Review
A spirit of hope, agency and aspiration perfused the 11th International Education and Sustainability Leadership Summit, co-led by Sustainability Education the International School of Hilversum, the International School of The Hague, and Eromesmarko and in collaboration with the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership. This SusEd summit represented a unique opportunity for Dutch, Benelux and European schools. We came together in a spirit of solidarity active hope and agency, to nurture the culture shift required for education to meet the most urgent challenges of our time.
The event was hosted by Eromesmarko at their spectacular home in Wijchen,
Embracing the summit theme From Environmental Awareness to Collaborative Action, 130 delegates engaged in collaborative action and worked together towards sustainable impact. The summit brought together students, teachers and leaders from national and international systems of education, with policy makers, leaders in business and industry and climate experts. Together, they confronted the connected systems failures that have brought us to a climate emergency – the “polycrisis” – and embraced the challenge and imperative of education and leadership to shape a pathway to a better, more peaceful and more sustainable future.
“I thought it was inspiring to hear from other businesses and organisations how they deal with sustainable ambitions and how they translate them into specific actions”.
What next?
The summit experience nurtured networks of agency and connected action. We will reconvene in six months from now, online, to see how far we have come on our journeys together. Education and Sustainability Leadership Summits are planned for the Autumn 2025, in Canada and next Spring, 2026, in Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia
If you would like to be a part of this exciting and arguably necessary adventure, please email hello@sused.org
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Event Info
The International Education & Sustainability Summit (IESLS) at the International School of Luxembourg is led by an expert faculty drawn from the worlds of sustainability, education and development. The summit will bring together students, teachers and leaders from national and international systems of education, as well as policy makers, leaders in business and industry, climate change experts and sustainability influencers.
Designed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Sustainability Education, the conceptual framework of the IESLS offers the opportunity for strategic engagement, intense reflection, and collaboration around the topics of leadership, approaches to teaching & learning, curriculum design and infrastructure.
Attendees will become better equipped to lead their institutions in developing new strategies for responding to the challenge of incorporating sustainability thinking into the curricula and the governance of schools. They will gain confidence in enabling their organisation to be a change agent of society and a leader in its approach to education for sustainability development.
We have places for representatives from 20 schools. Each ‘place’ provides the school with the opportunity to send up to seven people.
Click on the link below to download the event flyer for more information or click to register now.