The main goal of this project was to support effective education for contemporary problems based on four key elements: 1. Global education: This element emphasized global awareness, citizenship, responsibility, and green transformation. It encouraged students to consider multiple perspectives and the ethical implications of power and privilege, fostering responsible action. 2.Transdisciplinarity: This element focused on connecting learning across subjects and diverse perspectives. It aimed to prevent overspecialization, enabling students to tackle multifaceted problems and cultivate essential 21st-century intellectual skills. 3. Speech and Debate methodology: This interactive methodology combined independent research, teamwork, critical thinking, argument building, public speaking, and presentation skills. It engaged young people in political and contemporary issues, equipping them to develop viable policy solutions. 4. Digital education: Recognizing the importance of digital approaches, this element highlighted digital education as an asset. It emphasized its potential to overcome geographical and financial barriers, offering varied learning structures to accommodate different learning styles.
This project aimed to upgrade global education through the use of debate methodology, transdisciplinarity, and digital education. The results of this project provided teachers with the training, methodological framework, implementation toolkit, and digital tools necessary to carry out global education, thereby positively impacting students' lives. The proposed diverse partnership consisted of schools, universities, digital education specialists, global education experts, and debate-focused organisations. Teachers face increasingly difficult challenges in preparing students to become global and European citizens. They need support in the forms of methodologies and tools to help them navigate complex contemporary issues, such as climate change and the Covid-19 crisis, which involve multiple school subject areas and require interactive methods to engage students. European policymakers had, in principle, recognized global education as instrumental for instilling the importance of democratic values, justice, solidarity, and inclusion in young people. In recent years, young people have been advocating and protesting for a greener, sustainable future, women’s rights, and an end to discrimination, demonstrating that issues encompassed b