Learning for Sustainability Scotland is Scotland’s UN University-recognised Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

‘A network of networks’

With a Global Secretariat based at the UN University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability in Tokyo, Japan, there is now a global network of 200 Centres across 78 countries. Through multi-stakeholder partnerships across formal and non-formal education in their respective areas, they foster learning and action for a more sustainable world; localising the ambitions of the UNESCO ESD for 2030 Roadmap.

We recently attended the recent global RCE Conference in Okayama, Japan and you can read more about this here.

The conference also included a ceremony to present the Global RCE Awards; celebrating exemplary projects from across the world that demonstrate meaningful impact in promoting sustainability through education. We are delighted to share that RCE Scotland received two RCE Awards in the ‘Outstanding Flagship Project: Non-Youth-Led’ Award category.

About the Awards

The first, ‘Weaving ESD across Initial Teacher Education’ was for our collaborative work with colleagues from the Universities of Stirling, Glasgow, Edinburgh, the General Teaching Council for Scotland, and the Scottish Council of Deans of Education, on Scotland’s National Framework for Learning for Sustainability in Initial Teacher Education. The second was for ‘Advocating for Learning for Sustainability in Scotland’: in recognition of our ongoing partnership-driven work in supporting Scotland’s national policy work in this area.

We would like to warmly thank the Global RCE Service Centre and the UN University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability for this prestigious recognition of the partnership-driven work happening across Scotland to make #LearningforSustainability part of the everyday for all of our educators and learners.