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Planetizen university

Turning global challenges into learning opportunities

Qui sommes-nous ?

During the Transforming Education Summit’s Youth Declaration, the UN Secretary-General defined four ways to interact with youth:

  1. Ignore 
  2. Pretend to Listen
  3. Dialogue
  4. 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.

Vision

A world where education equips individuals to be lifelong learners committed to solving global challenges.

Mission

LearningPlanet Alliance, powered by UNESCO and the Learning Planet Institute, is driving an intergenerational, global conversation to build towards new forms of university adapted to transitions across the world. Through gatherings at the UN General Assembly, UNESCO Youth Forum and more,  it is bringing together partners across institutions, NGOs, and youth organizations worldwide into this global co-creation.

Building the university of the future at LearningPlanet Festival!

In this first design challenge, participants have pitched their dream learning programmes for the university of the future!

The programmes address one of the following themes:

1. Flourishing : Well-being, thriving and socio-emotional development

2. Engaging: Community engagement and inclusion

3. Sustainability: Planetary health and climate

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Excerpt from the LearningPlanet Planetizen Manifesto

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.

Read a one-page extract here

What our members are saying

“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.”

— Anoushka, 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.”

— Ananya, 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.”

— Tariq, 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.”

— Ryan, Youth Fellow, USA

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