030 for exchange and collaboration with ESD stakeholders from all over the world.

OFFICIAL LINK: https://en.unesco.org/prize-esd?page=1

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