Between 2 and 4 March, the Centre of Environmental Education and Research of the University of Malta hosted the World Symposium on Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Development. The World Symposium brought together scholars and practitioners from Europe, Asia, South America, North America and Africa to present case studies of the different ways that Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Development have been put in practice in different contexts.
The World Symposium allowed scholars and practitioners from different parts of the word to be informed and inspired by initiatives that have been developed across the globe. The diverse backgrounds of the participants also provided ample space for networking and the opening up of inter-disciplinary channels of dialogue in relation to lifelong learning and sustainable development.
The participating presentations shall now be compiled into a multi-volume publication, Handbook of Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development, edited by Walter Leal Filho, Mark Mifsud and Paul Pace. This publication will be a further volume in the award-winning “World Sustainability Series”, published by Springer, which since its creation in 2015 has become the world’s leading book series on sustainable development.
The World Symposium on Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Development was organised in collaboration with the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP).