On the 16th and 17th of February the Experts’ Meeting on Teaching and Learning Responsible Transformative Engagement organized by the Centre, UNESCO, and UNESCO APCEIU took place in Seoul, South Korea. The meeting brought together more than 20 international experts from public, private, academic, and/or NGO sectors to discuss ways to engage youth in influencing the systems that impacts their quality of life.

The group actively discussed the fundamental issues of addressing the youth from varied perspectives as well as peaceful revolutions of youth activists that led to the change of government, the role of social media and digital citizenship, and more other important matters regarding the subject. The ideas and suggestions that were brought up during the meeting will be included in the policy brief which will be published by UNESCO.

Including BKMC CEO Monika Froehler and Board member Michael Sheldrick, Vice President of Global Citizen, the participants consisted of:

• Soo-hyang Choi, Director of Division for Inclusion, Peace and Sustainable Development, UNESCO
• Utak Chung, APCEIU Director
• Heeyeon Cho, 21st Superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education
• Dov Lynch, Chief of the Section for Global Citizenship and Peace Education, UNESCO
• Won-Jung Byun, Senior Project Officer in the Section of ESD, UNESCO
• Jae Hong Kim, Head of the Office of Research and Development, APCEIU
• Bruno Derbaix, sociologist, philosopher, and a member of the “Ambassadors of Citizen Expression”
• Pat Dolan, UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth, and Civic Engagement
• Naj El-Rahi, feminist writer, activist, and certified Gender Auditor of International Labour Organization (ILO)
• Noomane Fehri, former Minister of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy of Tunisia, CEO of Biatlabs
• Eddy Habben Jansen, Executive Director of ProDemos – Huis voor democratie en rechtsstaat
• Taneisha Ingleton, Leadership Development Programme Writer and Designer, Educational Leadership Researcher and Facilitator, Consultant of competency-based leadership development models
• Rafiullah Kakar, International Development and Public Policy professional
• Sung-gon Kim, 31st Secretary-General of the National Assembly of South Korea
• Martin Kungania, Assistant Director of Education and the National Coordinator, G-United
• Gaël Le Dréau, Réseau Canopé
• Ellen Middaugh, Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development, San Jose State University
• Abraham Muñoz Barbosa, CEO of Education for Sharing
• Liam O’Doherty, Director of Digital Youth Engagement Programmes with TakingITGlobal
• Dinu Raheja, recipient of the International Teachers’ Award, Executive Director of tGELF
• Mette Lykke Ravn, CEO of Too Good To Go
• Berry Wessels, transdisciplinary researcher, Stellenbosch University