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Education for Sustainability, Sustainable Education

03.Sep - 03. Sep, 2020 Cod. W01-20

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Without an education that contemplates cross-cutting respect and love for the planet; without an education that respects everyone's human and environmental rights, sustainability will not be possible.

Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all is the fourth of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aprroved by the United Nations. Salman Khan, winner of the Princess of Asturias International Cooperation Award in 2019, is to tell us about his commitment to personalised learning, human interaction and alternative thinking. Salman Khan will talk about how to connect with students in the digital age, how to deliver education as a foundation for a more sustainable society, the changes education can promote to encourage more sustainable behaviour and how technology can help in this mission, about young people as an essential part of sustainable development and the importance of cooperation in progress towards sustainability. In short, Salman Khan will give us his vision on how to integrate sustainability into education and how technology can and must play a fundamental role in education throughout the world.

The institutional presentation by the authorities will be in Basque and Spanish with simultaneous translation into Basque, Spanish and English.

The conversation between Salman Khan and Javier Aizpurua will be in English with simultaneous translation into Basque and Spanish.

The conference will be held live online. If you want to participate and access the simultaneous translation, please sign up to access via ZOOM. If you want to attend by streaming (without participation and translation), access the website www.donostiasustainabilityforum.eus (access will be published the same day).

University student
Students not from university
Teachers
Professionals
All public

Contributors

Program

03-09-2020

18:00 - 18:30

“Inauguración institucional: Donostia Sustainability Forum 2020 aurkezpena / Presentación Donostia Sustainability Forum 2020 / Donostia Sustainability Forum 2020 presentation“

Nekane Balluerka Lasa Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco / University of the Basque Country - Errektorea / Rectora / Rector
Eneko Goia Laso Donostiako udaletxea / Ayuntamiento de Donostia/San Sebastián / Town Hall - Alkatea / Alcalde / Mayor
José Ignacio Asensio Bazterra Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundiko Ingurumeneko eta Obra Hidraulikoa / Medio Ambiente y Obras Hidráulicas de la Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa / Environment and Hydraulic Works of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa - Foru Diputatuta / Diputado / Provincial Deputy
Representante de Departamento de Desarrollo Económico, Sostenibilidad y Medio Ambiente Ihobe
Rafael Pardo Avellaneda BBVA Fundazioa / Fundación BBVA / BBVA Foundation - Zuzendaria / Director / Director
Itziar Alkorta Idiakez UPV/EHUko Uda Ikastaroak / Cursos de Verano de la UPV/EHU / Summer Courses - Zuzendaria / Directora / Director

18:30 - 19:30

Lecture

Salman Khan Khan Academy
Javier Aizpurua CFM, Centro Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU) – DIPC

Speakers

Salman Khan

Founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization that offers free lessons in math, sciences and humanities in multiple languages, as well as free tools for parents and teachers to track student progress

Salman Khan is a graduate in Mathematics, Engineering and Information Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and did his master's degree in Business Management at the University of Harvard, after which he started working as a financial analyst. Khan set up Khan Academy in 2008 with an innovative teaching vision. A non-profit organisation with more than sixty million registered users in 190 countries, it offers practice exercises, teaching videos and a personalised learning panel in more than thirty languages, allowing students to learn at their own pace both in and out of the classroom. Like this Salman Khan has made a commitment to universal education and empowerment for people from an early age.

Javier Aizpurua

CFM, Centro Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU) – DIPC

Researcher with CSIC, the Spanish scientific research council, at the CFM materials physics centre in San Sebastián where he leads the Nanophotonics Theory Group. Javier Aizpurua gained his doctorate in Physics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1998 for work on the interaction of rapid electrons and nanostructures. After his pre-doctoral stage, he spent two periods as a post-doctoral researcher, one at Chalmers Technology University in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the other at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In 2004, Aizpurua joined DIPC, the Donostia International Physics Center, as a research fellow, starting to train a nanophotonics group. In 2008 he was awarded a permanent scientific place at the CSIC, taking responsibility for the photonics line of research at CFM, the Materials Physics Centre in San Sebastián, where he has worked ever since.