UNESCO is organising an Online Course on Biodiversity in collaboration with MGIEP. It is free and there is no deadline for registration.
About UNESCO MGIEP
The Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), in New Delhi, India was established with the support of the Government of India and is an integral part of UNESCO. They believe in Transforming Education with Social and Emotional Learning for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
It is the first and only category 1 Research Institute in Asia Pacific and focuses on achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.7 towards education to foster peaceful and sustainable societies. The primary objective is to work towards UN Sustainable Development Goal 4.7, which aims to advance education in order to foster peaceful and sustainable societies worldwide. This will be accomplished through the creation of initiatives and resources that encourage social and emotional learning, introduce innovative digital teaching methods, and empower young people.
About the Course
A highly interactive online certificate course that enables learners to acquire critical perspectives on biodiversity and human wellbeing as well as gain the social and emotional competencies that can facilitate biodiversity conservation efforts.
Some concepts in focus are natural capital, inclusive wealth, ecosystem services, dragons of inaction. The course goes beyond promoting a purely rational and conceptual understanding of biodiversity and enables learners to relate with the global issue at a personal and emotional level thus inspiring action.
Steps to Register
- Step 1: Visit the FramerSpace website at this link.
- Step 2: Click on the “Sign Up” button located on the navigation bar or homepage
- Step 3: Fill out the registration form with your required information, such as your age, password, confirm password, email and confirm email.
- Step 4: Review and agree to the platform’s terms of service and privacy policy.
- Step 5: Click on sign up.
- Step 6: Important: Note your unique ID at some place safe.
- Step 7: Under courses go to K-12 learners
- Step 8: Click on the course to enroll.
- Step 9: Click on enroll now and choose facilitated cohort to get support through out the courses.
- Step 10: Enter the invites codes available at this link.
- Step 11: Invite Codes are available under each course section.
- Step 12: Enter the invite code and click enroll now.
Benefits for Students
- Attaining quality education for all and lifelong learning.
- Helps in building Empathy, Mindfulness, Compassion, Critical Inquiry in students.
- Opportunity to present creativity and learning.
- Build skills and lifelong learning.
How to Register?
Interested participants can register through this link.
Deadline
There’s no deadline for registration to this course, it is open throughout the year.
