Welcome to School UP the World!
School UP is a global initiative inviting youth around the world to connect with each other and be exemplary actors of change.
School UP aims to promote an Education for a global citizenship via the "Global Education Guidelines" as a tool to foster a culture of tolerance and understanding and help address some challenges our pluralist societies are facing nowadays.
Our Mission
To be an organization that connects and help build a chain of solidary students, teachers and individuals around the world to collaborate and actively participate in developing a global consciousness and a more responsible global citizenship in the classroom and in society.
Our Objectives
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To offer the opportunity to enable the sharing of experiences and understanding of common and different realities across the globe via workshops and activities at local and global levels.
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To inspire youth to become our «Ambassadors» and motivate them to undertake various projects and activities to be actors of change and help reach the following objectives :
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Promote the Right to Education for All & the Right to Human Rights Education in schools
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Support projects aiming to help provide education/training to marginalized people
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Create partnership with schools to collaborate in our effort to support educational projects
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
Socrates (BC 469-BC 399) Greek philosopher of Athens
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.
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