On 14 April 2021, the 44th Pancyprian Symposium of the UNESCO Corporate Schools Network (ASPnet) took place at the Lefkara Conference Centre on: "Young People Chart the Way to a Sustainable Tomorrow". The Symposium was co-organized by the Cyprus National Commission for UNESCO, the National Coordinator of ASPnet Cyprus and Livadia High School.
The first part consisted of presentations of good practices by students of the network for the formation of sustainable school communities. The second part included a panel discussion on youth participation in public consultations, active citizenship in the context of sustainability goals and the transition from school to society, with the Citizens' Commissioner Mr Panagiotis Sentonas, the Deputy Director of the Cyprus Youth Organization Ms Maria Miliadou and the Environmental Engineer at the Cyprus Energy Office Ms Myrto Skourupathi. Subsequently, the students of the Network had the opportunity to tour Lefkara and discover aspects of the history and culture of the community through an experiential tour.
The Symposium was implemented in the framework of the UNESCO Corporate Schools Network's programme "Youth Driving Change for Sustainable Lifestyles", which aims to understand the challenges associated with sustainability in everyday life and to empower young people to take initiatives to establish more sustainable lifestyles for themselves and their communities.
The UNESCO ASPnet was created in 1953, with the aim of encouraging communication and strengthening cooperation between the learning communities of the Organization's Member States in order to promote UNESCO's objectives more effectively among young people. Today, more than 11,500 educational institutions in 182 countries participate in this global network. The Network has been active in Cyprus since the school year 1969-1970, under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth. Today it includes some 35 public and private primary and secondary schools, which promote in various ways the ideals of UNESCO to young people, particularly in the areas of the development of letters, arts and sciences, the natural environment, cultural heritage and human rights.
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