Global citizenship education (GCED) is an essential and urgent response to the local and global challenges affecting our societies. It is grounded in the recognition of the interdependence between peoples and all living things, as well as in individual and collective commitments to women’s rights, human rights, and environmental protection. It affirms the fundamental principle that we all share a common responsibility for building a better world.

GCED seeks to shed light on the structural causes of power relations that produce injustice and inequality. It encompasses a set of knowledge, skills, and practices that promote awareness, critical understanding, and solidarity. GCED places collaborative action at the heart of its approaches, rooted in reciprocity and dialogue with individuals and communities, in order to co-create knowledge, interpersonal skills, and the capacity to take action.

Through civic engagement, awareness raising, mobilization, advocacy, and experience sharing, Global Citizenship Education enables learners to become agents of change. In doing so, GCED contributes to building a more egalitarian, just, equitable, inclusive, sustainable, supportive, and peaceful world.