Charting New Horizons for Education for Sustainable Development

A conference of VolkswagenStiftung, German Commission for UNESCO and German Rectors’ Conference, Hanover, 19–21 November 2025

Themed around "Charting New Horizons for Education for Sustainable Development", key takeaways from the event were:

💡 Aligning institutional activities and strategies toward sustainability is essential for meaningful progress.

💡 Mapping the enabling and constraining forces as a helpful exercise for institutions in navigating the complexity of whole-institution approaches.

💡 Initiating open conversations and further exploring the factors and stakeholders involved is a crucial step toward transformational change.

🌱 The conference emphasized the growing importance of hashtag#WholeInstitution Approaches to hashtag#ESDfor2030. 

IAU and its members (Leuphana, PH Heidelberg, HAW Darmstadt, and others) engaged and presented at the conference.

Press release after the event here.

Read about the conference in the concept note here.