In our previous evaluation, we said that the context of the application changed significantly in a post-covid world. We were not expecting for this constant change to continue occurring. With the rise of tensions in the middle east, has deepened the divides that were exacerbated by the pandemic and further pushed people into different camps, away from one another. This then makes our mission so much more important: we need young people to get the skills necessary in communication, collaboration and problem-solving with people of diverse backgrounds, to promote values of co-existence, peace and democracy. This is not an exercise in mere toleration, but rather to build bridges across these divides and celebrate our diversity as a strength rather than view it as a potential barrier. These recent years keep underscoring the complexity of sustainability in our world. While the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a structured framework that guides participants through our program, the interconnected nature of these challenges often demands solutions to multifaceted questions. Faced with dilemmas lacking clear-cut answers, participants are encouraged to seek consensus amidst differences and to negotiate compromises when necessary. Despite being well-prepared for the profound transformation participants experience over the course of the Short Course, the joy derived from witnessing such growth remained undiminished. Participants emerged with a heightened awareness of various perspectives on sustainability and the urgent issues at multiple levels, including climate change, political oppression, and socioeconomic disparities. They felt empowered to build similar communities when they return home and show people the possibility of coexistence and how beautiful it can be if we meaningfully try and build our community intentionally. By critically examining previously unquestioned processes, they began to devise actionable strategies. Their aspirations extended towards more engaged citizenship and the development of personal projects and engaging workshops to be shared within their school and broader communities. The course was perceived as a transformative, if not life-altering experience by many, a sentiment consistently echoed in feedback over the years, affirming our success in delivering a high-impact, quality program. We have received communications from our partners telling us of this profound impact after meeting their participants and how the decisions they took in the course, such as for example reducing their meat consumption to protect the environment have stuck with them to this day. While our evaluations confirm that the program's original objectives have been met, it is also pertinent to reflect on how recent global changes have reshaped its essence. The part of the programme related to social sustainability and coexistence in a global society has become more important now than ever. It resonates with the participants to have a space to share their background and have it accepted and valued by their peers. We adjusted and gave more power to our participants than anticipated - their desire to create workshops, lectures and share their personal histories was enriching and deeply moving all at once.Our participants come out of the programme as agents of a greener, more peaceful future where we can all talk openly and understand each other deeply. We have also continued running our online courses in tandem with our Erasmus project as we noticed that the diversity of the participant pool there is extreme and that those participants also value being part of an international community that they feel close to. Our goal is to build our participants up, for them to understand the issues in their communities, in the world and be able to act and be agents for change - and based on the feedback we have received and the amazing projects that we are currently supporting via the Project Fellowship after the course finishes we can definitely say that we fulfilled that purpose. Finally, our facilitator team represents a diverse group of experiences and backgrounds and this played a crucial role in the program's success. Their ability to quickly integrate and synergize their ideas towards a common objective was instrumental. While infusing the team with new members brought fresh energy and perspectives, the continuity provided by experienced facilitators from previous courses ensured smoother and more efficient processes. The team's multidimensional diversity fostered creative and occasionally unconventional methods to propagate the United World Colleges movement and its initiatives to use education as a force to unite people, nations and cultures. The fact that our team was also representative of our participant pool in terms of gender, socioeconomic status, religion, sexuality and country allowed them to open up more and feel confident in our ability to support them.