Correspondence Table Between the UNESCO ESD Key Competencies and the TASK Matrix

What are the UNESCO ESD KeyCompetencies? 

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The UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) report for the 2030 agenda highlights key competencies that are particularly essential for sustainability and relevant to all SDGs.

These 8 key competencies:​

• Represent cross-cutting competencies that are necessary for all learners worldwide. ​
• Can be understood as transversal, multifunctional and context-independent. ​
• Represent what citizens particularly need to deal with today’s complex challenges. ​
• Enable individuals to relate the different SDGs to each other – to see “the big picture” of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.​

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Aligning Core Competencies

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After aligning the TASK™ and GreenComp frameworks, the next milestone on our sustainability journey is the UNESCO ESD framework of key competencies. Just as a skilled navigator relies on milestones and a compass to traverse uncharted territories, educators, armed with the combined strength of UNESCO's framework and TASK™, can confidently chart their course through the intricate landscape of sustainability education.

UNESCO outlines the essential competencies of sustainability knowledge that students and learners should be able to explore and comprehend.

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Like a compass reliably guiding you, TASK™ shows where you stand by enabling:

• Students to demonstrate their knowledge

• Universities to measure sustainability knowledge, inform strategy, and demonstrate impact.

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Why Align the UNESCO ESD and TASK™ Frameworks?

The robust theoretical and conceptual connections between the TASK™ and UNESCO frameworks underscores the significance of aligning them, and will help realize the following benefits:

• Universities integrating the UNESCO framework will benefit from a straightforward, user-friendly tool that will help streamline workflows and achieve multiple outcomes with greater efficiency.
• Aligning the UNESCO and TASK™ frameworks ensures that TASK™ is assessing knowledge and skills that UNESCO has determined are necessary for learners around the world.

• This integration will strengthen the credibility of TASK™, as the UN is one of the world’s leading resources and organizations on sustainability and sustainable development.​

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How the frameworks align

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Disclaimer

TASK™ is one of a number of different educational tools for sustainable development and should be used in tandem with other sustainability tools. Alignment between different frameworks and TASK™—as presented here—should be considered as indicative only and contingent upon how UNESCO and TASK™ are used.

TASK™ is not an exhaustive assessment of UNESCO’s key competencies.