On 21 and 22 October, Seville will host the GET international seminar “From the School Curriculum to Youth Action for Global Justice: Youth Action Initiatives for Generating Community Impact”. The event will focus on young people as agents of change, highlighting their capacity to drive meaningful community impact. It will also explore how to connect educational work in schools with youth participation and action for global justice.

How can global topics be connected with everyday teaching? How can we help students not only understand the world around them, but also develop the competences they need to actively engage with it? These were some of the questions explored at the conference Learning about Global Connections XII – From Topics to Competences, organised by the GET Czechia last August.

Today GET Italy takes us on a journey to discover the new Global Geography of Social Challenges handbook through the eyes of those who contributed to creating this volume, published by lead partner CISP. Dino Gavinelli, Chiara Pirovano, and Giulia Tagliente share the genesis of the manual, its innovative aspects, and tips on how to use it in the classroom.

In the small municipality of Alpiarça, the presence of immigrants is growing. The school reality reflects the changing social fabric and nowadays classes include students from different communities. Learn how the resources from our project paved the way for a transformative journey of curiosity, awareness, compassion and acceptance led by students.

Ιn a world where the environmental crisis is no longer just a cold, abstract concept in a textbook but reality, a group of students in Kastoria (Greece) decided they had had enough of just reading about the problem. They didn’t want to sit back and inherit a grey world. They wanted to build a green one.