UN at Your Doorstep on Quality Education: Opening of the Learning Planet Festival

Name: UN at Your Doorstep on Quality Education: Opening of the Learning Planet Festival — Mission 4.7
Start: 2025-01-22T13:00:00+0000
End: 2025-01-22T14:00:00+0000

Wednesday, January 22, 2025
1:00 PM 2:00 PM

New York, NY USA (map)

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Step into a transformative educational experience with UN at Your Doorstep! This groundbreaking initiative connects today’s global leaders with tomorrow’s changemakers in a series of live online dialogues focused on tackling our most pressing sustainable development challenges.

Designed for high school assemblies, extracurricular activities, UN clubs, community NGOs, and traditional classrooms, these dialogues offer a rare opportunity for young people to engage directly with world leaders and UN officials.

In this fourth session, which serves as the opening to UNESCO's Learning Planet Festival, young people will have the opportunity to enter into a dynamic discussion on Quality Education with Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), and Aya Mouallem, Founder of All Girls Code, in addition to young leaders for SDG 4.

Moderated by young people, the dialogue will explore “How can education help (or hinder) humanity achieve social inclusion, peace, and environmental sustainability?” and “What lessons from history can guide us in achieving quality education for all learners today, and what are the most critical actions we must take to make this a reality?” The highly interactive event will feature audience engagement throughout, including polls, quizzes and collective brainstorming activities.

Learn more and register here.

The UN at Your Doorstep live sessions complement the Ages of Globalization course, co-hosted by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, Mission 4.7, SDGsToday and the Global Schools Program, and supported by UNESCO, the Sustainable Tourism Global Center, Hearst Foundations, the SDG Academy, Globe from Home, Compass Education and the Foundation for Environmental Education’s Young Reporters for the Environment.