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UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development:Call for Nominations 2021
The 2021 call for nominations is open until 30 April 2021.
The UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for sustainable development, funded by the Government of Japan, consists of three annual awards of USD 50,000 for each recipient. It was awarded for the first time by the Director-General of UNESCO in November 2015.
The Prize and award winners recognize the role of education in connecting the social, economic, cultural and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. It was established by the Executive Board of UNESCO at its 195th session within the framework of the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD and officially announced at the UNESCO World Conference on ESD (10-12 November 2014, Aichi-Nagoya, Japan).
Funded by the Government of Japan, the Prize was established by the UNESCO Executive Board in 2014 to reward exceptional projects and programmes undertaken by institutions, organizations or other entities in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD).
Nominations should be submitted in English or French, by midnight on 30 April 2021 (Paris time, UTC+1), via an online platform at the following link: https://unesco.sharepoint.com/sites/committees/ESD-Prize/
Each Government may present up to three nominees, and UNESCO encourages Member States to implement a national selection process and to publicly announce the selected nominees.