The annual Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) Annual Conference was moved online this year due to the COVID-19 situation, but a virtual session was still held with contributions from staff members of the IPSI Secretariat. The session was held on 8 April 2020, organized by UNU-IAS jointly with UNESCO Bangkok and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning. In the session, IPSI Secretariat Director Hiroaki Takiguchi focused on a multi-stakeholder approaches, particularly related to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and Research Fellow Evonne Yiu discussed the Satoyama Initiative for community-based learning and action for biodiversity conservation, revitalizing and conserving human-influenced socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS).

For more information, please see the write-up on the UNU-IAS website here.