On the results of the Third All-Russian Conference “Sustainable Development of Russia”, held at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Abstract

New, previously unfamiliar to mankind global challenges and systemic crises (technogenic, biogenic, sociocultural, environmental), cyberterrorism and ideological extremism, deep contradictions, growing instability and uncertainty that the world faced at the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries, along with emerging the new geological Anthropocene era, led to the urgent need to realize the importance of sustainable development and rethink the role of education (including the humanities). UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently spoke of a growing catastrophe in the field of education. The independent authoritative International Commission of UNESCO stated that certain approaches to education have largely exhausted themselves, and in April 2021 formulated its updated goal – to show that in times of deep crises in health, social disasters, governance, economics and the environment – education should become regenerative: aimed at updating existing and restoring lost or damaged values and principles of education. The UNESCO global initiative in the context of rethinking the role of knowledge and education in shaping the future of mankind requires the creation in Russia of new scientific and research centers for sustainable development, which will form new ideas in the field of education and tools for their implementation.