You are warmly invited to join WCIA in celebrating Global Education Week 2025. Global Education week is an opportunity for all the countries of Europe to come together to learn about the world and take coordinated action to help make it a better place.
For 2025, our focus and theme is on shaping a just, peaceful and sustainable future. We want to encourage young people to look forward in hope and agree a clear idea of what the world needs to do next.
This November, WCIA is launching a competition for young people. We would like children aged between 4-25 to give us their ideas about what this year’s theme means to them. Their entries can use any creative medium that can be sent to us including music, artwork, creative writing or drama.
Since the theme is pretty broad, we’re including a few ideas to get you started. Young people are absolutely free to do what they want and these guidelines are here to help you get started:
Justice
(short story) “The day the world became fair” (collage) Fairness in action(Protest songs) write own protest songs based on justice for all
Peace
(Haiku or poem) What peace means to me (Exploring images of peace) Creating your own image of peacePeace song’ – write a song describing a peaceful world and how we would get there
Sustainability
(speech) What we should do to make the world more sustainable? (drawing/painting landscapes) What part of the world do we want to protect?(soundscapes) Create soundscapes with hands/feet/ everyday objects based on nature
Hope
(Non fiction – report) If hope was an animal, what would it look like? Why? (mythology) Pandora’s Box (sculpture) make a sculpture of hope (songwriting) Imagine someone you care wants to give up. Create a song to inspire them to keep going
The Future
(Short story) Imagine you went in a time machine to a future where things were better. What does it look like? (Still life) Look at an object now (a car, a house, a shop) and redesign what you think it will look like in 50 years time. (Making sounds) Look at old instruments and design new ones to play in the future.
We will pick a winning entry for art, music and creative writing and the winning entries will be awarded a £10 book voucher, plus displayed proudly on our website and social media. Any entries will also receive a named certificate for being a fantastic global citizen.
