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BE OPEN spoke of the foundation's insight into Education for Sustainable Development at the MED9 and UNECE summits in Cyprus
On June 27 , at the Ministerial Summit MED9, Director of BE OPEN Foundation Gennady Terebkov joined Almotaz Aadi, Deputy Secretary General UFM; Christopher Castle , UNESCO; Sylvie Motard , UNEP Deputy Director Europe and Tatyana Molcean, UNECE Executive Secretary; for the session dedicated to strengthening cooperation and networking for ESD. BE OPEN shared its experience of building a network of cooperation for the maximization of the positive impact of the Foundation's SDG-focused programme.
On June 28 , at the UNECE Forum, BE OPEN joined the session named 'Creating links between institutions and other actors' aimed at fostering collaborations between educational institutions and governments, businesses and civil society. For both the events, BE OPEN prepared the very relevant results and findings of its SDG-themed student competition programme, demonstrated the positive outcome of cooperating with a number of institutions and its commitment to help integrate sustainability into curriculums of educational institutions globally.
The purposes of BE OPEN's sustainability work were encapsulated in the address by the :
Another contribution by BE OPEN into the UNECE Forum programme was a lecture on the future of education by a world-renown futurist Gerd Leonhard , attended by 300 participants from all over the world: young sustainability leaders, entrepreneurs, educators and activists, as well as policymakers, and representatives from NGOs and businesses interested in fostering youth engagement in sustainability solutions.
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