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UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development


What is the UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD?

The UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education on Sustainable Development (ESD) consists of three annual awards of US$50,000 each. Funded by the Government of Japan, the Prize is being awarded for the first time in 2015.


Why a Prize on ESD?

The UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD honours outstanding efforts by individuals, institutions, organizations and other entities engaged in activities promoting education for sustainable development, as part of the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD. Three criteria are applied to assess nominees:

• Transformation: The project/programme uses ESD as transformative education in support of sustainable development and produces evidence of individual and social change, involving values and action.

• Integration: The project/programme addresses the three dimensions of sustainable development (society, economy, environment) in an integrated way.

• Innovation: The project/programme demonstrates an innovative and imaginative approach to ESD.

In addition, the project/programme should have a high impact relative to the invested resources; it should be replicable and scalable; and it should contribute to one or more of the GAP’s five Priority Action Areas (advancing policy, learning and education, capacity building, mobilizing youth, local action).


Who can win the UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD?

Individuals, institutions, organizations or other entities engaged in ESD are all eligible to win the UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD. The nominations may be made by governments and by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in official relations with UNESCO. Each Member State or NGO can submit up to three nominations per year, which must focus on a specific project or programme being conducted by the nominee.


2015 Laureates:

♦ Asociación SERES from Guatemala/El Salvador [1]

♦ The Centre for Development of Early Childhood, Non-Formal and Informal Education from Indonesia [2]

♦ RootAbility from Germany [3]

For further information on the UNESCO-Japan ESD Prize, see: http://en.unesco.org/prize-esd