Report and future steps from the UNESCO World Conference on ESD

November 6th ~ 13th, 2014

Nami Akinaga

Acknowledgement

Objective to join the conference

What did I experience?

What did I feel and learn?

New Questions

Things we can try soon

My commitment

Contents

Takeda-san for sharing the conference info in Sep 2013

Tachibana-san for supporting me to challenge

Maru-san for writing Recommendation Letter

and….. EVERYONE for letting me away from the office for

5 days to get such a great opportunity

THANK YOU SO MUCH !!

Acknowledgement

To present the value of unique education business in Leave

a Nest especially involving private sector as Educational

CSR projects

To keep my position as a “researcher”, who have graduated

a master program in Sustainability Science, and who

actually take action in the field

To experience the real “world conference” for the first time

Objective to join the conference

Youth Conference in Japan February, 2014

Youth Conference in Japan February, 2014Ms. Yuri Nakao and I were selected as youth representative from Japan out of 50 participants

Youth Conference in Okayama

World Conference on ESD in Nagoya, Aichi

What did I experience?

50 Youth delegates from 48 country, selected out of 5,000 applicants from 180 countries

50 Youth delegates from 48 country, selected out of 5,000 applicants from 180 countries

Discussion and making proposalof Youth Statement

Discussion and making proposalof Youth Statement

Surprised to know how huge conference it was(The Crown Prince of Japan)

Inspired by Ms. Irina Bokova,Director General of UNESCO

Inspired by Ms. Irina Bokova,Director General of UNESCO

Of course, introduce ourselves to the Minister of Education in Japan … Mr. Shimomura

Higher Round Table discussion by 50 countries

Presenting our Youth Statement by bringing 100 guests to our informal meeting

Power of Youth

Do you know how many percentage of “Youth” in the

world? (Youth = age 18 ~ 35)

What did I feel and learn?

30 percent is Youth in the world Youth generation is the one to live in and change the future

Power of Diversity Who can else share the knowledge from Japan?

Jumping into the circle with full diversity will let you identify “Who you are?”

What did I feel and learn?

Identity as a Japanese,

as one of the youth delegates,

as Leave a Nest

Potential of Educational CSR model

What did I feel and learn?

Strength to involve private sector CSR

human resource training

awarding

education system itself is

SUSTAINABLE

What do we mean by

“Global Happiness / Contribution”?

What is needed next to “advancing Science and

Technology”?

Can we think and act in “global” scale?

What is regarded as “global” issue?

Do we seriously want to change the world?

New Questions

How do we welcome the 2020 Tokyo Olympic?

Will Japanese be able to present who we are, our vision, our

strengths in industry and education?

New Questions

Regular output of our diverse activities and ourselves

Things we can try soon

Trying to find any chances to present ourselves

UNESCO / ESD Award (Japan)

World Education Form

International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility

Things we can try soon

Maximizing the value of DIVERSITY

My commitment

THANK YOU SO MUCH!