Useful Links

Find useful links to global partners, platforms, and initiatives supporting GCED.

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  • The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) provides comprehensive information on global climate action, including key agreements such as the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement. It also offers updates on national implementation, the latest news, and official meeting documents, serving as a central platform for promoting collective global efforts to address climate change.

  • Videos for Change is a way for young people to develop confidence, practice social advocacy, and build valuable 21st-century skills they need for a better future. It’s a platform designed to make it easy for educators to support them and amplify their impact, while creating more inclusive communities.

  • The Melton Foundation promotes and enables global citizenship as a way for individuals and organizations to work together across boundaries of place and identity to address global challenges.

  • The Economist Educational Foundation was set up in 2012 by Emily Evans while she was working as a conference producer at The Economist. Emily knew that developing young people’s news literacy was crucial to tackling inequality in education. Bringing topical debates to life on-stage inspired her to find ways to make these discussions happen in classrooms across the country. The Foundation started by running exciting news-themed events for children.

  • The Interfaith Explorers online educational resources provide learning activities and materials to sensitize young students to interreligious dialogue and inclusive education. With the aim of promoting the values of respect for cultural and religious diversity and interfaith understanding, the materials have been developed for primary school children and can be modified to suit the needs of teachers and students worldwide.

  • Bridge 47 was created to bring people together to share and learn from each other. We mobilise civil society all around the world to do their part for global justice and eradication of poverty with the help of Global Citizenship Education.

  • The Digital Citizenship website contains more than just lesson plans and parent tip sheets, it is a continuous work in progress. This website serves as an up to date and relevant source of inspiration and guidance for teachers, parents and students as they incorporate technology into their teaching and learning as well as their daily lives.It started with the Information Literacy Project as a component of PALE (Plan d’action sur la lecture à l’école) with the development of The Inquiry Process Model. Soon after, the English community expressed a need to address not only how to deal with information, but also all of the components that going online entails. The Digital Citizenship Initiative was created to respond to that need. Then lastly, Learn and Lead, our online learning digital badge site was added to support parents and educators with all the digital citizenship themes.

  • The UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet) links educational institutions across the world around a common goal: to build the defences of peace in the minds of children and young people. The over 11,500 ASPnet member schools in 182 countries work in support of international understanding, peace, intercultural dialogue, sustainable development and quality education in practice. ASPnet - a driver for innovation and quality in education - is recognized as an effective tool for reaching target 4.7 on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) of Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Education 2030.

  • Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict (PEIC), a programme of Education Above All(EAA) promotes and protects the right to education. Whether through death and injury, damaged buildings, disruption, fear or migration, times of unrest have a profound affect on learning.

  • The Learning to Live Together Sustainably (LTLT) platform aims to support the achievement, in Africa and in the Francophonie, of Target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. Of the two components of SDG 4.7, global citizenship education (GCED)[i] and education for sustainable development (ESD)[ii], the platform initially focuses on two themes: preventing violent extremism through education (PVE-E) and climate change education.