A more sustainable future for education can begin with a small change: a lesson redesigned, a colleague included into a conversation or a new approach tested with students. But how can such efforts grow into a change across an [...]
What does it take for a promising idea in teacher education to influence the policies that govern it? This question brought researchers, teacher educators and education practitioners together on 23 September 2026 at the 44th Environmental Education Association [...]
The Sub-Saharan Africa Teacher Leadership in Education for Sustainable Development (SSATL-ESD) project was featured at the 2026 Copernicus Alliance Higher Education Summit hosted on 26th – 28th of August in Bordeaux in France. The 2026 Higher Education Summit [...]
On October 5th, 2026, the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana University Lüneburg held a special talk on the occasion of World Teachers' Day. The 5th of October is commemorated internationally as World Teachers' [...]
Beyond 2030: shaping ESD for safe and just futures From 1 to 2 September 2026, the Global Expert Symposium on ESD Beyond 2030 convened in Munich. The event was co-hosted by UNESCO, the German Federal Ministry for Education, [...]
This September we are happy to welcome Zintle Songqwaru at Leuphana University for the prestigious The World Academy of Sciences and German Research Foundation (TWAS-DFG) research fellowship! Zintle is a senior lecturer at the Education Faculty in the [...]
We are happy to see our partner universities sharing the impact of the SSATL-ESD project within their own communities. Their recent coverage highlights the diverse ways our consortium is fostering teacher leadership across borders. Leuphana [...]
The Sub-Saharan Africa Teacher Leadership for ESD team is working with JHUB Africa to foster sustainable development in Kenya and at pan-Africa level. JHUB Africa is a university-anchored digital innovation, research translation, and enterprise development [...]
On 1 June 2026, the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana University Lüneburg held a first talk in its new UNESCO Chair Lecture Series on assessment in ESD. While Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) [...]
On 19 June 2025, Distinguished Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka from Rhodes University, South Africa, regional investigator of the SSATL-ESD project, presented her lecture in the UNESCO Chair Lecture Series hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable [...]
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