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The educational program
There is great potential in integrating content related to global responsibility and global skills into existing educational programs. Integrating content related to international development will help achieve SDG4 for quality education and in acquiring essential knowledge for life in the global world. Looking to the future, developing a set of global skills and civic awareness of the development challenges we face is no less than necessary in preparing the citizens of tomorrow for their future in the global world and in multicultural environments.
The world around us is undergoing an accelerated process of deepening the economic, cultural, political, and environmental ties between the various countries, and in short, a process of globalization. Globalization touches all areas of our lives and creates a complex multicultural reality that requires a broad perspective, adapted skills, and tools. Although we live in a time of unprecedented technological development, welfare, and abundance, this is an era of ever-deepening disparities for example over a billion people around the world do not enjoy safe access to clean water, and about 3 billion of them, hundreds of millions of children, experience lack of quality nutrition that does not allow them to get enough the potential of their physical and emotional development. The global challenges are great and many and do not only concern residents of developing countries. The climate crisis, immigration issues, and global epidemics all require local and global solutions at the same time, and in order to reach solutions, access to knowledge, global awareness, empathy, and critical and multidimensional thinking must be developed in both adults and children.