Noting that the relationship between university and urban development can be studied with training keyword, Seyyed Mohsen Tabatabaei Mozdabadi, the Secretary of IUESA said: definitely, training affair is passing from its formal phase to informal and more inclusive phase; therefore, academic environments should consider gradual change in their educational programs.
Saying that urban sustainable development has changed into a dominant paradigm, he said: as Peter Hall says, urban sustainable development is a form of today’s development that guarantees the power of continuous development of cities and urban societies of future generations. Sustainable city is a city that will be able to survive due to the economical use of resources, avoid excessive production of waste and recycling as much as possible and adopt useful policies.
Several seminars and conferences have been held in the context of sustainable development so far. Most notably is the issue of sustainable development; the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2012 is the culmination of international attention, he said.
Today, about 3.5 billion people, more than half of the world population live in cities, and by 2050 the global urban population is expected to reach 84%, and 6.3 billion people, almost all urban population growth in this period, in urban areas of developing countries, will take place from 2.5 billion to 5.2 billion people that is expected to increase in 2050, he added.
Highlighting that human being cannot close their eyes for a long time, on issues such as the food crisis, the reduction of resources and the loss of biological diversity, he said: one of the ways to cope with these problems is public education for sustainable development (ESD) is and ESD is a dynamic concept, with the goal of empowering people at every age and stage of life, to make efforts towards sustainable development.
Adding that sustainable development needs holistic humans, with systematic thinking, interdisciplinary insight, knowledge, creative and participant, he said: Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 adopted by the leaders of 178 countries in the United Nations has declared education is vital to achieve sustainable development. 
Tabatabaei noted that the UN has named decade of 2005 to 2014, the United Nations to serve on education for sustainable development (DESD), the purpose of this nomenclature is integrating the values of sustainable development in all aspects of learning to encourage changes behavior.
Tabatabaei at the end emphasized that countries such as Japan and Sweden designed statutory and regulatory framework in the form of curriculum for children even before the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development that was very effective, he said, early childhood education should be at the head of educational programs of sustainable development.

Source : IUESA