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ASEF ClassNet Team: Maria, could you briefly tell us about the ASEF ClassNet School Collaboration you and Juliette are jointly coordinating?

Maria: The ASEF ClassNet School Collaboration that Juliette and I are currently coordinating seeks to challenge students from ASEM countries to look at the world around them through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda for 2030. We have especially focused on the topic, Gender-equitable AI and AI for Gender Equality.

One of the key aims is to inspire students to create positive change locally and globally by writing and sharing essays in blogs, creating resources on the topics, participating in community programmes, or creating digital solutions to address global issues locally. Teachers and students have been registered on the project’s Twinspace, a virtual collaboration platform that provides communication, collaboration, and editing tools, which allows participants to take an active part in its construction by adding content to it. Through its pages, you can tell the story of the project!

You can check the collaboration’s ASEF Project 2020 web site and AI website pages, as well as the Covid-19 response page to know more. It is also on the Erasmus E-Twinning platform.

ASEF ClassNet Team: What motivated both of you to take up this school collaboration project?

Juliette: I believe that it is incumbent upon us to help students view their world through a participatory lens, empowering them to be both advocates and activists. Providing students with an arena to learn from one another and to recognize that geographical distance does not preclude collaboration, is very motivational. Students can also see that they share concerns and that together, they can advocate for them.... Read more

Articles published in the magazine SACOLA

2nd Edition, March 2020, pp. 4-7

3rd Edition, June 2020, pp.24-25