Who are we?
During the Transforming Education Summit’s Youth Declaration, the UN Secretary-General defined four ways to interact with youth:
- Ignore
- Pretend to Listen
- Dialogue
- Co-Construct the Future
We are a youth-led initiative aimed at co-constructing a Planetizen University, a learning institution which equips and recognises individuals as lifelong, collaborative learners able to tackle global challenges together.
We want to hear from you!
On 17 September at the UN General Assembly SDG Action Weekend in New York we launched the project with an intergenerational session to start co-designing Planetizen University.
We are now taking this co-design GLOBAL!
In collaboration with PlayVerto, the Youth Fellows have created a beta version of a Planetizen University survey: the opportunity to collect thousands of insights from across the world!
What the Youth Fellows say
“A planetizen university could help us exchange our experiences through intergenerational dialogues that can help us understand and bridge the gaps between different perspectives and generations and give us an informed view of how we want our future to look like.”
Youth Fellow India
“I hope to see an environment made up of a diverse, intergenerational group of individuals, a resilient focus on creativity…Here I would participate in experiential learning beyond the classroom through social impact projects, internships and programmes, alongside other generations.”
Youth Fellow
“Co-designing the Planetizen University has been such a privilege honestly. I feel so empowered because I am co-designing a new vision for higher education which is a really big deal.”
Youth Fellow, Nigeria
“I'm dreaming of an Open campus accessible to learners at all ages, across the globe. Open recognition systems, flexible learning paths, skills based, with cognitive, cultural and ethnic diversity”.
Planetizens of all ages are learning planetizens because we can always continue to learn to (i) care for themselves, others, and the planet, (ii) work together to overcome personal, local, and global challenges (including the UN’s SDGs) by mobilizing collective intelligence and technologies that can help us to become more sustainable, (iii) recognize our global interdependence, the limits of our planet, the vulnerability of our societies, and the complexity of our world, (iv) reflect on our past, present, and future, (v) be good ancestors to the generations to come, (vi) “planetizen the movement,” in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as our thinking, actions, rights, institutions, celebrations, and ability to decide together how on Earth we’re going to live together.
– François Taddéi, Co-founder and President of the Learning Planet Institute.
Our latest posts
Co-designing the Planetizen University at UN General Assembly 2023!
LearningPlanet Alliance at the United Nations General Assembly 2023
Inspiring Planetizen Youth Voices: Jasmine Wei
Inspiring Planetizen Youth Voices: Ryan Zhang
Discover Planetizenship at the LearningPlanet Festival 2023
Manifeste pour un Learning Planetizen
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The LearningPlanet youth action group brings together institutions, practitioners, scientists, artists, activists, and youth who are working to amplify the voices of young people internationally, especially in the areas of learning, rights, sustainability and health. It's is more than just a movement. It is a global community of young gamechangers determined to change the world for the better!