RISE Center

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Mission Statement

The CCU RISE Center (Resilience, Innovation, and Sustainability through Education) is a United Nations Centre for Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development. RISE will support a scientific/research-based perspective, while engaging a place for productive dialog and collaboration on sustainability, enable a process for incubating student engagement and cultivating professional talent, and encourage participation and outreach related to sustainable development as a way of thinking and acting.