#Art4GlobalGoals is an awareness campaign organized by the YOU Foundation, directed by Mrs. Ohoven, with the support of UNESCO and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Within the framework of this campaign, UNESCO’s and YOU Foundation’s mission focuses on UNESCO’s Educational Agenda 2030, that is based on the Sustainable Development Goal 4 – Quality education – aiming to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. UNESCO is entrusted to lead its implementation. The campaign #Art4GlobalGoals was launched in Düsseldorf on 28 September 2017.

Sustainable Development Goal 4 recognizes that education is essential for the success of all sustainable development goals: on health, growth and employment, sustainable consumption and production, and climate change. Moreover, it covers the UNESCO competencies: literacy, higher education, Information and Communication in Technology in education, global citizenship education and gender equality.

One of the events of this campaign consists in a touring exhibition of the young German artist Leon Löwentraut who seeks, thanks to his paintings, to highlight the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the member states of the United Nations and grouped in Agenda 2030. This exhibition is accompanied by the sale of works. Benefits go to UNESCO, helping it to finance numerous of its educational programmes within the framework of the Goal 4.

In her opening speech of the exhibition at GIZ in Bonn, Ute-Henriette Ohoven, UNESCO Special Ambassador for the education for children in need, recalled that “Education is a fundamental human right, the foundation for sustainable development and, above all, it is a source of hope and peace”.