This interactive session explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), ethics, and Global Citizenship Education (GCED). With the rapid integration of AI into classrooms and educational systems, it is increasingly important for educators to approach these technologies with a critical and ethical mindset. The session begins with a brief overview of current trends in AI, particularly in the context of education, highlighting both opportunities and emerging concerns. Participants will then be introduced to the 7 Key Requirements for Trustworthy AI, as outlined in the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, and explore how these principles can serve as a framework for ethical decision-making. Through a series of engaging, real-world scenarios drawn from GCED contexts, participants will work in small groups to examine how AI tools may impact issues such as equity, human rights, and student well-being. Guided by GCED values—including human dignity, justice, inclusion, and responsibility—participants will analyze ethical dilemmas, apply the Trustworthy AI framework, and reflect on key questions that educators must ask when implementing AI in their teaching and learning environments. The session emphasizes dialogue, critical reflection, and practical application, equipping participants with the tools to make informed, values-based decisions about the use of AI in education.

This course demystifies AI, tracing its history and development to understand where the technology stands today and how it actually works. It examines the decisions shaping AI's direction, the governance structures that regulate its use, and the growing pushback against AI's expanding dominance across industries and society.The course addresses the ethical challenges embedded in machine learning and AI development, from bias and accountability to the broader consequences of how these systems are built and trained. Guidance is provided on ethical AI use across personal and professional life, with a focus on developing lasting principles that will remain relevant as the technology continues to evolve.The course also explores AI's growing impact on media and information, addressing the deepening crisis of AI-enabled misinformation and disinformation, and equipping learners to navigate an increasingly complex information landscape.By the end of this course, learners will have a grounded understanding of AI's capabilities, governance, and ethical dimensions, enabling confident and principled engagement with AI tools and technologies in a rapidly changing environment.

This course provides foundational knowledge of Global Citizenship Education (GCED), within the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It introduces GCED’s core principles, pedagogical approaches and its role of education in fostering more sustainable and peaceful societies. .This prerequisite course is exclusively for applicants for the 25th Asia-Pacific Training Workshop on EIU/GCED. Application Deadline: ~ 8 March 2026 (KST, Seoul Time) Eligibility: Educators from UNESCO Member States in the Asia-Pacific region with a minimum of three years of professional experience, and with demonstrated experience in GCED implementation and practice, who have successfully completed this prerequisite course.  

This course provides a comprehensive foundation in curriculum design for Global Citizenship Education (GCED), emphasizing critical pedagogy, transformative learning, and peacebuilding. It explores theoretical perspectives on education’s societal role and examines innovative teaching methods suited for both formal and non-formal contexts. Participants will also engage with emerging and ongoing educational challenges, including AI, digital pedagogy, and developing strategies to strengthen or create curriculum for the building of a peaceful, just, inclusive, and sustainable world. The course includes four interactive “classroom” weeks featuring PowerPoint lectures, presentations, videos, and forum discussions. Participants must also attend the mandatory weekly Zoom live sessions (see schedule for details).   Live sessions will be held every Thursday at 12 PM - 2 PM (Korea Standard Time).   *Participants are expected to check the course site at the beginning of every course week to be aware of the requirements for the week.

Discrimination against women remains a global challenge with nearly one in three women experiencing physical or sexual violence according to UN Women. Digital violence and online backlash further intensify inequality. This course will introduce you to feminist activist approaches to eliminating discrimination against women with a focus on eliminating VAW. You will learn about the herstory of women’s movements who took on the challenge of confronting discrimination at the local and global levels. Additionally, you will learn about key United Nations mechanisms that work towards achieving gender equality. A key output of this course is YOUR individual advocacy plan to take action against discrimination against women.

Among individuals, groups, and institutions committed to building a peaceful world, there is a long-standing consensus that there can be “no peace without justice”. Hence, this course seeks to provide a critical understanding of the relationship between conflicts and social and economic justice at local and global levels as well as peacebuilding initiatives to transform such conflicts in both South and North contexts. Identifying structural violence or social and economic inequalities and injustices as one of the major root causes of glocal (global and local) conflicts, it also explores strategies whereby nations and their citizens can live together with justice and compassion to build a culture of peace through personal and social action. Drawing on case studies in diverse regions in the Global South and in part in the Global North, four specific themes or sectors will be critically examined, including paradigms of development and globalization, marginalized rural communities, women and Indigenous Peoples The impact of unjust social structures and relationships at international, national and local levels in catalyzing conflicts will be analyzed. Various exemplars of grassroots peacebuilding initiatives and movements to transform these conflicts towards realities that reflect the values and principles of social and economic justice will also be explored. The course also provides a forum for understanding the roles played by NGOs, other civil society organizations and social movements in the building of a just world community.   ※For any inquiries regarding taking the course, please contact GCED Online Campus administrators, gcedonline@unescoapceiu.org.