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Ukraine challenge ahead
June 17, 2015

During last week's celebrations of the REC's 25th anniversary, a satellite event for project donors titled "Local Initiatives for a Sustainable Ukraine" took place. Raffi Balian, head of section in the Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Hub Office at the Embassy of the United States in Hungary, used the occasion to invite project ...
Walking hand in hand: SDA as catalyser for enhancing ESD
December 05, 2014

What is ESD? We know the principles and the relevant literature, but what does it really mean in concrete terms? How will ESD shape today's young and future generations?
These underpinning questions were at the heart of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), hosted in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan on November 10-12, ...
Sharing experience today for tomorrow
November 12, 2014

The REC, with contribution from the Italian Trust Fund, organised a side event in the framework of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development on November 10, 2014 in Nagoya, Japan. Speakers and participants (H.E. Laszlo Palkovits, Minister of State, Ministry of Human Capacities, Hungary; H.E. Lindita Nikolla, Minister of ...