Workshops & Talks

CLIMATE-SMART EDUCATION WORKSHOP

Wednesday 23rd September, 2026.

Hosted by the Ogun State Sustainability Education Program (OGSEP) in partnership with Innovative Educational and the Ogun State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST).

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP

We are pleased to present the Ogun State Sustainability Education Program (OGSEP) 2026 on behalf of the Ogun State Executive Governor, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST), the good people of Ogun State, and our Sustainability Education Consultant, Innovative Educational Services Limited (IES).

The Ogun State Sustainability Education Program (OGSEP) is strategically positioned to foster environmental sustainability and promote learner competencies for a green transition. The planned workshop focuses on the role of education as a powerful driver for sustainable development.

The 2026 OGSEP workshop, themed Climate-Smart Education System in Ogun State, aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of Ogun State’s Ministry of Education in climate change education by empowering over 100 education specialists, including curriculum specialists, pedagogical and instructional experts, heads of schools, heads of departments, principals, policymakers, directors, and teacher representatives, to integrate climate change into their curricula, pedagogy, and teacher training, and to develop evidence-based planning and State policy development for climate change education.

Together with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), UNICEF, Education International (EI), the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), the Office for Climate Education (OCE), Greening Education Partnership (GEP) and many others, we are providing training support for 100 educational experts through a 2-day interdisciplinary workshop focused on integrating climate change education into primary and secondary school curricula and on developing a climate-smart, resilient education system for Ogun State – the first of its kind in Ogun State.

Our objectives for this workshop are below:

• To strengthen the capacity of 100 education specialists to mainstream climate change education in the Ogun state Basic Education System, using education to raise awareness and inspire action on environmental challenges.
• To promote and prioritize quality climate change education for all as a climate crisis adaptation and mitigation strategy.
• To implement innovative teaching methods that will promote student and teacher involvement in climate action.
• To equip curriculum specialists, teacher educators, and other major education stakeholders with the skills to integrate climate topics across all subjects and grade levels.
• To use a systematic action-oriented approach to support participants in developing skills to design and implement climate change education within school programs.
• To enhance understanding of climate change and sustainability, while encouraging the adoption of environmentally conscious practices within educational institutions in Ogun State.

Expected outcomes:

• Develop teaching and learning materials to support the integration of climate change education into the school curriculum.
• Integrating climate change education into key teaching frameworks, standards, and curricula.
• Using the EU GreenComp framework, the Handbook for Schools in Nigeria on Climate Education, and UNESCO Greening Curriculum Guidance, we position climate change education as a cross-cutting model for integrating and implementing green education towards achieving the SDGs.

OGSEP-TASUED WORKSHOP

Thursday, 3rd July 2025, Lagos, Nigeria

Hosted by the Tai Solarin University of Education in partnership with Innovative Educational and the Ogun State Ministry of Education.

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP

OGUN STATE SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION PROGRAM (OGSEP):

TASUED Staff Professional Development Workshop on ESD Competences     

Education is a powerful catalyst for change towards sustainability and a driver of all 17 UN global goals for sustainable development (SDGs). Education plays a crucial role in supporting citizens in developing the competencies needed to live responsibly and, at the same time, transform their society. Hence, it is critical to ensure that teachers and educators build the necessary capacity for the essential knowledge, understanding, skills, values, and dispositions to pass on sustainability competencies to the general populace, even as they are deemed catalysts in this chain reaction.

The Ogun State Sustainability Education Program (OGSEP) leverages the acquired competencies of teachers to meet the SDG target 4.7, which states that “By 2030, all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development…” As the Nation’s Premier University of Education, the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) kicks off the Ogun State Sustainability Education Program (OGSEP), focusing on professionalizing teacher/staff competencies on learning for sustainability.

The immediate objective of the Ogun State Sustainability Education Program (OGSEP) is first to explore the crucial role of education for sustainable development (ESD) within teacher education by introducing a professional development workshop, “ESD competencies for societal transformation” to all teaching staff of TASUED.

The mission of the OGSEP is statewide. That is, it is a state program responsible for developing the sustainability competencies of every citizen and resident of Ogun State. It covers formal and non-formal forms of learning. In addition, it extends to the workplace, including government offices, staff, and agencies facilitated by the network of teachers and educators.

This staff professional development workshop equips the TASUED educators with relevant knowledge, awareness, and action competencies to become change agents that will transform our societies for the betterment of all people, including their students and the planet.

TRANSFORMATIVE COMPETENCE TRAINING PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS

2022, Lagos, Nigeria

WHAT IS ESD
• Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as established in SDG 4.7 is an enabler for all the 17 global goals of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
• ESD is supposed to provide people,
including students, with the understanding, awareness, and ability that empowers them to transform themselves and transform societies.
• A comprehensive educational transformation is required in order to prepare professionals to handle
sustainability challenges and enable them to embed ESD in their teaching practices effectively (Imara and Altinay, 2021).
• Education has a role to play in achieving sustainable development goals in Lagos State.

• Comprehensive educational transformation is required in order to prepare professionals to handle sustainability challenges and enable them to embed ESD in their teaching practices effectively. Hence, Teacher Education has a role to play in achieving sustainable
  development.

EDUCATORS’ AND TEACHERS’ ENTREPRENEURIAL LEARNING TRAINING PROGRAMME

2022, Lagos, Nigeria

Are you a teacher or school proprietor interested in equipping your students to thrive in an interconnected world where they need to understand and appreciate different perspectives and world views,
interact irrespectively with others, and take responsible action towards the SDGs alongside collective well-being? If so, all you need is to be entrepreneurial in your teaching. Be ahead, Be COSEEDS Certified.

WHO ARE WE?
We are COSEEDS – the European-African entrepreneurship education expert group that is committed to scaling-up quality entrepreneurial skills development in schools. Through international knowledge alliance projects and other research-based innovation learning, entrepreneurial mind-sets and practical entrepreneurship education are achieved at school levels. Briefly, COSEEDS embed innovative thinking process into education through a new combination of proven innovative pedagogies that habituate learners to creative thinking.

Higer Education Summit

September 6th – 8th 2022, Hasselt, Belgium

• The Higher Education Summit 2022 aims to bring together those who wish to transform higher education for the benefit of a “safe and just space for humanity” (Raworth, 2017): people who study, teach, research, and contribute to governance at higher education institutions, and representatives of the business world, government, and civil society.
• We invite you to join us to rethink the role of higher education institutions in shaping the economy. Whether we prefer to call it a doughnut economy, circular economy, or regenerative economy – we all aspire for a world in which humans can flourish in close harmony with a thriving planet. And we know that learning is key to driving this transformation (Berlin Declaration on Education for Sustainable Development, 2021).

Developing Teachers’ Entrepreneurial Education Skills

When the EntreCompEdu partners came together to celebrate the successful end of the project with a lively graduation ceremony and policy event for the successful EntreCompEdu Teacher Pioneers in summer 2021, you might have thought that it was the end of the road for this innovative entrepreneurial project. If you missed out, EntreComp Europe is delighted to announce that the project will run again this Spring!