Background

With the rapid economic and social change in the Asia-Pacific region, many universities have been actively promoting the SDGs. According to the 2022 Times Higher Education (THE) impact ranking (THE, 2022), 534 out of 1,410 reported universities were located in the Asia-Pacific region. One-third of them were in a top 100 university ranking position. Furthermore, these universities have achieved highly performed engagement in promoting the SDGs. Although a vast amount of research in the Asia-Pacific region covers the topic of higher education, studies unveiling the transformation of HES still need to be explored. Therefore, it is necessary to explore how higher education institutions create innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative teaching, learning, and research to promote the SDGs implementation.

 Purpose

This symposium aims at exploring innovative initiatives taken by higher education institutions in Asia and the Pacific region to transform teaching and learning for Green Literacy  (in a broad sense, it defines as knowledge and skills which enable individuals to take actions for building sustainability) and contributing to the achievement for the 2030 Agenda. Moreover, it is to bring higher education stakeholders, international organizations and other stakeholders to discuss what are the necessary transformation in teaching and learning required within universities to collectively achieve the SDGs in the Asia-Pacific region.

14:00-17:00, February 19, 2024 (Japan Standard Time)

Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

With English-Japanese simultaneous interpretation via Zoom Language Feature　当日日英同日通訳付

If you need simultaneous interpretation on site, please register to ZOOM through the following URL in advance.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R0ebHerdQ4C6TkhWE6rAvw 

For those who need simultaneous interpretation, please bring your laptop/other devices and earphone to the venue.