2nd International Colloquium
2007
Education and Sustainable
Development
Capacity Building for
the 21st Century
Organizing Committee
Otto
Kern, ETHsustainability, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Claude Patrick Siegenthaler,
Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
Felix
Moesner, Attaché for Science and Technology, Embassy of Switzerland, Tokyo, Japan
Mino
Takashi, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo,
Japan
Partner Universities
Hosei University Tokyo
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH
Zurich
The University of Tokyo
United Nations University
Hosei University – Green
University
Founded as Japan’s
first law school in 1880, Hosei has emerged into one of the countries highest
ranked private universities. As a multifunctional institution in higher
education, Hosei offers undergraduate and graduate courses in social sciences
and literature as well as in engineering to 45’000 students. Under the slogan “Liberty and Progress”
Hosei educates independent thinkers from all ages and backgrounds and is recognised for its continual innovation in teaching and
research.
Implementing the “Green University” program, Hosei has demonstrated
leadership in sustainability education and management: Since 1999 Hosei - as
the first university in Japan
- operates an ISO14001 certified Environmental Management System and created
the faculty of Humanity and Environment. As part of environmental education
activities, the university holds international symposia, seminars, and lectures
as well as eco-tours to companies
and municipalities. In 2004 it received the Grand Prize of the Global
Environmental Award.
www.hosei.ac.jp
http://www.hosei.ac.jp/kankyoukenshou/index.html
Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology Zurich
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland, is a science and
technology university offering excellent research conditions and state-of-the-art infrastructure. 20,000 people from Switzerland and abroad are currently studying,
working or conducting research at the ETH Zurich.
The ETH Zurich
earned its excellent national and international reputation thanks to its major
achievements in theoretical and applied research as well as its first-rate teaching facilities.
Much of the
interdisciplinary research conducted at the ETH Zurich focuses on analysing
the interrelationships between humans, technology and nature as well as urgent
environmental problems and questions of human sustainability.
www.ethz.ch
www.sustainability.ethz.ch
The University of Tokyo
The University
of Tokyo was established in 1877, as
the first national university in Japan. It offers courses in
essentially all academic disciplines at both the undergraduate and graduate
levels and provides research facilities for these disciplines. The University
aims to provide its students with opportunities for intellectual development as
well as for the acquisition of professional knowledge and skills. The
University has a faculty of approximately 2800 professors, associate
professors, and lecturers, and a total student enrolment of about 28’000. As of
2003, 2100 international students and about 2200 foreign researchers were
coming to the University annually for short and extended visits. The University
is known for the excellence of its faculty and students; many of its graduates
are and have always been leaders in the government, in business, and in the
academic world.
Research and education in the Environment and Sustainability are among the most
important focus areas for the University, and various related organizations
have been established such as the Department of Environmental Studies in the
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences and the International Research Centre for
Sustainable Materials in the Institute
of Industrial Science.
United Nations
University – Environment and Sustainable Development Programme
In 1973, the founders of
UNU gave it a challenging mission: develop original, forward-looking solutions to the world’s most pressing
problems. With its staff of 200 experts from 30 countries, UNU contributes –
through capacity building and research – to resolve global issues, such as
peace, environment, development and science & technology. Headquartered in Tokyo, UNU is a true
global network of 15 research and training centres and programmes
(RTC/Ps), cooperating with more than 40 UN organisations and 100 research institutions.
Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD) Programme focuses on the interactions between human
activities and the natural environment, and their implications for sustainable
human development. The basic issues of environment and natural resource management for
human survival, sustainable development
and welfare are at the core of the themes covered and the Programme
aims to approach these issues in a holistic manner and seeks to generate
solutions with full perspectives which anticipate for long term environmental
changes. In addressing these challenges, the Programme
adopts a multidisciplinary approach combining both
natural and social sciences as well as engineering.
www.unu.edu/
http://www.unu.edu/esd/
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