ISSUE 41: MARCH-MAY 2006
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Tongyong named sustainable development education centre
The city of Tongyong in Korea's South Kyongsang Province is to become a regional center for promoting UN University's education for sustainable development programme.
Tongyong Mayor Chin Eui-jang said the city will establish an education network enabling it fulfill its role as an education center on sustainable development. UNU will join Yonsei and Gyeongsang national universities in a network that will also include regional organizations such as Tongyong City's environment movement association and various city schools.
The announcement was made at a ceremony attended by UNU Rector Hans Van Ginkel, Chung Chang-young, president of Yonsei University, and Cho Mu-je, president of Gyeongsang National University.
The city was designated a Regional Center of Expertise (RCE) for the promotion of Education for Sustainable Development last October. Other RCEs are located at Sendai and Okayama in Japan, Barcelona, Fiji, Penang in Malaysia, the Rhine-Meuser region of Europe and Toronto.
Tongyong, known as "the Naples of Orient" for its scenery and its rich cultural legacy, will develop a 1,000 hectare forest into an ecological education center and build an education hall for the RCE.
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