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Prof. Zbigniew Marciniak was invited by the World Bank as a keynote speaker at the conference to share lessons learned in Polish Education Reform in the late 1990s

All rights reservedWorld Conference on Education for Sustainable Development calls for renewed commitment by all countries (12 November 2014)

Group photo at the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.

Swedish education minister Gustav Fridolin

Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, 10 November: UNESCO’s Director-General and Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology have opened the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The opening ceremony took place in the presence of Their Imperial Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Japan following stakeholder meetings last week in Okayama.

Over 80 delegates have convened in Brussels to discuss the state of the art of higher education and research, with a special focus on the effects of privatisation and marketisation.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova speaking at the opening of the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.

Haitian Minister of Economy and Finance Marie Carmelle Jean-Marie and World Bank Special Envoy Mary Barton-Dock signed a grant of US$24 million from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to help 230,000 children attend school and receive quality education through tuition waivers and other support. The funding complements an ongoing Education for All project of US$85 million managed by the World Bank.