News from Mission 4.7
Mission 4.7 Malaysia releases Interim Report
The Mission 4.7 Malaysia team, which has been assessing the state of transformative education in the Malaysian education system, has released an interim report of its preliminary findings.
The City School Darakhshan Campus: Promoting the UN SDGs
Learn how The City School Darakhshan Campus in Pakistan is teaching students and their families to be good stewards of Mother Earth.
Global Schools selected for the prestigious HundrED Global Collection 2023
Mission 4.7 founding partner Global Schools will be featured as one of the leading 100 innovations globally in K-12 education in the HundrED Global Collection Report 2023.
YouthKonnect supports Mission 4.7 in Cameroon
YouthKonnect is a Cameroonian SDG 4 Edtech initiative designed to empower, educate, and engage youth in creating a society that will enhance economic growth and social well-being.
Mission 4.7 convenes Ministers of Education alongside UN TES
As a contribution to the UN Transforming Education Summit, Mission 4.7 hosted a special panel discussion featuring Ministers of Education and other government officials from Ghana, Finland, Belize, Greece, and Malawi to discuss their countries’ work and commitment towards making SDG 4.7 a reality.
Enculturing spirit of sustainability
Elizabeth Lee, CEO of Sunway Education Group in Malaysia, discusses how ongoing education methods fall short of enculturing a spirit of sustainability.
Mayor of Leuven, Mohamed Ridouani, visits Grade 3 Class at the International School of Leuven
On May 20th, 2022, Leuven’s Mayor, Mohamed Ridouani, and the Deputy Mayor, Lalynn Wadera, visited the school to hear about actions taken to embed the Sustainable Development Goals into the curriculum.
Global Schools Hosts a Stockholm + 50 Associated Event
The Global Schools Program hosted a Stockholm + 50 Associated Event in partnership with Mission 4.7, the Master’s in Development Practice Program, and the Harbour School Hong Kong.
Mission 4.7 joins the open consultation for the UN Transforming Education Summit’s Action Track 2 on “Learning and skills for life, work, and sustainable development”
The first open consultation for TES Thematic Action Track 2 on “Learning and skills for life, work, and sustainable development” brought together diverse stakeholders to discuss the educational needs of life and work in a sustainable future.
Higher education’s role in securing a sustainable future: we need to act & transform now - Insights from the discussion at the UNESCO WHEC2022
The joint IAU / Mission 4.7 session at the UNESCO WHEC 2022 brought together leaders in higher education and sustainable development to discuss the transformation we need for the future we want.
Global Schools hosts a side event on SDG 4 at the ECOSOC Youth Forum
On Monday 18th April, 2022, the Global Schools Program held a virtual 2022 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) youth forum Side Event on Quality Education (SDG 4).
Report on the first We Champion speaker session with Andrew Kruczkiewicz
On March 24, Mission 4.7 successfully held our first session of the We Champion Series with Andrew Kruczkiewicz, a climate scientist with applications for the health and humanitarian sectors at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society.
UNESCO hosts Stakeholders Consultation in preparation for the Transforming Education Summit
Details and strategies for the UN Secretary-General’s Transforming Education Summit are still being developed, but Mission 4.7 is excited to be part of this important moment in educational transformation.
Global Schools Advocates reach 75,000+ students in their mission to teach sustainable development
The Global Schools Program celebrates the graduation of its third cohort of Global Schools Advocates.
A Visit to the Ugandan SDG Country Secretariat
Global Schools Advocate Nabuduwa Grace Olive Musingo recently visited her country’s SDG Secretariat to extend her work on integrating sustainable development into the education system in Uganda.
All Eyes on New Jersey: The Future of Climate Education is Here
Discover how New Jersey is taking a significant step ahead of other States in the country and internationally in bringing about Transformative Education for a sustainable future.
The Rondine Method: Transformative Peace Education and Human Rights for Mission 4.7
In Italy, the Rondine Cittadella della Pace and its “Rondine Method” are building a relational approach for the creative transformation of conflicts , in every context, to contribute to a planet free from armed clashes, in which every person has the tools to manage conflicts in a creative and positive way.
Has COVID-19 revolutionised our education system?
Even prior to the pandemic, inclusive and equitable quality education was advancing at too slow a pace. Malaysia’s brand of inequality and chauvinism is as evident within its education system as in other parts of its socio-economic fabric. Sunway University, through the Jeffrey Sachs Center, is localizing the Mission 4.7 framework in the hope of contributing to Malaysia’s yearned-for educational revolution.
Climate education in the spotlight at COP26: Ministers of Education and Environment meet for historic event
Governments from around the world sent video pledges to increase climate education, integrate Education for Sustainable Development and to highlight good practices. Representatives of education and environment from Japan, Malawi, Greece, Colombia, Scotland and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe made live pledges, before answering a series of questions from young people on access to climate education, inter-sectoral partnership and whole-school approaches to sustainability from different areas of the world.