Jun 14, 2024
The winning works of the Youth in Digital Activism: Global Citizenship Advocacy Contest is now available online! (Details)
May 26, 2024
The Award Ceremony was proudly held today. Revisit the memories with our photo gallery. If you missed the event, don’t worry – watch the keynote speech and winners’ sharing here. (Details)
Apr 01, 2024
Registration for Youth in Digital Activism: Global Citizenship Advocacy Contest is now closed. Results will be announced at the Award Ceremony. All are welcome to attend. (Details)
Jan 12, 2024
NGCE Poster Exhibition (Details)
Dec 15, 2023
Application for the Youth in Digital Activism: Global Citizenship Advocacy Contest is now open! Read more about the contest and submit your application. (Details)
Dec 8, 2023
[EdUHK event] Embracing Diversity in English: A Journey through World Englishes (Details)
Nov 17, 2023
Field Trip to African Centre (Details)
Nov 10, 2023
[CUHK event] A Dialogue between Current Leaders of Global Citizenship and Future Global Citizens (Details)
Nov 3, 2023
Global Dialogue IV – Women’s Education and Community Empowerment (Details)
Oct 20, 2023
Global Dialogue III – Climate Change and Green Energy (Details)
Oct 6, 2023
Global Dialogue II – Climate Change and Creative Art (Details)
Sep 22, 2023
Global Dialogue I – Fast Fashion (Sep 22) (Details)
Sep 7, 2023
NGCE Pilot Test 2022-23 Highlights (Details)
Global citizenship is the social, political, environmental, and economic actions of globally minded individuals and communities on a worldwide scale. It is the belief that individuals are members of multiple, diverse, local and non-local networks rather than single actors affecting isolated societies. It is also the awareness that our actions in our homes, neighborhoods, cities, and countries impact, and are impacted by, global forces. Thus, as a member of the global community, we all have civic responsibilities to the world as a whole. Promoting global citizenship in sustainable development will allow individuals to embrace their social responsibility to act for the benefit of all societies, not just their own. — United Nations
Nurturing Global Citizenship through English (NGCE) is an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) project that puts language learning and practices in the context of a set of major global themes, including those of the environment, intercultural communication, the media, and technology. The NGCE serves as a framework for a rich learning experience in support of the pivotal belief that young people can all make a difference using modules designed for collaborative learning activities under a comprehensive variety of themes, objectives, and topics suggested by UNESCO.
The project seeks to empower students to embrace their social responsibility to act for the benefit of all societies while developing their knowledge and language skills and the values they will need to engage fully and effectively with the world. Through this project, it is expected that students will be more open to differences, more receptive to diversity and more motivated to take actions to make the world a better place.