After receiving more than 28,000 young people at UNESCO Headquarters and inviting them to debate on various themes such as peace, citizenship, climate, solidarity or education, DPI is launching the digital UNESCO CAMPUS. Our desire to decipher the world with and for young people continues to grow and we wish to reflect with them on the world of today and tomorrow. We are therefore taking advantage of this period of health crisis, which poses new challenges and opens up new issues, to lay the foundations of a new way of thinking the world with young people.
We are aware that young people are at the heart of the changes surrounding us. Therefore, we believe that it is essential to include them in the debates that drive the construction of new societies. This way, the digital CAMPUS, through their virtual format, will be able to reach a maximum number of young people, and go beyond geographical limits, to ensure that everyone has their questions answered.
These digital CAMPUS will be a few minutes long videos. They will be available on this website, on our social networks and will automatically be sent by email to teachers registered as being interested in the CAMPUS.
Young people will be the center of these videos, in fact, a speaker will be dedicated to answering their questions as precisely as possible and without judgment. Everyone will be free to contact us to ask their questions about the world that surrounds us, builds and shapes us. During each video, young people will be invited to record their question which will be submitted to a committed civil society expert (sportsman, artist, researcher, journalist, historian, explorer...).
During the first digital CAMPUS, we began to demystify the issues of the Covid-19 crisis and to pose the new challenges that emerged from this period. "What place for young people in the actions of the United Nations?", "How can everyone have access to online education?", Yacine Ait Kaci, President of the Elyx Foundation, answers these questions and looks at the global aspect of this crisis. Meriem Bouamrane, specialist in biodiversity and the relationship to life for UNESCO, is interested in what this crisis has shown about our way of life and how to build a more responsible society. In a third video, Souria Saad-Zoi tells us about the consequences of Covid-19 on all societies and its unprecedent nature. Climate, inequalities, solidarity, education, we wish to address all the aspects that affect us and the people of the world on a daily basis.
So if you're a high school student and you have questions about society, the world around us or the construction of the world you'll live in tomorrow, don't hesitate to ask us via our social media and we'll answer them in our next videos.
If you are a teacher and would like to receive new videos from CAMPUS UNESCO please subscribe to the CAMPUS list by following this link. We will be happy to send you new videos regularly.
Since their creation, the UNESCO CAMPUS are the result of a partnership between UNESCO and the Engie Foundation, which supports the actions of the CAMPUS in favour of young people in the defense of values that are the essence of UNESCO's mandates and at the heart of the Engie Foundation's missions.
We are also pleased to announce that France Médias Monde is the new media partner of this digital version of UNESCO CAMPUS (RFI, France 24, Monte Carlo Doualiya).
The digital CAMPUS capsules are available on UNESCO's Youtube channel, you can also find us on Instagram.