The 3rd International Forum on Education
for Sustainable Development

November 13-16, 2007
Beijing, China

In order to further promote the effective integration of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) with school practices across our regional and global communities, the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, supervised by the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, has organized our 3rd International Forum on ESD in Beijing to be held from November 13-16, 2007.

The previous two International Forums for ESD held in Beijing were very successful in encouraging an excellent global consensus and a sharing of local ESD practices.

1. The first forum was held in 2003 and was focused on preparing us for the upcoming UN Decade for ESD (UN DESD 2005-2014) and had the theme: "Towards the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development".
• http://www.eepdinchina.com/forum2003/en/index.htm
2. Our second forum, in 2005, had the theme of "Bridging International Visions with National Actions". There were approximately 300 officials, experts, and school administrators in attendance at the forum from 18 countries representing 4 continents:Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, also from 8 related international organizations such as UNESCO, UNDP, UNEP and more. The particpants discussed the vision and further strategies to use the International Implementation Scheme (IIS) of the UN DESD locally. This enhanced the group's understanding of the goal and the IIS, and contributed to establishing an international consensus on promoting UN DESD, carrying out scientific concepts of development proposed by the Chinese government and helping to advance educational reform and development in China.
   • http://www.eepdinchina.com/english/news/lastestNews/content/20060224064628.html