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Past Event

“We Champion”: A Mission 4.7 Speaker Series

March 24, 2022
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
America/New_York
Online

We Champion Speaker Series on Transformative Education presents a discussion with Andrew Kruczkiewicz at the Climate School

 

About this event

Talk Title: Literacy for Disaster Preparedness

In particular we will be discussing the Competencies Required for Climate Science Translators. See Andrew Kruczkiewicz's paper Titled-

" The humanitarian sector needs clear job profiles for climate science translators – more than ever during a pandemic"

https://journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-20-0263.1/BAMS-D-20-0263.1.pdf

Background:

Building on the #WeChampion social media campaign, the “We Champion” speaker series will showcase best practices and innovative approaches to Transformative Education from across the Mission 4.7 community and beyond. The series will help further collective thinking around SDG 4 .7 implementation and gather momentum on various thematic areas pertaining to SDG 4.7. The aim with the series is to:

Build the Friends of Mission 4.7 network to foster the goals of Mission 4.7.

Generate resources for the Mission 4.7 Resource Platform and the SDG Academy Library, in the form of webinar recordings.

Source guests for special theme-based panels at ICSD and other associated conferences.

More on Mission 4.7 visit https://www.mission4point7.org

More on Andrew's work follow this link https://iri.columbia.edu/contact/staff-directory/andrew-kruczkiewicz/

To register for this event:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-champion-a-mission-47-speaker-series-tickets-277572716467?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Contact Information

Radhika Iyengar