LONDON, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 27 and 28, 2024, BE OPEN Foundation will be
taking part in the MED9 Ministerial Summit for Education for
Sustainable Development and the UNECE Forum on ESD: Empowering
Youth for Sustainable Futures in Cyprus, two of the most important education
and sustainability focused events in the global agenda.
The Mediterranean Region faces significant challenges arising
from both natural phenomena, such as increasingly harmful climate
change, and human-related factors. The MED9 Summit strives to
address these challenges by developing public policies able to
raise awareness, improve the knowledge, and build positive
tendencies to orient the society towards more sustainable
practices. In sync with these goals, the UNECE Forum on ESD seeks
to harness the potential of entrepreneurship education in
empowering youth to shape a sustainable future.
Moreover, it aims to explore how education for sustainable
development can influence entrepreneurship education to cultivate
entrepreneurs who are not only driven by profit but also committed
to creating positive environmental, social, and economic impacts
for a sustainable future.
The forum is designed for young sustainability leaders,
including entrepreneurs, educators and activists, as well as
policymakers, and representatives from NGOs and businesses
interested in fostering youth engagement in sustainability
solutions.
For both the events, BE OPEN intends to share the very
relevant results and findings of its SDG-themed student competition
programme, the positive outcome of cooperating with a number of
institutions and its commitment to help integrate sustainability
into curriculums of educational institutions globally.
BE OPEN's work related to sustainability and education is rooted
in the principles, formulated by the Founder Elena Baturina: "Everyone is needed to
reach the ambitious targets set by the UN's SDG programme - the
creativity, knowhow, technology and financial resources from all of
humanity. BE OPEN's programme strives to help educate wider
audiences that a sustainable future is dependent on all of us, yet
I am convinced that the younger generation today is a more
responsible and aware one. I see incredible commitment,
responsiveness and audacity in how they approach whatever problems
we ask them to tackle."
In order to help the younger generations address the
multifaceted challenges ahead, BE OPEN has organised a lecture on
the future of education to be held at the forum by a world-renown
futurist Gerd Leonhard.
The SDG competition programme developed by BE OPEN chooses to
focus on one particular goal every year, and has so far covered
SDG13: Climate Action, SDG12: Responsible Consumption and
Production, SDG11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, SDG2: Zero
Hunger, and SDG7: Affordable and Clean Energy. The programme aims
to encourage creation of innovative solutions by younger creatives,
for a more prosperous and sustainable future.
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