Your school or organization has a longer-running project with regular activities and actions to support global citizenship and sustainable development? Then this is the place for you to let the ASPnet community know about it.
The UNESCO Decade for sustainable development is coming to its end this year and we have already entered a new decade in the rapprochement of cultures (2013-2022). The international Unesco ASP project TREE = LIFE has been combining the youngsters and their mentors in Slovenia and beyond our borders. In our local environments we have, together, recognized and later solved the global problems. Through...Read more
The "School Radio for Learning" Comenius Regio project is an EU collaborative education project between Southwark (UK) and the Algarve (PT). It allows teachers and students to examine how they can: raise the ability of schools to focus on literacy and language issues in a creative way through the use of school radio broadcasting for learning; develop the skills that teachers require to do the radio...Read more
The work by second year students presents some typical products of the Amalfi coast, in the South of Italy, and some culinary traditions of the area. Through this work students want to show that food ties up the past with the present since some modern dishes have ancient origins. The students conducted research on the origins of some traditional dishes and wished to pass on to the new generations some...Read more
O.P. Jindal School strives hard to make the students aware of environmental issues. The project "Green school" aims to educate a generation of global citizens. Ecological sustainability is a mainstay of its curriculum. It provides an inspiring educational environment. It also promotes and acknowledges the importance of water conservation. Green schools inspire our children to plant the seeds of life...Read more
The project "Education Action Plan about Millennium Development Goals through Schools twinning between North and South" aims to educate youths and their families on sustainable development, in order to modify their behaviors relative to the issues and difficulties faced by the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, involving European and African schools in a process of decentralized cooperation for...Read more
Over 3 Weeks a class of 17 year old students produced 10 very professional A3 work sheets about food and food security. This work was gifted to Global Focus for dissemination on their websites and to UNESCO, to be used in other schools.
Our Comenius project "difFUSION" is to promote cultural awareness amongst students in our schools, with a view to foster empathy between students of different ethnic backgrounds, both male and female, and/or immigration status (new immigrants, 2nd/3rd generation immigrants, asylum seekers, etc.). It is meant to serve as a means of combating xenophobia and racism. All of the countries participating in...Read more
This activity pairs schools in the U.S. with schools overseas. It opens dialogue between cultures. Students will develop a multidimensional geographical global perspective and an understanding and empathy for people in other places. Students will gain the ability to understand critical world issues and understand the world from a perspective other than their own. As empowered global citizens, the more...Read more
The Associated Schools Network in Egypt is implementing a project called "Raising awareness of ASPnet and UNESCO club students on ethical principles in relation to climate change and risks". The project is divided into four stages: the first consisted of a training for trainers (educators and officials), while the second phase was a training course for students through video conferencing. In the third...Read more
For 3 years now, our students have been working in a partnership with the Natural Marine Park of Iroise, France. The aim of the partnership is to sensitize our school students and the local population to the balance the Marine Park is trying to achieve between protection and development of our coastal areas, at the tip of Western Europe. We start every year with a first round of visits to local...Read more
