eTwinning/ ASEF "Teens Actions for Change"

“Teens in Action for Change” invites students to support the Global Goals for Sustainable Development by embedding GSD principles. Participants will take actions by joining and participating in National and Global campaigns and initiatives within the vision of a Human Rights-based approach and the Paris Agreement on climate change. Inspired by global programmes like Design for Change, Global Youth Service Day, Apps for Good, this School Collaboration helps students to find inspiration, information, identify problems, get involved and, finally, act to solve these problems and improve their local communities. The project is also about enabling participants to develop creative thinking and entrepreneurial skills for life and learn to be culturally sensitive and globally aware of their abilities to make the world better.

As citizens of the world, we must address issues we face on a local and global level and embrace our rights and responsibilities to foster the universal virtues of acceptance and understanding to achieve a global sustainable development. Needless to say, the current elementary and secondary school curricula are lacking in cultural and global studies and, as a result, students are not being taught to be culturally sensitive or globally aware of their ability to make a change for a better world.

This project will gather Asian and European schools (#ASEFClassNet) interested in joining efforts to support the Global Goals for Sustainable Development by embedding GSD principles. We will take action by joining and participating in National and Global campaigns and initiatives within the vision of a Human Rights-based approach and the Paris agreement on climate change.